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The origin of modern baseball... a. Many people credit which American army officer as being, in 1839 the inventor of baseball as we recognize it today? b. In which city of New York did this occur?

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A famous philosopher once said, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to ..." what?

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Name the directors whose last names begin with a vowel: a. The Pink Panther, Victor/Victoria, and 10? b. Brewster McCloud, M.A.S.H., and Nashville? c. 1982 - Gandhi?

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What was the name of the French inventor who, around 1790, invented a machine designed to provide criminals with a humane method of execution?

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In the center of Australia, in mostly flat desert land, lies a huge rock, which towers over 1000 feet above the flat land, and measures six miles around. Nobody knows how it got there. People come from all over the world to see it. What is the name?

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Of the fifty-six signers of the Declaration of Independence, about two-thirds of these men were lawyers, judges, and merchants, but about ten of them had what down-to-earth vocation?

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Baseball managers: The person with the most all-time victories as a manager of a major league team almost 3800 managed for over 50 years -most famously, from 1901-1950 with the Philadelphia A's. Who was he?

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Abbreviations: a. NAFTA b. SCUBA

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In 1947 the Norwegian ethnologist and author Thor Heyerdahl confirmed that ancient Indians could have sailed from Peru to Polynesia, and in 1970, he confirmed that ancient Egyptians could have settled the West Indies. What were the names of the two boats

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According to the San Francisco Department of Animal Care and Control, what is the most commonly reported wild animal sighted by people in the streets of San Francisco?

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If you travelled directly south from London until you reached a foreign country, which one would it be?

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This vegetable is called, in French, pomme-de-terre, and in German, Erdapfel, both of which mean "earth apple." What is the English name for this vegetable?

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LANGUAGE Almost one million people in the USA speak Tagalog. Which country is this language native to?

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1995's top money-making films were Batman Forever and Apollo 13 . Three of the next four top money-making films of '95 were either computer-enhanced or animated. Which films were they?

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The Chinese the French, and the Americans sometimes engage in xenophobia. What is this a fear of?