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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 1770 portrait, the most famous work of Thomas Gainsborough | Blue Boy |
| The Miami Hurricanes' home football stadium | Orange Bowl |
| Denmark owns this largest island in the world | Greenland |
| Site of a 1942 U.s. naval victory in World War II | Coral Sea |
| This 18th century pirate's real name was Edward Teach | Blackbeard |
| Established in 1872, it was the world's first national park | Yellowstone National Park |
| This Italian disproved spontaeous generation | Francesco Redi |
| He wrote Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard | Thomas Gray |
| The capital of the Yukon Territory | Whitehorse |
| His detective agency broke up the Molly Maguires | Allan Pinkerton |
| It was driven into the ground on May 10, 1869, at Promontory, Utah | Golden Spike |
| Who founded the Methodist religion? | John Wesley |
| Who founded the Islam religion? | Muhammad |
| Who founded the Buddhism religion? | Siddhartha Gautama |
| Who founded the Christian Science religion? | Mary Baker Eddy |
| Who founded the Scientology religion? | L. Ron Hubbard |
| Who founded the Seventh Day Adventist religion? | William Miller |
| Who founded the Jehovah's Witnesses religion? | Charles Taze Russell |
| Who founded the Mormon religion? | Joseph Smith |
| Who founded the Scottish Presbyterianism religion? | John Knox |
| Who founded the Taoism religion? | Lao-Tsu |
| Who founded the Anglican Church religion? | Henry VIII or Parliament |
| The first four books of the New Testament are Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Name the next four books in the order they appear in the Bible | Acts, Romans, 1 Corinthians, 2 Corinthians |
| TV show description: Cameras follow Philadelphia employees in their daily duties giving tickets, booting cars, and impounding vechicles | Parking Wars |
| Methodist | John Wesley |
| Islam | Muhammad |
| Buddhism | Siddhartha Gautama |
| Christian Science | Mary Baker Eddy |
| Scientology | L.Ron Hubbard |
| Seventh Day Aventist | William Miller |
| Jehovah's Witnesses | Charles Taze Russell |
| Mormon | Joseph Smith |
| Scottish Presbyterianism | John Knox |
| Taoism | Lao-Tsu |
| Ho Chi Minh City | Vietnam |
| Sao Paulo | Brazil |
| Rotterdam | Netherlands |
| Mombasa | Kenya |
| Veracruz | Mexico |
| Pusan | South Korea |
| Dhaka | Bangladesh |
| Strasbourg | France |
| Benghazi | Libya |
| Barranquilla | Colombia |
| Wellington | New Zealand |
| Comic strip written and drawn by Charles Schulz | Peanuts |
| Founder of the New York Tribune; he coined "go west, young man" | Horace Greeley |
| Political cartoon written and drawn by Gary Trudeau | Doonesbury |
| Comic strip written and drawn by Scott Adams | Dilbert |
| Magazine founded by John F. Kennedy, Jr. | George |
| Magazine of the Boy Scouts | Boy's Life |
| Founder of Playboy magazine | Hugh Hefner |
| Military cartoon written and drawn by Mort Walker | Beetle Bailey |
| Creator of the elephant and the donkey political cartoons | Thomas Nast |
| Chicago newspaper whose famous headline said "Dewey Defeats Truman" | Chicago Tribune |
| The first editor of Cosmopolitian magazine | Helen Gurley Brown |
| Country with the longest coastline | Canada |
| World's largest archipelago | Indonesia |
| World's largest inland sea | Caspian Sea |
| World's deepest lake | Lake Baikal |
| Deepest place on earth | Marianas Trench |
| Lowest point on earth | Dead Sea |
| World's largest freshwater lake | Superior |
| Driest country on Earth | Egypt |
| Largest bay | Hudson Bay |
| World's highest waterfall | Angel Falls |
| highest point on Earth | Mount Everest |
| Born in Jonesboro, Arkansas, this man is an internationally known bestselling author of legal thrillers. | John Grisham |
| Only driver to rank among the Winston Cup top ten every year from 1989-2000 | Mark Martin |
| After playing for Uca, he went on to play on six NBA championship teams w/ the Chicago Bulls. | Scottie Pippen |
| This American general served as field marshal in the Philippine Army. | Douglas MacArthur |
| What U.S. state is Fort McHenry found in? | Maryland |
| What U.S. state is Mt. Saint Helens found in? | Washington |
| What U.S. state is Death Valley found in? | California |
| What U.S. state is Custer Battlefield found in? | Montana |
| The Battle of New Orleans occured after this war was technically over | War of 1812 |
| This isotope is used for archaeological dating | Carbon-14 |
| Number of Muses in Greek Mythology | nine |
| Olga, Masha, and Irina are the title characters of this Anton Chekhov play | The Three Sisters |
| The first major mathematical theorem to be proven by a computer | Four Color Theorem |
| Number of consults that ruled over Rome at any time | Two |
| Buddhist way that leads to the end of suffering | Noble Eightfold Path |
| The battles of Poitiers and Agincourts occured in this war | Hundred Years' War |
| Number of the Beethoven symphony called the Eroica | Three or Third |
| Collective name for War, Famine, Pestilence, and Death | Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse |
| Fransico Goya painting of scene form the Peninular War | The Third of May, 1808 |
| What game is Colonel Mustard a character in? | Clue |
| In what game would you use only the Jack of diamonds, queen of spades, along with no cards lower than a nine in? | Pinochle |
| In what game do you use the words "sounds like"? | Charades |
