I found these on a 2001 calendar:

1) Year Alaska admitted to U.S. Union as 49th State?
a. 1959
b. 1963
c. 1964
d. 1966

2) Year French heroine Joan of Arc born?
a. 1399
b. 1412
c. 1451
d. 1500

3) The Lone Ranger radio show premieres on ABC radio?
a. 1926
b. 1930
c. 1933
d. 1936

4) Elvis Presley born?
a. 1934
b. 1935
c. 1936
d. 1937

5) Income tax first collected in U. S.?
a. 1838
b. 1862
c. 1912
d. 1915

6) Captain James Cook stumbles upon the Sandwich Islands (Hawaiian Islands)?
a. 1759
b. 1764
c. 1778
d. 1789

7) Abigail Van Buren's "Dear Abby" column appears in newspapers?
a. 1950
b. 1953
c. 1955
d. 1956

8) Geological survey predicts U. S. oil supply will be depleted in 20 years?
a. 1922
b. 1941
c. 1958
d. 1986

9) Russian city of St. Petersburg renamed Leningrad?
a. 1917
b. 1919
c. 1921
d. 1924

10) Thomas Edison completes first movie studio in West Orange, New Jersey.
a. 1893
b. 1899
c. 1905
d. 1910

11) Joe DiMaggio becomes first baseball player to make $100,000/year (New York Yankees)?
a. 1945
b. 1947
c. 1949
d. 1951

I just edited my post because I found out that I had two questions numbered (5). Pinhead, you have 9 of 11 correct, so far!!

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1. 1959
2. 1412
3. 1933: "The Lone Ranger" first aired on WXYZ Detroit on January 30, 1933. It was not only the birth of one of the most successful radio programs of all time, but the beginning of the Mutual Radio Network as well.
4. 1935
5. 1778
6. 1956
7. Still looking..LOL
8. 1924
9. Great debate!! Some say 1891-92;
.....I'm going with 1892/ Dec at a cost of $637.67..LOL http://ar.essortment.com/moviethomasedi_rcgn.htm
10. 1949

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"What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.".............
Dan Quayle

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9.Edison's Black Maria: - America's first movie studio

The first motion picture studio in America opened in December, 1892, and cost $637.67 to build. Thomas Edison, who had built the unwieldy gizmo, called it by the genteel name, the "Kinetographic Theater." But it was known far and wide by it's more descriptive moniker, the "Black Maria."

It was in the Black Maria that some of the first movies in the United States were filmed. They were short productions, none of them exceeding about 30 seconds. The films were designed to be shown in the Kinetoscope, a peep show device. The patron would drop a nickel in a slot, peer through a magnifying glass, and view a bit of action -- a fragment of a vaudeville act, a smidgen of a Broadway play, a magician's trick, or the turn of a dancer. The movie clattered through the upright wooden contraption on a 50-foot continuous loop of 35mm film. The films, of course, were silent.

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"What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.".............
Dan Quayle