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What kind of snake tempted Eve in the bible?
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When were the 10 lost tribes of Israel lost?
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Who played James Bond in the movie Casino Royale (1967)?
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How many female directors have been nominated for an Academy Award?
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Who carved the faces on Mount Rushmore?
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Who won the Scopes trial in 1925 which was about illegally teaching the theory of evolution?
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In Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter (1957), what product brought adman Rock Hunter (Tony Randall) to sudden fame?
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How many students were shot during the antiwar demonstration at Kent State University on May 4, 1970?
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What is the apple of one's eye?
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How many stanzas does "The Star-Spangled Banner" have?
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Who was Clytemnestra's lover in Aeschylus's Agamemnon (458 B.C.)?
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Were Homer's works ever banned?
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Why does the Hunger Artist fast?
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Where was The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window?
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How many gifts were mentioned in the song "The Twelve Days of Christmas"?
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How much prison time did Oliver North serve?
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Is Chicago the windiest city in the United States?
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What percentage of U.S. national wealth is held by the richest one percent of Americans?
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Where is John Wayne Airport?
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Why did Robert Browning (1812-89) and Elizabeth Barrett (1806-61) have to marry secretly?
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Who narrates Laurence Sterne's A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy (1768)?
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Did Barbara Hershey ever change her name to "Seagull"?
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Who was first associated with the term "dollar diplomacy"?
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What was the name of Don Quixote's horse?
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What error appears in the scene where Cary Grant is shot at by Eva Marie Saint in North by Northwest (1959)?
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What was producer Samuel Goldwyn's real name?
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What is the setting of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot (1953)?
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How fast does the earth travel around the sun?
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What are close encounters of the first and second kind?
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What book was authored by Dr. Frankenstein in Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)?
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Who said, "Our country, right or wrong"?
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When did the first "All in the Family" (CBS, 197179) air?
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What U.S. president was known as "His Accidency"?
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What military action was known as "that splendid little war"?
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What was the first outdoor movie to be filmed in three-strip Technicolor"?
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How many times did Eugene Debs run for president?
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Was Jefferson Davis wearing women's clothing when he was captured?
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How many people are killed in Taxi Driver (1976)?
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To whom does Marilyn Monroe say, "I always say a kiss on the hand might feel very good, but a diamond tiara lasts forever"?
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What is closet drama?
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Who signed his name as "X" to the article in the magazine Foreign Affairs that first outlined the policy of containing Soviet expansion?
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What was The Negro Motorist Green Book?
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How big was the model of the spaceship Discovery used in 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)?
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Was Bonfire of the Vanities the biggest box-office flop of 1990?
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Was Lincoln the first president born in a log cabin?
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Whose face was so unforgettable in the title role of The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)?
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What does saltpeter do?
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Which female figure skater has won the greatest number of Olympic gold medals?
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What used to stand at the site of the Empire State Building?
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How much money did Charles Lindbergh receive for flying nonstop from New York to Paris?
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How many countries did the British fight during the American War of Independence?
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Who was Shaft in the movie of the same name (1971)?
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For what did Ralph Bunche win the Nobel Peace Prize?
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Where was the first baseball game played under electric lights?
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Who played the security officer who was killed off on "Star Trek: The Next Generation" (synd., 1987)?
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What is the origin of the journalistic term muckraker?
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What does the K in K rations stand for?
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Whom did some classical writers call the "tenth muse"?
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Who said, "Now look! That damned cowboy is president of the United States"?
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Of the sisters Joan Fontaine and Olivia de Havilland, whose name is real?
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Who were the Seven Dwarfs in Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs?
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What time was the announcement of President Kennedy's assassination made on TV?
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Who was "Old Fuss and Feathers"?
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How long did Richard Pryor's TV show last?
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What is the fastest speed recorded for a male downhill skier?
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In H. G. Wells's novel, what is the name of the Invisible Man?
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When did Lucy, Ricky, Ethel, and Fred of "I Love Lucy" (CBS, 1951-57) die?
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What is the root of the American word "buckaroo"?
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What were the 12 labors of the Greek hero Hercules?
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What is the median age in the United States?
