Today's Trivia Questions

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Which TV series won the Emmy Award as best comedy five consecutive years in the 1990's?

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Which television personality, who retired in May, 1992, announced in a television interview that he was comfortable in front of an audience but awkward with people off camera?

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In 1619, the first African slaves in America arrived in which current U.S. state?

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What day of the week was January 1, 1995?

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Beethoven's Piano Sonata in C Minor and Tchaikowski's Symphony Number 6 both have the same sad-sounding name. What is this one word?

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In which 1992 film did Antonio Banderas and Armand Assante play brothers who flee Cuba with dreams of Latin music stardom in New York City?

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United Artists film studio was founded in 1919 by which four people, 3 of whom were actors and the other a director ?

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The olfactory system in our body is related to what?

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According to the constitution, what determines the exact number of electoral votes permitted to each state?

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The symbol of the Anheuser-Busch brewing company is the image of draft horses pulling the beer wagons. These horses originated in Scotland. What kind of horses are they?

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Coptic is the Christian minority religion of what Islamic country?

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Around the end of the 15th century, which two houses battled each other for control of the English throne in the Wars of the Roses?

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In 1989, the Gypsy Kings broke into the pop charts and became the first world-music superstars. What is their country of origin?

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What beverage that many people enjoy drinking today was a popular drink among the Aztecs in the 15th Century?

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The hardest mineral is, of course, diamond. The softest mineral is a whitish or grayish substance chemically known as magnesium silicate, but you have it in your bathroom and you know it as what?