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ANYTHING GOES
Video game maker Sega tested an armadillo, a porcupine, and an old man with a mustache before making which animal its mascot?
A hedgehog
SCIENCE & TECH
Able to detect what humans cannot, Geiger counters measure what?
Radiation
HISTORY & SOCIETY
Before moving to the Palace of Versailles, King Louis XIV lived in which French landmark, once a palace itself?
The louvre
Years after defeating General Custer at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, which Native American leader joined Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show?
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Sitting Bull
ANIMALS & NATURE
Voracious carnivores, which animals are blamed for the eradication of Tasmanian devils on the Australian mainland?
Dingos
NUMBERS
In 1970 which entrepreneur gave his famous brand its name because he and his cofounder were new at business?
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Richard Branson
GEOGRAPHY
At more than three million square miles, which desert is larger than the lower 48 U.S. states?
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Sahara Desert
ARTS & CULTURE
Thelma Schoonmaker has edited every film for which director since 1980’s Raging Bull?
Mart in Scorsese
Calgary is in which Canadian province?
Alberta
The Taj Mahal UNESCO World Heritage Site is located in which Indian state?
Uttar predesh
The site of the Bastille prison in France is now home to what kind of building
Opera house
In Norse mythology, what kind of birds did the god Odin send to bring him news from the outside world?
Ravens
Who wrote novels using the pseudonym Mary Westmacott?
Agatha christie