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What were the names of the two U.S. beachheads at Normandy in the D-Day invasion?
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What is the official name of the Statue of Liberty in New York?
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Who founded Hasidism?
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How long did Edith Wharton's marriage last?
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When and where did Martin Luther King, Jr., make his "I Have a Dream" speech?
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What artist's life is the basis for W. Somerset Maugham's novel The Moon and Sixpence (1919)?
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What is the difference between Hoover Dam and Boulder Dam?
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When did Bloomingdale's open?
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How old is the saying Waiting Till the Cows come Home?
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Is Chop Suey an authentic Chinese dish?
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According to the song "Think Pink" in Funny Face (1957), what should be done with black, blue, and beige?
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How did inexpensive handguns become known as Saturday Night Specials?
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What was the first American city to be admitted to the National Hockey League?
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What was the highest tariff in U.S. history placed on imported goods?
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What nationality was the Lusitania that sunk by a German submarine in 1915?
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How large was Noah's Ark?
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Which composer premiered a symphony in an American department store?
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What immigrant group has the most descendants in the United States today?
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What works earned Edith Wharton her Pulitzer prizes?
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Where did Asia get its name?
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Who is the hero of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man (1952)?
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What were the professions of "The Golden Girls" on the TV series (NBC, 1985-92)?
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Who founded the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing?
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Do Siamese fighting fish fight?
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Who replaced General Douglas MacArthur when he was fired by President Harry S. Truman during the Korean War?
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Who claimed, "I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin"?
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When were Julius and Ethel Rosenberg executed?
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Who are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse?
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What are the five largest Lakes in the world?
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What was the Roosevelt Corollary?
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When was the importation of slaves outlawed in the U.S.?
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Where did Hollywood ice-skating clowns Frick and Frack get their names?
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What does the ZIP in ZIP code stand for?
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What is the difference between a bildungsroman and a roman a clef?
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What is the longest pro football game on record?
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Why is the name "Mary Katherine Goddard" on some early copies of the Declaration of Independence?
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What is the highest-scoring pro basketball game to date?
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Are there any words in the English language that use all five vowels?
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In his confrontation with a bank robber in Dirty Harry (1971), did Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood) fire five shots or six?
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What kind of employees were recruited to work in the first American cloth factories?
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Who was the youngest person to win an Oscar and for what film?
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Who was Tamburlaine the Great and when did he live?
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What is the full title of Dickens's David Copperfield (1849-50)?
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What is the full name of Khan, the superhuman "Star Trek" villain?
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How long was the first run of Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire (1947)?
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How did Bugs Bunny get his name?
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How many defenders died at the Alamo?
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Where is Potsdam?
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What does a cotton gin, invented by Eli Whitney, do?
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What were the four humors in medieval times?
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Where in Santayana's works does the line "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it" appear?
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Where was the first "sit-in" at a segregated lunch counter?
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What president gave the longest recorded inauguration speech?
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Was the man behind the "Sherman Anti-Trust Act" related to the man behind "Sherman's March to the Sea"?
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Why did Cain have a mark in Genesis?
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What do the following slang terms mean to spies?
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Where does the word Salary come from?
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What are the executive departments represented in the president's cabinet?
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Was Mr. Memory (Wylie Watson) in The Thirty-Nine Steps (1935) based on a real person?
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Who reported that Iraq was left in "near-apocalyptic" conditions after the Gulf War?
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Who was the youngest actor or actress to win an Oscar in a standard category?
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At its height, how much cotton did the South produce?
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What is Mrs. Dalloway's first name in Virginia Woolf's novel?
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How tall was Harvey the Rabbit?
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Which Clint Eastwood movies featured an orangutan?
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When did Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry first visit Japan?
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What is the name of the playboy in J. M. Synge's The Playboy of the Western World (1907)?
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What was the single bloodiest day of the Civil War?
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What Edward Bulwer-Lytton novel begins, "It was a dark and stormy night"?
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Why do bulls charge when they "see red"?
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What were the names of the four Lennon Sisters on "The Lawrence Welk Show"?
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What is the subtitle of Melville's short story "Bartleby the Scrivener" (1853)?
