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Question 1

defunct Microsoft online encyclopedia

Answer 1

Encarta

Question 2

year of US invasion of Grenada

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1983

Question 3

lagest moon of Neptune

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Triton

Question 4

board game originally called “The Box that Sparked and Made Noise”

Answer 4

Operation

Question 5

Kiel Canal country

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Germany

Question 6

Il Trovatore composer

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Verdi

Question 7

black woman wrote Nikki-Rosa poem

Answer 7

Nikki Giovanni

Question 8

Norwegian flatbread of riced potatoes

Answer 8

lefse

Question 9

Northern Ireland unification party

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Sinn Fein

Question 10

name of Beijing-Hangzhou canal and Venice canal

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Grand Canal

Question 11

radio company purchased by GE in the 60s

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RCA

Question 12

word for timid person named after HT Webster comic strip character

Answer 12

milquetoast

Question 13

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall author

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Anne Bronte

Question 14

last craft in US Space Shuttle program (2011)

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Atlantis

Question 15

dog formerly known as Alsatian

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German shepherd

Question 16

metal whose main ore is cinnabar

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mercury

Question 17

7 unsolved math problems

Answer 17

Millennium Prize Problems

Question 18

Illinois city at confluence of Mississippi and Ohio rivers

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Cairo

Question 19

Les Demoiselles d’Avignon artist

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Picasso

Question 20

Conn Smythe trophy sport

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ice hockey

Question 21

algae/fungus hybrid

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lichen

Question 22

event commemorated by the Monument column

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Great Fire of London

Question 23

NASCAR “king”

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Richard Petty

Question 24

country with former capital Spanish Town

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Jamaica

Question 25

building designed and redesigned by James Hoban

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the White House

Question 26

Dickens novel with Little Nell Trent and dwarf Quilp

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The Old Curiosity Shop

Question 27

Barbara Hepworth medium

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sculpture

Question 28

West Germany’s detente policy

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ostpolitik

Question 29

Belinda Carlisle band

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The Go-Gos

Question 30

study of the nature of existence

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ontology

Question 31

Maryland seasoning

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Old Bay

Question 32

Sony home video recording format

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Betamax

Question 33

India’s most populous state

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Uttar Pradesh

Question 34

Katherine Ann Porter story collection

Answer 34

Pale Horse, Pale Rider

Question 35

“What’s the 411” singer

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Mary J. Blige

Question 36

president of Palestine, head of PLO after Arafat

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Mahmoud Abbas

Question 37

muscle type that allows bending

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flexor

Question 38

Descent from the Cross artist

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Rubens

Question 39

electron antiparticle

Answer 39

positron

Question 40

Feast of Lots celebrating Esther saving the Jews from Haman

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Purim

Question 41

The Remains of the Day author

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Kazuo Ishiguro

Question 42

French Chinese-style furniture

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chinoiserie

Question 43

world’s deepest river

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Congo

Question 44

I Can’t Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch) group

Answer 44

The Four Tops