The TIME Centennial News Quiz

Take the test of the century–100 questions based on the events of the past 100 years, as covered in the pages of TIME [ANSWERS ON LAST PAGE OF QUIZ]

FACES IN TIME Match each numbered description to the Man or Woman of the Year who fits it best.

1. “[This Person of the Year] showed that politics could be the art of the impossible; that force could speak softly and carry a small stick.”

2. “[His] carefully cultivated air of mystic detachment cloaks an iron will, an inflexible devotion to simple ideas that he has preached for decades.”

3. “[He] rose out of murky obscurity and carried his country with him up & up into brilliant focus before a pop-eyed world.”

4. “[He] is obsessed with the idea that some day it may be possible to write a message on a pad at one’s desk or bedside and have it instantaneously transmitted to the addressee anywhere on earth.”

5. “With remarkable imagination and daring, he has embarked on a course, perhaps now irreversible, that is reshaping the world.”

6. “A reminder of what was old and splendid, and also a fresh, imperative summons to make the present worthy of remembrance.”

7. “He gave his countrymen exactly what he promised them–blood, toil, tears, sweat–and one thing more: untold courage.”

8. “His mail brings him a daily dosage of opinion in which he is by turn vilified and glorified.”

9. “Like most of mankind he was ill prepared for the destiny and responsibility which had been thrust upon him. He did not want the responsibility; the destiny rested awkwardly on his shoulders.”

10. “Where most mid-20th century statesmen feel obliged to cloak their extraordinary qualities in a mantle of folksiness, he unabashedly regards himself as a historic figure and comports himself as a man of greatness.”

11. “Curiously, it was in a jail that the year’s end found the…man whose mark on world history will undoubtedly loom largest of all.”

12. “[This] was a year of blood and strength. The man whose name means steel in Russian, whose few words of English include the American expression ‘tough guy,’ was the man of [the year].”

13. “He emerged as a tough, determined world leader. Finally seizing firm control of his office, he was willing to break sharply with tradition in his privately expressed desire ‘to make a difference’ in his time.”

14. “The firm that [he] built has survived in one of the most tumultuous industries in history, emerging to become one of the most powerful companies of our age.”

15. “When he talks, it is not only to his flock of nearly a billion; he expects the world to listen. And the flock and the world listen, not always liking what they hear.”

16. “Greatest ambition of [this newsmaker] seemed to be to drop from world publicity’s most glaring spotlight to utter oblivion.”

Queen Elizabeth II ( ) Martin Luther King Jr. ( ) Mohandas Gandhi ( ) Corazon Aquino ( ) Andrew Grove ( ) Joseph Stalin ( ) Charles de Gaulle ( ) Owen D. Young ( ) Ayatullah Khomeini ( ) Harry S Truman ( ) Winston Churchill ( ) Haile Selassie ( ) Wallis Simpson ( ) Richard Nixon ( ) Mikhail Gorbachev ( ) Pope John Paul II ( )

LEADERS & LOCATIONS Write the names of the leaders and the locations of their chief accomplishments under the corresponding descriptions. Not all answers will be used.

LEADERS

VO NGUYEN GIAP INDIRA GANDHI THEODORE ROOSEVELT SIRIMAVO BANDARANAIKE MARGARET THATCHER IDI AMIN DADA FIDEL CASTRO LECH WALESA EVA PERON FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT HO CHI MINH CHE GUEVARA F.W. DE KLERK NELSON MANDELA V.I. LENIN BENAZIR BHUTTO KEMAL ATATURK GOLDA MEIR DAVID BEN-GURION MADAME CHIANG KAI-SHEK POL POT ADOLF HITLER

1. This electrician’s leadership of a labor movement here sparked a chain of events that led to the toppling of communism throughout Central Europe.

NAME LOCATION

2. She dominated this nation’s politics for two decades and consolidated the authority of its central government.

NAME LOCATION

3. This “Bringer of Light” led his people through decades of fighting against three major powers to secure independence for this country.

NAME LOCATION

4. After 27 years in prison, this leader won both the Nobel Peace Prize and, in democratic elections, the presidency of this country.

