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Question 1. Rudyard Kipling's short story called RIKKI TIKKI TAVI is a fable about a lot of animals. What kind of animal is the title character?
Answer: A mongoose
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Question 2. It contains more 3 1/2 million letters, 700,000+ words, more than 30,000 verses, more than 1,100 chapters, and 66 books. What am I talking about?
Answer: The Bible
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Question 3. Subtract 42.67 from 38.5, and give me the answer to the nearest hundredth.
Answer: -4.17
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Question 4. What is a mixed number?
Answer: An integer with a fraction
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Question 5. What's the Earth's nearest neighbor in space?
Answer: The Moon
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Question 6. Which member of the Bush administration visited a mass grave site and a Saddam Hussein execution chamber, paying grim homage to atrocities of the deposed Iraqi president’s rule?
Answer: Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld
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Question 7. The process of forcing milk through a strainer fine enough to break up the fat globules, is called what?
Answer: Homogenization
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Question 8. Lord Kelvin was the British physicist who devised the absolute temperature scale. What scientist developed the Centigrade scale?
Answer: Celsius
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Question 9. Hewlett-Packard, setting its sights on customers of struggling rival Sun Microsystems, offered them $25,000 in free services to switch to H-P PCs that run what operating system?
Answer: Linux
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Question 10. Find the next number in this sequence: 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13 . . .
Answer: 21
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Question 11. If you were offered your choice of a Bartlett, Bosque, or Anjou, what is it you would be choosing?
Answer: Pears
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Question 12. He is the subject of some of the poems in A. A. Milne's WHEN WE WERE VERY YOUNG. He was Winnie the Pooh's human friend. Name him.
Answer: Christopher Robin
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Question 13. Scotland is most famous for what musical instrument?
Answer: Bagpipes
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Question 14. Hu Jintao has called for a larger public role in democratic election processes and in that country’s government. He’s the president of which country?
Answer: China
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Question 15. "I know there's a need for news conferences in the morning, but we've got breakfast to put out." That's a school lunch lady in Minnesota dutifully serving up French toast fingers just a day after she and 14 of her cafeteria coworkers did what? Hint: The odds that they would do it were something like 120 million to 1.
Answer: Won the lottery (Powerball; almost all the winners say they will keep their jobs, but from now on, nobody will dare complain about the potatoes.)
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Question 16. In what story would you find the Cheshire Cat?
Answer: ALICE IN WONDERLAND
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Question 17. A 1997 news story referred to the Tienanmen Square massacre as "the late one's darkest hour." Who was the late one?
Answer: Deng Xiaoping
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Question 18. The noun "altar" means the raised platform where religious sacrifices were made. What does the verb "alter" mean?
Answer: To change
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Question 19. Logging in Indonesia is threatening the existence of what primates which live only there and in Malaysia ?
Answer: Orangutans
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Question 20. Its chemical formula is FeS(2). Technically, it's called iron sulfide, or iron pyrites. It is shiny yellow; it occurs abundantly as a native ore. In popular terms, what is it called?
Answer: Fool's gold
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Question 21. Divide 45 by 1/5. What's the answer?
Answer: 225
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Question 22. Who said he won’t rule out recusing himself or appointing an outside special counsel to investigate the leak of a CIA officer’s identity?
Answer: Attorney General John Ashcroft
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Question 23. She was chained to a rock to be devoured by a sea monster, but was rescued by Perseus. Daughter of Cassiopeia, she was placed among the stars after her death. What is her name?
Answer: Andromeda
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Question 24. Many kings named Edward have ruled England. Which one abdicated his throne in favor of marriage to the American woman Mrs. Allis Warfield Simpson?
Answer: Edward VIII
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Question 25. Which explorer first explored New Zealand and surveyed the east coast of Australia: was it Captain Bligh, Captain Cook, Captain Kidd, or Captain Hook?
Answer: . Cook
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Question 26. Which of the following figures represents the number of inches in a meter: 29.27, 36.92, 39.37, or 43.46?
Answer: 39.37
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Question 27. General Grant and General Lee fought on opposite sides during the War Between the States. In what war did they fight on the same side?
Answer: Mexican War
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Question 28. Botany is the branch of science dealing with the study of plants. What branch of science involves the study of fossils?
Answer: Paleontology
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Question 29. Most American Presidents have been elected by either of which two political parties?
Answer: Republicans or Democrats
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Question 30. Gov. Gray Davis received help in his recall election from what former president?
Answer: Bill Clinton
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Question 31. Only one of our fifty states was an independent country, recognized by the United States, before it became a state. Was that state Alaska, Arizona, or Texas?
Answer: Texas
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Question 32. Popular among Italian Renaissance artists was art in which the Virgin Mary was the central figure. What are such portraits called?
Answer: Madonnas
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Question 33. What left-handed professional golfer has been pitching batting practice (throwing right-handed) for the Toledo Mud Hens, a minor league baseball team, in hopes he can actually pitch in a game?
Answer: Phil Mickelson
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Question 34. What state capital is the home of Vanderbilt University?
Answer: Nashville
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Question 35. If the sum of the edges of a cube is 48 inches, what is the volume of the cube?
Answer: 64 cubic inches
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Question 36. Who led the German Nazi effort in World War II?
Answer: Adolf Hitler
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Question 37. What part of an insect corresponds to the human chest?
Answer: Thorax
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Question 38. What country put the first man on the moon?
Answer: United States
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Question 39. Gorilla, the ape, is spelled G-O-R-I-L-L-A. How do you spell guerilla, the fighter?
Answer: G-U-E-R-I-L-L-A or G-U-E-R-R-I-L-L-A
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Question 40. This word describes the code of honor of the knights during the Middle Ages. Blameless behavior, courtesy, and respect for women are among the elements of the code. What word am I looking for?
Answer: Chivalry
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Question 41. Modern machine gun
Answer: Gatling
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Question 42. What was the largest city in Europe in the 1700's?
Answer: Paris
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