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Question 1. How did Jack's mother react when he sold the cow for five beans?
Answer: Angrily
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Question 2. What NBA star withdrew his debut rap CD after league commissioner David Stern called it “coarse, offensive, and anti-social”?
Answer: Allen Iverson
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Question 3. In the United States, they're called astronauts. What are they called in the Soviet Union?
Answer: Cosmonauts
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Question 4. How many days are there in a Leap Year?
Answer: 366
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Question 5. What is the smallest whole number that you can express using each of the digits 6, 4, 3, and 7 only once?
Answer: 3,467
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Question 6. What is Smokey the Bear's motto?
Answer: "Only you can prevent forest fires."
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Question 7. How many basic food groups are there?
Answer: 4
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Question 8. In August, 1945, two cities in Japan were destroyed by nuclear bombs. Name either one of them.
Answer: Hiroshima, Nagasaki
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Question 9. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton recently accused President Bush of breaking a personal “president-to-president” promise made to protect which federal program that provides stipends and scholarships to young people in exchange for community service?
Answer: AmeriCorps
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Question 10. If there are 61 Democrats in the U.S. Senate and 38 Republicans, how many independents are there?
Answer: One (Because there are 100 Senate members in all.)
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Question 11. Right after the Civil War, many northern politicians went South to take advantage of the confusion left after the war. What were these scoundrels called?
Answer: Carpetbaggers
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Question 12. In sewing, what is the most common seam width?
Answer: 5/8 inches
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Question 13. Stanley Cup
Answer: Ice hockey
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Question 14. This red-haired general of the American Revolution was the only president of the United States who did not live in the White House. Name him.
Answer: George Washington
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Question 15. How many original American colonies were there?
Answer: 13
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Question 16. Which of the following cities is the farthest south: Key West, Florida; Brownsville, Texas; San Diego, California?
Answer: Key West
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Question 17. What ghost, according to Shakespeare, appeared to Brutus?
Answer: Julius Caesar
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Question 18. What familiar saying is hidden in the following words: "The place 16 miles from the Tiber River's mouth took more than 24 hours to construct"?
Answer: "Rome wasn't built in a day."
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Question 19. In THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER, Injun Joe kills the doctor--but who is blamed for the crime?
Answer: Muff Potter
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Question 20. Mindy bought a 10-pound bag of dog food. At his first feeding, her dog ate 1 3/8 pounds of food. How much dog food was left?
Answer: 8 5/8 pounds
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Question 21. What is another name for a Jack-o-Lantern?
Answer: Pumpkin
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Question 22. What pro golfer, who made news last spring with his criticism of Annika Sorenstam, defeated Tiger Woods on Oct. 26 to move into the lead on the money-winning list?
Answer: Vijay Singh
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Question 23. The Pashtun, who speak Pashtu and are dominated by the Durrani and Ghilzai tribes, are which country’s largest ethnic group?
Answer: Afghanistan
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Question 24. Give the formula for finding the area of a rectangle.
Answer: Length x width
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Question 25. Another long wall--between England and Scotland--which was erected by a Roman emperor.
Answer: Hadrian's Wall
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Question 26. TO SET THE RECORD STRAIGHT is the title of a book written by what federal judge who presided over the important Watergate hearings?
Answer: John Sirica
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Question 27. How many syllables are in the word "deliverance"?
Answer: Four
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Question 28. Compute the square of 24.
Answer: 576
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Question 29. What is an anthology?
Answer: A collection of stories or poems
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Question 30. Which Asian athlete won both Rookie of the Year and Most Valuable Player honors during the 2001 major league baseball season?
Answer: Ichiro Suzuki
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Question 31. What sitcom will continue despite the sudden death of its star, John Ritter?
Answer: "8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter"
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Question 32. The main character takes a voyage to the land of the Brobdingnags, Glubdubdrip, Houynhnms, and Lilliput, in an 18th century satire. Identify both the author and the title of the work.
Answer: Jonathan Swift, GULLIVER'S TRAVELS
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Question 33. What is Condoleezza Rice’s position?
Answer: U.S. National Security Advisor
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Question 34. What country's navy was defeated by England in 1588?
Answer: Spain's
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Question 35. How many colors are there in a monochrome painting?
Answer: One
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Question 36. What is 33?
Answer: 27
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Question 37. What are catalogued under the Dewey Decimal system?
Answer: Books
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Question 38. FIDELIO is the title of the only opera by what famous composer?
Answer: Beethoven
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Question 39. An elephant, walrus, and wild boar will have this orthodontal problem. What do we call a long tooth that extends out of the mouth?
Answer: Tusk
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Question 40. Noah's Ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat. In what modern-day country is Mt. Ararat located?
Answer: Turkey
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Question 41. What game show host claimed in his 1982 autobiography that he was once a CIA assassin?
Answer: Chuck Barris
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