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What educational reformer is known as the 'Father of American Education'?

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In 1917, after a printer's error caused all his words to be printed in lower case, this Massachusetts poet continued the practice -- and became famous because of it. Who was he?

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What famous radio host created the talk show format and was known as the 'King of All Media'?

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The comic Marx brothers - there were five of them. Two of them were Groucho and Harpo. Can you name the other three?

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Which MLB team won back-to-back World Series titles in 2024 and 2025, the first team to repeat since the 1998-2000 Yankees?

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What major tennis player completed a career Grand Slam by winning the Australian Open in February 2026?

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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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Which Beach Boys co-founder and legendary musician passed away in 2025?

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When future President of the United States Andrew Jackson established this city in 1819 he named it after an ancient city of Egypt. What is it?

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Which U.S. President, who served from 1845-1849, was in office at the beginning of the California gold rush?

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The 1987 film, Gorillas in the Mist starred which actress playing the role of which anthropologist who studied gorillas in Africa?

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Which 2024 Jonathan Glazer film won the Oscar for Best International Feature?

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In 1507 German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller was first mapmaker to use what name on a map of the new world?

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When the Great Pyramid was being built, what was the capital of Egypt?

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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?