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| According to the Population Reference Bureau, what is the approximate number of people who have ever lived on earth? | 100 billion | 67%
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| Now used to refer to a cat, the word "tabby" is derived from the name of a district of what world capital? | Baghdad | 67%
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| Who is the only Nobel laureate to win an Academy Award? | George Bernard Shaw | 67%
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| During WWII, U.S. soldiers used the first commercial aerosol cans to hold what? | Insecticide | 67%
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| Famous pediatrician and author Dr. Benjamin Spock won an Olympic gold medal in what sport? | Rowing | 67%
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| Though today it's treated like a treasure, what famous painting was once cut into to enlarge a doorway? | The Last Supper | 67%
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| Khrushchev's famous 1960 "shoe-banging" outburst at the U.N. was in response to a delegate from what nation? | The Philippines | 67%
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| Which First Lady was a ninth-generation descendant of Pocahontas? | Edith Wilson | 33%
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| Who delivered the less famous two-hour speech that preceded Abraham Lincoln's two-minute Gettysburg Address? | Edward Everett | 33%
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| What great thinker's death is attributed to a chill he caught while stuffing a chicken with snow for an experiment on refrigeration? | Francis Bacon | 33%
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| For ordering his favorite beverages on demand, LBJ had four buttons installed in the Oval Office labeled "coffee," "tea," "Coke" and what? | Fresca | 33%
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| The U.S. icon "Uncle Sam" was based on Samuel Wilson, who worked during the War of 1812 as a what? | Meat inspector | 33%
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| The most-watched TV episode of all time, the final episode of "M*A*S*H" aired at 8:30 PM, on February 28, 1983 following what sitcom? | Alice | 0%
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| Which of these ships was not one of the three taken over by colonists during the Boston Tea Party? | William | 0%
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| The song "God Bless America" was originally written for what 1918 musical? | Yip, Yip, Yaphank | 0%
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