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Which ballet, by Tchaikovsky, is the world's most performed ballet?
- Swan Lake
- Sleeping Beauty
- The Nutcracker
- Giselle
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Whose essay, published during the American Revolution in 1776, began "These are the times that try men's souls"?
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Mark Twain
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Thomas Paine
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Thomas Jefferson
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Abraham Lincoln
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Who directed the 1946 classic film "Its a Wonderful Life", starring James Stewart?
- William Wyler
- Alfred Hitchcock
- John Ford
- Frank Capra
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Who discovered radium in 1898?
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Rosalind Franklin
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Marie and Pierre Curie
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Ernest Rutherford
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Linus Pauling
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In 1849 the execution by firing squad of Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky was called off at the last second?
- False
- True
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Who did actor Boris Karloff appear as in the 1932 horror film classic?
- The Mummy
- Nosferatu
- The Thing
- Dracula
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In 1967 the Prime Minister of Australia mysteriously vanished while swimming?
- False
- True
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Charles Dickens's story of Ebenezer Scrooge published this week in 1843 is titled what?
- Hard Times
- The Pickwick Papers
- A Christmas Memory
- A Christmas Carol
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Who is this who renamed his empire Yuan, marking the start of the Chinese Yuan Dynasty in 1278 AD?
- Emperor Taizu
- Genghis Khan
- Kublai Khan
- Emperor Qin Shi Huang
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In 1989 who was the dictator ousted from power in Romania after 23 years?
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Josip Broz Tito
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Francisco Franco
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Nicolae Ceausescu
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Idi Amin
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