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| What movie with PIT in its title was made in 1961(starring Vincent Price) and in 1991 (starring Lance Henriksen)? | The 'Pitiful' Quiz
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'The Pit and the Pendulum'. A great and a not so great adaptation of Poe's classic tale.
| He wrote, 'Hello Mary Lou', for Rick Nelson in 1961 and had a hit with, 'Only Love Can Break a Heart'? | The 'Pitiful' Quiz
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Gene Pitney. Gene Pitney hails from Rockville, Connecticut.
| He was often considered Britain's greatest prime minister, first from 1783 to 1801, and from 1804 to 1806 ? | The 'Pitiful' Quiz
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William Pitt the Younger. Pitt the Younger led England during French aggression.
| What American author and educator wrote the best seller, 'Life Begins at Forty', in 1932 ? | The 'Pitiful' Quiz
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Walter Boughton Pitkin. Life does indeed begin at forty, or so they tell me. What do I know, however, is that I still have another twenty five years to go.
Zasu Pitts. Among her best works was the 1947 classic 'Life With Father'.
| This is the major gland of the endocrine system, located at the base of the brain ? | The 'Pitiful' Quiz
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Pituitary Gland. In human beings, it is about the size of a pea.
Noam Pitlak. Hal Linden starred as Barney in this very popular series.
Pitfall. Intriguing look at the American dream gone sour.
| This volcanic island is in the central south Pacific Ocean, and was first sighted in 1767 ? | The 'Pitiful' Quiz
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Pitcairn Island. The island was settled in 1790 by mutineers from the British ship HMS Bounty.
| This movie, also the name of a city, starred Marlene Dietrich and John Wayne ? | The 'Pitiful' Quiz
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Pittsburgh. Shemp Howard of Three Stooges fame, was also in this movie about the steel business.
| In 1977, a roller coaster called the SooperDooperLooper debuted in the US as the first looping coaster in the East. At which amusement park can this super coaster be found? | SuperQuiz!
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Hershey Park. Hershey Park, a traditional amusement park in the quaint town of Hershey, Pennsylvania, boasts the SooperDooperLooper, which is noted for being the first looping roller coaster in the eastern US. It was designed by Anton Schwarzkopf of Germany, who also designed the Revolution at California's Six Flags Magic Mountain, which debuted in 1976 as the first modern looping coaster.
skiing. A "super G", or "super giant slalom", is a downhill skiing race that has fewer gates set farther apart than in the regular giant slalom.
| You've probably heard the super silly song about a make-believe word called "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious"- but do you know what Disney movie it's from? | SuperQuiz!
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Mary Poppins. This Disney musical classic about an English nanny, played by Julie Andrews, was nominated for 13 Academy Awards, including Best Song- no, it wasn't "Supercalif...", but the equally annoying and nonsensical "Chim Chim Cheree".
Brought about the abdication of Edward VIII of England. Wallis Simpson is the American divorcee whose relationship with the king led to his giving up the throne.
Fox. Other fox varieties are red fox, Redd Foxx, gray fox, swift fox, flying fox, Michael J. Fox, Fox News, fennec fox, bat-eared fox, and about sixteen others.
| A main character in 'The Simpsons' shares his name with the acronym of the rapid transit system of which city? | The Anti-'Simpsons' Quiz
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San Francisco. That would be the 'Bay Area Rapid Transit' system, or 'BART'.
Human. Although they are animated, they represent people, not horses, endurance racers, or cars
Chinese Checkers. In the game Chinese checkers (or chequers) up to six players attempt to move a set of marbles from one side of a board covered with a six-sided star to the other. One may freely 'jump' over another player's marbles if they are properly set.
| The starfruit is a popular tropical fruit enjoyed the world over. What is another name for this interesting star-shaped wonder of nature? | This Quiz is Full of Stars
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Carambola. The name carambola comes from the south Asian language Marathi. The tree that bears the starfruit has the taxonomic name Averrhoa carambola, and can only be found in the tropics. The starfruit is yellow in color, and is star-shaped when seen in cross section.
| In the 1977 film 'Star Wars' an artificial planetoid is built by the evil Empire. What is the name for this planet-destroying orb? | This Quiz is Full of Stars
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Death Star. The Death Star is destroyed by Luke Skywalker in the first 'Star Wars' film, but is rebuilt in the third film, 'Return of the Jedi'. In that film, the second Death Star is destroyed by Lando, who is piloting the Millennium Falcon. (Yes, I'm a nerd...but so are you if you answered this question correctly!)
| Sometimes this planet of our solar system is referred to as the evening star because it shines so brightly in early evening. Which planet happily maintains this epithet? | This Quiz is Full of Stars
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Venus. Not to be outdone by itself, Venus is also referred to as the morning star because it often appears before dawn as the brightest object in the sky. In fact, Venus is the second brightest object in the night sky after the moon (though believers in UFOs would probably argue this point.)
| This small star-shaped weapon is sometimes referred to as a Chinese or Japanese star, and is associated with ninjas in films. What is the Japanese term for the tiny weapon?
