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- Valid : y
- Points: 5
- Author: SYSOP*Keith Ledbetter
- Quest1: What William Styron book is about a black preacher who leads
- Quest2: a slave revolt?
- Answer: The Confessions of Nat Turner
- Answer: Confessions of Nat Turner
- Answer:
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- valid : Y
- points: 1
- Author: SYSOP*Keith Ledbetter
- quest1: What is the most commonly used punctuation mark?
- quest2:
- answer: The comma
- answer: Comma
- answer: ,
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- valid : Y
- points: 7
- Author: SYSOP*Keith Ledbetter
- quest1: What 1932 novel won Pearl Buck a Pulitzer Prize?
- quest2:
- answer: The Good Earth
- answer: Good Earth
- answer:
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- valid : Y
- points: 5
- Author: SYSOP*Keith Ledbetter
- quest1: How many lines are there in a limerick?
- quest2:
- answer: Five
- answer: 5
- answer:
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- Valid : Y
- Points: 2
- Author: Sysop*Tom
- Quest1: What is the magic phrase in "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves"?
- Quest2:
- Answer: Open Sesame
- Answer: Open Sesamee
- Answer: Open Seasme
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- Valid : Y
- Points: 5
- Author: Sysop*Tom
- Quest1: What Homerian epic chronicles events toward the end of the
- Quest2: Trojan Wars?
- Answer: The Iliad
- Answer: Iliad
- Answer: Ilyad
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- Valid : Y
- Points: 6
- Author: Sysop*Tom
- Quest1: What was William Tell's nationality?
- Quest2:
- Answer: Swiss
- Answer: Swis
- Answer: Switzerland
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- Valid : Y
- Points: 4
- Author: Sysop*Tom
- Quest1: Who was the editor of The Daily Planet?
- Quest2:
- Answer: Perry White
- Answer:
- Answer:
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- Valid : Y
- Points: 6
- Author: Sysop*Tom
- Quest1: Who wrote 'Women in Love'?
- Quest2:
- Answer: D.H. Lawrence
- Answer: Lawrence
- Answer: D. H. Lawrence
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- Valid : Y
- Points: 5
- Author: Sysop*Tom
- Quest1: Who is known as "The Father of Western Philosophy"?
- Quest2:
- Answer: Plato
- Answer:
- Answer:
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- Valid : Y
- Points: 5
- Author: Joe S. Smith
- Quest1: What Hans Christian Andersen story has a monarch bamboozled by
- Quest2: a tailor?
- Answer: The Emperor's New Clothes
- Answer: Emperor's New Clothes
- Answer: The Emperors New Clothes
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- Valid : Y
- Points: 5
- Author: Joe S. Smith
- Quest1: What English mystery writer said: "Give me a decent bottle of poison
- Quest2: and I'll construct the perfect crime"?
- Answer: Agatha Christie
- Answer: Agatha Christy
- Answer:
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- Valid : Y
- Points: 6
- Author: SYSOP*Keith
- Quest1: What war is the background to George Orwell's
- Quest2: "Homage to Catalonia"?
- Answer: Spanish Civil War
- Answer: The Spanish Civil War
- Answer:
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- Valid : Y
- Points: 7
- Author: SYSOP*Keith
- Quest1: Who created detective Travis McGee?
- Quest2:
- Answer: John D. MacDonald
- Answer: John MacDonald
- Answer: John D. McDonald
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- Valid : Y
- Points: 7
- Author: SYSOP*Keith
- Quest1: Who created "L'il Abner"?
- Quest2:
- Answer: Al Capp
- Answer: Al Cap
- Answer: Capp
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- Valid : Y
- Points: 4
- Author: SYSOP*Keith
- Quest1: Whose biography is titled "Eleanor: The Lonely Years"?
- Quest2:
- Answer: Eleanor Roosevelt
- Answer: Roosevelt
- Answer: Eleanor Rosevelt
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- Valid : Y
- Points: 7
- Author: SYSOP*Keith
- Quest1: What was the pupil of Dickens's Fagan?
