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drivers, according to a 2007 study?
    6. What food does Richard Dreyfuss use to sculpt Devils Tower, Wyoming, in
Close Encounters of the Third
Kind ?
    7. What were the surprisingly obedient subjects asked to do in Stanley Milgram’s famous 1961 experiments on authority?
    8. What inspirational poem of 1927 ends, “Be cheerful. Strive to be happy”?
    9. Dollar, Budget, or Enterprise— Thrifty Car Rental merged with what other discount car rental agency in 1990?
    10. What Hall of Famer is the only person to play as a Brave in Boston, Milwaukee, and Atlanta?
    11. Who was president when Congress passed the first Clean Air Act?
    12. Who complained that his most famous book had been given the “more reverent ” title
A Cynic’s Word Book
by his publisher?

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    1984 T HE FIRST A PPLE M ACINTOSH goes on sale. ( Justin Long, the “I’m a Mac” guy, is six years old.)
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    CORE SAMPLES
    What fruits come in these varieties?
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    Easy
    1. Bartlett and Bosc
    2. Bing and Rainier
    3. Navel and blood
    4. Beefsteak and Roma

    Harder
    1. Muscat and scuppernong
    2. Key and kaffir
    3. Hass and Florida
    4. Damson and Mirabelle

    Yeah, Good Luck
    1. Eureka and Meyer
    2. Redchief and Earliglow
    3. Redhaven and Harmony
    4. Chubby Gray and Jubilee

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    2006 H ILARY D UFF AND H AYLIE D UFF share a Worst Actress “Razzie” nomination, making them the first non-Olsen sisters to be so honored.
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    ANY MORE LIKE YOU AT HOME? WILL THEY STAY THERE?
    Name the
even less talented
younger sister of these celebrities.
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    1. Lindsay Lohan
    2. Paris Hilton
    3. Britney Spears
    4. Jessica Simpson
    5. Kylie Minogue

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JANUARY 25
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    1848 H OLY R OMAN E MPEROR H ENRY IV travels to Canossa, Italy, hoping to persuade Pope Gregory VII to lift his excommunication. Gregory famously snubs His Highness, leaving him stewing in the snow outside the castle gates for
three full days.
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    COLD SHOULDERS
    Do you remember these infamous snubs?
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    1. Which core
Flintstones
cast member was absent from Flintstone vitamins until 1996?
    2. Alfred Hitchcock famously never won a Best Director Oscar, but he did direct one Best Picture. Which movie?
    3. What goddess started the Trojan War in a fit of pique, having not been invited to the wedding of Peleus and Thetis?
    4. Who’s the only eligible back-to-back MVP not enshrined in the Baseball Hall of Fame?
    5. What novel’s events are kicked off when Countess Ellen Olenska is snubbed by New York society?

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    1905 T HE 3,100- CARAT C ULLINAN, the largest rough diamond ever discovered, is found in South Africa. For most of the twentieth century,
both
diamonds cut from the stone were the world’s two largest, and today both are part of Britain’s crown jewels.
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    CARAT CAKE

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    1. On which Hawaiian island would you find Diamond Head?
    2. What, at their most difficult, are rated “Double Black Diamond” in the United States?
    3. What was the last name of the two brothers who discovered diamonds on their farm, Vooruitzigt, in 1870?
    4. What two Arizona Diamondbacks shared
Sports Illustrated
Sportsman of the Year honors in 2001?
    5. Which Monkees number one hit was written by a young Neil Diamond?
    6. What U.S. state depicts a large, round-cut diamond between the letters and numbers on its license plates?
    7. What’s the diamond card in a “pinochle”?
    8. F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote a famous short story about “A Diamond as Big as” what New York landmark?
    9. What color is the supposedly cursed Hope Diamond?
    10. What’s the name for the diamond-shaped “soft spots” on the skull of a newborn?

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    1954 D YLAN T HOMAS’S RADIO PLAY
Under Milk Wood
first broadcasts on the BBC. The play is set in the Welsh village of Llareggub—an in-joke by Thomas. Llareggub is “bugger all” spelled backward.
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    RREPEATED LLETTERS
    All these answers will begin with a doubled letter, like “Llareggub.”
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    1. Who wins the Hundred Acre Wood’s first Poohsticks competition?
    2. What Quechua word is