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The 19th century baseball poem, “Casey at the Bat,” is set in what town?

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What is the name of the 2100 year old 75 mile long protective wall that extends across northern England?

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This community service organization, founded in Chicago in 1905, was originally for business men, but today includes people from all walks of life. It is named because meetings were held at the members' different homes. Which organization?

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Name the author of each of these works of literature which eventually went on to become films or stage shows: a. The Last of the Mohicans? b.the stage show Les Miserables? c. the play Glengary Glen Ross?

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TV evangelist Jimmy Swaggert and country singer Mickey Gilley are both cousins of a rock and roll singer nicknamed "The Killer," considered to be one of the greatest rock and roll singers ever. Who is it?

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What is the southernmost national capital city in the world?

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Edward Teach, an Englishman who turned to an extremely savage form of piracy, was better known by what colorful name?

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Can you name the authors of each of these futuristic novels? a. 1516: Utopia b. 1932: Brave New World c. 2001: A Space Odyssey

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In the 1970's at Oakland's Technical High School, he was a 3-sport star: football, basketball, and baseball. He received two dozen college scholarship offers for football. He went on to become a great star in baseball, playing on a local major league team

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Divorced, beheaded, died; divorced, beheaded, survived. To which people does this refer?

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What was the name of the person who called himself the Buddha, and in which country was the Buddha born?

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Name the films with people's names in the title: a. 1980 film in which Goldie Hawn enlists in the army? b. 1976 interpretation of a medieval story starring Sean Connery and Audrey Hepburn? c. Bawdy 1963 film about an adventurous 18th Century Englishman

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According to the United Nations and international law, the territorial waters of most countries extend how many miles out to sea from their shorelines?

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Which 1995 film, based on an 1811 Jane Austin novel, starred Emma Thompson and Hugh Grant?

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What is the name of the TV quiz show where celebrities occupied the spaces on a Tic-Tac-Toe board?