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1. It's Thursday, 18 July, 2013, in the Tour de France, and France's own Christophe Riblon is struggling up the Alpe-d'Huez. He may be feeling a bit of paranoia, but who is that huge bunch of guys chasing him?
2. It's January 21, 1979, at Super Bowl XIII. Roger Staubach is in the Orange Bowl in Miami trying to win another Super Bowl for the Cowboys. Feelings of paranoia accompany his position, but he actually is constantly being harassed by four huge men in Black and Gold, including "Mean Joe" Green and L.C. Greenwood. Just who are those four guys chasing Staubach?
3. In "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid", as the pair are being chased across the West, Butch may be feeling a little paranoid, because he keeps looking back at their pursuers and asking, "Who are those guys?" Well, who WERE those guys?
4. A couple of "Good Ol' Boys" who always seemed to be objects of car chases were Bo and Luke Duke on the 1980s TV sitcom "The Dukes of Hazzard". Played by John Schneider and Tom Wopat, the Duke cousins weren't paranoid because they were constantly being chased by James Best in the role of the Hazzard County Sheriff. Now, what was his name?
5. You wouldn't blame Adolf Eichmann for feeling paranoid, because he was one of the most famous war criminals of all time and known as "the architect of the Holocaust." After World War II he fled to Argentina, where he was finally captured in 1960. What organization had been hunting him for 15 years?
6. In May of 1941, Captain Ernst Lindemann might have felt paranoid in what would become his last tour of duty as Kapitän zur See, serving on the "Bismarck". If Lindemann had known the lyrics of Johnny Horton's "Sink the Bismarck", he would not be paranoid, because "Churchill told the people" to do what in search of his vessel?
7. Although she was born in Poland, Marie Sklodowska moved to France after being involved in a revolutionary student organization, not only because she may have been a tiny bit paranoid, but probably also to get more education, get married, and build her career. Nonetheless, a Swedish group tracked her down not once, but twice. Who were they?
8. After joining the Mediterranean and Red Seas with the Suez Canal, which he completed in 1869, Ferdinand de Lesseps attempted to duplicate the feat across the Isthmus of Panama in the 1880s. He may not have actually been paranoid, but he eventually gave up on the latter project because he and his crews were constantly being devastated by hordes of what scourge of that climate?
9. As Frodo and his friends leave the Shire to take the Ring of Power to Rivendell at the outset of J.R.R. Tolkien's masterful novel, "The Lord of the Rings," the small group is pursued by nine ring-wraiths, servants of the Dark Lord Sauron. What term from the Black Speech is used to refer to these wraiths?
10. Pursued for four months over 1,170 miles of Idaho and Montana by three full U.S. Army units made up of about 2,000 total men, Chief Joseph led a band of less than 80 warriors along with 500 women, children, and old men to within 40 miles of Canada in 1877. Which former Civil War general and winner of the Medal of Honor accepted the final surrender of the Nez Perce?
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