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| Salvor Dali was famous for what style of art? |
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| What real person inspired Anderson's "The Nightengale" |
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| His unrequited love, the "Swedish Nightengale" Jenny Lind |
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| When he left the White House, Eisenhower issued a famous warning regarding what? |
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| The military-industrial complex |
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| What is the "Lindbergh Law"? |
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| Makes kidnapping a federal offense if victim is taken across state lines or if post office is used for ransom demands |
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| True of False: the US government never recognized Fidel Castro's government |
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| False; recognized a few days after Castro seized power, and broke off relations when he seized US property in Cuba and began to buy oil from Soviet Union |
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| Great Grandpa was President, Grandpa was Senator, I was a Governor until January 2007 |
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| Ohio Governor Robert Taft II |
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| Father ran SEC. One of my brothers was President, another was a Senator. I'm a Senator, too. |
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| My brother and I are historians. Father was a diplomat. Grandfather was President, and Great Grandfather. |
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| My father was President, but I only got as far as Secretary of War and Ambassador to Great Britain. I ran the Pullman Car Company. |
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| My father and I both went to West Point. He was President; I was a soldier, diplomat, and historian. |
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| Which American President did Ansel Adams lecture during an offical portrait sitting? |
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| Jimmy Carter (who signed a bill protecting the wilderness soon after) |
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| Who was the first black mayor of a major American city and which city? |
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| Carl B Stokes, Cleveland (became Ambassador to Seychelles) |
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| What wartime speech by Roosevelt inspired a series of famous Rockwell paintings? |
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| What was Norman Rockwell's iconic wartime character (from the May 1943 Post illustration)? |
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| How long was the Wright Brothers first flight? |
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| What crucial invention did Orville Wright develop to make flight possible? |
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| Churchill's famous 1946 speech in Missouri referred to Eastern Europe as what? |
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| Said an "iron curtain" had fallen across the continent |
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| Churchill harshly criticized Chamberlain over what key historical event? |
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| Chamberlain's Munich agreement of 1938 with Hitler |
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| Churchill described what country as "a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma"? |
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| "We shall fight in the fields and in the street, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender" followed what historical event? |
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| Evacuation of British troops from Dunkirk, France, 1940 |
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| What short story gave Mark Twain national fame? |
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| The Notorius Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, 1865 |
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| Roosevelt, along with two other Presidents, achieved what honor? |
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| The Nobel Peace Prize for helping to end the Russo_Japanese War |
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| What did Dr. Seuss do during WWII (and what was his first book)? |
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Drew anti-Nazi and anti-Japanese propoganda cartoons
"And To Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street" |
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| St. Peter, first bishop of Rome |
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| What distinction did John Paul II hold that no other Pope had held in 450 years? |
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| Which biblical site in Iraq did John Paul II visit in Iraq |
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| Ur, the traditional birthplace of Patriarch Abraham |
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| Martin Luther King, Jr founded what organization to promote civil rights through nonviolence? |
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| Southern Christian Leadership Conference |
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| What positions composed the first Presidential "cabinet"? (although not called that at the time) |
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| War Secretary (Henry Knox) and Attorney General (Edmund Jennings Randolph) |
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| What was the nation's first capitol? Second? |
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| New York City; Philadelphia |
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| Which amendment modified the selection of the Vice-President and how was the Vice President chosen prior to that? |
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| 12th; second place vote getter |
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| Whose presidency was called the "Era of Good Feelings"? |
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| Former governor and VP sworn in by his father, a Justice of the Peace |
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| What were the Rosenbergs accused of? |
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| Selling secrets to the Soviets during McCarthyism |
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| Who was Aldrich Ames? Robert Hanssen? |
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| Soviet spies curreently serving life sentences; Ames was part of the CIA, Hanssen was FBI |
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| Who was the first woman on a major party's presidential ticket? |
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| Geraldine Ferraro, VP for Mondale |
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| Who was the first woman elected to Congress? |
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| Jeanette Ranking, Montana, 1916 |
