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Can you answer these authentic questions posed to contestants on the show Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? All of these questions were million dollar questions. Good Luck!
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1. In the children's book series, where is Paddington Bear originally from?
Peru ✓
Canada ✓
India ✓
Iceland ✓
2. What letter must appear at the beginning of the registration number of all non-military aircraft in the U.S.?
A ✓
N ✓
L ✓
U ✓
3. Who delivered the less famous two-hour speech that preceded Abraham Lincoln's two-minute Gettysburg Address?
Robert G. Ingersoll ✓
Wendell Phillips ✓
Edward Everett ✓
Daniel Webster ✓
4. "Nephelococcygia" is the practice of doing what?
Finding shapes in clouds ✓
Swimming in freezing water ✓
Sleeping with your eyes open ✓
Breaking glass with your voice ✓
5. Which insect shorted out an early supercomputer and inspired the term "computer bug"?
Moth ✓
Fly ✓
Cock Roach ✓
Japanese Beetle ✓
6. Which of the following men does not have a chemical element named for him?
Albert Einstein ✓
Niels Bohr ✓
Issac Newton ✓
Enrico Fermi ✓
7. Which of these ships was not one of the three taken over by colonists during the Boston Tea Party?
Eleanor ✓
Dartmouth ✓
Beaver ✓
William ✓
8. Who is credited with inventing the first mass-produced helicopter?
Igor Sikorsky ✓
Elmer Sperry ✓
Ferdinand von Zeppelin ✓
Gottlieb Daimler ✓
9. The song "God Bless America" was originally written for what 1918 musical?
"Oh Lady! Lady!!" ✓
"Blossom Time" ✓
"Yip, Yip, Yaphank" ✓
"Watch Your Step" ✓
10. Neurologists believe that the brain's medial ventral prefrontal cortex is activated when you do what?
Get a joke ✓
Listen to music ✓
Remember a name ✓
Have a panic attack ✓
11. The Earth is approximately how many miles away from the Sun?
39 Million ✓
93 Million ✓
193 Million ✓
9.3 Million ✓
12. The US icon Uncle Sam was based on Samuel Wilson who worked during the War of 1812 as a what?
Mail Deliverer ✓
Historian ✓
Meat Inspector ✓
Weapons Mechanic ✓
13. During World War II, US soldiers used the first commercial aerosol cans to hold what?
Cleaning fluid ✓
Antiseptic ✓
Shaving cream ✓
Insecticide ✓
14. According to the Population Reference Bureau, what is the approximate number of people who have ever lived on earth?
50 Billion ✓
5 Trillion ✓
1 Trillion ✓
100 Billion ✓
15. Now used to refer to a cat, the word "tabby" is derived from the name of a district of what world capital?
Cairo ✓
Baghdad ✓
Moscow ✓
New Delhi ✓
16. Which First Lady was a ninth-generation descendant of Pocahontas?
Bess Truman ✓
Helen Taft ✓
Edith Wilson ✓
Mamie Eisenhower ✓
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