QUESTION: Children's Television

What object on Sesame Street contains a swimming pool and Fluffy the elephant?

ANSWER: Literature

Characters in Hamlet

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are characters in William Shakespeare's tragedy Hamlet. They are courtiers who are set by the king to spy on Hamlet, using their claimed friendship with him to gain his confidence. The characters were revived in W. S. Gilbert's satire Rosencrantz and Guildenstern and as the alienated heroes of Tom Stoppard's absurdist play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.

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QUESTION: Literature

Who are Rosencrantz and Guildenstern?

ANSWER: Comic Strips

It's pointy

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QUESTION: Comic Strips

What is distinctive about Dilbert's boss's hair?

ANSWER: Music

For No One 



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QUESTION: Music

What Beatles song has a French horn solo?

ANSWER: Medical

Flat feet

Flat feet (also called pes planus or fallen arches) is a formal reference to a medical condition in which the arch of the foot collapses, with the entire sole of the foot coming into complete or near-complete contact with the ground. In some individuals (an estimated 20–30% of the general population) the arch simply never develops in one foot (unilaterally) or both feet (bilaterally).

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QUESTION: Medical

What does a doctor call pes planus?

ANSWER: Beverages

Sommelier

The most important work of a sommelier is in the areas of wine procurement, wine storage, wine cellar rotation, and expert service to wine consumers.

A sommelier may also be responsible for the development of wine lists,and for the delivery of wine service and training for the other restaurant staff. Working along with the culinary team, they pair and suggest wines that will best complement each particular food menu item. This entails the need for a deep knowledge of how food and wine, beer, spirits and other beverages work in harmony. A professional sommelier also works on the floor of the restaurant and is in direct contact with restaurant patrons. The sommelier has a responsibility to work within the taste preference and budget parameters of the patron.


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QUESTION: Beverages

What is the French name for a wine steward in a restaurant?

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ANSWER: Chemistry

J

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QUESTION: Chemistry

What is the only letter that does not appear on the periodic table?

ANSWER: People

First president of Zimbabwe

Canaan Sodindo Banana (5 March 1936 – 10 November 2003) served as the first President of Zimbabwe from 18 April 1980 until 31 December 1987. A Methodist minister, he held the largely ceremonial office of the presidency while his eventual successor, Robert Mugabe, served as Prime Minister of Zimbabwe.

During his lifetime, Banana brought together two of the country's political parties, the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) and the Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU), became a diplomat for the Organisation of African Unity, and headed the religious department of the University of Zimbabwe. His later life was complicated by charges of sodomy - a crime in Zimbabwe - which he denied and for which he was later imprisoned.

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QUESTION: People

Who is Canaan Banana?

ANSWER: Food

Once

The name is based on a mistranslation. In Mexican Spanish, the prefix re is an informal form of emphasis meaning "very" or "well", not to be confused with the English re and the most common use of the Spanish (Latin)prefix re outside Mexico, which indicates repetition. Thus, frijoles refritos, the Mexican name of this dish, should translate to English as "well-fried beans", not "refried beans". In this dish, the beans are often fried, but may also be baked, thus making the term "refried" a misnomer on two counts.

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QUESTION: Food

How many times are traditional refried beans fried?

ANSWER: Music

Harmonica

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QUESTION: Music

What instrument is referred to as a licking stick or a tin sandwich?

ANSWER: Geography

Phuket

Phuket is a city located in the southeast of Phuket Island, Thailand. It is the capital of the Phuket Province, covering all of the island. As of 2007 the city has a population of 75,573 people. It covers the subdistricts Talat Yai and Talat Nuea of Mueang Phuket district.

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QUESTION: Geography

What is Thailand's largest island?

ANSWER: Coaches

Larry Brown

He has been a college and professional basketball coach since 1972. He has won over 1,000 professional games in the ABA and the NBA and is the only coach in NBA history to lead seven different teams to the playoffs. He is also the only person ever to coach two NBA franchises in the same season (San Antonio Spurs and Los Angeles Clippers during the 1991-92 NBA season[1]). He is 1,275–965 in his career. He is also the only coach in history to win both an NCAA National Championship (Kansas 1988) and an NBA Championship (Detroit 2004).