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Who was "The Oomph Girl"?
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Who was known as the Mouth That Roared?
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For whom are the Nintendo Super Mario Brothers named after?
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What ever happened to Bonzo of Bedtime for Bonzo (1951)?
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On what work did Tennessee Williams base The Glass Menagerie (1944)?
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What was the name of the bear that played "Gentle Ben" (CBS, 1967-69)?
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What was the first American cookbook?
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What was the name of director John L. Sullivan's (Joel McCrea's) "serious" film that he wanted to research in Sullivan's Travels (1941)?
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Was public kissing ever a crime in the United States?
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How much time did Alexis de Tocqueville spend in America before writing Democracy in America?
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When was the Great Fire of London?
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What male actors appear in The Women (1939)?
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Did "The $64,000 Question" (CBS, 1955-58) cost more than $64,000 to produce each week?
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What principle does Claudette Colbert say she's proven by revealing her leg to hitch a ride in It Happened One Night (1934)?
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Who played Danny Thomas's Uncle Tonoose on "Make Room for Daddy" (ABC, CBS, 1953-64)?
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What was Little Sheba?
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Can a person with long-term constipation be poisoned by their own wastes?
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When was the NFL organized and founded?
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When did King Edward VIII abdicate or give up his throne?
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Who was the Beatrice that Dante wrote about in the Divine Comedy?
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In what year is C. J. Koch's The Year of Living Dangerously (1978) set?
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Of whom did Harry Truman say, "He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he'd lie just to keep his hand in"?
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What virtues and what knights are the subjects of each of the six books of Spenser's The Faerie Queene (1596)?
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What is the hero dying of in the original D.O.A. (1950)?
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What is the name of Isabel Archer's stepdaughter in Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady (1881)?
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How long did the attack on Pearl Harbor last?
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Where was Bountiful in A Trip to Bountiful (1985)?
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How did John Ford, John Wayne, and Ward Bond start making movies together?
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Who starred in the remake of My Man Godfrey (1957)?
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What were the names of the criminals crucified at the same time as Jesus Christ?
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How did Jack Kingman get his start on TV?
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Who painted the backgrounds for Gone With the Wind (1939)?
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Who played Auntie Em in The Wizard of Oz (1939)?
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What did Hitchcock consider his best MacGuffin?
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What part did Marlon Brando play in "Roots: The Next Generation" (ABC, 1977)?
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When was the Chin dynasty?
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What was the complete lineup in Abbott and Costello's "Who's on First" comedy routine?
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What were the birth names of Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin?
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What were Spencer Tracy's last words on film?
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Who is the Mason-Dixon line named for?
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When did Spiro Agnew resign from the vice-presidency?
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Which came first, Betamax or VHS?
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What are the genesis and meaning of the phrase three sheets to the wind?
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What was Paul Newman's directorial debut?
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Who is credited with the screenplay for Gone With the Wind (1939)?
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When was the first Superbowl held?
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What does "sittin' in the catbird seat" mean?
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What does the title of Boccaccio's The Decameron (1350-52) mean?
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How many films did John Wayne direct?
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On what occasion did President Eisenhower warn against the "military-industrial complex"?
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What are the middle names of the following U.S. Presidents?
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Is Mount Rushmore the largest sculpture in the world?
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Where was the rear window in Rear Window (1954) located?
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Where did Western actor Guinn "Big Boy" Williams get his nickname?
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What is a rubaiyat?
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Who said, "When you call me madam, smile"?
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How many "Carry On" films were produced in Great Britain?
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What era does Frederick Lewis Allen's Only Yesterday concern?
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At whom was Alexander Pope's poem The Dunciad (1728) aimed?
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What is the oldest letter in the alphabet and the most recent?
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How high is the regulation basketball hoop?
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How many years separated parts one and two of Cervantes's Don Quixote?
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Where was President Abraham Lincoln born?
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How many years separated the publication of Milton's Paradise Lost and its sequel, Paradise Regained?
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What part did future director John Ford play in The Birth of a Nation (1915)?
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What was Bette Davis's last film?
