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1. What famous landmark building, now located on Park Avenue, once stood on the same spot where the Empire State Building now stands?
2. Could this be how this famous city became La Ville Lumiere? What western European capital used to be called Lutetia?
3. What singer, born Virginia Patterson Hensley, died in a plane crash on March 5, 1963 near Camden, Tennessee?
4. Who named the South American archipelago Tierra del Fuego ?
5. What Greek math whiz put aside his triangles and then noticed that the morning star and evening star were one and the same?
6. What rather large planet (maybe it was hard to miss?) did pieces of the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 pummel in 1994?
7. What Bizet opera concerns a girl who dumps a soldier for a bullfighter?
8. What airline started out in 1924 as the first crop dusting organization to battle boll weevils?
9. How many pecks make a bushel?
10. What is the oxygen-carrying protein of red blood cells?
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