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Mount hauscaran , the highest peak of this country rises 22,205 feet above sea level in the cordillera Blanca
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Assk uh ran
Peru
HISTORY & SOCIETY
This Confederate general earned which nickname after his brigade stood firm during the First Battle of Bull Run?
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Stonewall
Thomas Jackson
SCIENCE & TECH
Many health officials recommend pregnant women and children avoid eating bigeye tuna due to its high content of which element?
Mercury
ANYTHING GOES
Which group spent a record 26 consecutive weeks at number 1 on the Billboard singles chart with back-to-back hits “Boom Boom Pow” and this other one
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The Black Eyed Peas
“I Gotta Feeling”?
ARTS & CULTURE
On which musical instrument does the player force wind through a tube known as a blowstick?
Bagpipe
BIOGRAPHIES
Which game show host learned karate from his neighbor Chuck Norris and used his training to fight Adam Sandler in Happy Gilmore?
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Bob barker
MONEY & NUMBERS
Home to the most millionaires in the U.S., which state instituted a tax on income over $1 million that is used to fund mental health services?
California
Sometimes as wide as it is tall, which tree grows faster than most others, often more than three feet per year?
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Weeping willow
GEOGRAPHY
Although it is composed of more than 7,000 islands, half of which country’s population lives on its largest island, Luzon?
Philippines
HISTORY & SOCIETY
Paving the way for Queen Elizabeth II’s father to become king, why did he abdicate the British throne in 1936?
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King Edward VIII
To marry a divorced woman
GEOGRAPHY
Named for an Egyptian city, what Las Vegas hotel has elevators tilted at 39 degree angles to accommodate its distinct shape?
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Luxor
CULTURE
The subject of Saturday Night Live’s first viral YouTube video, in which song do Andy Samberg and Chris Parnell rap about “The Chronic(what?)-cles of Narnia”?
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“Lazy Sunday”
Punjabi refugee Kundan Lal Gujral is typically credited with creating which dish, named for the cylindrical clay oven it is usually cooked in?
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Tandoori chicken
MONEY & NUMBERS
The name of Costa Rica’s currency, the colón, comes from the Spanish name for which explorer, who landed there during his fourth voyage across the Atlantic?
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Christopher Columbus
SCIENCE & TECH
Affecting nearly 30 percent of the U.S. population, myopia is the medical term for what eye condition?
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Nearsightedness
BIOGRAPHIES
Learning classical dancing before the “dirty” kind, what actor studied ballet through his childhood and teen years?
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Patrick Swayze
ANIMALS & NATURE
Which dog breed is sometimes called “Dutch bulldog” even though it shares more similarities with the Pekinese?
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Pug
David Culley and Lovie Smith each lasted only one season as the coach of this AFC team in the 2020’s.
Guess: Detroit Lions
Answer: Houston Texans
Olympic swimming strokes
Butterfly backstroke breaststroke freestyle
Only marsupial native in North America
A baby possum is only about the size of a honeybee, but it gets to grow and it’s mother‘s pouch
In 2017 shopping mall retailer Claire’s announce it had performed more than 100 what
Ear piercings
Even Harrison Ford got his ear pierced that Claire’s in 1997
When astronaut Greg Scott dropped a feather and a golf ball on the moon, which landed first
Both lands at the same time
Since there’s no air on the moon gravity, pull objects down at the same speed regardless of mass
The Scottish word tartle refers to the embarrassment of introducing someone while what
Forgetting their name
tartle is a Gaelic term, but the feeling seems to be universal
The material used in Play-Doh was originally sold in 1927 as what kind of product
Wallpaper cleaner
Kutol wall cleaner was used to remove coal residue left by cold furnaces until it became Play-Doh
