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What is the corresponding name of the best-known item in the set, as outlined in the Prose Edda, that also includes Megingjörð and Járngreipr?

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Mjolnir

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What kind of table would you use for lomilomi, reiki, or rolfing?

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Massage

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“Spoon”, “direct-pull”, “roller lever” and “coaster” are among types of what mechanism, found on bicycles?

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Brakes

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On November 5, 2017, Shalane Flanagan became the first American woman in 40 years to win what?

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New York City Marathon

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Herbsaint was developed in 1934 as a substitute–and near-anagram–for what banned substance?

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Absinthe

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Tim Berners-Lee is a winner of the Draper Prize from the NAE, the National Academy of this.

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Engineers

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What is the Arthurian equivalent of the Muslim Zulfiqar, the Japanese Kusanagi, the Persian Shamshir-e-Zomorrodnegar, the Norse Gram, and the Carolingian Durendal?

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Excalibur

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What fictional American town is closely associated with products like Powdermilk Biscuits and Beebop-a-Ree-Bop Rhubarb Pie?

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Those were among the made-up local sponsors of Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion radio show, set in Lake Wobegon, Minnesota.

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In South Korea the Incheon Airport Maglev is one of these.

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Train

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What piece of climbing equipment is named for the German riflemen who used them to clip things to their belts?

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Karabiners used carbines, and that’s how carabiner clips got their name.

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In Wisconsin, it’s a yellow cheese; in Maine, it’s a 2,000-student college.

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Colby

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It’s a watch brand and a Nissan your parents drove– oh, and a star that emits regular bursts of radio waves

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Pulsar

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In the late 1800s Clark Stanley was a notorious seller of this two-word product, which he advertised as a curative liniment.

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Snake oil

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Borrowing from European convention, what color are U.S. highway signs for sites of “public recreation or cultural interest”?

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Brown

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Jātaka is the name for any of numerous popular tales of virtue illustrating the former lives of what individual?

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Gautama / Siddhartha Buddha

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Chevrolet and PBS have made very different versions of things called this.

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Nova

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What is this?

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Zoetrope

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The balanced-arm Anglepoise, which debuted in 1932, is an iconic design still used today for what desktop item?

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Desk lamp

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An event known as Crufts, which is hosted annually in the United Kingdom and was founded by Charles Cruft in 1891, is an exhibition centered around the judging of what?

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Dogs

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Jeroboam, Rehoboam, Salamanzar, Balthazar, and Nebuchadnezzar, in addition to being Biblical kings, are also names for different sizes of what?

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Wine Bottles

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What term for fans of a work of art who romantically pair major characters in that work is believed to have originated with The X-Files, and fanfiction writers who detail a romantic union between Fox Mulder and Dana Scully?

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Shipper

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According to the FDA, sunscreen cannot be labeled/marketed as what?

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Waterproof

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A shadowy ninja in League of Legends, best remembered for Faker’s play against Ryu, and a villain from the Power Rangers franchise share what name, which appears in Kindergarten curricula outside the United States?

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Zed / Zedd / Z

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A piece by Duke Ellington could set the mood for your trip in what Indian airline that shares its name with a short-lived concept car created by Ford?

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Indigo

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What is the name given to this type of weapon which is a combined spear and axe?

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Halberd

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This term refers to any small-sized handgun that is not a revolver or semiautomatic pistol. The term is a mispelled version of the last name of the creator of the original “Philadelphia” version of this gun, which was a single-shot muzzeloading percussion-cap pistol.

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Derringer

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A small diamond step cut with straight or tapered edges, popular in engagement ring accent stones, shares its name with a boulangerie staple. What is that name?

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Random

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An Athens-based organization known by the French acronym FIDE, founded in Paris in 1924, formally governs and oversees championships in what competitive activity?

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Chess

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The measure of the ability of a material to store electric charge; a pyrimidine component of DNA and RNA; the third note of the A minor scale; the third-heaviest quark flavor: All of these can be represented by what letter/symbol?

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C

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A Secchi Disk, eight to twelve inches wide and plain white or divided into black and white quadrants, is an instrument used chiefly for measuring the clarity of what?

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(Sea) Water

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The Asahi Shimbun, Mainichi Shimbun, and Yomiuri Shimbun are Japan’s three leading what?

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“Shimbun” is Japanese for “newspaper.”

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Born between 1980 & 1995, millennials are AKA “Generation” this letter.

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Generation Y

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The name of what Sauk warrior inspired the names of four U.S. Navy vessels, a country club in Wisconsin, a U.S. professional sports franchise, a community college in Moline, Illinois, and an 1832 war?

