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1
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Who had to tell stories to the Sultan?

A

Sherazade

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2
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What was the other names for the stories Scherazade told?

A

1001 nights or Abrabian nights

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3
Q

Why does Aladdin use the magic lamp?

A

To win over the Sultans daughter

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4
Q

Who stile the lamp from Aladdin?

A

Ali Baba

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5
Q

What is a dickens?

A

A set of books

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6
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What is the Pulitzer prize?

A

Like a Nobel peace prize, but for journalism

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7
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Sioux warriors frequently took what?

A

Took arms

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8
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What general, referred to as, “yellow hair” was totally defeated by Sioux Indians?

A

General Custer

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9
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The Rose Bowl, are regular college games, after the what, is over?

A

After the regular season is over

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10
Q

In California, the Rose Bowl is played in what city

A

Pasadena

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11
Q

Share cropping systems are divided into how many parts?

A

Three

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12
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One part of share cropping, is for people who supply seeds, fertilizers, and what else?

A

Farm equipment

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13
Q

Sit-ins are a form of what kind of what kind of protests?

A

Nonviolent protests

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14
Q

Sit-ins are designed to what, arrests?

A

Provoke

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15
Q

Jim Thorpe is an athlete of what century?

A

20th century

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16
Q

What was Jim Thorpe’s nationality?

A

Native American

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17
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Eugenia Collier taught at what college from 1966 to 1974?

A

College of Baltimore

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18
Q

Eugenia now teaches at what State College?

A

Coppin state college

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19
Q

Three mile island is the location of a serious what, in 1979?

A

Nuclear power plant accident

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20
Q

The plant underwent a what?

A

Meltdown

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21
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July 1925 became one of the most celebrated courtroom proceeding because of what?

A

Because of the high profile players involved

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22
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The trial is noteworthy because of legal, scientific, religious, philosiphicals, reasons and what else?

A

Political

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23
Q

A place in the former Soviet Union in the what?

A

Ukraine

24
Q

When did the meltdown occur?

A

In 1986

25
Q

Uncle Tom was applied to scorn who?

A

Black people

26
Q

Uncle Tom’s cabin is a novel written by who?

A

Hariet Beacher Stowe

27
Q

Where was J.K. Rowling born?

A

Chepstow, Gwent in 1965

28
Q

What famous book series did J.K. Rowling write?

A

The Harry Potter series

29
Q

Yankee was a nickname for people from where?

A

New England

30
Q

The reason the world has used the term Yankee, is because of what?

A

World War I

31
Q

Wire tapping, is the use of what kind of device?

A

Any electronic device

32
Q

Wire tapping can be used on what?

A

Private telephone conversations

33
Q

What is named after James Smithson?

A

The Smithsonian Museum

34
Q

Many Smithsonian buildings are built in where?

A

Washington Mall

35
Q

Claude McKay was born where?

A

Jamaica

36
Q

Claude McKay was the first black to what?

A

To win the medal of the institute of arts and sciences

37
Q

Julian Bond has been an active participant in movements for what?

A

For civil rights, economic, justice, and peace

38
Q

What was Julian Bond’s book named?

A

A time to speak, a time to act

39
Q

Langston Hughes attended what college in New York?

A

Columbia University

40
Q

What job did Langston Hughes get in Paris?

A

A doorman

41
Q

Paul Lawrence Dunbar was born where?

A

Dayton Ohio

42
Q

Paul Lawrence Dunbar published a book full of what?

A

Poetry

43
Q

Social security administration was the American system for distributing the what, government?

A

Federal government

44
Q

Social security started when?

A

1935

45
Q

Ace in the hole started from what game?

A

Stud poker

46
Q

The ace is the card with the what, value?

A

Highest

47
Q

An act of God, is an event beyond what?

A

Human control

48
Q

This phrase is used very often with lawyers and what companies?

A

An act of God

49
Q

An albatross litter, is what?

A

A large sea bird

50
Q

What was the poem this phrase was directed to?

A

Rime Of The Ancient Mariner

51
Q

Alpha and omega are what letters in the alphabet?

A

Alpha- Beginning

Omega- End

52
Q

Who said, “I am the alpha and the omega”?

A

God, in the new testament

53
Q

A.M, is the abbreviation for ante meridian in what?

A

Latin

54
Q

A.M is midday or 12 hours from midnight to what?

A

To noon

55
Q

This phrase means goodbye in Italian

A

Arrive deci

56
Q

Arrive derci means goodbye in what?

A

Italian

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