NAME LOCATION

5. This Prime Minister weakened the power of trade unions here, privatized nationalized industries and led the nation to a spectacular military victory.

NAME LOCATION

6. Builder of the first concentration camps in Europe, he initiated the rise of this century’s totalitarian states here.

NAME LOCATION

7. This leader proclaimed this nation’s independence, served as its first Prime Minister and helped sustain its existence over the period of several wars.

NAME LOCATION

8. Scion of a wealthy family, as Prime Minister here she became the first woman to head an Islamic state.

NAME LOCATION

9. He routed British forces, expelled the Greeks and founded a republic here, secularizing and modernizing the nation and even changing its alphabet.

NAME LOCATION

10. After a seven-year insurgency, this rebel defeated the ruling regime and took charge of a government that remains in power here 40 years later.

NAME LOCATION

11. The world’s first woman Prime Minister, she entered political life following her husband’s assassination here.

NAME LOCATION

12. This member of this nation’s “power pair” led the country’s air force in struggles during an invasion, occupation and civil war.

NAME LOCATION 13. His attempt to create an agrarian Utopia killed off almost a quarter of this country’s population–some 2 million people. The chief targets were the educated and the skilled.

NAME LOCATION

14. This former army corporal restored his nation to superpower status and then reduced it to rubble.

NAME LOCATION

15. Nobel prizewinner, physical culturist, naval historian, biographer, essayist, rancher, conservationist, cavalry officer, Governor and President here.

NAME LOCATION

NAMES & NUMBERS Match each description with the appropriate name, number or term. Not all answers will be used.

1. The world’s first synthetic plastic

2. Number of people killed in the worldwide influenza epidemic of 1918

3. Computer used by the Allies to break German codes

4. Dollar price of a Ford Model A in 1927

5. Long-hidden cave discovered in 1940, whose walls are covered with Ice Age art

6. The first fully electronic computer

7. End result of a scientific research project in Scotland in the 1990s

8. Percent increase of Third World greenhouse emissions in the past decade

9. Where Mary Leakey found the skull of a human ancestor who lived 1.8 million years ago

10. Number of people who have died of AIDS worldwide

11. Celestial phenomenon discovered by Allan Sandage and Thomas Matthews in 1961

12. Number of languages spoken in the 227 countries of the world

13. Comet that crashed into the planet Jupiter in 1994

14. Number of dollars that U.S. credit-card holders owe today

15. Device first demonstrated at Bell Telephone Laboratories in 1947

16. Number of servings of Coca-Cola sold per day

17. Raft used by Thor Heyerdahl to support his theory that pre-Incan peoples reached South Pacific islands by sea

18. Percentage of U.S. homes that had a bathtub in 1900

19. Percentage of U.S. homes that were connected to the Internet in 1998

20. Number of U.S. residences wired for electricity in 1925

21. 1928 discovery that revolutionized 20th century medicine

Dolly Shoemaker-Levy 9 25 million transistor 1 billion Colossus 20 ENIAC quasar 71 Olduvai Gorge 16 million 6701 Valium penicillin 500 billion Bakelite RU-486 Lascaux 41.22 cyclotron 14 Deep Blue 10.5 million 550 Kon-Tiki amniocentesis

WHO SAID IT? Identify the source of each quotation.

1. “The radio craze…will die out in time.”

a) Howard Stern b) Guglielmo Marconi c) Thomas Edison d) Jack Benny

2. “One of the things I could never get accustomed to in my youth was the difference I found between life and literature.”

a) Virginia Woolf b) Edmund Morris c) Jacqueline Susann d) James Joyce

3. “To punish me for my contempt for authority, Fate made me an authority myself.”

a) Henry Kissinger b) Martha Stewart c) Albert Einstein d) Abbie Hoffman

4. “[Rock ‘n’ roll is] the most brutal, ugly, degenerate, vicious form of expression it has been my displeasure to hear.”

a) Frank Sinatra b) Ayatullah Khomeini c) Margaret Thatcher d) Billy Graham

5. “I can feel the sufferings of millions; and yet, if I look up into the heavens, I think that it will all come right, that this cruelty will end, and that peace and tranquillity will return again.”

