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Trivia Quiz - episode 8

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 8 .

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1. The area where Oklahoma is today was first settled by the Spanish in the 15th century.
2. Radio-carbon testing is the best way to establish the date of a fossil.
3. Radio-carbon dating is named for the AM radio waves that are used to bombard the material being dated.
4. Famous frontiersman Wyatt Earp was killed in the shoot-out at the OK Corral in 1881.
5. Doc Holliday was indeed a real doctor by trade.
6. The OK Corral was located in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains.
7. Marcus Garvey was famous for encouraging Afrfican Americans to return to Africa.
8. The Black Star Steamship Line was a famous luxury cruise ship company.
9. The Black Star Steamship Line was a financial success for Garvey and the United Negro Improvement Association.
10. Marcus Garvey founded Liberia in Africa.