ANSWER: Currency

Denver

In 1858, when gold was discovered in Colorado, hundreds of merchants, miners and settlers moved in for their stake. A year later, the city of Denver was founded; and in 1863, the U.S. government established a mint facility there. Today, the United States Mint at Denver manufactures all denominations of circulating coins, coin dies, the Denver "D" portion of the annual uncirculated coin sets and commemorative coins authorized by the U. S. Congress. It also stores gold and silver bullion.


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QUESTION: Currency

US coins with a "D" mark are minted where?

ANSWER: Body

Hand on hips

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QUESTION: Body

What do you do to put your arms "akimbo"?

ANSWER: Books

The Hobbit

The Battle of Five Armies, depicted in The Hobbit, was fought between the Goblins and the Wargs of Moria and the Misty Mountains against the Men of the Long Lake, the Elves of Mirkwood, the Dwarves on and near the Lonely Mountain and the great Eagles of the Misty Mountains. The hobbit Bilbo Baggins, the wizard Gandalf the Grey, and Beorn, also took part and are more single characters involved on the side of the men, dwarves and elves, rather than forming a separate army.


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QUESTION: Books

What 1937 novel ends with the Battle of the Five Armies?

ANSWER: Mail

1775

On July 26, 1775, members of the Second Continental Congress, meeting in Philadelphia, agreed ". . . that a Postmaster General be appointed for the United States, who shall hold his office at Philadelphia, and shall be allowed a salary of 1,000 dollars per annum . . . ."

That simple statement signaled the birth of the Post Office Department, the predecessor of the United States Postal Service and the second oldest department or agency of the present United States of America.

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QUESTION: Mail

What year was the U.S. Postal Service founded?

ANSWER: Clubs

Health

4-H in the United States is a youth organization administered by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), with the mission of "engaging youth to reach their fullest potential while advancing the field of youth development." The name represents four personal development areas of focus for the organization: head, heart, hands, and health. The organization has over 6.5 million members in the United States, from ages five to nineteen, in approximately 90,000 clubs. The goal of 4-H is to develop citizenship, leadership, responsibility and life skills of youth through experiential learning program.

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QUESTION: Clubs

Which H in the 4-H club is not part of the body?

VACATION!!

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ANSWER: Olympians

Nadia Comaneci


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QUESTION: Olympians

Who was the first female gymnast to score a perfect 10?

ANSWER: Celebrities

Terry Gilliam

Terrence Vance "Terry" Gilliam is an American-born British screenwriter, film director, animator, actor and member of the Monty Python comedy troupe. Gilliam is also known for directing several films, including Brazil (1985), The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988), The Fisher King (1991), 12 Monkeys (1995), and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998). The only "Python" not born in Britain, he took British citizenship in 1968.

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QUESTION: Celebrities

Who is the only member of Monty Python that was born in America?

ANSWER: Websites

Science textbook

The company began as an online bookstore. While the largest brick-and-mortar bookstores and mail-order catalogs might offer 200,000 titles, an online bookstore could sell far more. Bezos wanted a name for his company that began with "A" so that it would appear early in alphabetic order. He began looking through the dictionary and settled on "Amazon" because it was a place that was "exotic and different" and it was the river he considered the biggest in the world, as he hoped his company would be. Since 2000, Amazon's logotype is an arrow leading from A to Z, representing customer satisfaction (as it forms a smile). A goal was to have every product in the alphabet.

Amazon was incorporated in 1994, in the state of Washington. In July 1995, the company began service and sold its first book on Amazon.com — Douglas Hofstadter's Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought.

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QUESTION: Websites

What was the first item sold on amazon.com?

ANSWER: Songs

Leader of the Pack

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QUESTION: Songs

What song starts with the following dialogue: 
"Betty, is that Jimmy's ring you're wearing?" "Mm-hmm"

ANSWER: Animals

Great White Shark

The great white shark is arguably the world's largest known extant macropredatory fish and is one of the primary predators of marine mammals. It is also known to prey upon a variety of other marine animals including fish and seabirds. It is the only known surviving species of its genus, Carcharodon, and is ranked first in a list of number of recorded attacks on humans.


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QUESTION: Animals

What is the world's largest predatory fish?

ANSWER: Television

Pregnant

CBS would not allow I Love Lucy to use the word "pregnant", so "expecting" was used instead. The episode "Lucy Is Enceinte" first aired on December 8, 1952 ("enceinte" being French for "expecting" or "pregnant"). One week later, on December 15, 1952, the episode titled "Pregnant Women Are Unpredictable" was aired (although the show never displayed episode titles on the air). The episode in which Lucy gives birth, "Lucy Goes to the Hospital", first aired on January 19, 1953. To increase the publicity of this episode, the original air date was chosen to coincide with Lucille Ball's real-life delivery of Desi, Jr. by Caesarean section. "Lucy Goes to the Hospital" was watched by more people than any other television program up to that time, with 71.7% of all American television sets tuned in, topping the 67.7 rating for Dwight Eisenhower's inauguration coverage the following morning.


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QUESTION: Television

What word did CBS forbid I Love Lucy from using during the season that Little Ricky was born?

ANSWER: Religion

Ruth

The full title in Hebrew is named after a young woman of Moab, the great-grandmother of David and, according to the Christian tradition, an ancestress of Jesus:מגילת רות, Megillat Ruth, or "the scroll of Ruth", which places the book as one of the Five Megillot. Goswell argues that while Naomi is the central character of the book, Ruth is the main character, and so the book "can be considered aptly named."[2] The only other Biblical book bearing the name of a woman is the Book of Esther. The Book of Judith is not a part of the Jewish or most Protestant Bibles, who exclude the Book of Judith as apocryphal), though it is a part of the Catholic Bible.


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ANSWER: Religion

What's the first book of the Bible named for a woman?

ANSWER: Sports

11

Right Forward (or Striker)
Left Forward (or Striker)
Center Forward (or Striker)
Center Midfield
Right Midfield
Left Midfield
Center Midfield
Right Defender
Left Defender
Center Defender
Goalie

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QUESTION: Sports

How many players are on the field for each team in soccer?

ANSWER: Distance

1.6

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QUESTION: Distance

How many kilometers equal a mile?

ANSWER: Bands

Stuart Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe was the original bass player of The Beatles. Sutcliffe left the band to continue his career as an artist, having previously attended the Liverpool College of Art. Sutcliffe and John Lennon are credited with inventing the name of "The Beatles", as they both liked Buddy Holly's band, The Crickets. As a member of the group when it was a five-piece band, Sutcliffe is one of several people sometimes referred to as the "Fifth Beatle".

 While studying in Germany, Sutcliffe began experiencing severe headaches and acute sensitivity to light. In the first days of April 1962, he collapsed in the middle of an art class after complaining of head pains. German doctors performed various checks on him, but were unable to determine exactly what was causing the headaches. On 10 April 1962, he was taken to hospital, but died in the ambulance on the way. The cause of death was later revealed to have been an aneurysm.

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QUESTION: Bands

Who was the Beatles first bassist?

ANSWER: Quotes

Elizabeth Taylor

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