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How much did America pay to buy Alaska from Russia in 1867?
- 1 million
- 7 million
- 70 million
- 700 million
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The ruins of which ancient town were discovered in 1748?
- Machu Picchu
- Troy
- Pompeii
- Çatalhöyük
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Which musician(s) tried to form a country called Nutopia with no boundaries and silence as its national anthem?
- John Lennon and Yoko Ono
- Prince
- Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel
- Father Yod
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Whose painting of Sunflowers sold for a then record $39.7 million in 1987?
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Pablo Picasso
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Paul Gauguin
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Paul Cézanne
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Vincent van Gogh
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Which was the first country in the world to legalize same-sex marriage in 2001?
- New Zealand
- Sweden
- Netherlands
- Spain
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Who directed the 1968 film 2001 A Space Odyssey?
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Francis Ford Coppola
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George Lucas
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Stanley Kubrick
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Alfred Hitchcock
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What is the name given to the leak in 2016 of 11.5 million confidential documents from law firm Mossack Fonseca?
- Wikileaks
- Vatican Leaks
- Colombian Papers
- Panama Papers
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True or false: The record for the longest survival at sea on a life raft is held by a Chinese steward adrift for 133 days?
- True
- False
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What structure opened in 1889 and was the world's tallest human-made structure for the next 41 years? (not pictured)
- Big Ben
- Eiffel Tower
- Empire State Building
- Washington Monument
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Which of these portraits is of German composer Johann Sebastian Bach, born this week in 1685?
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Johann Sebastian Bach
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Ludwig van Beethoven
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Antonio Vivaldi
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