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1. Before you can be interrogated, you must first be informed of your rights. Which court case brought about this requirement?
2. Charles Martel defeated the Moslems at Tours in 732 in what is termed the Battle of Poitiers in a battle of great historical significance. We however, are interested your possible knowledge of lesser matters. Of what significance is the name "Martel"?
3. We present for your consideration an old soda can. Originally there were eight words on the can, but one has been scraped off. The can now reads 'Belfast since 1877 Old Fashioned _____ Root Beer'. We think you may know the missing word. What is it?
4. One should not feed one's pet Mynah bird red meat or rhubarb. This is because of Mynahs' susceptibility to a hereditary disease, which can also afflict humans. We suspect you of knowing the answers to even questions as obscure at this. To which of the following diseases do I refer?
5. We would not be surprised if you even you could name songs from the sixties that were never played on Top 40 stations if given only a fragment of their lyrics. Which composer penned these words for this 1960s song?
"'Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down?
That's not my department,' says Wernher von Braun"?
6. What's more, we wouldn't be shocked that you even knew obscure characters from video games. In the computer game "Curse of Monkey Island" a character vows that he will, "Roll! Roll through the gates of Hell!" Who made that claim?
7. In 1961 this broadcast journalist for both television and radio quit his job with CBS in order to take a position in the administration of John F Kennedy. This journalistic pioneer once stated, "The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer." We strongly suspect that you can pick his name from among the following:
8. In 1954, William Golding published a book that chronicled a group of children marooned on an island. Knowing the title of the book would not be unequivocal evidence of trivia addiction. But can you tell us which biblical character's name the book's title translates?
9. Suffering Succotash! I could interrogate you as to the name of the feline "Looney Tunes" character who popularized that phrase. But I'm not letting a dangerous suspect off so easily. Which of the following ingredients does not belong in succotash?
10. If you can answer this final trivia question, you should be charged with first degree trivial knowledge accumulation with special circumstances. Salvador Dali created a Pavilion entitled "Dream of Venus" for the 1939 World's Fair in New York. The Pavilion included quite a number of oddities. Which one of the following of Dali's ideas did the organizers veto?(Read the "interesting information" for this question to find out if you qualify to have charges pressed.)
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