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For creating the best-kept movie secret of 1992, writer-director Neil Jordan won the Oscar for Best Screenplay, and was nominated for Best Achievement in Directing, while his film was also nominated for Best Picture of the Year. For which film?

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The Bering Strait separates two countries?

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This American actress of the silent film era starred in sensational, highly publicized films such as Cleopatra (1917) and Salome (1918). Who was she?

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In 1993 a certain female turned 25 and inherited her father's $100 million estate. What is her full name?

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In physics, what unit of measure is defined as the ratio of the mass of a substance to its volume, expressed in grams per cubic centimeter or pounds per cubic foot?

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What do we call the Jewish dish of finely chopped whitefish, pike, or carp, mixed with crumbs, eggs, and seasonings, cooked in a broth in the form of an oval?

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What is the sum of the first one-hundred odd numbers, starting with 1?

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In the 1960's, London Bridge was moved from London to which place in Arizona?

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How many of these are cities of Japan: Hitachi, Nikko, Sanyo, Toyota?

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Which person directed the films Hook, The Color Purple, and Twilight Zone the movie ?

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What quotation is inscribed on the tombstone of Martin Luther King?

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Who was the King of France in 1789, at the beginning of the French revolution

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Customarily, the primary colors of the visible spectrum were red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet. However, around 300 years ago, Sir Isaac Newton found another, situated between blue and violet, and named it what?

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Alcatraz, "The Rock," was a military prison from 1859 to 1933 and a federal prison until what year? (within 2 years)

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Which former President was quoted in a Playboy Magazine interview, "I've committed adultery in my heart many times"?