| In what game do you use letter tiles? | Scrabble |
| Give the name for two lines that are not parallel and do not intersect. | Skew lines |
| What company operates the prestigious Queen Elizabeth II ocean line? | Cunard Line |
| What do residents of England often call a line of people waiting for something? | queue (read:cue) |
| What play features the line "O, then, dear saint, let lips do what hands do" spoken at a masquerade? | Romeo and Juliet |
| Name any four of the six African countries through which the Equator passes, | Gabon, Congo, Zaire, Kenya, Somalia, and Uganda |
| Tell the Show According to the Host: Jeff Probst | Survivor |
| Tell the Show According to the Host: Phil Keoghan | The Amazing Race |
| Tell the Show According to the Host:Ryan Seacrest | American Idol |
| Tell the Show According to the Host: Cat Deeley | So You Think You Can Dance |
| The adjective refers to memory that requires constant power to maintain the stored information | volatile |
| Windows uses this adjective to refer to memory that is actually stored on disk | Virtual |
| Frequently used data is fenerally stored in this very fast area of memory. | Cache |
| This term refers to the loss of access to a part of memory because it was not freed when the program using it was closed. | memory leakage |
| Old Testament book of songs written by King David | Psalms |
| African country that border Ethiopia,Somalia, and Eritea. | Djibouti (zhih BOO tee) |
| Animal phylum to which jellyfish belong | Cnidaria (nye DAYR ree uh) |
| Shared name of 14 ancient kings of Egypt | Ptolemy (TAH luh mee) |
| Author of Peace Breaks Out and A Separate Peace | John Knowles |
| Brothers credited with the first airplane flight | Orville and Wilbur Wright |
| China's second longest river, also called the Yellow River | Huang He (wahng HOH) |
| Metamorphic rock formed from granite | gneiss (NYES) |
| General term for bacterial food poisoning | ptomaine (toh MAYN) |
| A word or phrase to aid in memory | mnemonic (nuh MAH nihk) |
| It runs back to front in the center or sides of a church or theatre. | aisle |
| This miser is in charge of a counting house and is visited by four ghosts. | Ebenezer Scrooge |
| Scrooge reluctantly lets this clerk have Christmas Day off. | Bob Cratchit |
| "God bless us, everyone!" is the famous line of this very ill son of Bob Cratchit | Tiny Tim |
| Scrooge's former partner is this man, who appears in the novel only as a ghost. | Jacob Marley |
| Founder of McDonald's Corporation. | Ray Kroc |
| Female prosecutor in the O.J. Simpson murder trial | Marcia Clark |
| Famous humorist who dies in a plane crash in Alaska. | Will Rogers |
| Leader of the PLO during the year 2000. | Yasir Arafat |
| Pirate whose real name was Edward Teach | Blackbeard |
| Founder of the Persian Empire | Cyrus the Great |
| Father of Charlemagne | Pepin the Short |
| Governor of New York who got the Erie Canal built | Dewitt Clinton |
| Greek shipping magnate who married Jacqueline Kennedy | Aristotle Onassis |
| Chinese provisional president in 1912 | Sun Yat-sen |
| American artist known for his work with birds | John James Audubon |
| Nine letter word that means to move toward somebody or something; "G" | Gravitate |
| To recede, like a tide; "E" | Ebb |
| To move in many intersecting lines across a given point; "C" | Crisscross |
| Five letter word that means "to move along a border"; "S" | Skirt |
| To depart quickly, especially with a car; "P.O." | Peel Out |
| Six letter word which means "to turn as if on a pivot"; "S" | Swivel |
| To leap over something with the aid of a pole or your hands; "V" | Vault |
| Six letter word that means "to set out from some place, usually on a trip"; "E" | Embark |
| To strike a surface and rebound; "B" | Bounce |
| To rush forward with a sudden thrust; "L" | Lunge |
| Eight letters, meaning "to depart quickly from an endangered place"; "E" | Evacuate |
| Decorating a piece of fabric with needlework, usually holding the fabric taut by fastening it in a wooden hoop. | Embroidery |
| Looping and knotting heavy thread on a hand shuttle to make lace. | Tatting |
| Ornamentation by making perforations in a pattern, or by cutting fabric in a saw-toothed pattern. | Pinking |
| A form of knitting performed with a hooked needle. | Crocheting |
| A form of wrestling popular in Japan | Sumo |
| Single engine WWII fighter plane | Zero |
| Japan's highest mountain | Fuji |
| Japanese sect of Buddhism that aims at enlightenment through meditation | Zen |
| A long robe with wide sleeves worn with a broad sash | Kimono |
| The name of the board sash worn with this garment | Obi |
| The name of Japan's legislautre | Diet |
| The name for a Japanese emperor and a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta | Mikado |
| A Japanese wine made of fermented rice | Sake |
| Cold rice dressed with vinegar and garnished with raw fish | Sushi |
| The official flower of Japan | Cheery Blossom or Plum Blossom |
| Who Wants to be a Millionaire? 1999-2002 | Regis Philbin |
| Jeopardy! 1984-present | Alex Trebek |
| Double Dare 1986-93 | Marc Summers |
| Tic Tac Dough 1978-85 | Wink Martindale |
| The Price is Right 1972-2006 | Bob Barker |
| Blockbusters 1980-82 | Bill Cullen |
| The $25,000 Pyramid 1982-87 | Dick Clark |
| Press Your Luck 1983-86 | Peter Tomarken |
| Wheel of Fortune 1981-present | Pat Sajak |
| Lingo 2002-present | Chuck Woolery |
| Match Game PM 1975-81 | Gene Rayburn |
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