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Pop Culture
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What movie about a former balloon salesman travelling to the Amazon, has the shortest title of any Pixar movie?
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Up
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Who performed an iconic guitar rendition of the "Star-Spangled Banner" at the 1969 Woodstock Music Festival?
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Jimi Hendrix
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3
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Michael Emerson and Terry Quinn each won a Emmy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for their role in what ABC series that also starred Matthew Fox and Evangeline Lilly?
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Lost
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4
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What cartoonist and co-creator of Garbage Pail Kids was also the creator of the first graphic novel to win the Pulitzer Prize?
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Art Spiegelman
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5
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What cult classic computer video game, original displayed in ASCII graphics, carries the unofficial motto of "Losing is fun!"?
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Dwarf Fortress
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Geography
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1
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Anchorage is the most populous city in what state?
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Alaska
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2
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What ancient Egyptian city shares its name with a city in Tennessee that is home to Elvis Presley's Graceland mansion?
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Memphis
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3
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Sapporo is the most populated city on which of Japan's four major islands, acting as the prefecture's cultural, political, and economic center?
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Hokkaido
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4
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Spoken by about 50,000 people primarily in the easternmost part of the country, what is the only official language of Switzerland that is not an official language of any other nation?
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Romansh
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5
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What region along the boarder between Egypt and Sudan is unclaimed by either country because doing so would invalidate their respective claims to the nearby Hala'ib Triangle?
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Bir Tawil
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History
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What cavalry commander had their famous "last stand" at the Battle of Little Big Horn?"
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George Armstrong Custer
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2
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Who was sentenced to death in 399 BCE on the charges of impiety and corrupting the youth of Athens?
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Socrates
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3
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The Soviet Union was expelled from the League of Nations after invading what country during the first month's of World War II, triggering the 3 month long "Winter War"?
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Finland
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4
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What medieval commercial confederation, headquartered in the city of Lübeck and operating through networks of merchant port towns known as “kontors,” dominated Baltic and North Sea trade from the 13th to the 15th centuries?
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Hanseatic League
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5
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What ruler of Lagash during the late 3rd millennium BCE is known for his numerous surviving diorite statues and for emphasizing temple construction and religious devotion over military conquest?
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Gudea
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Science
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What number represented by a letter of the Greek alphabet is defined as the ratio between the circumference and diameter of a circle?
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Pi
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2
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Proposed 40 years before its discovery by the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, the 2013 Noble Prize in Physics was awarded for the discovery of what elementary particle essential to the Standard model?
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Higgs boson
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3
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What name is given to extremely dense, rotating neutron stars that emit regular, periodic beams of electromagnetic radiation from their poles?
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Pulsars
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4
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Driven to extinction by humans in the mid-nineteenth century, what species of flightless bird was the last of the genus Penguinus, and despite being the namesake for penguins of the southern hemisphere, were actually more closely related to puffins of the northern hemisphere?
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Great auk
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5
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What rules in organic chemistry state that a ground-state pericyclic process involving N electron pairs and A antarafacial components is symmetry-allowed if and only if N + A is odd?
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Woodward-Hoffman rules
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Arts and Literature
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What foods does Sam I Am refuse to eat in a Dr. Seuss book of the same name?
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Green Eggs and Ham
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2
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What surrealist painter is famous for works such as "The Persistence of Memory"?
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Salvador Dali
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3
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What Russian theater practitioner developed an influential acting method emphasizing emotional authenticity, now commonly known as the “System”?
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Konstantine Stanislavski
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4
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What 20th-century Argentine writer, known for labyrinthine stories and metaphysical themes, wrote the short story collections “Ficciones” and “The Aleph”?
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Jorges Luis Borges
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5
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Featured on the flag of Turkmenistan, what is the name of the medallion-like and often octagonal design elements used in Turkmen carpetmaking?
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Guls
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Miscellaneous
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1
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The holiday of Passover celebrates the Exodus of the Israelites from slavery in Egypt and is celebrated by practitioners of what religion?
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Judaism
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2
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What vegetable with the scientific name Solanum melongena is also known as an aubergine, brinjal, or baigan depending on where you are in the world?
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Eggplant
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3
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What character from a Robert Louis Stevenson novel is the namesake of a popular fast food restaurant?
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Long John Silver
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4
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What architect is known for designing the John F. Kennedy National Library, the Louvre Pyramid, and the Bank of China Tower?
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I.M. Pei
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5
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Deltiology refers to the study and collection of what?
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postcards
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