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SPORTS AWARDS |
THE TROPHY PRESENTED TO THE SUPER BOWL WINNING TEAMS IS NAMED IN HONOR OF WHAT COACHING GREAT? |
VINCE LOMBARDI |
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ANATOMY |
WHAT BONE IN THE ARM IS ALSO A WORD USED IN GEOMETRY? |
RADIUS |
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BRITISH TV |
WHAT CULT BRITISH COMEDY SERIES FEATURED THE MAIN CHARACTERS EDINA (aka "EDDY") AND PATSY? |
ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS, aka "AB FAB" |
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ANCIENT HISTORY |
WHO IS GENERALLY CITED AS THE LAST ACTIVE PHARAOH OF EGYPT? |
CLEOPATRA | specifically Cleopatra VII, the famous one who had a son with Julius Caesar and later married Mark Anthony |
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POP MUSIC |
RELEASED IN 2025, AND PEAKING AT #1 FOR 10 WEEKS, WHAT SONG BY ALEX WARREN HAS NOW SPENT OVER A YEAR IN THE TOP 10 ON THE BILLBOARD POP CHARTS? |
ORDINARY |
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AMERICAN LITERATURE |
WHAT MARK TWAIN NOVEL SEES HARTFORD RESIDENT HANK MORGAN TRANSPORTED BACK TO 6th-CENTURY ENGLAND? |
A CONNECTICUT YANKEE IN KING ARTHUR'S COURT | you may accept its original title, "A Yankee in King Arthur's Court" |
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SCIENCE!! |
WHAT TERM IS USED TO DESCRIBE FOSSILIZED WOOD WHOSE NORMAL CELLS HAVE BEEN REPLACED WITH MINERAL DEPOSITS? |
PETRIFIED WOOD |
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MOVIE MEMORABILIA |
IN DECEMBER 2012, THE PIANO THAT SAM PLAYED IN WHAT CLASSIC MOVIE SOLD AT AN AUCTION FOR MORE THAN $600,000? |
CASABLANCA |
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BUSINESS |
WHAT BUSINESS' FAMOUS ANNUAL "FREE CONE DAY" WAS REBRANDED THIS YEAR AS "FREE THE CONE DAY", AS A PROTEST AGAINST THE BRAND'S PARENT COMPANY? |
BEN & JERRY'S | this year's "Free Cone Day" was April 14th |
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BUSINESS |
NAME THE COMPANIES FROM THEIR TWO-LETTERS STOCK SYMBOLS ON THE NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE:
1) BB … 2) KO … 3) KR … 4) RF |
1) BLACKBERRY
2) COCA-COLA
3) KROGER
4) REGIONS FINANCIAL | for #4, accept "Regions Bank" or simply "Regions" |
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TV CHARACTERS |
IN A SEASON 16 (2020) EPISODE OF "GREY'S ANATOMY", IT WAS EXPLAINED THAT DR. ALEX KAREV (JUSTIN CHAMBERS) HAD LEFT SEATTLE AND MOVED TO WHICH STATE TO BE WITH HIS EX-WIFE, IZZIE? |
KANSAS | TEAMTRIVIA.COM
Chambers, who had been with the show since the first episode, left the show in January 2020 |
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COLLEGE FOOTBALL |
CURRENTLY COMPETING IN THE BIG TEN CONFERENCE, WHAT UNIVERSITY'S FOOTBALL TEAM WAS KNOWN AS THE "BUGEATERS" IN THE 1890's -- A NOD TO THE STATE'S MEAGER FOOD SUPPLY DURING THEIR HISTORY OF DROUGHTS? |
(UNIV. OF) NEBRASKA | they began using the "Cornhuskers" nickname around 1900 |
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AMERICAN HISTORY |
THE KANSAS-NEBRASKA ACT OF 1854, WHICH CREATED TWO NEW U.S. TERRITORIES, EFFECTIVELY REPEALED WHAT FAMOUS LEGISLATION OF 1820, WHICH HAD ADMITTED TWO NEW STATES? |
THE MISSOURI COMPROMISE | the Missouri Compromise balanced the issue of slavery by admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state |
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FOOD |
CONSISTING OF BITE-SIZE PIECES OF MEAT OF SEAFOOD ON SKEWERS, WHICH ONE OF THE FOLLOWING JAPANESE WORDS LITERALLY MEANS "BROILED BIRD" OR "GRILLED CHICKEN":
A) KUSHIAGE
B) TEMPURA
C) TERIYAKI
D) YAKITORI |
D) YAKITORI | first one is pronounced "KOO-shee-AH-geh" |
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DEBUT NOVELS |
"OTHER VOICES, OTHER ROOMS" WAS THE FIRST PUBLISHED NOVEL BY WHAT AUTHOR:
A) TRUMAN CAPOTE
B) AGATHA CHRISTIE
C) GEORGE ORWELL
D) VIRGINIA WOOLF |
A) TRUMAN CAPOTE |
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TECHNOLOGY |
DEVELOPED BY ANTHROPIC, WHAT IS THE NAME OF THE "CLAUDE" AI MODEL RELEASED TO SOME COMPANIES ON APRIL 7 THIS YEAR, BUT NOT TO THE PUBLIC? |
MYTHOS | pronounced "an-THROP-ik" |
