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1. Shakespeare introduces the play thus: "Two households, both alike in dignity, in fair Verona, where we lay our scene, from ancient grudge break to new mutiny, where civil blood makes civil hands unclean." Who are the two characters caught between two families' grudges?
2. Ancient ill will between two Scottish clans resulted in the Massacre of Glencoe in 1692 in the aftermath of the Jacobite Uprising of 1689. What were the two clans involved?
3. "Dallas" was an immensely popular television series which aired from 1978 until 1991. In the storyline, a feud existed since the 1930s between the patriarchs of two Texas families. What were their names?
4. Mary and Liz Cheney are the daughters of former Vice President Dick Cheney. They had a public feud in November of 2013. What was the subject?
5. In the wake of the Hundred Years War (1337-1453), the War of the Roses (1455-1485) pitted two families within the House of Plantagenet against one another for control of the throne of England. Who were these two families?
6. Novelist Mario Puzo created an Italian-American crime family that was the subject of his 1969 novel "The Godfather" and three movies based on the novel. They came into lethal conflict with other Sicilian Mafia crime families. What was the surname of this family?
7. In 1924, two brothers returned from WWI to their home in Herzogenaurach in Bavaria. Their father worked in a shoe factory. The brothers, Rudolph (Rudi) and Adolf (Adi) Dassler, started their own athletic shoe factory and did well. Sibling rivalry drove them apart such that each left the other to manufacture his own brand of athletic shoes. What are the names of the companies they founded?
8. In 15th Century Florence, Italy, two families were enemies to the point of killing one another's leaders. One attempted double assassination took place on 26 April 1478 on the steps of the Duomo right after mass. Who were these two families?
9. A lengthy feud (1863-1891) between two families living along the Tug Fork of the Big Sandy River in West Virginia and Kentucky became so famous as to become a metonym for any prolonged violent vengeance. It blended elements of English-Irish animosity, North-South Civil War animosity and even a quarrel over the ownership of a pig. The feud caused over a dozen deaths, about a dozen woundings and about a dozen prison terms. Which two families were the combatants?
10. The story of Romeo and Juliet has been retold in myriad settings, even one movie in which all the players are garden gnomes! Perhaps the best known adaptation is the stage play (1957) and movie (1961) "West Side Story." Which rival gangs of the 1950s feuded in this story?
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