a) Salman Rushdie b) Robert Frost c) Helen Keller d) Anne Frank

6. “I don’t have to be what you want me to be; I’m free to be what I want.”

a) Harvey Milk b) Muhammad Ali c) Georgia O’Keeffe d) Martha Graham

7. “Research your own experiences for the truth. Absorb what is useful… Add what is specifically your own.”

a) Mohandas Gandhi b) Albert Einstein c) Henry Ford d) Bruce Lee

8. “There’s not a white man in this country who can say he never benefited from being white.”

a) Bayard Rustin b) Thurgood Marshall c) Bobby Seale d) Maya Angelou

9. “An eye for an eye will make the whole world go blind.”

a) Desmond Tutu b) Dorothy Day c) Mother Teresa d) Mohandas Gandhi

10. “We are driven to this. We are determined to go on with this agitation. It is our duty to make this world a better place for women.”

a) Jane Fonda b) Betty Friedan c) Emmeline Pankhurst d) Estee Lauder

11. “640K [of memory] ought to be enough for anybody.”

a) Bill Gates b) Steve Jobs c) Thomas Watson d) HAL

12. “Man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.”

a) Gloria Steinem b) Sigmund Freud c) Al Gore d) Rachel Carson

13. “You can kill 10 of my men for every one I kill of yours, yet even at those odds, you will lose and I will win.”

a) Saddam Hussein b) Slobodan Milosevic c) Ho Chi Minh d) Haile Selassie

14. “Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.”

a) Margaret Sanger b) Franklin D. Roosevelt c) Madonna d) Martin Luther King Jr.

15. “I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness.”

a) Norman Vincent Peale b) Carl Jung c) Gertrude Stein d) Allen Ginsberg

16. “This war…is one of those elemental conflicts which usher in a new millennium and which shake the world.”

a) V.I. Lenin b) Woodrow Wilson c) Lyndon Johnson d) Adolf Hitler

17. “It was the nation…that had the lion’s heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.”

a) Winston Churchill b) Ayatullah Khomeini c) Juan Peron d) Kemal Ataturk

18. “In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility–I welcome it.”

a) Fidel Castro b) John F. Kennedy c) Theodore Roosevelt d) Mikhail Gorbachev

19. “We must canonize our own saints, create our own martyrs… black men and women who have made their distinct contributions to our racial history.”

a) Marcus Garvey b) W.E.B. Du Bois c) Jesse Jackson d) Martin Luther King Jr.

20. “If I’m going to be a symbol of something, I’d rather have it sex than some other things we’ve got symbols of.”

a) Marlon Brando b) Monica Lewinsky c) Annette Funicello d) Marilyn Monroe

21. “A revolution is not a dinner party…or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely.

a) Mao Zedong b) Malcolm X c) Che Guevara d) Imelda Marcos

22. “It’s true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?”

a) Mae West b) Groucho Marx c) Queen Elizabeth II d) Ronald Reagan

23. “Make money, be proud of it; make more money, be prouder of it.”

a) John D. Rockefeller b) Henry R. Luce c) Michael Jordan d) Oprah Winfrey

24. “I will not sell miracle cures… I did not see Elvis… The truth is not out there.”

a) Janet Reno b) Ross Perot c) Bart Simpson d) Jim Bakker

25. “I fall, I stand still… I trudge on, I gain a little… I get more eager and climb higher and begin to see the widening horizon. Every struggle is a victory.”

a) Helen Keller b) Sir Edmund Hillary c) Charles Lindbergh d) Anne Frank

26. “Always be capable of feeling…any injustice committed against anyone anywhere in the world.”

a) Bill Clinton b) Che Guevara c) Jesse Jackson d) Diana, Princess of Wales

27. “Soul is a constant. It’s cultural. It’s always going to be there, in different flavors and degrees.”

a) Billy Graham b) Aretha Franklin c) Martin Luther King Jr. d) Oprah Winfrey

THE CENTURY IN ARTS Match the excerpt from Time to the corresponding photo of the artist or work.

