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What famous landmark building stood on the same spot where the Empire State Building now stands? |
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What European captial used to be called Lutetia? |
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What term for a pope was derived from a Latin word meaning 'bridge builder'? |
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What South American archipelago has a name meaning 'land of fire'? |
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What Greek math whiz noticed that the morning star and evening star were one and the same? |
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What planet did pieces of the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 pummel in 1994? |
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Who explained the best way to catch a knuckleball is to 'wait until it stops rolling and pick it up'? |
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What is the only poisonous bird in the world? |
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What serial killer claimed the dog of his neighbor told him to kill, in 1976? |
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When asked why he wanted to climb Mt. Everest, who replied 'because it is there'? |
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In what city did Alexander the Great take his last breath? |
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What were people called who belonged to an order founded in 1534 by Ignatius Loyola? |
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How many pecks make a bushel? |
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What is the name given to any interplanetary particle that survives its passage through the Earth's atmosphere and strikes the ground? |
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What Bizet opera concerns a girl who dumps a soldier for a bullfighter? |
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What method of arranging elements into related groups was invented by Dmitri Mendeleyev? |
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What airline started out in 1924 as the first crop dusting organization to battle boll weevils? |
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What is the oxygen carrying protein of red blood cells? |
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What is the oldest known science? |
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What singer, born Virginia Patterson Hensley, died in a plane crash on March 5, 1963 near Camden, Tennessee? |
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