- Quest2:
- Answer: Oliver Twist
- Answer:
- Answer:
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- Valid : Y
- Points: 8
- Author: SYSOP*Keith
- Quest1: What horse race is "National Velvet" centered on?
- Quest2:
- Answer: The Grand National
- Answer: Grand National
- Answer:
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- Valid : Y
- Points: 7
- Author: SYSOP*Keith
- Quest1: What was Pinocchio's father's name?
- Quest2:
- Answer: Geppetto
- Answer: Gepetto
- Answer: Gapetto
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- Valid : Y
- Points: 5
- Author: SYSOP*Keith
- Quest1: What creature is Athena, Greek goddess of wisdom,
- Quest2: associated with?
- Answer: Owl
- Answer: The Owl
- Answer: An Owl
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- Valid : Y
- Points: 5
- Author: SYSOP*Keith
- Quest1: Who won the 1948 Pulitzer Prize for "Tales of the
- Quest2: South Pacific"?
- Answer: James Michener
- Answer:
- Answer:
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- Valid : Y
- Points: 9
- Author: SYSOP*Keith
- Quest1: What's the best-known artificial international language?
- Quest2:
- Answer: Esperanto
- Answer:
- Answer:
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- Valid : Y
- Points: 6
- Author: SYSOP*Keith
- Quest1: Whose biography by Nancy Mitford is titled "Zelda"?
- Quest2:
- Answer: Zelda Fitzgerald
- Answer: Fitzgerald
- Answer:
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- Valid : Y
- Points: 7
- Author: SYSOP*Keith
- Quest1: What type of humorous verse might begin: "There once was a main
- Quest2: from Nantucket"?
- Answer: Limerick
- Answer: A Limerick
- Answer:
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- Valid : Y
- Points: 7
- Author: SYSOP*Keith
- Quest1: What Peter Shaffer play is about a boy who blinds six horses?
- Quest2:
- Answer: Equus
- Answer: Equs
- Answer:
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- valid : y
- points: 3
- Author: SYSOP*Keith
- quest1: What U.S. state is George Washington's Mount Vernon in?
- quest2:
- answer: Virginia
- answer: VA
- answer:
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- valid : Y
- points: 3
- Author: SYSOP*Keith
- quest1: What continent does Lake Titicaca beautify?
- quest2:
- answer: South America
- answer:
- answer:
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- valid : Y
- points: 3
- Author: SYSOP*Keith
- quest1: What island is Pearl Harbor on?
- quest2:
- answer: Oahu
- answer:
- answer:
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- valid : Y
- points: 7
- Author: SYSOP*Keith
- quest1: What two cities are at the ends of the Trans-Siberian Railway?
- quest2: (ie: Dallas AND Houston)
- answer: Moscow and Vladivostok
- answer: Vladivostok and Moscow
- answer:
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- Valid : Y
- Points: 7
- Author: Sysop*Tom
- Quest1: What country contains the greater lengths of the Tigris and Euphrates
- Quest2: rivers?
- Answer: Iraq
- Answer:
- Answer:
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- Valid : Y
- Points: 4
- Author: Sysop*Tom
- Quest1: What African city is built on gold?
- Quest2:
- Answer: Johannesburg
- Answer: Johanesburg
- Answer: Johannesberg
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- Valid : Y
- Points: 3
- Author: Sysop*Tom
- Quest1: What continent pushes up the Atlas Mountains?
- Quest2:
- Answer: Africa
- Answer:
- Answer:
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- Valid : Y
- Points: 4
- Author: Sysop*Tom
- Quest1: What is the United States' biggest trading partner?
- Quest2:
- Answer: Canada
- Answer:
- Answer:
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- Valid : Y
- Points: 9
- Author: Sysop*Tom
- Quest1: What famed London criminal court was once a feudal castle?
- Quest2:
- Answer: The Old Bailey
- Answer: The Olde Bailey
- Answer: Old Bailey
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- Valid : Y
- Points: 4
- Author: Sysop*Tom
- Quest1: What is the highest mountain in the United States?