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| Who was the first female Cabinet member? |
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| Frances Perkins, Labor Secretary under FDR |
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| Which presidential couple first moved into the White House? |
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| Which presidential nominee's wife later campaigned to become President? |
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| Which First Lady had a career as an "inquiring photographer" for the Washington Post before her marriage? |
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| Which First Lady said, "I live a dull life here...I am more like a state prisoner than anyting else? |
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| Which two First Ladies were also "First Moms"? |
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| Barbara Bush and Abigail Adams |
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| Who coined the word "McCarthyism"? |
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| the cartoonist Herblock in the Washington Post as a mocking term |
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| What is the largest river? |
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| True or false: Brazil has more Catholics than any other country |
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| What two major events took place on Pennsylvania Avenue (Washington called it the Grand Avenue) in 1865? |
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| Abraham Lincoln's funeral and parade celebrating the end of the Civil War |
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| Who was the chief city planner of Washington DC? |
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| What distinguishes the Shanghai Maglev? Which countries have a running maglev train? |
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First high speed commercial maglev
Shanghai Airport/China and Aichi/Japan, (test-track) Emsland/Germany, Yamanashi/Japan and Miyazaki/Japan
(American James Powell invented concept) |
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| First called Aspinwell by Americans, what Latin American captual city honors the Spanish form of Christopher Colombus' name? Which Asian captial is named in his honor? |
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| Colon, Panama; Colombo, Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon) |
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| First called Aspinwell by Americans, what Latin American capitol city honors the Spanish form of Christopher Colombus' name? Which Asian captial is named in his honor? |
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| Colon, Panama; Colombo, Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon) |
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| Which state produced the most Presidents? Which produced the second? |
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| Virginia (8); Ohio (7) including Ulysses S Grant |
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| True or False; Central Park has "starred" in more than 170 films |
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| True; issues 2,000 film permits each year |
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| True or false; The "Windy City" is so called because of the strong winds coming off Lake Michigan (turning Michigan Avenue into a wind tunnel during winter months) |
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| False; nickname given by NY journalist to the city's residents who bragged so much during the 1893 Columbian Expo |
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| What world-changing event took place in Chicago during WWII? |
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| First nuclear chain reaction at the University of Chicago |
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| What novel led to the Pure Food and Drug Act? What city did it use as a reference? |
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| Upton Sinclair's The Jungle; Chicago |
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| What are the chief requirements for admission to West Point? |
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| Unmarried US citizen, 17 years old, and not yet 23 by July 1 of the year of admission, able to meet the academic, physical, and medical requirements, free of legal obligation to support a child |
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| First female West Point graduate |
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| West Point commander who attempted to turn over the fort to the British during the Revolution |
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| What is the largest island in Greece? |
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| Greece is mostly what religion? |
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| Name five members of NATO. How many total? |
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| 28 total. UK, Greece, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy |
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| Where is NATO headquartered? |
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| Who was the first President of the Republic, first US Senator from TX, and later Governor of the state? |
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| What six flags flew over Texas? |
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| Spanish, French, Mexican, Republic of Texas, American, and Confederate |
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| True or false; America has never fought with Canada |
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| False; War of 1812, Canada still a colony of GB, invaded York (Toronto) |
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| Who controlled the divided city of Berlin? |
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| Four sectors; Western side controlled by Americans, British, and French; Eastern controlled by Soviets |
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| When did the Berlin Wall come down? |
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| East Germans opened the Wall in Nov 1989; Oct 1990 East and Wset Germany were united into a single non-Communist country of Germany, Berlin single city |
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| The first European to reach Hawaii |
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| Captain Cook (named islands the Sandwich Islands after his patron and sponsor John Montagu, Earl of Sandwich) |
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| True or false; Alaska's area is one fifth the size of the lower forty-eight states |
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| What is the name of the fault line running through California? |
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| T/F Australia is the world's largest island |
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| False; "island continent" not counted among world's islands, largest is Greenland |
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What is a didgeridoo?
