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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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Who was the first black manager of a Major League baseball team?

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This question, according to its grouping or parentheses, can have different answers. What is the largest possible answer to the problem: "What is half of ten plus two times six."

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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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Since it became a city in 1991, this southern California city of 11,000 population has been victim of floods, mudslides, earthquake, and wildfires. What city is it?

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

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

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Four of the children of which composer of classical music also became noted musicians?

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The largest-selling music CD from a movie songtrack has sold 17 million copies, and came from a 1992 film that starred a female singer. What is the movie title and who were the two main stars?

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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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The farthest-inland deep water port on the Mississippi River is located 80 miles upstream, at which city?

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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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In 1996 the US Treasury Dept. introduced new counterfeit-proof paper money. What denomination of paper money was the first minted?