- Quest2:
- Answer: Mount McKinley
- Answer: McKinley
- Answer: Mt. McKinley
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- Valid : Y
- Points: 5
- Author: Sysop*Tom
- Quest1: What is the second largest city in Illinois? (Hint 90 miles NW of
- Quest2: Chicago)
- Answer: Rockford
- Answer:
- Answer:
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- Valid : Y
- Points: 4
- Author: Sysop*Tom
- Quest1: What Rocky Mountain ridge separates North America's eastward and
- Quest2: westward flowing rivers?
- Answer: The Continental Divide
- Answer: Continental Divide
- Answer:
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- Valid : Y
- Points: 7
- Author: SYSOP*Keith
- Quest1: Where is the bulk of the Pampas?
- Quest2:
- Answer: Argentina
- Answer:
- Answer:
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- Valid : Y
- Points: 6
- Author: SYSOP*Keith
- Quest1: What major city is on an island in the St. Lawrence River?
- Quest2:
- Answer: Montreal
- Answer:
- Answer:
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- Valid : Y
- Points: 6
- Author: SYSOP*Keith
- Quest1: What desert has been called "The Garden of Allah"?
- Quest2:
- Answer: The Sahara
- Answer: Sahara
- Answer:
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- Valid : Y
- Points: 8
- Author: SYSOP*Keith
- Quest1: What square is the geographical center of London?
- Quest2:
- Answer: Trafalgar Square
- Answer: Trafalgar
- Answer:
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- Valid : Y
- Points: 7
- Author: SYSOP*Keith
- Quest1: What South American city does an 82-foot statue of
- Quest2: Christ overlook?
- Answer: Rio De Janeiro
- Answer: Rio De Janero
- Answer:
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- Valid : Y
- Points: 6
- Author: SYSOP*Keith
- Quest1: What country is home to the Bank of Alexandria?
- Quest2:
- Answer: Egypt
- Answer:
- Answer:
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- Valid : Y
- Points: 5
- Author: SYSOP*Keith
- Quest1: What nationality is a Breton?
- Quest2:
- Answer: French
- Answer:
- Answer:
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- Valid : Y
- Points: 5
- Author: SYSOP*Keith
- Quest1: What Russian city boasts the Hermitage Musuem?
- Quest2:
- Answer: Leningrad
- Answer:
- Answer:
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- Valid : Y
- Points: 5
- Author: SYSOP*Keith
- Quest1: What country would you be in if you wiled away the time
- Quest2: playing a didjeridoo in Wagga Wagga?
- Answer: Australia
- Answer:
- Answer:
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- Valid : Y
- Points: 5
- Author: SYSOP*Keith
- Quest1: What are the residents of the island of Lesbos called?
- Quest2:
- Answer: Lesbosians
- Answer:
- Answer:
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- Valid : Y
- Points: 5
- Author: SYSOP*Keith
- Quest1: What continent contains Queen Maud Land, Wilkes Land,
- Quest2: and Bird Land?
- Answer: Antarctica
- Answer: Antartica
- Answer:
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- Valid : Y
- Points: 6
- Author: SYSOP*Keith
- Quest1: What river is spanned by the Rainbow Bridge?
- Quest2:
- Answer: The Niagara
- Answer: Niagara
- Answer: The Niagra
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- Valid : Y
- Points: 5
- Author: SYSOP*Keith
- Quest1: What extends more than 600 miles from northwestern
- Quest2: California to the Gulf of California?
- Answer: The San Andreas Fault
- Answer: San Andreas Fault
- Answer:
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- Valid : Y
- Points: 5
- Author: SYSOP*Keith
- Quest1: What's the third-largest state in the U.S.?
- Quest2:
- Answer: California
- Answer:
- Answer:
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- Valid : Y
- Points: 6
- Author: SYSOP*Keith
- Quest1: What's the largest country entirely within the
- Quest2: Southern Hemisphere?
- Answer: Australia
- Answer:
- Answer:
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- valid : y
- points: 5
- Author: SYSOP*Keith
- quest1: What terrorist group was headed by Donald DeFreeze?
