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1. Who founded the religion of Zoroastrianism, still practiced in regions of Iran?
2. Name a counter-culture rock star who died in the mid-1990s and whose surname starts with a Z.
3. Who is the German count with a mode of transportation named after him?
4. What fictional character swashbuckles his way through Spanish colonial Mexico, fighting corruption and defending the innocent and oppressed population?
5. On the subject of fiction, who was king of the ancient Greek pantheon of gods?
6. "The Onion", a weekly online satirical newspaper, has an unconventional editorial structure. For nearly a hundred years, it claimed to be helmed by the irascible grandson of its founder -- who was apparently over 130 years old when the paper announced he had been rocketed into space in 2000. Who was this reactionary, senile man, whose weekly columns railed against such "evils" as women's suffrage?
7. What was the name of F. Scott Fitzgerald's wife?
8. 'J'accuse!' wrote this Frenchman, defending Dreyfus at the turn of the century from French anti-Semitism. This man's name was Emile ____?
9. This Hungarian-born celebrity, famous for her many husbands and face lifts, has a first name (but not a last name) starting with Z. What IS her name?
10. Finally we have the author of what has been called the first dystopian novel: 'We'. What was the name of this Russian novelist?
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