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I’m a Lakers fan. You like this Mark Cuban- owned NBA team. OK, but don’t ever take sides against the family.
The Mavericks
Gin, lime, and club soda: gin this guy
Rickey
This 4-syllable adjective can refer to non-canonical parts of the Vulgate bible or any documents of doubtful origins
Apocryphal
Who was the fourth and most recent governor of New York to become the president of the whole U.S. of A?
FDR
The Sonoran desert is on this continent
North America
The name of which dish is derived from a Medieval Latin phrase for “ink pot”?
Calamari
In human anatomy, what’s the five-letter name for the bony socket that holds the eyeball?
Orbit
In the final hours of June 1997, then-Prince Charles delivered a farewell address at the convention center of what city?
Hong Kong
The handover of Hong Kong from the United Kingdom to the People’s Republic of China was at midnight on 1 July 1997. This event ended 156 years of British rule in the former colony, which began in 1841.
A U.S. NAVY WEBSITE SAYS ITS JOURNEY FROM NEW LONDON TO NORWAY IN 1957 OPENED UP ARCTIC WATERS PREVIOUSLY RULED BY THE SOVIETS
USS NAUTILUS
U.S. Navy recruiters set up tables outside screenings of which blockbuster film upon its 1986 release?
Top Gun
Brad Bird wrote and directed “The Iron Giant” in 1998, before getting called up for what 2004 Pixar movie?
The Incredibles
“In the board games Headache and Trouble, what is the name of the device that is used to roll the dice?”
Pop-o-matic
Billy Connolly appears in the first act of “Muppet Treasure Island” as an alcoholic sea captain with what surname?
Bones
Zagreb is the capital of
Croatia
According to Webster, a squab is a four-week-old specimen of what bird?
Pigeon
IN THE ORENBURG OBLAST, A BRIDGE OVER THIS 1,500-MILE RIVER HAS MONUMENTS LABELED “ASIA” & “EUROPE”
Ural river
The Ural, also known as the Yaik /ˈjaɪk/,[note 1] is a river flowing through Russia and Kazakhstan in the continental border between Europe and Asia. It originates in the southern Ural Mountains and discharges into the Caspian Sea.
Quicksilver, Savor, and Venture are three rewards cards offered by what brand?
Capital One
In 1928 presidential candidate, Al Smith went against his party’s position by opposing this amendment
The 18th amendment
Three rivers, the Minho, the Douro, and the Tagus, divide this country into three distinct geographic areas
Portugal
In a 1996 movie it was “The People vs.” this Hustler magazine publisher
Larry Flynt
What is the name of Beyoncé’s debut solo album, released in 2003?
Dangerously in Love
Named as an alternate replacement, this Ravens QB made his first career Pro Bowl for his performance during the 2022 season.
Tyler Huntley
Older than Socrates, he is considered the first person to call themselves a “philosopher,” as he is credited with coining the term and using it to describe his own pursuit of wisdom
Pythagoras
According to an ancient tradition Pythagoras of Croton (born on the Greek island of Samos, c. 580 B.C.) coined the Greek word ‘philosopher’ meaning ‘lover of wisdom’ to contrast with ‘wise man’ (sophist), saying of himself that he was only a man who loved wisdom (a wisdom-loving man), not a wise man.
“Sight on Sound” was an interactive TV channel that became MTV; its sister channel “Pinwheel” became what other network?
Nickelodeon