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| What animal can roll into a protective ball within hours of being born, though its leathery shell takes a few days to harden? | Armadillo | 79%
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| Polaroid Corporation issued a statement asking people not to shake their pictures following the success of Hey Ya! by _______ | Outkast | 79%
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| What inventor was partially deaf, relying on an associate to be his “ears” while working on the phonograph? | Thomas Edison | 64%
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| Founded in 1943, Chicago’s Uno Pizzeria & Grill claims to be the birthplace of which culinary innovation? _____ _____ Pizza. | Deep Dish | 57%
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| Author Suzanne Collins was inspired to create what series while flipping channels between reality TV and Iraq War footage? The _____ ______. | Hunger Games | 50%
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| Before starring in movies such as Fargo, which actor was a New York City firefighter in the 1980s and returned to work alongside firefighters in the days after 9/11? | Steve Buscemi | 50%
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| When no candidate gets a majority of Electoral College votes, a situation that has happened only twice in U.S. history, what body chooses the president? The _______ __ ________. | House of Representatives | 29%
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| Sales of chess sets in the U.S. went up by 87 percent in the weeks after the 2020 release of what TV series? | The Queen's Gambit | 29%
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| The equator passes through 13 countries across South America, Africa, and Asia/Oceania: Ecuador, Colombia, Brazil, Gabon, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Somalia, Sao Tome and Principe, Maldives, Indonesia, and _______ | Kiribati | 21%
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| German Egyptologist Ludwig Borchardt wrote “description is useless, must be seen” after discovering a colorful bust of what historical figure in 1912? | Nefertiti | 21%
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| Following the January 2026 US operation to kidnap Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, Trump claimed that a new weapon only in the hands of the Americans was used to incapacitate guards, he called this weapon the ___________. | Discombobulator | 14%
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| Rajani Palme Dutt was a British political figure, journalist and theoretician who served as the fourth general secretary of the _______ Party of Great Britain during World War II from October 1939 to June 1941. | Communist | 7%
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| A U.S. military veteran, who held a 1961 benefit concert at Pearl Harbor to raise money for a battleship memorial? | Elvis Presley | 7%
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| The current banknotes of Scotland feature Scottish wildlife. The animals include mackerel on the £5 note, otters on the £10 note, red squirrels on the £20 note, and an ______ on the £50 note. | Osprey | 7%
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| NASA’s first Mars rover that reached Mars in July 1997 was given what name in honor of a 19th-century abolitionist? | Sojourner | 7%
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