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    Question 1: F1 driver Michael Schumacher decided to return to the track for the 2010 season. Which team did he join?
    A. Mercedes
    B. Ferrari
    C. Toyota
    D. Williams
    Question 2: Did Muhammad Ali return to boxing after his retirement in 1978?
    A. Officially yes, but due to his Parkinsons disease he never fought again.
    B. Yes and he lost to Larry Holmes.
    C. Yes, he beat George Foreman in the famous fight in Kinshasa.
    D. No
    Question 3: Pele, probably the most famous soccer player ever, retired in 1974 after having won three world championships with Brazil. He returned a few months later and joined which club?
    A. Real Madrid, Spain
    B. Santos, Brazil
    C. New York Cosmos, USA
    D. He did not join any club, but he still played for the Brazilian national team.
    Question 4: Bjorn Borg shocked the tennis world when he retired in his prime years (he was only 25 and was at the top). What did he achieve when he returned in the early 1990s?
    A. He became the Olympic Champion.
    B. He appeared in four Grand Slam finals, but failed to win anything.
    C. He failed to win a single match in 10 consecutive tournaments.
    D. He won all Grand Slam tournaments.
    Question 5: Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean amazed the world performing to Ravels Bolero during the 1984 Olympic Games in Sarajevo. 10 years later they skated at another Olympics. Did they win another medal?
    A. No, their comeback was a complete disaster.
    B. They won, but were disqualified for cheating.
    C. Yes, they won bronze.
    D. Yes, they performed to the same music and won gold again.
    Question 6: Swimming champion Dara Torres retired and returned two times. Which statement about her comebacks is true?
    A. She won 3 Olympic silver medals the first time, but failed to qualify the second time for the Beijing Olympic team.
    B. Her first return in 2000, after giving birth, was a disaster, but the second time she won 5 medals at the Olympics in Sydney.
    C. She won a gold medal and four other medals in Sydney (2000) and three silver medals in Beijing (2008).
    D. Her first return, in Sydney, earned her 3 silver medals but the second time, in Beijing, she was not successful.
    Question 7: Janne Ahonen, a top sportsman from Finland, retired in 2008, only to return to his sport a year later. What is his sport?
    A. Nordic combined
    B. Ski jumping
    C. Javelin
    D. WRC rallies
    Question 8: George Foreman returned to boxing after a 12-year break to become the oldest heavy weight champion ever. How old was he when he beat Michael Moorer?
    A. 51
    B. 45
    C. 48
    D. 42
    Question 9: What is the name of the electrical engineer who invented holography?
    A. George William Manby
    B. Dennis Gabor
    C. Gordon Gould
    D. William Herschel
    Question 10: This German chemist was the first to develop stable, medically useful forms of heroin and aspirin.
    A. Karl Ferdinand Braun
    B. Moritz von Jacobi
    C. Eugen Baumann
    D. Felix Hoffmann
    Question 11: What American scientist invented the computer mouse?
    A. Richard Hall Gower
    B. Douglas Engelbart
    C. Robert Fulton
    D. Samuel Guthrie
    Question 12: Stainless steel, initially called rustless steel, is believed to have been invented by this man.
    A. Alexandru Ciurcu
    B. Joseph Day
    C. Harry Brearley
    D. All of these
    Question 13: What is the name of the American who patented the first artificial heart?
    A. Paul Winchell
    B. Robert Goddard
    C. Josephine Cochrane
    D. Samuel Colt
    Question 14: This man received the patent for inventing the first practical telephone.
    A. Arnold O. Beckman
    B. Alexander Graham Bell
    C. Alexander Bereznyak
    D. Willem Einthoven
    Question 15: What German physiologist created the prototype of the modern contact lenses?
    A. Fritz Klatte
    B. Karl Drais
    C. Adolf Eugen Fick
    D. Konrad Zuse