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What household cleaning product was originally developed as a wallpaper cleaner before becoming a children's toy?

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Which Canadian singer/songwriter wrote, among other works, the song "My Way" and the theme to "The Tonight Show"?

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What game uses a deck of cards, a board with holes in it, and small wooden pegs?

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In an attempt to control their own work, what film studio did Charlie Chaplin, D.W. Griffith, Douglas Fairbanks, and Mary Pickford establish in 1919?

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What two words beginning with the letter "P", described the ruling class and the common people of ancient Rome.

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Lise Davidsen and Michael Spyres starred in a new production of this Richard Wagner opera at the Metropolitan Opera, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, during the 2025–26 season. What is the title of this operatic film?

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Kevin Kline played two different characters in each of two different films. Can you name them?

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What video game franchise is set in the fictional region of Hyrule?

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For many years people would go to the Old Vic Theater in London to witness what specific form of stage entertainment?

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This US Army medical officer, around 1900, helped discover the causes and cures for typhoid fever and yellow fever. A hospital is named after him. Who is he?

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What programming language, created by Guido van Rossum in 1991, is named after a comedy group?

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What labor leader founded the United Farm Workers of America?

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It was perhaps the worst college campus riot ever. It originated in a quarrel in a tavern. The violence lasted for three days, involved students and townspeople, and ended with several deaths and many injuries. It happened in the year 1354 at which colleg

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The shape of a DNA molecule is usually referred to by a two-word phrase, one of whose words refers to its three-dimensional spiral shape. What is this phrase?

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In a non-leap year, what month and date can be called the exact "middle day" of the year?