- quest2:
- answer: Symbionese Liberation Army
- answer: SLA
- answer:
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- valid : Y
- points: 4
- Author: SYSOP*Keith
- quest1: What country was the victim of a Russian invasion in 1956?
- quest2:
- answer: Hungary
- answer:
- answer:
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- valid : Y
- points: 5
- Author: SYSOP*Keith
- quest1: What playwright was married to Marilyn Monroe?
- quest2:
- answer: Arthur Miller
- answer:
- answer:
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- valid : Y
- points: 5
- Author: SYSOP*Keith
- quest1: How many states did Richard Nixon carry in 1972?
- quest2:
- answer: Forty-nine
- answer: Forty nine
- answer: 49
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- valid : Y
- points: 7
- Author: SYSOP*Keith
- quest1: What did Winston Churchill describe as
- quest2 "a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma"?
- answer: Russia
- answer: Soviet Union
- answer: USSR
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- Valid : Y
- Points: 4
- Author: Sysop*Tom
- Quest1: What peace treaty ended World War I?
- Quest2:
- Answer: The Treaty of Versailles
- Answer: Versailles
- Answer: Treaty of Versailles
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- Valid : Y
- Points: 5
- Author: Sysop*Tom
- Quest1: What gold rush was started by Skookum Jim, Tagish Charlie, and
- Quest2: George Carmacks?
- Answer: The Klondike Gold Rush
- Answer: Klondike
- Answer: Klondike Gold Rush
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- Valid : Y
- Points: 5
- Author: Sysop*Tom
- Quest1: What major North Vietnamese port was mined by the United States?
- Quest2:
- Answer: Haiphong
- Answer: Haipong
- Answer: Haifong
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- Valid : Y
- Points: 4
- Author: Sysop*Tom
- Quest1: What English explorer discovered and named Virginia?
- Quest2:
- Answer: Sir Walter Raleigh
- Answer: Walter Raleigh
- Answer: Sir Walter Raliegh
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- Valid : Y
- Points: 8
- Author: Sysop*Tom
- Quest1: What was Bella Abzug's sartorical trademark?
- Quest2:
- Answer: A hat
- Answer: Hat
- Answer:
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- Valid : Y
- Points: 4
- Author: Sysop*Tom
- Quest1: What was the first railroad to cross the United States?
- Quest2:
- Answer: The Union Pacific
- Answer: Union Pacific
- Answer:
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- Valid : Y
- Points: 5
- Author: Joe S. Smith
- Quest1: Who addressed the United Nations General Assembly with a gun in
- Quest2: his belt?
- Answer: Yasser Arafat
- Answer:
- Answer:
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- Valid : Y
- Points: 2
- Author: Sysop*Tom
- Quest1: What started in 1849 when gold was discovered
- Quest2: at Sutter's Mill?
- Answer: The California Gold Rush
- Answer: California Gold Rush
- Answer:
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- Valid : Y
- Points: 4
- Author: Sysop*Tom
- Quest1: What's the usual age for a Jewish boy to celebrate
- Quest2: his bar mitzvah?
- Answer: 13
- Answer: Thirteen
- Answer:
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- Valid : Y
- Points: 6
- Author: Sysop*Tom
- Quest1: What opera singer said: "First I lost my weight.
- Quest2: Then I lost my voice. Now I've lost Onassis"?
- Answer: Maria Callas
- Answer:
- Answer:
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- Valid : Y
- Points: 5
- Author: Sysop*Tom
- Quest1: How many died at Kent State?
- Quest2:
- Answer: 4
- Answer: Four
- Answer:
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- Valid : Y
- Points: 5
- Author: Sysop*Tom
- Quest1: What are adherents to the Society of Friends called?
- Quest2:
- Answer: Quakers
- Answer:
- Answer:
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- Valid : Y
- Points: 3
- Author: Sysop*Tom
- Quest1: What organization was founded by the Rev. Jerry Falwell?
