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Charles Laughton and Clark Gable starred in this 1935 Oscar winning film about rebellion on the high seas. Trevor Howard and Marlon Brando starred in the 1962 sequel. What is the title?

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Which heavy-metal 1990's group took a lot of flak after releasing a song written by Charles Manson?

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What part of speech is the word "the"? (2 word answer)

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The fastest runners in the world, people who can run 100 yards in about 10 seconds, are moving at how many miles per hour?

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99% of the inhabitants of Somalia observe what religion?

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The shortest French word with all five vowels is the word meaning bird. What is it?

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Which delightful film from 2000 was based on a dog show in Philadelphia ?

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What company in the 1970's developed the high-tech concept of a mouse clicking graphical icons to open programs, but dropped the idea, allowing Apple to adopt it as the basis of the Macintosh?

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Just before the US Civil war, what were the first two states to secede from the union?

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In 1964 a phenomenal female group from Detroit hit the pop music scene, and their first #1 hit had a question in the title. What group and what song title?

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Which U.S. state's highest point is only 345 feet above sea level?

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What popular radio drama series ran from 1930 to 1962, following the adventures of a masked man in the American West?

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In November, 1987, President Reagan nominated someone to fill a Supreme Court seat, but this person had to resign from consideration when his history of previous marijuana use became known to the public. What was his first and last name?

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Which of the continental US states extends farthest north?

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What small plastic disc fad from the 1990s originated as milk bottle caps in Hawaii?