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Answer
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What activity do the terms "pointe" and "grand jeté" come from?
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Ballet
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What sport is commonly known as "ping pong"?
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Table tennis
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Of the top 100 largest metro areas in the United States, which one has the warmest average temperature?
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Honolulu
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What is the only ancient wonder of the world that still exists?
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The Great Pyramid of Giza
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What animal is the offspring of a donkey and a horse?
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Mule or Hinny
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What are Ganymede, Callisto, Europa, and Io?
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Moons of Jupiter
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What country is divided between Greek and Turkish factions?
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Cyprus
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What is Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner's stage name?
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Sting
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What childhood disease is a softening of bones due to malnutrition?
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Rickets
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What famous actress is the mother of Kate Hudson?
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Goldie Hawn
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What type of Islamic dress covers a woman's entire body, including mesh over the eyes?
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Burqa
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Bactrians have two. Dromedaries only have one. What are they?
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Humps
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Who wrote "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples" during a gap in his political career in the 1930s?
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Winston Churchill
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Whose "Decimal System" is used to organize libraries?
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Melvil Dewey
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In addition to sapphire, what gemstone is a variety of the mineral corundum?
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Ruby
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What gas makes up 96.5% of Venus's atmosphere?
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Carbon dioxide
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What age came between the Stone Age and the Iron Age?
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Bronze Age
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What was the name of Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire during World War I?
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The Central Powers
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Who finally won an Oscar in 2016 for his role in "The Revenant"?
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Leonardo DiCaprio
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According to Dante, what Biblical character lives in the center of hell? (Not counting the devil)
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Judas Iscariot
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What about Stonehenge?
According to the European Court of Human Rights, the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus should be considered a puppet state under effective Turkish occupation and legitimately belongs to Cyprus. The United Nations Security Council Resolution 550 of 1984 calls for members of the United Nations to not recognize the illegal and unrecognized Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Cyprus
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