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132 Cards in this Set
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What European capital celebrated its 2,000th anniversary in 1951?
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Paris
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What Humphrey Bogart film poster is on the wall over Woody Allen's bed in 'Play I Again, Sam'?
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Across the pacific
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Who replaced the assassinated Giacomo Matteotti in 1924?
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Benito Mussolini
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What letter was used as a pseudonym by the author of 'The Sensuous woman'?
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J
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What is the boiling point of water on the centrigrade scale?
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100 degrees
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Who won the Fight of the Century on March 8th 1971?
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Joe Frazier
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what country's anthem begins: "From peaceful Ypiranga's banks?"
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Brazil's
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Who's the fourth person mentioned in Dion Dimucci's song 'Abraham, Martin and John'?
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Bobby Kennedy
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What began on June 25th, 1950?
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The Korean War
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Whats the occupation of Oscar Madison in Neil Simon's 'The Odd Couple'?
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Sports writer
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Who might refer to humans as 'long pig'?
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Cannibals
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How many numbered segments are there on a dartboard?
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Twenty
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What U.S. State's biggest lake is Lake Sam Rayburn?
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Texas's
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What comedian was born Allen Stewart Konigsberg?
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Woody Allen
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Who was the German counterpart to Tokyo Rose?
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Axis Sally
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What is "The Gay Science"?
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Poetry
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What's the longest-living land mammal after man?
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The elephant
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Who won the first overtime championship game in NFT history?
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The Balimore Colts.
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What country surrounds San Marino, the worlds smallest republic?
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Italy
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Who collected teh 1973 best supporting actress oscar at age 10?
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Tatum O'Neal
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Where were Omaha, Juno and Gold Beaches?
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Normandy
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What detective could distinguish 140 forms of tobacco ash?
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Sherlock Holmes
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Who wrote "Elementary Seismology" in 1958?
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Charles Richter
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What do you call a Poker hand including the black aces and eights?
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The Dead man's Hand
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Who's the patron saint of England?
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St. George
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Who lives at 39 Stone Canyon Way?
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The Flintstones
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What fleet set sail in 1588 to invade England?
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The spanish Armada
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What's the spanish word for Navy?
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Armada
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What country did Skylab hit?
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Australia
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Who was the first woman to race in the Indianapolis 500?
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Janet Guthrie
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Where are the Transvaal and Orange Free State provinces?
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South Africa
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Who narrated the Untouchables for $25,000 an episode?
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Walter Winchell
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What war did the potsdam conference follow?
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World War 2
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What was the pen name of English novelist Mary Ann Evans?
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George Eliot
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How many sides does a snowflake have?
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6
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What suspect in the game of clue teaches college?
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Professor Plum
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What's the most commonly-occuring placename in the U.S.?
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Washington
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What is Princess Aurora's better-known name?
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Sleeping Beauty
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What disease plagued Europe, Africa and Asia during the 14th centry?
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The Black Death, or the Black Plague
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What news magazine did Henry Luce and Briton Hadden found?
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Time
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What's the largest U.S. agricultural crop by weight?
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Corn
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How many sets are there in a full-length men's championship tennis match?
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5
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What city's bus terminus boasts the worls busiest pay phone at 270 calls per day?
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Chicago's
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What role did Billie Burke play in the "Wizard of Oz"?
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Glinda, The Good Witch of the North
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What king was forced to witness the signing of the Magna Carta in 1215?
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John
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Who's the founder and editor of "The National Review"?
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William F. Buckly Jr.
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What is 3.14159 better known as?
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Pi
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Who's the only man to have won the Olympic decathalon twice?
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Bob Mathias
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What three Canadian provinces border montana?
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British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan
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what character's shoes have been filled by Roger Moore, George Lazenby and David Niven?
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James Bond's
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When was the Battle of Hastings?
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1066
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What does CBer refer to as the 'pregnant roller skate'?
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A Volkswagen
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Which elephant can't be domesticated, the African or Indian?
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The African
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Why was Muhammed Ali stripped of his title and barred from boxing ion 1967
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He refused military induction
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What's the largest building on the acroplis?
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The Parthenon
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What island was the jungle home of King Kong in the 1933 film?
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Skull island
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What was Al Capone finally imprisioned for, in 1931?
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income-tax evasion
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What does the U stand for in the abbreviation I.O.U.?
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unto
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What doesn't a pineapple do after it's picked?
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Ripen
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What does the French word 'brut' mena on a wine bottle?
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Dry
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What's the longest navigable river in the world?
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The Amazon
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Where's the total eclipse of the sun in Carly Simon's "your so vain"?
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Nova Scotia
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Who provided Key Biscayne, Florida, refuge for Richard Nixan
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Bebe Rebozo
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What did the T.S. stand for in Eliots name?
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Thomas Stearns
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What grows in a paddy field?
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rice
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What were "Miss Bardahl, Maverick, Slo-Mo-Shun and Miss Supertest"?