1. “He was the artist with whom virtually every other artist had to reckon, and there was scarcely a 20th century movement that he didn’t inspire, contribute to or…beget.”

2. “Loosely strung together on a scheme that plays the younger and older generations off against each other, it sizzles with musical montage, tricky electronics and sleight-of-hand lyrics that range between 1920s ricky-tick and 1960s raga.”

3. “[This work] is as exciting as a Western, as funny as a haywire comedy … A combination of Hollywood, the Grimm Brothers, and the sad, searching fantasy of universal childhood, it is an authentic masterpiece.”

4. “By day [the building] is a soaring column the color of an old cannon; by night it is a giant, glowing shaft punctuating the … skyline. It is the definitive statement of what a skyscraper can be by the architect whom most purists hail as the master of glass-and-steel design.”

5. “[This painter’s work] is apt to resemble a child’s contour map of the Battle of Gettysburg, [but] he is the darling of a highbrow cult which considers him ‘the most powerful painter in America.'”

6. “[This author’s work] has survived export triumphantly. In a beautiful translation, surrealism and innocence blend to form a wholly individual style. Like rum calentano, the story goes down easily, leaving a rich, sweet burning flavor behind.”

7. “With bright, geometric designs, hemlines pioneeringly economical in length and a silhouette breezily loose, [this Londoner] set off the Youthquake look of the ’60s.”

8. “Still the brightest boy in the class, [the author] holds up his hand. It is noticed that his literary trousers are longer, less bell-bottomed, but still precious.”

9. “In the…annals of family fights on stage, there has been nothing quite like [this play’s] mortal battle of the sexes for sheer nonstop grim-gay savagery. The human heart is not on view, but the playgoer will know that he has seen human entrails.”

10. “[This] is no simple catalogue of hard-luck adventures in a world where might is white. Before it is over, [the novelist’s] hero can face up to one of life’s bitterest questions, ‘How does it feel to be free of illusion?’ and give an honest answer: ‘Painful and empty.'”

11. “[This work] pretty much deserves its exclamation point. A folk musical laid in the Indian territory just after the turn of the century, it is thoroughly refreshing without being oppressively rustic.”

12. “Back in 1948, when everybody was trying to blow like Diz, [this artist’s] nine-man pickup band was trimming Gillespie’s blast-furnace sound to a clean, low Bunsen flame.”

13. “It has found important new techniques in picture-making and story-telling … It is not afraid to say the same thing twice if twice-telling reveals a fourfold truth … It is a work of art created by grown people for grown people.”

14. “With its lost…straw-clutching outcasts, its bullying and later blinded magnate, its endless rain of symbolic and allegorical smallshot, its scarred and almost sceneryless universe, [this work] can be most variously interpreted–somewhat after the fashion of the blind men and the elephant.”

15. “[The building] has hit [the city] with the force of an architectural meteorite. No question that it’s there … You turn a corner, and–pow!–an apparition appears in glass and half-shiny silver…massively undulating, something that seems…to have been dropped from another cultural world.”

16. “Whether or not [he] had written down the Armageddon of the West, he had showed up the lightweight poetry dominating American magazines … [His] poem went off like a bomb in a genteel drawing-room, as he intended it to.”

17. “He had perfect pitch and perfect rhythm. His improvised melodies and singing could be as lofty as a moon flight or as low-down as the blood drops of a street thug dying in the gutter.”

18. “She not only appropriated styles, fabrics and articles of clothing that were worn by men but also, beginning with how she dressed herself, appropriated sports clothes as part of the language of fashion. One can see how her style evolved out of necessity and defiance.”

19. “Nothing could deflect her from what she believed to be her sacred mission: to ‘chart the graph of the heart’ through movement. ‘That driving force of God that plunges through me is what I live for,’ she wrote, and believed every word of it.”

20. “[He] experimented with virtually every technique of 20th century music: tonal, polytonal and 12-tone serialism. He reinvented and personalized each form while adapting the melodic styles of earlier eras to the new times. In the end, his own musical voice always prevailed.”