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QUESTION: Coaches

What NBA coach has led 7 different teams to the playoffs?

ANSWER: Post Office

2007

Forever Stamps were created by the United States Postal Service® (USPS®) in 2007. They are non-denominational First Class® postage, which means that they can be used to mail First Class letters no matter what the postal rate. For example, in 2008 it cost $0.42 to mail a normal-sized letter weighing one ounce or less to an address within the United States. In 2009, the rate increased to $0.44. Customers who purchased Forever Stamps in 2008 at the rate of $0.42 each may still use those stamps to mail their First Class letters today without adding an additional $0.02 stamp to the envelope.

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QUESTION: Post Office

What year did the Post Office start selling forever stamps?

ANSWER: Military

Eagles

The 101st Airborne Division—the "Screaming Eagles"—is a U.S. Army modular light infantry division trained for air assault operations. During World War II, it was renowned for its role in Operation Overlord, the D-Day landings on 6 June 1944, in Normandy, France, Operation Market Garden, the liberation of Holland and action during the Battle of the Bulge around the city of Bastogne, Belgium. During the Vietnam War, the 101st Airborne Division fought in several major campaigns and battles including the fight for Hamburger Hill in May 1969.

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QUESTION: Military

The US Army's 101st Airborne Division is known as the "Screaming ______"?

ANSWER: Clothing

Argyle

The argyle pattern is derived from the tartan of Clan Campbell, of Argyll in western Scotland,used for kilts and plaids, and from the patterned socks worn by Scottish Highlanders since at least the 17th century. These were generally known as "tartan hose".

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QUESTION: Clothing

What sock pattern is named a region of Scotland?

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ANSWER: Art/Religion

Right index finger

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QUESTION: Art/Religion

Which finger is God using to give Adam life on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel?

ANSWER: Newspapers

Sacramento

The Sacramento Bee is a daily newspaper published in Sacramento, California, in the United States. Since its creation in 1857, the Bee has become Sacramento's largest newspaper, the fifth largest newspaper in California, and the 27th largest paper in the U.S.

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QUESTION: Newspapers

What large US city's newspaper is called The Bee?

ANSWER: Punctuation

Ampersand

The ampersand can be traced back to the 1st century A.D. and the Old Roman cursive, in which the letters E and T occasionally were written together to form a ligature. In the later and more flowing New Roman Cursive, ligatures of all kinds were extremely common; from the middle of 5th century are both examples of how the et-ligature could look in this script. However, during the following development of the Latin script that led up to the Carolingian minuscule (7th century), while the use of ligatures in general diminished, the et-ligature continued to be used and gradually became more stylized and less revealing of its origin.

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QUESTION: Punctuation

What began as a combination of the letters e and t?

QUESTION: Literature/Sports

Quidditch

Quidditch is a fictional sport created by British author J. K. Rowling for the Harry Potter series of novels. It is described as an extremely rough but very popular semi-contact sport, played by wizards and witches around the world. Matches are played between two teams of seven players riding flying broomsticks, using four balls and six elevated ring-shaped goals three on each side of the Quidditch pitch (field). In the Harry Potter universe, Quidditch holds a fervent following similar to the position that association football holds as a globally popular sport.

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QUESTION: Literature/Sports

The Beaters are in charge of batting away the Bludgers in what fictional sport?

ANSWER: Science

Synapses

Synapses are essential to neuronal function: neurons are cells that are specialized to pass signals to individual target cells, and synapses are the means by which they do so. At a synapse, the plasma membrane of the signal-passing neuron (the presynaptic neuron) comes into close apposition with the membrane of the target (postsynaptic) cell. Both the presynaptic and postsynaptic sites contain extensive arrays of molecular machinery that link the two membranes together and carry out the signaling process. In many synapses, the presynaptic part is located on an axon, but some presynaptic sites are located on a dendrite or soma.

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