Random Trivia Questions

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What board game, invented in ancient India, involves moving pieces based on dice rolls along a numbered grid?

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Extremely popular in the 1990's, he is the only athlete to have played in both a Super Bowl game and a World Series game. Who is he?

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Can you give the locations of the three main military academies?

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Around 1720, how many Brandenburg Concertos did Johann Sebastian Bach compose altogether?

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Which American actor, known for the Rocky and Predator franchises, died in January 2024?

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What was the first message sent via radio across the Atlantic Ocean by Marconi in 1901?

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What is the term for a student who graduates first in their class?

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Which television personality, who retired in May, 1992, announced in a television interview that he was comfortable in front of an audience but awkward with people off camera?

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This classic film was written by, directed by, and starred Charlie Chaplin. It was his last totally silent film, from 1930. The plot involved the Chaplin character who falls in love with a blind flower girl and raises money for her to have an operation. W

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Name four baseball players whose faces have been displayed on U.S. postage stamps.

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In 1947 the Norwegian ethnologist and author Thor Heyerdahl confirmed that ancient Indians could have sailed from Peru to Polynesia, and in 1970, he confirmed that ancient Egyptians could have settled the West Indies. What were the names of the two boats

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About three-fourths of the mass of the sun consists of which element?

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What is "Magic" Johnson's first name?

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What city lies approximately halfway between Miami and Havana, Cuba?

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The first one of these ever built, complete with luxurious accessories and a piano, was built in Pittsburgh in 1905. The price of admission was 5¢. What was it?