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Fifty-Fifty

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   People
1. Which King Henry of England was the first ruler since the Norman Conquest of 1066 whose mother tongue was English rather than French? He was the grandson of Edward III.

  IV
  III

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   Celebrities
2. Kirk Douglas passed away on 5 February 2020 at Beverly Hills, California at the age of 103. Shortly after the outbreak of WW2 in 1941, he served in which military unit?

  Air Force
  Navy

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   Movies
3. Which actress associated with 'The Invisible Woman' co-starred with Eddie Redmayne in 'The Theory of Everything'?

  Felicity Jones
  Felicity Huffman

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   People
4. What painter created "We Will Rise Again" featuring his iconic "Blue Dog" in response to Hurricane Katrina and the flooding of New Orleans?

  George Rodrigue
  Willem de Kooning

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   Literature
5. What literary character issued the advice, "Neither a borrower nor a lender be"?

  Ebenezer Scrooge
  Polonius

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   World
6. Which U.S. president had a pet parrot, invited people to the White House to eat a 1,400 pound wheel of cheese, and pulled a bullet from his arm without anesthesia?

  Andrew Jackson
  James K. Polk

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   History
7. From the foundation of the Roman Empire in 27BC until the collapse of the Empire (in the west) in AD476, which Roman emperor ruled for the longest time?

  Augustus
  Romulus Augustulus

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   People
8. What was the maiden name of Queen Camilla, formerly the Duchess of Cornwall?

  Parker
  Shand

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   Geography
9. White Island, located off the east coast of the North Island of New Zealand, was the site of what disastrous event that killed 22 people on December 9, 2019?

  Volcanic eruption
  Earthquake

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   Hobbies
10. What "superfruit" originally from China and the Himalayas is also known as the wolfberry?

  goji berry
  mangosteen

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   Music
11. What great Northern European composer wrote the tone poem titled "The Swan of Tuonela", part of his 1895 "Lemminkäinen Suite"?

  Jean Sibelius
  Edvard Grieg

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   World
12. Which Canadian location, part of which was once known as Berlin, is home to an Oktoberfest celebration that rivals the original in Munich, Germany?

  Kitchener-Waterloo
  Halifax-Dartmouth

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   Music
13. What artist wrote the piece "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" used in Disney's "Fantasia"?

  Paul Dukas
  Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky

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   Movies
14. The movies "The Love Bug", "Some Like It Hot" and "The Joker is Wild" have what in common?

  A Cary Grant impersonation
  A person known as Joe E. something

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   Sports
15. OLYMPICS: Which European city hosted the 1912 Summer Olympic Games? It also hosted the equestrian events for the 1956 Summer Games.

  Berlin
  Stockholm

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