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Answer
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What Australian coral site has shrunk by 90% and is scheduled to disappear entirely by 2030 due to "bleaching"?
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What was banned by the U.S. Surpreme Court in 2022?
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Abortion
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Who wrote the songs "Hound Dog" and "Blue Suede Shoes"?
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Elvis Presley
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What tasty desert did Marie Antoinette tell people to eat if they had no bread?
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Cake
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What female scientist won a Noble Prize for her work on radiation while her husband
stayed home and raised the children?
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Marie Curie
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What three letter word do bullfighters say when they dodge a bull?
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Olé
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According to the Bible, which angel was cast out of heaven for the sin of pride?
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Lucifer
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What country hacked into U.S. election computers in 2016?
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Russia
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What ancient Indian "text" consists entirely of sex position drawings?
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The Karma Sutra
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Which U.S. state was, for seven years, an independent country known as "The Bear Republic"?
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California
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What European capital is named for the person who shot Achilles in the heel?
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Paris
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What was the name of Mahatma Gandhi's daughter who served as Prime Minister of India?
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Indira Gandhi
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What study showed that beginners think they know more than experts?
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Dunning-Kruger
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In what Massachusetts town were witches burned at the stake in the late 16th century?
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Salem
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What country's tallest mountain was formerly known as Ayer's Rock but is now called Uhuru?
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Australia
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Who killed herself with a poisonous asp?
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Cleopatra
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What food product gets its name because it is aged in Balsam wood barrels?
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Balsamic vinegar
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What traditional holiday do people in Africa celebrate instead of Christmas?
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Kwanzaa
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What Nebraska-born investor became one of the world's richest people despite being, in his own words, "a bit of a dunce"?
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Warren Buffet
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What trivia board game released its original "Genius Edition" in 1937?
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Trivial Pursuit
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- Which Russian tsar was executed when Soviets stormed the Winter Palace in 1917?
- What was the anthem of the Confederate States?
Having said that, I don't love what I perceive to be the implications of the questions 1 and 8, as well, namely:
The Great Barrier Reef is fine (it absolutely is not, it's just not expected to disappear by 2030)
And that Russia doesn't interfere in foreign elections (they do, just didn't hack voting machines)
Indira Gandhi was the daughter of Nehru .
I assume we are all April fools
Fun quiz, though.
Took his job.