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1. Which country’s 1900 constitution left room for adding New Zealand as a member state someday?
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Answer: Australia
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2. Earlier this year, who became the youngest person to receive four Oscar nominations for acting?
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Answer: Jennifer Lawrence
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3. Seven Catholic popes, three Russian czars and one great Macedonian all shared what name?
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Answer: Alexander
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4. In what 1980s hit does the singer buy bread from a man in Brussels who was six-foot-four and full of muscles?
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Answer: “Down Under” by Men at Work
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Answer: The Danube
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6. Dr. Kenneth Leigh Evans purportedly used a 300-year-old Jamaican recipe to create what coffee liqueur?
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Answer: Tia Maria
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7. What’s the name of both the Libyan capital and Lebanon’s second-largest city?
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Answer: Tripoli
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8. Which calendar date is the rarest birthday?
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Answer: Feb. 29
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9. In 2005, what celebrity jumped up and down on Oprah’s sofa, proclaiming his love for actress Katie Holmes?
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Answer: Tom Cruise
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10. Of the six wives of England’s King Henry VIII, how many were named Catherine?
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Answer: Three (Catherine of Aragon, Catherine Howard and Catherine Parr)
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11. In which country do the similarly named Dnieper and Dniester rivers reach the Black Sea?
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Answer: Ukraine
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12. Which American “king” posed for a photo with U.S. president Richard Nixon in 1970?
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Answer: Elvis Presley
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13. Measuring just a few millimetres, paedocypris progenetica may be the world’s tiniest fish species. In which country could you spot one, if you have good eyesight?
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Answer: Indonesia
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14. Where is the humerus bone found?
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Answer: In the upper arm
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15. What Renaissance political thinker advised, “It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both”?
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Answer: Niccolò Machiavelli
Originally Published: September 16, 2016