A) Nickname for a baby kangeroo
B) A traditional Australian instrument
C) A word I made up on a family road trip while driving through Nebraska |
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| Which presidential libraries are not administered by the National Archives? Who pays for them? |
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| Hayes, Lincoln, McKinley, Coolidge, Woodrow Wilson; private funds and operated using federal funds from the Nat'l Archive |
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| Which country gets most of its electricity from nuclear power? What %? |
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| France; 78% (the US, second, gets 19%) |
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| Where is Three Mile Island? |
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| What is the China Syndrome? |
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| Movie that opened three days before Three Mile; concept that if an American nuclear plant melts down, will melt through to China |
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| Who founded the Communist Party in Russia? |
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| Which President told Germans, "I am a doughnut."? |
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| Where should you live if you want to avoid mosquitos? |
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| Antarctica. (Fun Fact: A brown bat can eat 1,200 mosquitos a day) |
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| "Boil it, cook it, peel it. Or forget it," is the CDC mantra for prevention against what disease? |
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| What are the routes of transmission for diseases? |
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- Aerosol (TB)
- Oral (Cholera)
- Direct contact (Gonorrhea)
- Venereal
- Fomite (contaminated objects)
- Traffic (moving vehicle; car, human)
- Vector (Malaria) |
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| What does XDR TB refer to? |
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| Extreme Drug Resistant Tuberculosis |
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- responsible for neurological disease
- abnormal protein, similar to normal
- can’t be killed by cooking |
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| What is the structure of a virus? How does it reproduce? |
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| Capsid, core, genetic material; can be surrounded by lipid “envelope”; viruses made in host cytoplasm, cell bursts and new viruses released |
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| What are some ways pathogens withstand a host's defenses? |
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Withstanding host
1) Hide inside host cell
a. All viruses (flu in lungs)
b. Few bacteria (TB, listeria)
2) Hard to catch
a. Slime capsule (anthrax, gonorrhea)
3) Change appearance
a. Viruses (HIV)
b. Protozoa (malaria)
4) Kill immune cell
a. Viruses (HIV)
b. Bacteria (leukocidin) |
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| What is the "danger zone" in which bacteria reproduce in food? |
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| What is the definition of an "outbreak"? |
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| "An incident...in which 2 or more persons experience a similar illness after ingestion of a common food and epidemiological analysis implicates the food as the source of the illness." |
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| Deadly neurotoxin found in the order of fish including pufferfish, porcupinefish, ocean sunfish or mola, and triggerfish; death within 4-6 hours |
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| Fungi associated with peanut products, cottonseed, milk, tree nuts, but needs HIGH level to cause illness |
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| Name the Vice Presidents who succeeded following an assassination. |
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| Andrew Johnson (Lincoln), Chester A Arthur (Garfield), Theodore Roosevelt (McKinley), Lyndon B Johnson (Kennedy) |
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| T/F The first Woodstock festival took place in Woodstock |
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| Who played the anthem at the first Woodstock |
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| When was the first income tax passed? |
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| What union was thrown out of the AFL-CIO in 1957 for corruption |
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| What % of workers were union in 2006? |
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| Smallpox was officially eradicted (WHO) in what year? |
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| What disease is next to be eradicated (after smallpox)? |
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| Where did the metric system orginate? |
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| What was the first children's television show? |
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| What was Marilyn Monroe's first film? |
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| The Shocking Miss Pilgrim (followed by The Asphalt Jungle, launching with All About Eve) |
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| How many films did Katherine Hepburn make with Spencer Tracy? |
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| What was the first Webber musical? |
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| Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat |
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| What is the longest running Broadway production? |
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| The Phantom of the Opera ('88) 8,575 performances |
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| Punctuation symbol to start a new paragraph |
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| Who founded the Boy Scouts? |
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| What was the most costly punctuation error in history? |
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| Probably the comma left out of the program for NASA's Marine I Venue probe, led to its destruction |
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| Why does August have 31 days? |
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| Augustus stole a day from Feb |
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| Einstein's Nobel Prize was for... |
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| "for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect" |
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| T/F The original Girl Scout manual had instructions on stopping runaway horses and tying up a burglar |
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| True (tie up with 8 inches of cord) |
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| T/F The Old Testament was first written in Greek |
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| False (New Testament in Greek, Old in Hebrew and Aramaic) |
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| What are the Circles of Hell? |
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| Vestibule: undecideds; 1: Virtuous pagans/unbaptized babies; 2:Lustful; 3:Glutton; 4:Hoarders/wasters; 5:Wrathful, Sullen, Slothful; 6:Heretics; 7:Violence (against self, God, nature, homosexuals); 8: Decievers 9) Betrayers; Lowest: Betrayers to benefactors, Judas, Brutus, Cassius, Satan |
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