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Glossary of general trivia

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A harpoon rope around his neck took this fictional 1851 seafarer from us too soon.
Who was Captain Ahab?
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Also called the second cranial nerves, you need them to read.
What are the optic nerves?
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As the birthplace of this company, Fremont, Michigan calls itself the \"baby food capital of the world\"
What is Gerber?
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Bjarni Herjolfsson sold his ship to this man who used it to explore Vinland around 1000.
Who is Leif Erickson?
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Canneries of this are the largest private-sector employers in American Samoa.
What is tuna?
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Euphrase Kezilahabi of Tanzania wrote his novel \"Rosa Mistika\" in this African language.
What is Swahilli?
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Future Michigan governor George Romney headed this merger-created car company from 1954 to 1962.
What is American Motors?
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He was the last U.S. president not sworn in by the Chief Justice.
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
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Hochdeutsch is the modern standard form of this language.
What is German?
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In 1707, this prominent Japanese landmark erupts.
What is Mount Fuji?
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In 1932 Churchill said, \"That\'s the highest I\'ve ever been up\" when he viewed NYC from the top of this building.
What is the Empire State Building?
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Injured on the Austro-Italian front of July 8, 1918, he also crossed the English Channel with U.S. forces on D-Day.
Who is Hemmingway?
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It is the only state physically & politically formed directly because of the Civil War.
What is West Virginia?
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Romania has a 100 mile coastline on this \"dark\" body of water.
What is the Black Sea?
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Something that\'s described as \"deltoid\", including your deltoid muscle, is shaped like this.
What is triangular?
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The alphabetically last of the 7 nations of Central America
What is Panama?
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The alphabetically last of the Ivy League Universities.
What is Yale?
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The alphabetically last of the U.S. national parks.
What is Zion?
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The alphabetically last of the U.S. Presidents by first name.
Who is Zachary Taylor?
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The star on Nevada\'s flag is this metallic color because it represents Nevada\'s state mineral.
What is silver?
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The traditional symbol for this sign of the zodiac resembles a \"mane\"
What is Leo?
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The U.N. estimates there are about 8.4 million of these, including 1.9 million from Afghanistan.
What are refugees?
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This Athenian philosopher who died in 399 B.C. was highly regarded for his self-control & moral outlook.
Who is Socrates?
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This branch of the U.S. Government did not get its own building until 1935.
What is the Supreme Court?
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This disease was once known as consumption.
What is tuberculosis?
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This kind of liquid is defined as one that conducts current.
What is electrolytic?
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This lumberjack\'s tales appeared in a 1914 booklet published by the Red River Lumber Company of Minneapolis.
Who is Paul Bunyan?
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This projectile\'s name comes from the Late Latin for \"pomegranate\"
What is a grenade?
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This Scottish engineer coined the term \"horsepower\" and a unit of energy is named for him.
Who is James Watt?
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When Sumerians used these in war, they had 4 wheels & were drawn by big-eared equines called onagers.
What are chariots?
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With a pair of dice, the chances of throwing one of these 2 numerical sums are one in 36.
What is a 2 or a 12?