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What historically significant event occurred in England from 1642 to 1648?

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How many legs does an octopus have?

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In 1996, this congresswoman’s husband pleaded guilty to writing a quarter million dollars in bad checks to finance her campaign. What was her name?

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Which company launched the iPod in 2001?

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It is one of the world's largest dams, built on the Nile River in southern Egypt. It creates hydroelectric power and helps irrigate Egyptian farmland. Name this dam.

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What was the only part of the current United States invaded by the Japanese during WWII?

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In 1893, fed up with Paris life, this painter left his wife and children and moved to Tahiti, where he lived with a 14-year-old girl. Who was he?

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Female characters in novels or plays: a. James Bond's female enemy in Goldfinger? b. Tomboy heroine of Little Women: c. Hamlet's mother, and Claudius's wife:

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Can you give the specific names of the 3rd and 4th living people mentioned in the Bible, after Adam and Eve?

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The world's longest trade route connected China and India with the Mediterranean. For thousands of years camel caravans moved along this route transporting what most valuable commodity?

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Each of these words has six letters and ends with the letter T: a. Another name for the east b. A tough silver-white metallic element related to iron and nickel c. The name for the two dots found over certain vowels in the German language

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Which comedy actor played the role of a character named Prime Minister Rufus T. Firefly in which 1933 comedy with an animal name in the title?

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What was the first name of Abraham Lincoln's wife?

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Which entertainer's brassiere fetched $11,000 at an auction in Michigan in 1991?

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Around the year 1851, three different inventors created a machine called the sewing machine. You should be able to name two of these people. One was Walter Hunt. Who were the other two - more well-known - people?