- Quest2:
- Answer: Moral Majority
- Answer: The Moral Majority
- Answer:
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- Valid : Y
- Points: 8
- Author: Sysop*Tom
- Quest1: Who was secretary-general of the United Nations
- Quest2: during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
- Answer: U Thant
- Answer:
- Answer:
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- Valid : Y
- Points: 6
- Author: Sysop*Tom
- Quest1: Who made Chinese film actress Chiang Chin his
- Quest2: fourth wife?
- Answer: Mao Tse-Tung
- Answer: Mao Tse Tung
- Answer:
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- Valid : Y
- Points: 6
- Author: Sysop*Tom
- Quest1: What civil war was fought between 1936 and 1939?
- Quest2:
- Answer: Spanish Civil War
- Answer: The Spanish Civil War
- Answer: Spanish
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- Valid : Y
- Points: 2
- Author: Sysop*Tom
- Quest1: What rifle accessory originated in Bayonne,
- Quest2: France in 1641?
- Answer: Bayonet
- Answer: Bayonette
- Answer: Bayonnett
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- Valid : Y
- Points: 6
- Author: Sysop*Tom
- Quest1: Who founded Philadelphia, Pennsylvania?
- Quest2:
- Answer: William Penn
- Answer:
- Answer:
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- Valid : Y
- Points: 9
- Author: Sysop*Tom
- Quest1: What mayor welcomed John F. Kennedy to West Berlin?
- Quest2:
- Answer: Willy Brandt
- Answer:
- Answer:
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- Valid : Y
- Points: 4
- Author: Sysop*Tom
- Quest1: What country did Germany invade on Sept. 1, 1939?
- Quest2:
- Answer: Poland
- Answer:
- Answer:
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- Valid : Y
- Points: 6
- Author: Sysop*Tom
- Quest1: What U.S. president's new conferences were called
- Quest2: the best matinee in town?
- Answer: John F. Kennedy
- Answer: John Kennedy
- Answer: JFK
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- valid : y
- points: 3
- Author: SYSOP*Keith
- quest1: What airline operates the tours at the Kennedy Space Center?
- quest2:
- answer: Trans World Airlines
- answer: TransWorld Airlines
- answer: TWA
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- valid : Y
- points: 7
- Author: SYSOP*Keith
- quest1: Who invented the box that psychologists use to shock rats?
- quest2:
- answer: B.F. Skinner
- answer: B. F. Skinner
- answer: B F Skinner
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- valid : Y
- points: 4
- Author: SYSOP*Keith
- quest1: What term describes an animal with a constant blood temperature?
- quest2:
- answer: warm-blooded
- answer: warm blooded
- answer:
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- valid : Y
- points: 3
- Author: SYSOP*Keith
- quest1: What is the largest artery in the human body?
- quest2:
- answer: Aorta
- answer: The aorta
- answer:
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- valid : Y
- points: 6
- Author: SYSOP*Keith
- quest1: How many bones are there in the human body?
- quest2:
- answer: 206
- answer: Two hundred and six
- answer: Two hundred six
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- Valid : Y
- Points: 7
- Author: Sysop*Tom
- Quest1: What is a newly hatched swan called?
- Quest2:
- Answer: cygnet
- Answer: A cygnet
- Answer:
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- Valid : Y
- Points: 3
- Author: Sysop*Tom
- Quest1: What is your zodiacal sign if you're born on July 15th?
- Quest2:
- Answer: Cancer
- Answer:
- Answer:
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- Valid : Y
- Points: 4
- Author: Sysop*Tom
- Quest1: What animal has been called the poor mn's cow?
- Quest2:
- Answer: The goat
- Answer: Goat
- Answer:
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- Valid : Y
- Points: 3
- Author: Sysop*Tom
- Quest1: What drug was named for Morpheus, the Greek god of dreams?
- Quest2:
- Answer: Morphine
- Answer: Morophine
- Answer: Moraphine
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- Valid : Y
- Points: 3
- Author: Sysop*Tom
- Quest1: What weed's name derives from the French for 'tooth of the lion'?