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Black Hawk

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Two of what objects can be placed across from each other to form the optical effect called “mise en abyme”?

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That’s the endless reflection thing you get by placing two mirrors across from each other.

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Of the laundry symbols that appear on garments’ care labels, an empty circle is a washing symbol that indicates what?

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Dry Clean (Only)

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Aa and pahoehoe are different types of what substance?

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Lava

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“SNOT building,” meaning “studs not on top,” is an important expert technique in what hobby?

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SNOT isn’t just a bodily fluid anymore. It’s an advanced Lego technique.

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What class of warship originated with the French navy in the 17th century, was later copied by the British Navy as “sloops”, and has a name which since 1953 has been familiar in the world of American automobiles?

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Corvette

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The oldest surviving of a certain type of hole still in use in the United States is widely believed to be in the West Virginia town of White Sulphur Springs, and dates from 1884. What type of hole is it?

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Golf Hole

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The weekly radio program that debuted in November 1925 as the WSM Barn Dance shortly afterward changed its name to what—a name by which it is still known, and under which it is still broadcast to this day?

(Card created December 4, 2020)

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Grand Ole Opry

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In 1970, college student Gary Anderson won a design contest with a logo that contains three arrows and a one-sided non-orientable surface. This design is still used today internationally as a symbol for what activity?

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Recycling

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What did London’s Metropolitan Police install outside the Earl’s Court tube station in 1996, reportedly to prevent the BBC from trademarking the design for itself?

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They put up an old-style blue “police box” (an emergency callbox) of the kind made famous on TV as the Doctor Who TARDIS. The box was decommissioned in 2000, so now it’s mainly a tourist attraction for Doctor Who fans.

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Late 19th century entertainers often toured the country this way, doing one-night shows in makeshift theaters

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Barnstorming

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For a graphology test, you’ll need to submit a sample of this.

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Handwriting

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Red Adair, who spent most of his career working for the oil and gas industry, is probably the most famous American member of what profession ever?

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Adair was a firefighter, most famous for his work capping oil wells.

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What whole number of megahertz is the upper frequency bound of FM radio broadcasting in Europe and North America?

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The FM band tops out at 108 MHz, which is why the highest possible station on your dial is probably 107.9.

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Identify (by name) the ambitious innovation that was tested in 1969, placed into regular service in 1976, the cause of 113 deaths in July 2000, and ultimately withdrawn from service in 2003.

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Concorde

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Graupel is another name for the “soft” kind of what phenomenon?

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Graupel is a kind of precipitation that looks like little pellets of snow, and it’s also called “soft hail.”

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What word is the motto of a western US state, a brand of vacuum cleaner, and what Archimedes is alleged to have exclaimed before he left his tub and ran naked through the streets of Syracuse?

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Eureka

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Puli and Komondor, protected national symbols in Hungary, are both varieties of what?

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They are dog breeds. Weird, dreadlocked dog breeds.

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What metal objects does a farrier, specifically, work with?

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A farrier specializes in the care of horses’ hooves, so the lucky answer here is “horseshoes.”

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The Belgian artist known as Peyo created these blue beings.

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Smurfs

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The folk tale character Henny Penny is also known (particularly in the United States) by a different two-word name that is also the name of a menu item at most KFC locations. What is that name?

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Chicken Little

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18th-century British politician John Montagu is often credited as the inventor of an innovation known as what? He allegedly developed it while playing around the clock at a gaming table, and it takes its name from his noble title, which is itself associated with a town in the county of Kent.

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Sandwich

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Rogers, Jones, Blake, and Dinkley were the last names of four members of a group dubbed “Mystery Incorporated”. What was the name of the fifth (and only non-human) member of the group?

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Scooby Doo

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Canandaigua, Keuka, Seneca, Cayuga, and Owasco are among a group of eleven that are known collectively by what two-word term?

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Finger Lakes

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This is the name of the phenomenon in which an observer’s shadow is cast mid air upon any type of cloud opposite a strong light source.

It’s ghostly name references the German peak where this phenomenon has inspired local legends.

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Brocken Spectre

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“Great Adventure”, “Great Escape”, “Magic Mountain”, and “Over Texas” are different word pairs that are all associated in certain branding with what other word pair?

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Six Flags

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What increased steadily in size over the years from its creation until the year 1929, when it was fixed at 435 (where it remains today)?

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House of Representatives

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Aschenputtel, Schneewittchen, Dornröschen, Rotkäppchen, and Der Froschkönig are all names closely associated with what Germans born in the mid-1780s?

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Brothers Grimm

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