21. “She was far more than a clown. Her mobile face could register a whole dictionary of emotions; her comic timing was unmatched; her devotion to the truth of her character never flagged. She was a tireless perfectionist.”

SNOW WHITE MARTHA GRAHAM LOUIS ARMSTRONG MILES DAVIS SEAGRAM BUILDING GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM BILBAO THE GREAT GATSBY T.S. ELIOT MARY QUANT BLUE POLES: NUMBER 11, 1952 CITIZEN KANE PABLO PICASSO COCO CHANEL RALPH ELLISON LUCILLE BALL GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ IGOR STRAVINSKY SGT. PEPPER’S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? OKLAHOMA! WAITING FOR GODOT

THE ANSWERS Check your mastery of this century and see if you’re ready for the next.

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79 TO 60 ALMOST THERE. SOME DEBUGGING NEEDED SYSTEM ERROR. 59 TO 0 REBOOT BEFORE GOING TO NEXT CENTURY

FACES IN TIME

1. Corazon Aquino–1986 2. Ayatullah Khomeini–1979 3. Haile Selassie–1935 4. Owen D. Young–1929 5. Mikhail Gorbachev–1989 6. Queen Elizabeth II–1952 7. Winston Churchill–1940 8. Martin Luther King Jr.–1963 9. Harry S Truman–1945 10. Charles de Gaulle–1958 11. Mohandas Gandhi–1930 12. Joseph Stalin–1942 13. Richard Nixon–1971 14. Andrew Grove–1997 15. Pope John Paul II–1994 16. Wallis Simpson–1936

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LEADERS & LOCATIONS

1. Lech Walesa/Poland 2. Indira Gandhi/India 3. Ho Chi Minh/Vietnam 4. Nelson Mandela/South Africa 5. Margaret Thatcher/Britain 6. V. I. Lenin/Russia 7. David Ben-Gurion/Israel 8. Benazir Bhutto/Pakistan 9. Kemal Ataturk/Turkey 10. Fidel Castro/Cuba 11. Sirimavo Bandaranaike/Sri Lanka 12. Madame Chiang Kai-shek/China 13. Pol Pot/Cambodia 14. Adolf Hitler/Germany 15. Theodore Roosevelt/U.S.

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1. Bakelite 2. 25 million 3. Colossus 4. 550 5. Lascaux 6. ENIAC 7. Dolly 8. 71 9. Olduvai Gorge 10. 16 million 11. quasar 12. 6701 13. Shoemaker-Levy 9 14. 500 billion 15. transistor 16. 1 billion 17. Kon-Tiki 18. 14 19. 20 20. 10.5 million 21. penicillin

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THE CENTURY IN ARTS

1. Pablo Picasso 2. Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band 3. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs 4. Mies van der Rohe’s Seagram Building 5. Jackson Pollock 6. Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude 7. Mary Quant 8. Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby 9. Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 10. Ellison’s Invisible Man 11. Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! 12. Miles Davis 13. Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane 14. Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot 15. Guggenheim Museum Bilbao 16. Eliot’s The Waste Land 17. Louis Armstrong 18. Coco Chanel 19. Martha Graham 20. Igor Stravinsky 21. Lucille Ball

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WHO SAID IT?

1. (c) Thomas Edison 2. (d) James Joyce 3. (c) Albert Einstein 4. (a) Frank Sinatra 5. (d) Anne Frank 6. (b) Muhammad Ali 7. (d) Bruce Lee 8. (b) Thurgood Marshall 9. (d) Mohandas Gandhi 10. (c) Emmeline Pankhurst 11. (a) Bill Gates 12. (d) Rachel Carson 13. (c) Ho Chi Minh 14. (b) Franklin D. Roosevelt 15. (d) Allen Ginsberg 16. (d) Adolf Hitler 17. (a) Winston Churchill 18. (b) John F. Kennedy 19. (a) Marcus Garvey 20. (d) Marilyn Monroe 21. (a) Mao Zedong 22. (d) Ronald Reagan 23. (b) Henry R. Luce 24. (c) Bart Simpson 25. (a) Helen Keller 26. (b) Che Guevara 27. (b) Aretha Franklin

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TALLY YOUR SCORE

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