Lightning Round
DOG- In this series you must identify, not breeds, but expressions containing the word dog.
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Question 42. In disfavor
Answer: In the doghouse
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Question 43. Aerial skirmish
Answer: Dogfight
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Question 44. Sirius
Answer: Dog star
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Question 45. A fairway angle, in golf
Answer: Dogleg
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PRO-All of these answers begin with the prefix pro.
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Question 46. A prediction of how a disease will develop
Answer: Prognosis
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Question 47. Marx's class of wage earners
Answer: Proletariat
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Question 48. An official of the Senate
Answer: President Pro Tempore
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ANALOGIES
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Question 49. The Nile is to Egypt as the Volga is to . . . ?
Answer: Russia
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Question 50. Mary Ann Evans is to George Eliot as Charles Dodgson is to . . . ?
Answer: Lewis Carroll
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Question 51. Watergate is to Nixon as Teapot Dome is to . . . ?
Answer: Harding
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Question 52. McKinley is to Roosevelt as Roosevelt is to . . . ?
Answer: Truman (Accept Taft.)
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AFRICAN AMERICAN
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Question 53. What do we call the slave songs that combined African rhythms with biblical scripture?
Answer: Spirituals
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Question 54. Who was the first African American chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff?
Answer: General Colin Powell
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Question 55. Booker T. Washington was the first black to receive an honorary degree from what Ivy League school?
Answer: Harvard
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RIVERS-In which country are the following rivers:
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Question 56. Yangtze
Answer: China
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Question 57. Thames
Answer: England or Canada
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Question 58. Darling
Answer: Australia
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Question 59. Ganges
Answer: India
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CITIES- In these countries, the capital city is not the largest city. Identify both the capital city and the city with the largest population.
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Question 60. U.S.A.
Answer: Washington and New York
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Question 61. Australia
Answer: Canberra and Sydney
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Question 62. India
Answer: New Delhi and Bombay
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ASSORTMENT
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Question 63. The hamburger was not invented in Germany, as one might guess, but in the United States. In what country did the hot dog have its origin?
Answer: Germany
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Question 64. Identify the part of the world where one would most likely find a nation scornfully called a “banana republic.”
Answer: Latin America
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Question 65. What was the costliest war ever in terms of money?
Answer: World War II
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I'll describe four men who were known as famous "firsts" and you supply all four names.
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Question 66. The first signer of the Declaration of Independence.
Answer: John Hancock
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Question 67. The first man to set foot on the moon.
Answer: Neil Armstrong
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Question 68. The first man to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
Answer: Charles Lindbergh
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Question 69. The first black man to play major league baseball.
Answer: Jackie Robinson
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