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trivia Quiz - episode 2

Test your investigative skills and knowledge of history below. Just answer true or false and then click through for the answers. The questions are based on the three cases of Episode 2 .

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1. White and African American baseball players only played together for the first time after World War II.
2. In World War II, African American pilots were only allowed to ferry cargo to and from U.S. airbases?
3. The first African American to integrate the national baseball leagues was Satchel Paige.
4. After the War Between the States, Jefferson Davis was a popular hero throughout the South.
5. During the Civil War, southern sympathizers in northern states wore butternuts in their lapels.
6. John Wilkes Booth was the first person to try to assassinate President Lincoln.
7. Famed billionaire Howard Hughes made his initial fortune thanks to bauxite mines on his family's property.
8. Oil was discovered in Texas in 1901.
9. Howard Hughes, Jr. beat Charles Lindbergh's round-the-world flight record.
10. Howard Hughes's plane, The Spruce Goose, is famous for its alleged use in the kidnapping of Jimmy Hoffa.