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Piece of Cake

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1. What was the name of the first nuclear-powered submarine, named after a famous ship from literature?

  Nautilus
  Pequod
  Red October
  Hispaniola

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2. Very well known for its red, blue, yellow and green logo, which company once used the advertising slogan 'Buy It, Sell It, Love It'?

  eBay
  PayPal
  Argos
  Loot

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3. Who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer when Margaret Thatcher first became Prime Minister of the UK in 1979?

  Sir Geoffrey Who
  Sir Geoffrey Howe
  Sir Geoffrey Where
  Sir Geoffrey When

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4. What was the "Rumble in the Jungle" in Zaire in 1974?

  A civil war
  A mass execution
  An expedition
  A boxing match

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5. In the US recently we have had stores crop up such as "Dollar General" or "Dollar Store". The forerunners of these emporiums generally went by what name decades ago?

  Boutiques
  Nickle backs
  Five and dimes
  Short change shops

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6. Which former U.S. president went on to serve as the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and also served in the cabinet of President Benjamin Harrison?

  Ronald Reagan
  George H.W. Bush
  William Howard Taft
  Barack Obama

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7. Which magazine, founded by DeWitt Wallace and Lila Bell Wallace in 1922, featured the following sentence on the cover of its inaugural issue? "... each article of enduring value and interest, in condensed and compact form."

  Men's Health
  Reader's Digest
  National Geographic
  Time

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8. Dulles International Airport is a major hub for international travel in the USA. It handles many international passengers in the Mid-Atlantic region. What person is it named after?

  Orville Wright
  Allen Welch Dulles
  John Foster Dulles
  Wilbur Wright

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9. Washington D.C. secretary Rose Mary Woods became famous for her role in the partial erasure of a US president's taped conversations. What president did Woods work for?

  Gerald Ford
  Richard Nixon
  John F Kennedy
  Bill Clinton

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10. The first use of a plea of "temporary insanity" was in 1859 by Daniel Sickles, who had been charged with the murder of the son of which prominent lawyer and poet who composed the words to the US national anthem?

  Benjamin Franklin
  Thomas Paine
  Increase Mather
  Francis Scott Key

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