Random Trivia Questions

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What amendment to the US Constitution protects against unreasonable searches and seizures?

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BONUS: Halloween received its name because, around the year 800 A.D., the night of October 31 was called all hallow e'en, the night before the all hallow mass was recited, coinciding with which holiday?

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Which company created the first commercial microwave oven in 1947?

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What river runs through Cairo, Egypt?

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This word relates to art, architecture, painting, sculpture, and fiction: it can describe elaborate 13th-15th century architecture or grotesque, medieval fiction. What is this adjective?

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TV show about a genius who can become anyone that he wants to be.

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Which two people, in 1848, published the doctrine known as the Communist Manifesto , and in which language was it written?

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Shaped like a flat disk, it's about 100,000 light years in diameter, and about 10,000 light years thick. What is it?

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What is the chemical symbol for gold?

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Which African country was settled from 1822 to the 1860's mostly by freed American slaves?

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Name the authors of each of these famous novels: a. For Whom the Bell Tolls b. Gone With the Wind c. Lady Chatterly's Lover:

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During the height of Michael Jackson's reign as king of pop, and shortly after the fall of the iron curtain, young fans in which Eastern European country considered Michael to be almost a God?

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Australia is divided into eight states or territories. One of them is an island state about 150 miles south of the mainland. What is its name, and what is its capital city?

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Can you use some of the letters ABCDEF, but not use any letter more than once, to form a five-letter word?

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In 1988, 160,000 people attended the largest rock music gathering ever held in East Germany. The Communist newpapers hailed the American rock performer as a friend of the working class. Who was he?