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What was Lucy's character's name on "I Love Lucy" (CBS, 1951-57)?
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Who was sentenced to death at the Nuremberg war crimes trial?
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In the American Revolution, how many men were required for a regiment in the Continental army?
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How many novels has James Dickey written?
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Where is Hotel Pennsylvania in Glenn Miller's song "Pennsylvania 6-5000"?
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When did the last Americans leave Vietnam and when did the government of South Vietnam surrender?
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Who was the first president photographed while in office?
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In what battle did Sir Philip Sidney suffer a mortal wound?
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What works comprise Pale Horse, Pale Rider by Katherine Anne Porter?
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Which movie has won the most Oscars and how many did it win?
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Who was the first U.S. president to make a televised speech from the White House?
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In what year did the Supreme Court decide that it was unconstitutional to require recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance?
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Who was Richard M. Nixon's running mate in 1960?
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Who was Ishtar the goddess?
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How did the members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood sign their paintings?
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What was Sojourner Truth's real name?
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Who were the first women to head the two major political parties in the United States?
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Who coined the term "the lost generation"?
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Did Chilean poet Pablo Neruda live to see the 1973 coup by right-wing General Pinochet?
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What were the earlier names for the Beatles?
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Which of the 13 Colonies was founded by pacifists?
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What was the name of Cheri's lover in Colette's Cheri (1920)?
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What was the first chartered railroad in the United States?
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Who wrote the catchy theme song for "Mission: Impossible" (CBS, 1966-73)?
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Do Hens sit on eggs?
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How deep is a Fathom?
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What was Ronald Reagan's first broadcasting job?
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How much does an official baseball weigh?
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What do you get when you kiss the Blarney Stone in Ireland?
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How many wives did Cary Grant have?
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Which teenager dies in John Knowles's A Separate Peace (1959)?
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In what movie did Audrey Hepburn play a cigarette girl?
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Who hosted the TV show "Fernwood 2-Night" (synd., 1977)?
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Where was Sherwood Forest?
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How many air traffic controllers did President Reagan fire during the strike in 1981?
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Who were the Molly Maguires in the Pennsylvania anthracite coal mines?
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Who pitched the only perfect game in World Series history?
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What happened to the concluding part of Nikolai Gogol's Dead Souls (1842)?
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What was the White Hand Society?
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How old was Judy Garland when she made The Wizard of Oz (1939)?
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What was the first manmade plastic?
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How long have people of Mexican descent lived in Los Angeles?
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When did Andrew Carnegie present his "Gospel of Wealth"?
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Who wrote the Uncle Remus stories?
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In how many films did Basil Rathbone play Sherlock Holmes?
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Who was the first female professional author in English?
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What is Neil Simon's complete name and what was his first Broadway play?
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What positions did Tinker, Evers, and Chance play?
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What was the name of Barbara Stanwyck's TV show?
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How large was the city of Troy?
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How are U.S. highways numbered?
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Was there a Kilroy during World War II?
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According to "The Flintstones" (ABC, 1960-66) theme, how did the Flintstone family car run?
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Where did Peoria, Illinois, get its name?
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How many 1988 films featured the premise of body-switching between a young person and an older person?
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Who was Tokyo Rose?
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In Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea (1952), what fish does Santiago catch?
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What did Paul Newman do for a living before becoming an actor?
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On "Star Trek," what were the names of Spock's parents?
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How many Perry Mason novels did Erle Stanley Gardner write?
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How many empires did Alexander the Great conquer?
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Which U.S. state has been the birthplace of the most presidents?
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Where does the United States rank in population?
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To whom did the million-dollar legs belong in the 1939 movie Million Dollar Legs?
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Who was the first pro football player?
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What was the actual case behind An American Tragedy?
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Do Gargoyles on medieval cathedrals have a practical function?
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Where are the following forts located?
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Of what movie was Bob Hope's Fancy Pants (1950) a remake?
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Who is buried in Grant's Tomb?
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Who said, "Puritanism is the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy"?
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Which movie based on works by Stephen King featured John Travolta?
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When did the dodo become extinct?
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How many women died in the Triangle Waist Company fire in New York City?
