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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| First American to win Nobel Prize in Literature | Sinclair Lewis |
| Drew stairways with optimal illusions | M.C. Esher |
| What does "Cogito Ergo Sum" mean, and who is it by? | "I think, therefore I am", Renee Descartes (Renee Decart) |
| Galaxy closest to the Milky Way | Andromeda |
| Treaty that ended the War of 1812, Belgian city | Gent |
| Painter of the Scream | Edvard Munch |
| Poor houses in Brazil and other places. | Favelas |
| The Importance of Being Ernest is by who? | Oscar Wilde |
| How many pairs of chromosomes in the human body? | 23 |
| Capital of Phillippines | Manila |
| How many islands in the Phillippines? | 7,641 |
| Largest Muslim country in the world | Indonesia |
| How many islands in Indonesia? | 17,508 |
| Scale of Tornadoes | Fujita Scale |
| Author of 100 Days of Solitude | Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
| Author of Ode on a Grecian Urn | John Keats |
| Oldest Parliament in the World | Althing, Iceland |
| Painter of a series of water lilies | Claude Monet |
| 2018 Hurricane in the Carolinas | Hurricane Florence |
| Book about animals who rise up against their owner and strive to create an equal society. | Animal Farm by George Orwell |
| Who composed West Side Story? | Leonard Bernstein |
| The government agency that collects taxes | IRS |
| Hero of the Hobbit | Bilbo Baggins |
| Painter of the Night Watch | Rembrandt |
| Where is Samsung based? | Suwon, South Korea |