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Shuriken. A shuriken is a projectile weapon typically with five sharpened points, in the shape of a star. The Japanese term 'shuriken' literally translates as 'dagger in the hand'.
| The 'Star-Spangled Banner' is one of the most oft-heard tunes in the United States, especially if one happens to be a sports fan. Who wrote the lyrics of this song, which also happens to be the national anthem of the U.S.? | This Quiz is Full of Stars
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Francis Scott Key. Have you ever noticed that all writers of patriotic American songs have three word names? But that's not really interesting info, is it? Well here's some...the 'Star-Spangled Banner' was adapted to the tune for an English drinking song called 'To Anacreon in Heaven', and became the U.S. national anthem by act of Congress in 1931. Mesmerizing facts, no?
| This quiz is designed to be a snap, but you still might want to avoid making snap judgments. What sort of action is likely to follow a snap decision? | This Quiz Is a Snap
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Impulsive. "Snap" is thought to have come from the Middle English "snappe" meaning "a quick bite". It is sometimes used in the sense of too quick or lightly considered.
The quarterback. "Snap" has largely replaced "hike" as the term to describe the center transferring the ball to the quarterback at the beginning of a play. "Hike" can mean to raise up with a quick movement, but it seldom has that sense in modern usage.
| The snapping turtle (Chelydra serpentine) is Canada's largest fresh water turtle. It is known to bite the head off of other turtles. Do snapping turtles have teeth? | This Quiz Is a Snap
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No. Snapping turtles are much more aggressive on land than in water. The turtles have a worm-like growth on the end of their tongues. After burying itself in mud, the snapping turtle wriggles its "worm" as a lure to attract fish that it then seizes and eats.
Cold snap. The term "cold snap" was in use as early as 1829. It might be considered redundant. Dictionary.com now offers "a brief spell of brisk, cold weather" as a definition for "snap" unaccompanied by the adjective "cold".
| What is the name of a flower from the genus Antirrhinum that resembles the head of a dangerous, mythical beast? | This Quiz Is a Snap
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Snapdragon. I considered adding “fire-breathing” to the description, but thought that was going a bit too far. “Snapdragon” is also a BBC online computer game that teaches Welsh.
| You are a character in a James Fenimore Cooper novel, stealthily moving through the forest. What is about to snap? | This Quiz Is a Snap
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A twig. James Fenimore Cooper wrote a series of books known as the "Leatherstocking Series". Mark Twain, who was one of Cooper's greatest detractors, felt they should be renamed "The Broken Twig Series". Twain maintained, "It is a restful chapter in any book of his when somebody doesn't step on a dry twig and alarm all the reds and whites for two hundred yards around. Every time a Cooper person is in peril, and absolute silence is worth four dollars a minute, he is sure to step on a dry twig. There may be a hundred other handier things to step on, but that wouldn't satisfy Cooper. Cooper requires him to turn out and find a dry twig; and if he can't do it, go and borrow one."
| The Marine stands stiffly, spine ramrod straight, head level, eyes forward, arms pressed against his sides. What must his drill sergeant have ordered him to do? | This Quiz Is a Snap
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Snap to attention. I hope you haven't snapped under the strain of taking this quiz. It was intended to be only a snapshot of the many ways in which this snappy word can be used.
| Since its beginning in 1901, the NObel Prize has become the ultimate recognition for achievements in physics, chemistry, medicine, economics, literature, and peace. But over the years, some repressive governments -- notably Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia -- have forced winners to say "NO" to the Nobel. What Russian writer, author of "Doctor Zhivago" among other works, was forced by his government to decline the 1958 Nobel Prize in Literature? | "No" Quiz Like This One
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Boris Pasternak. Pasternak (1890-1960), a Moscow native, began his creative career as a composer of classical music, but switched to poetry early on. "Doctor Zhivago" was his first and only prose novel. He initially accepted the 1958 Nobel prize in a telegram reading "Immensely thankful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed," -- but four days later he rejected it in another telegram, citing "the meaning this award has been given in the society to which I belong." There is no doubt that his change of heart was inspired by Soviet authorities.
The other three listed names are all Russian winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Joseph Brodsky (1987) had resided in the United States for 15 years at the time he received his prize; he had been exiled from the USSR for "social parasitism." Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1970) wrote extensively about life in the gulags, and was exiled from the Soviet Union a few years after receiving the Nobel prize. Mikhail Sholokhov (1965) wrote several historical epics about the Don region of Russia; his writings displayed the "correct" politics (he was a member of the Communist Party), and so he did not suffer the repercussions that so many other Russian writers did.
The only other twentieth-century government to force its citizens to decline the Nobel Prize was Nazi Germany, which forced three winners (Richard Kuhn, Chemistry 1938; Adolf Butenandt, Chemistry 1939; Gerhard Domagk, Medicine 1939) to forgo the honor.
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