- Quest2:
- Answer: The Dandelion
- Answer: Dandelion
- Answer: The Dandelion's
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- Valid : Y
- Points: 5
- Author: Sysop*Tom
- Quest1: What does an autophobe avoid referring to?
- Quest2:
- Answer: Himself
- Answer: Self
- Answer: Herself
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- Valid : Y
- Points: 4
- Author: Joe S. Smith
- Quest1: What's the favorite food of dragonflies?
- Quest2:
- Answer: Mosquitoes
- Answer: Mosquitos
- Answer:
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- Valid : Y
- Points: 5
- Author: Joe S. Smith
- Quest1: What Italian astronomer wrote "The Starry Messenger"?
- Quest2:
- Answer: Galileo
- Answer:
- Answer:
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- Valid : Y
- Points: 8
- Author: Joe S. Smith
- Quest1: What's the common term for the tympanic membrane?
- Quest2:
- Answer: Eardrum
- Answer: Ear drum
- Answer:
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- Valid : Y
- Points: 4
- Author: Joe S. Smith
- Quest1: What's a woofer?
- Quest2:
- Answer: A speaker
- Answer: Speaker
- Answer:
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- Valid : Y
- Points: 6
- Author: Joe S. Smith
- Quest1: What gives beer is distinctive bitter flavor?
- Quest2:
- Answer: Hops
- Answer: The hops
- Answer:
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- Valid : Y
- Points: 7
- Author: Joe S. Smith
- Quest1: What falls out when you suffer from phalacrosis?
- Quest2:
- Answer: Your hair
- Answer: hair
- Answer:
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- Valid : Y
- Points: 4
- Author: Joe S. Smith
- Quest1: What non-working, stingless bee mates with the queen?
- Quest2:
- Answer: Drone
- Answer: A Drone
- Answer: The Drone
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- Valid : Y
- Points: 2
- Author: Joe S. Smith
- Quest1: How many daily tides are there?
- Quest2:
- Answer: Two
- Answer: 2
- Answer:
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- Valid : Y
- Points: 7
- Author: Joe S. Smith
- Quest1: What's a second full moon in a month called?
- Quest2:
- Answer: Blue Moon
- Answer: A Blue Moon
- Answer: Blue
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- Valid : Y
- Points: 9
- Author: Joe S. Smith
- Quest1: What's the fruit of the "Ananas comosus"?
- Quest2:
- Answer: Pineapple
- Answer: A Pineapple
- Answer: The Pineapple
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- Valid : Y
- Points: 8
- Author: Joe S. Smith
- Quest1: What Russian physiologist went to the dogs to write
- Quest2: "Conditioned Reflexes"?
- Answer: Ivan Pavlov
- Answer: Pavlov
- Answer:
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- Valid : Y
- Points: 6
- Author: Joe S. Smith
- Quest1: What fabric are Harris, Lewis and Donegal the leading
- Quest2: examples of?
- Answer: Tweed
- Answer:
- Answer:
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- Valid : Y
- Points: 3
- Author: Joe S. Smith
- Quest1: How many wisdom teeth are there in a normal set of teeth?
- Quest2:
- Answer: Four
- Answer: 4
- Answer:
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- Valid : Y
- Points: 8
- Author: Joe S. Smith
- Quest1: What is the fruit of a rosebush called?
- Quest2:
- Answer: The hip
- Answer: Hip
- Answer:
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- Valid : Y
- Points: 6
- Author: Joe S. Smith
- Quest1: What does an androphobic maiden fear?
- Quest2:
- Answer: Men
- Answer: Man
- Answer:
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- Valid : Y
- Points: 3
- Author: Kolonel Kink
- Quest1: Who is the sysop of Compu-erotica BBS, 312-425-6061 ?
- Quest2:
- Answer: KOLONEL KINK
- Answer: KINK
- Answer: POLLY PUREPUSSY
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- Valid : Y
- Points: 6
- Author: Kolonel Kink
- Quest1: What's long and hard for a man?
- Quest2:
- Answer: MARRIAGE
- Answer:
- Answer:
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