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Million Dollar Questions #1

Can you answer these authentic questions posed to contestants on the show Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? All of these questions were million dollar questions. Good Luck!
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1. In the children's book series, where is Paddington Bear originally from?
Peru
Canada
Iceland
India
2. What letter must appear at the beginning of the registration number of all non-military aircraft in the U.S.?
L
A
U
N
3. Who delivered the less famous two-hour speech that preceded Abraham Lincoln's two-minute Gettysburg Address?
Edward Everett
Wendell Phillips
Daniel Webster
Robert G. Ingersoll
4. "Nephelococcygia" is the practice of doing what?
Breaking glass with your voice
Finding shapes in clouds
Sleeping with your eyes open
Swimming in freezing water
5. Which insect shorted out an early supercomputer and inspired the term "computer bug"?
Japanese Beetle
Moth
Cock Roach
Fly
6. Which of the following men does not have a chemical element named for him?
Enrico Fermi
Issac Newton
Albert Einstein
Niels Bohr
7. Which of these ships was not one of the three taken over by colonists during the Boston Tea Party?
William
Dartmouth
Beaver
Eleanor
8. Who is credited with inventing the first mass-produced helicopter?
Igor Sikorsky
Ferdinand von Zeppelin
Elmer Sperry
Gottlieb Daimler
9. The song "God Bless America" was originally written for what 1918 musical?
"Oh Lady! Lady!!"
"Blossom Time"
"Yip, Yip, Yaphank"
"Watch Your Step"
10. Neurologists believe that the brain's medial ventral prefrontal cortex is activated when you do what?
Get a joke
Listen to music
Remember a name
Have a panic attack
11. The Earth is approximately how many miles away from the Sun?
9.3 Million
39 Million
193 Million
93 Million
12. The US icon Uncle Sam was based on Samuel Wilson who worked during the War of 1812 as a what?
Weapons Mechanic
Historian
Meat Inspector
Mail Deliverer
13. During World War II, US soldiers used the first commercial aerosol cans to hold what?
Antiseptic
Insecticide
Cleaning fluid
Shaving cream
14. According to the Population Reference Bureau, what is the approximate number of people who have ever lived on earth?
50 Billion
1 Trillion
100 Billion
5 Trillion
15. Now used to refer to a cat, the word "tabby" is derived from the name of a district of what world capital?
Baghdad
Cairo
Moscow
New Delhi
16. Which First Lady was a ninth-generation descendant of Pocahontas?
Mamie Eisenhower
Edith Wilson
Bess Truman
Helen Taft
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