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Question 1. What is the F.B.I.?
Answer: Federal Bureau of Investigation
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Question 2. The watchword for the Camp Fire Girls is WOHELO. What does it mean?
Answer: It comes from the first two letters of three words: work, health, love.
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Question 3. A rod is 5.5 yards long. How many yards deep is a fathom?
Answer: 2
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Question 4. From what part of the elephant do we get ivory?
Answer: Tusks
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Question 5. An airplane flew at an average speed of 386 miles per hour for .275 hours. How far did the plane fly?
Answer: 106.15 miles
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Question 6. What is the name of Yasser Arafat’s ruling party that recently confirmed the nomination by consensus of Ahmed Qureia to be the next Palestinian prime minister?
Answer: Fatah
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Question 7. President Bush recently gave her the authority to manage post-war Iraq and the rebuilding of Afghanistan. Name the national security advisor.
Answer: Condoleezza Rice
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Question 8. Which month was named for the Roman god of war?
Answer: March (for Mars)
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Question 9. What nation is the largest in Africa: Chad, Somalia, Sudan, or South Africa?
Answer: Sudan
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Question 10. History reveals that black people, on the average, vote Democratic, Republican, or Independent?
Answer: Democratic
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Question 11. On consecutive games in September, the Dallas Cowboys Coach Bill Parcells defeated two of his old teams in the Meadowlands. Name those opponents.
Answer: The Giants and the Jets
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Question 12. What is the main vegetable ingredient of a coleslaw salad?
Answer: Cabbage
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Question 13. A closed figure having many sides is called what?
Answer: Polygon
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Question 14. What kind of weapon does Darth Vader use?
Answer: Laser sword
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Question 15. The Great American Pastime during the years right after the Civil War was not baseball, but which of these sports: soccer, boxing, or trotting races?
Answer: Trotting races
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Question 16. The first black man to play major league baseball.
Answer: Jackie Robinson
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Question 17. Yangtze
Answer: Yellow Sea
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Question 18. When the chief priests realized that the crucified Jesus Christ had risen from the dead, they bribed some soldiers to circulate a false report in order to explain away the resurrection as a hoax. What was this false theory?
Answer: His disciples came by night and stole him away while the soldiers slept.
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Question 19. Who was the giant hunter who was placed among the stars by Diana with the dog Sirius following him: was it Hercules, Gemini, Orion, Sagittarius, or Saturn?
Answer: Orion
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Question 20. "Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord," are the opening words of what familiar song?
Answer: BATTLE HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC
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Question 21. What does Wordsworth describe as "fluttering and dancing in the breeze" and "tossing their heads in sprightly dance"?
Answer: daffodils
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Question 22. It's sometimes called the "weather sphere" because most weather phenomena are found there. This layer of the atmosphere is next to the earth's surface. Is it called the ionosphere, troposphere, exosphere, or ozone layer?
Answer: Troposphere
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Question 23. Perseverance and justice
Answer: Blue
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Question 24. A nail is driven into a tree 4 feet above the ground. How far above ground will the nail be in 20 years, if the tree grows 6 inches taller each year?
Answer: The same 4 feet (A tree grows in diameter, but in height by the top branches only.)
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Question 25. Although he says he is ready for peace talks, Israel and the United States have refused to negotiate with what Palestinian leader, saying he is tainted by terrorism?
Answer: Yasser Arafat
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Question 26. The reign of Augustus began a 200-year period of peace in Rome. During the two centuries, commerce flourished and the standard of living got better. Historians use a Latin phrase to describe this period. What is it?
Answer: Pax Romana
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Question 27. The head of the U.S. Cavalry regiment was killed by a combined Sioux-Cheyenne force in the Black Hills in 1876. Give me his first, middle, and last names.
Answer: George Armstrong Custer
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Question 28. What is the chemical symbol for iodine?
Answer: I
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Question 29. President Bush acknowledged on Thursday that efforts toward peace in the Middle East had stalled and he blamed whom?
Answer: Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat
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Question 30. What handyman has hosted “Home Again” and “This Old House”?
Answer: Bob Vila
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Question 31. Name three of the six categories for which Nobel Prizes are awarded.
Answer: Peace, Physics, Chemistry, Literature, Economics, and Medicine-Physiology
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Question 32. As a singing cowboy, he appeared in nearly 100 motion pictures, and his recording of RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER has sold more than 12 million copies. He owned six radio stations, two television stations, and the California Angels. Can you name him?
Answer: Gene Autrey
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Question 33. Here's a puzzler: what is the closest relation that your father's sister's sister-in-law could be to you?
Answer: Your mother
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Question 34. Ida Fuller became the first retired U.S. citizen to receive what benefit on January 1, 1940?
Answer: Social Security
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Question 35. Divide 2/3 by 5/6. What's the quotient?
Answer: 4/5
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Question 36. Why were the American soldiers at Breed's Hill ordered not to fire "until you see the whites of their eyes"?
Answer: Because the muskets' effective range was only 100 yards.
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Question 37. Cardinal Francis Arinze, Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez, Cardinal Dionigi Tettamanzi, and Cardinal Christoph Schonborn are four papabili on everyone’s list. Papabili is Italian slang for the front-runners for what?
Answer: To be the next pope
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Question 38. The quest of this object is the subject of such masterpieces as Wagner's opera PARSIFAL, Tennyson's poem IDYLLS OF THE KING, and Malory's book about the death of King Arthur. In medieval legend, it was the cup used by Jesus Christ at the Last Supper. What was it?
Answer: Holy Grail
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Question 39. What figure sits on guard over the Great Pyramids?
Answer: Great Sphinx
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Question 40. The President of the United States lives at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Who lives at Ten Downing Street?
Answer: Prime Minister of Great Britain
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Question 41. Who replaced Jesse Helms in the Senate?
Answer: Elizabeth Dole
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Question 42. Ave Maria University, the first new Roman Catholic university in the U.S. in four decades, recently opened. Thomas Monaghan, the founder of which pizza chain, established this new university?
Answer: Domino’s Pizza
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