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Power Boats
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What continent is home to half the world's people?
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Asia
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Who wrote 'God Bless America'?
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Irving Berlin
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Who was the last Czar of Russia?
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Nicholas 2
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who was 'Time's' first mand of the Year, for 1927?
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Charles Lindbergh
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What fraction of the Earth's gravity is in the moon?
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one-sixth
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What does V.S.O.P. stand for on a bottle of brandy?
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Very Superior Old Pale
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What's the claim to fame of Lhasa, Tibet?
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It's the world's highest city
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What TV show did Philadelphia kids Kenny Rossi and Justine Corelli regularly show up on?
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American Bandstand
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What famed plane was piloted by Colonel Paul Tibbets Jr.?
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The "Enola Gay"
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What letter does a cedilla hang from?
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c
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What does T.I.D. mean on a doctor's prescription?
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three times a day
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Who's the only pitcher to start for both leagues in baseball's all-star game?
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Vida Blue
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What peninsula do Spain and Portugal Share?
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The Iberian Peninsula
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What TV club did Jimmie Dodd host?
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The "Mickey Mouse Club"
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Who was "The Iron Chancellor," unifier of Germany?
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Otto Van Bismarck
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What did Hans Christian Andersen always travel with in case of a fire?
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A rope
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How many dots are there in the symbol for therefore?
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Three
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Whats a maiden thoroughbred horse never done?
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Won a race
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What's Russion for U.S.S.R?
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C.C.C.P.
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What tune subtitled "The Stammering Song", was a World War 1 hit?
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K-K-K-Katy
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Who gave a TV tour of the redecorated White house?
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Jacqueline Kennedy
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Where did Phileas Fogg begin and end his trip around the world?
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London
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What age is adolescence considered to end at?
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Eighteen
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How long must the first word in a Scrabble Crossword Game be?
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Two letters
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What was India named for?
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The Indus
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What was teh profession of the singer of the 1963 hit "Dominique".
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nun
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What was the headline of the "New York Daily Mirror" on Dec. 6, 1933
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Prohibition Ends at Last
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What 1958 Best-seller claimed to lift the lid off a small New England town?
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Peyton Place
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How many astronauts manned each of the Project Gemini flights?
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two
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What's the umpire's ruling if a line drive hits the third-base bad and bounces into the stands?
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Ground-rule double
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What U.S state is proud to call itself the "Beaver State"?
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Oregon
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What was the name of the old fireman on "Leave it to Beaver"?
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Gus
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What U.S. president pardoned Tokyo Rose?
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Gerald Ford
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What's the name of Dick and Jane's little sister?
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Sally
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What ability has the silkworm moth lost through domestication?
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flight
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What's another name for the championship pocket billiards?
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pool
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What's the capital of Delaware?
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Dover
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What's the name of the MGM lion?
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Leo
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Who was Hubert Humphrey's 1968 vice-presidential running mate?
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Endmund Muskie
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Who painted "self portrait with Bandanged Ear"?
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Vincent Van Gogh
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What animal's tail is called a brush?
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the fox's
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How many numbered colored balls are there in pocket billiards?
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fifteen
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What's the worlds warmest sea?
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The Red Sea
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What Everly Brothers song was banned in Boston?
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Wake up, Little Susie?
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Who was on the top air ace of World WarI?
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Manfred von Richthofen
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what does Exodus give as the sixth Commandment in the King James Version of the Bible?
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Thou shalt not kill?
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How many calories are in a glass of water?
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zero
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What is the most landed-on Monopoly property?
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Illinois Avenue
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What's the capital of Kentucky?
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Frankfort
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What Bally pinball machine appeared in the movie Tommy?
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The Wizard
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What Irish activist became the youngest woman ever elected to the British Parliament, in 1969?
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Bernadette Devlin
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What detective debuted in a "Study in Scarlet"?
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Sherlock Holmes
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What's a Cape Cod turkey to a fisherman?
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a codfish
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What were the doped cards to a cowboy in the Old West?
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A marked deck
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what island got their name from the Spanish 'baja mar', meaning 'shallow water'?
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The Bahamas
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What's the name of Warner Brother's romantic skunk?
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Pepe Le Pew
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Who hid in a house at 263 Princengracht, Amsterdamn, for two years?
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Anne Frank
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Who was Helen of Troy's Trojan lover?
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Paris
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What does as stallion have that a gelding used to?
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testicles
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What handicraft requeires you to interlace your warp and weft?
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weaving
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What's the world's northernmost national capital?
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Reykjavisk, Iceland
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What's the most famous restaurant in Stockbridge, Massachusetts?
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Alice's Restaurant
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who succeeded Pope Paul VI?
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John Paul I
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What newspaper carried a column by Ed Sullivan for more than 40 years?
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The New York Daily News
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What does VDT stand for?
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Video Display Terminal
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Who was the only undefeated heavyweight boxing champion?
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Rocky Marciano
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