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In what year did Rita Hayworth's famous World War II pinup photo appear on the cover of Life magazine?
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What determines where the Arctic Circle lies?
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Who played the lead in The Last Angry Man (1959)?
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Who was the head of the Vichy government in France during World War II?
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Who wrote "Mary Had a Little Lamb"?
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What is the derivation of the phrase In Like Flynn?
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What was the first name of Dr. Frankenstein in the 1931 Universal version of Frankenstein?
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Who named the quark?
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Who was William Randolph Hearst's extramarital love interest, the model for Susan Alexander in Citizen Kane (1941)?
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In what year did J. M. Synge's The Playboy of the Western World spark a riot?
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When did Willard Scott join the "Today" cast (NBC, 1952)?
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What was the first known case of wiretapping in American politics?
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Who played the black hero Ben in Night of the Living Dead (1968)?
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Who are the five Mafia families of New York City?
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Who trained the rats used in Willard (1971)?
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What was Mr. Magoo's complete name?
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What is the population of "Twin Peaks" (ABC, 199091)?
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What are neutrinos?
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How long has Charles Kuralt's "On the Road" feature appeared on "The CBS Evening News"?
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Who created Babar the Elephant?
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How many movies have actor Robert Redford and director Sydney Pollack made together?
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What movie inspired Alien (1979)?
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What New York City apartment building was used as the location for Rosemary's Baby (1968)?
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Who was known as the Man Who Shot Dillinger?
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Who were the original hosts of "NFL Monday Night Football" (ABC, 1970)?
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Who first said "Eureka!" and what did it have to do with a bath?
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How many copies of Gone with the Wind have been sold?
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Why was Sisyphus of Greek mythology punished?
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When was Medicare established in the United States?
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What war did the Republican congressmen dubbed "War Hawks" call for in 1810?
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Who said, "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country"?
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How large is Deadwood, South Dakota?
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Who was the "Roe" in the Roe v. Wade case?
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Where is the Mosquito Coast?
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When did the Tango originate?
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How were Samuel, John, and John Quincy Adams related?
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What was the interminable law case in Dickens's Bleak House (1852-53)?
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Where and when did Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) have its premiere?
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How did Catherine the Great die?
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What part does country singer Randy Travis play in Young Guns (1988)?
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Did Hoagy Carmichael ever win an Oscar for Best Song?
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Was Paul Revere of British descent?
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What was the original text of the Pledge of Allegiance?
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Did Andy Robinson make any other movies after playing the psychotic Scorpio killer in Dirty Harry (1971)?
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What is the name of Rochester's house in Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre (1847)?
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What were the names of the pigeons played by Red Skelton on "The Red Skelton Show" (CBS, NBC, 1951-71)?
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What was Rudolph Valentino's real name?
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What is the deepest circle of Hell in Dante's Inferno?
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Where did the Chipmunks in the Chipmunks' "Christmas Song" get their names?
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Did Jodie Foster ever star in a TV series?
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Why do birds sing?
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How long did it take American forces to capture Guadalcanal Island in World War II?
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Who was the first U.S. president to write an autobiography?
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How long was J. Edgar Hoover in charge of the FBI?
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Who did Joe Louis beat to become the world heavyweight champion?
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Who invented Felix the Cat?
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What are the highest and lowest temperatures ever recorded?
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Did Neil Armstrong say, "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind"?
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What was the first African-American union in the U.S.?
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Which U.S. states have the greatest number of hazardous waste sites?
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If the female side of a family is called the Distaff side, what is the male side?
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Where does the word vaudeville come from?
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How big was the original G.I. Joe?
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What islands are part of the Antilles?
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Why did the Whig Party in the U.S. call themselves Whigs?
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How did Thomas Chatterton (1752-70) die?
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Who was first approached to play Indiana Jones in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)?
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What started the fire at the Coconut Grove night club in Boston?
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Was it the "Chicago Seven" or the "Chicago Eight" who were tried for inciting a riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention?
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What does the military nickname "G.I." stand for?
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What song tamed the savage beast in Mighty Joe Young (1949)?
