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| What musical instrument is associated with Doc Sevrinsen? | Trumpet
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| What musical instrument is associated with David Helfgott? | Piano
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| What cities did the Pony Express start and end in? | St. Joseph, Missouri to Sacramento, California
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| In what decade did the 1st Winter Olympics occur? | 20s
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| What state is "America's Dairyland"? | Wisconsin
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| What American Writer wrote the poem, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock? | T.S Eliot
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| In what decade was QEII coronoated? | 50s
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| What cities did the Chisholm Trail start and end in? | San Antonio, Texas, to Abilene, Kansas
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| What TV Show was the Simpsons spun off? | The Tracey Ullman Show
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| Where is the Museum of Contempary Art? | LA
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| Where is the Guggenheim Musuem? | New York City
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| What disease is caused by the lack of Vitamin D? | Rickets
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| What's the world's largest island? | Greenland
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| What's the Holy Mountain of the Greek Orthodox Religion? | Mount Athos
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| Who wrote Song of Solomon and Beloved? | Toni Morrison
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| Which British poet won the 1st Nobel Prize in literature? [If and Gunga Din] | Rudyard Kipling
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| What's the cool name for Color-Blindness? | Daltonism
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| What's the modern city of Fort Duquesne? | Pittsburg, PA
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| What cities did Braddock's Road start and stop in? | Cumberland, Maryland to Fort Duquesne
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| What's the common name for Pertussis? | Whooping Cough
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| # Gertrude Ederle swims the English Channel | 20s
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| Olympic Boxing Timing? | 3 rounds of 3 minutes each
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| What instrument does Harry James Play? | Trumpet
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| In what decade was Microsoft founded? | 70s
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| What Mountain did Noah's Ark rest on after the Flood? | Mount Ararat
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| What's the Major Roman Basilica, seat of the Pope? | St. John Lateran
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| What's the largest Christian Church? | St Peters Basilica
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| Who painted the Birth of Venus and was from Florence? | Botticelli - Birth of Venus
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| Who composed Peter and the Wolf? | Prokofiev
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| Who wrote Petrushka? | Stravinsky
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| Who wrote Symphony 2 - Pathetique? | Tchaikovsky
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| Who wrote Romeo and Juliet? | Prokofiev
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| Name Tchaikovsky's three ballets. | Nutcracker, Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty
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| When did the Hindenburg burn? | 30s
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| Who wrote "A Hundred Years of Solitude" and where was he from? | Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Columbia
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| What is the highest African mountain and where is it? | Kilimanjaro in Tanzania
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| What are the two landlocked countries in South America? | BP Bolivia and Paraguay
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| Where are the greatest tides? | Bay of Fundy, Canada
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| What's the largest archipelago? | Indonesia
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| What is the largest peninsula? | Arabia
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| Where is the Casa Rosada? | Argentina
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| What's the Italian version of the White House? | Quirinale Palace
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| Where is the US Foreign Policy Center? | Foggy Bottom
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| What countries formed the United Arab republic? | Syria and Egypt
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| What is the Congo currently known as? | Zaire
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| What does Korea call itself? | Chosen
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| What is Siam now known as? | Thailand
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| Toronto used to be known as _____ | Fort York
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| What's the largest african country? | Sudan
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| What's the official name of Hungary? | Magyar
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| What are the three names of St. Petersburg? | Petrograd, (St) Petersburg, Leningrad (PPL)
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| In what city do the White and Blue Nile meet? | Khartoum, Sudan
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| What river runs through Berlin? | Spree
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| What river runs through Florence? | Arno
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| What country is Nippon? | Japan
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| Who wrote The Faerie Queene and in what century? | Edmund Spenser, British, 1500s
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| Who wrote Pilgrim's Progress and when? | John Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress, British, 1600s
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| Who wrote the poem Aurora leigh? | Elizabeth Barret Browning, Brit, poet, 1800s
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| What was George Eliot's real name? | Mary Ann Evans, British, 1800s
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| Who was Shelley's poem Adonais about? | Adonais was about Keats
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| What is the longest running play in England? | The Mousetrap by Agatha Christie
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| Who wrote Peter Pan? | Barrie, England, 1800s
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| Who wrote A History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire? | Edward Gibbon, 1800s, England
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| Was John Donne a poet or novelist, US or Brit? | British Poet, 1500s
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| Who created Winnie the Pooh? | A.A. Milne
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| Where is the largest sculpture in the world, and who's on it? | Stone Mountain, Georgia [Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson]
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| What's the largest church in england? | St. Paul's Cathedral (by Christopher Wren)
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| What's the smallest great lake? | Lake Ontario
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| What Great Lake is farthest west? | Lake Superior
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| How many chromosomes does a human sex cell have? | 23
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| Who killed the Gorgon Medusa? | Perseus
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| Who killed Achilles? | Paris
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| Who killed Hector? | Achilles
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| What were Sophocles' four plays? [there are actully more] | 1) Antigone 2) Oedipus Rex/Oedipus Tyrannos 3) Ajax 4) Electra
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| Who wrote Oresteia in 400s BC and what are the three parts? | Aeschylus = Agamemnon + The Libation Bearers + The Euminides
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| Who wote Medea? | Euripides
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