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STAR WARS |
IN "STAR WARS: EPISODE III - REVENGE OF THE SITH", WHAT IS THE NAME OF THE OUTER RIM PLANETOID WHERE LUKE AND LEIA ARE BORN:
A) GALORNDON CORE
B) GEONOSIS
C) POLIS MASSA
D) TRIACUS |
C) POLIS MASSA [WHICH HAD BECOME A HAVEN FOR SURVIVING JEDI FOLLOWING THE EXECUTION OF ORDER 66] | HINT OF THE WEEK -- Advanced "Star Wars" trivia … yesterday was May 4th, celebrated as "Star Wars Day", re: May the 4th be with you
pronunciations: "gə-LORN-don" … "JEE-ə-noh-sis" … "POHL-iss MAH-sə" … "try-ACK-əs"
NOTE: Geonosis is from "Episode II - Attack of the Clones" and the other two are planets from the "Star Trek" universe |
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RIVERS |
IN WHAT COUNTRY, NOT CANADA, IS THE CANADIAN RIVER? |
UNITED STATES
[IT'S A MAJOR TRIBUTARY OF THE ARKANSAS RIVER] |
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COVER SONGS |
WHAT 1960's BOB DYLAN SONG DID THE ROLLING STONES RECORD FOR THEIR 1996 ALBUM "STRIPPED"? |
LIKE A ROLLING STONE |
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YOU CALL THIS MUSIC? |
PUT THE FOLLOWING HIT SONGS IN ORDER, ACCORDING TO WHICH WAS RELEASED FIRST:
A) CALL ME MAYBE [CARLY RAE JEPSEN]
B) CALL ME WHEN YOU'RE SOBER [EVANESCENCE]
C) ONE CALL AWAY [CHARLIE PUTH]
D) MONTERO (CALL ME BY YOUR NAME) [LIL NAS X]
E) THIS IS A CALL [FOO FIGHTERS] |
E-B-A-C-D
[RESPECTIVELY: 1995 … 2006 … 2011 (THOUGH DIDN'T CHART UNTIL 2012) … 2016 … 2021] |
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U.S. GEOGRAPHY |
ACCORDING TO WORLD POPULATION REVIEW, IN SQUARE MILES, WHAT IS THE COMBINED TOTAL AREA OF KANSAS AND NEBRASKA? |
159,626 SQ.MI. [82,278 + 77,348] |
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U.S. CITIES |
PUT THE FOLLOWING U.S. CITIES IN ORDER, FROM MOST POPULOUS TO LEAST:
A) CLEVELAND, OHIO
B) CLINTON, MASSACHUSETTS
C) JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI
D) LINCOLN, NEBRASKA
E) WASHINGTON D.C. |
E-A-D-C-B
[RESPECTIVE APPROXIMATIONS: 718,000 … 362,000 … 305,000 … 135,000 … 16,000] | **ALTERNATE FINAL** |
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WORLD CITIES |
MUSCAT IS THE CAPITAL OF WHAT MIDDLE EASTERN COUNTRY? |
OMAN |
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MOUNTAINS |
EACH YEAR, THOUSANDS OF PILGRIMS VISIT DIRA PUK MONASTERY, FOUND NEAR A SACRED PEAK MORE THAN 16,000 FEET UP IN WHAT MOUNTAINS? |
HIMALAYAS [NEAR MT. KAILASH IN TIBET] | accept "Gangdise" or "Kailash" mountains |
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BASEBALL |
OF JAPANESE DESCENT, DON WAKAMATSU BECAME THE FIRST ASIAN MANAGER IN MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL WHEN HE MANAGED WHAT TEAM IN 2009 AND 2010? |
SEATTLE MARINERS | he had a brief MLB playing career as a backup catcher for the White Sox in 1991 … he also managed the Texas Rangers in 2018 |
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FUNERALS |
AT JAZZ FUNERALS IN NEW ORLEANS, WHAT PHRASE WITH AN ORDINAL NUMBER REFERS TO THE MOURNERS OR ONLOOKERS WHO JOIN IN BEHIND THE CASKET, THE FAMILY MEMBERS AND THE MUSICIANS? |
THE SECOND LINE |
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QUOTES |
WHICH ONE OF THE KENNEDYS SAID, "ONLY THOSE WHO DARE TO FAIL GREATLY CAN EVER ACHIEVE GREATLY"? |
ROBERT F. KENNEDY / RFK |
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MOVIE CHARACTERS |
IN "GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 3", WHAT IS THE NAME OF THE CYBERNETICALLY-ENHANCED OTTER WHO IS MORE OR LESS ROCKET'S LOVE INTEREST IN FLASHBACKS? |
LYLLA | pronounced "LIE-lə", so accept the misspellings "Lyla" or "Lila" |
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TV THEMES |
WHAT SYNDICATED 1980's SITCOM OPENED WITH A THEME SONG FEATURING THE FOLLOWING LYRICS:
"SHE'S FANTASTIC! MADE OF PLASTIC! MICROCHIPS HERE AND THERE." |
SMALL WONDER | the plot of show concerned an inventor's 10-year-old "daughter", who was actually an android |
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BAND MEMBERS |
IN 1999, WHICH MEMBER OF MÖTLEY CRÜE LEFT THE BAND TO FORM A RAP-METAL GROUP CALLED "METHODS OF MAYHEM"? |
(DRUMMER) TOMMY LEE
[HE RETURNED TO MÖTLEY CRÜE IN 2004] |