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Actress and political activist Jane Fonda said, "It was the most horrible thing I could possibly have done. It was thoughtless." What 1972 event was she aplogizing for?

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What product uses the advertising slogan 'The Breakfast of Champions'?

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Carol Channing won the Tony award as Best Actress for her role in one of Broadway's longest running shows. What was the title?

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This Academy-award winning actor played the 1980 film role of a boxer. Name the actor, the athlete, and the film title.

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Paul Newman won his only Best Actor Oscar for his role in which 1986 film somehow related to a sport?

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Can you name the author and main character of the popular 1950s novel about a sensitive but rebellious youth who runs away from his boarding school, The Catcher in the Rye ?

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This television personality, born in 1957 in South Carolina, has a photographic memory, and was champion speller in her high school, which comes in handy in her TV role. Who is she?

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Which British novelist experienced a great deal of success in 1933 and 1934, when he wrote the books Lost Horizon, and Goodbye, Mr. Chips ?

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Which author first wrote, "Parting is such sweet sorrow"?

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Give an acronym for the National Socialist German Workers' Party?

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What Latin phrase meaning 'nurturing mother' is used to refer to one's former school?

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In what year and location did Martin Luther King, Jr. deliver his speech: "I Have a Dream"?

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Name the 1980's techno-rock band from Montreal called "Men Without .. " what?

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Which Mexican-American labor leader, known for his commitment to nonviolent resistance, organized California food harvesters into the United Farm Workers in the 1960's?

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Name two women who were wife of one U.S. President and mother of another.