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What kind of fish is a sardine?
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Where does Jacques Derrida teach?
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Who designed the electrical machinery used to create life in Frankenstein (1931)?
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Who is the only U.S. president known to have killed a man in a duel?
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What is the second movie mentioned by name in Walker Percy's The Moviegoer (1961)?
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What makes a firefly give off light?
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What was the Toll House behind the chocolate-chip cookies known as Toll House cookies?
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What was the name of Gene Autry's horse?
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Who was the cinematographer on Citizen Kane (1941)?
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What does Frusen Gladje mean and who created it?
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Who looked back in anger in Look Back in Anger (1959)?
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How many American lives were lost in World War II?
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Who provided the voice of the brain with which Steve Martin falls in love in The Man With Two Brains (1983)?
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Who was the first person executed for witchcraft in America?
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Whom did Robert Herrick urge to go a-Maying?
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Who said, "From what I hear about Communism, I don't like it because it isn't on the level"?
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Who was the Jenkins behind the War of Jenkins's Ear?
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How was California named?
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How long did the original "Roller Derby" run?
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For whom is Duke University named?
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When was the Supreme Court first called the "Nine Old Men"?
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How many nations first joined the United Nations?
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What town was originally planned as the site of the Woodstock concert?
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How far is the pitching mound from home plate?
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Does Charo have a last name?
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How much did the studios spend on converting their filming structures to sound stages?
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What are the Ten Commandments?
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When was Isabella Rossellini married to director Martin Scorsese?
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How long did the TV show "Queen for a Day" run on television?
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Who was the "Smith" behind the Smith College for women?
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Of what movie was Steven Spielberg's Always (1989) a remake?
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Who wrote Summer of '42, the book on which the 1971 movie is based?
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What U.S. states comprised the Dust Bowl?
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What is a Bolero and what does Ravel have to do with it?
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Who coined the slogan America, Love It or Leave It?
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What was the "Hurricane of Independence" in 1775?
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How long did the "G.E. College Bowl" run and who hosted it?
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Who invented the boxing glove?
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What organization led the 1973 takeover of Wounded Knee, South Dakota?
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How long has the FBI been in operation?
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Who moved like "Jell-O on springs" and in what movie?
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What film was Boris Karloff working on when director James Whale asked him to do a screen test for Frankenstein (1931)?
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At what mogul's funeral is Red Skelton said to have observed, "Give the people what they want, they'll all show up"?
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Was Kate "Ma" Barker ever arrested for her crimes?
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What are the major cycles of English mystery plays?
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When did the military practice of camouflage come into more general use?
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What country received the most aid under the Marshall Plan?
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In what Western did John Wayne say, "Don't apologize. It's a sign of weakness"?
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From what year was Edward Bellamy looking backward in Looking Backward (1888)?
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What is the original use of the word Chaos in Greek mythology?
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What was the Great Compromise at the Philadelphia Constitutional Convention in 1787?
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Where did Sigmund Freud get the term id?
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On the $1 bill what do the words Annuit Coeptis mean?
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Who was the first U.S. president to speak over the radio?
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How many times has Norman Mailer been married?
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How many times did Ralph Bellamy play the "other man" with whom Cary Grant had to compete for the heroine's affections?
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How soon after coming to office did President Gerald Ford pardon Richard Nixon?
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When was cigarette advertising banned on television and radio?
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What relation are Kingsley Amis and Martin Amis?
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Who developed the Abacus?
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What does Haagen-Dazs mean and who was the ice cream named after?
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What does Chicago amnesia mean?
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How did the actors wearing the ape costumes in Planet of the Apes (1967) breathe?
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Who asked, "Where's the beef?" in what commercial?
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What did the acronyms U.N.C.L.E. and T.H.R.U.S.H. stand for on "The Man from U.N.C.L.E."?
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Who was Quetzalcoatl the Aztec god?
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Whose death leads Ira Wells (Art Carney) to team with Margo Sperling (Lily Tomlin) in The Late Show (1977)?
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When did crack first appear in the U.S.?
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Who said, "My mind to me a kingdom is"?
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How many stories comprise Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio (1919)?