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Tailor, Swift!
They’re (Maybe) Eating The Hogs, They’re (Not) Eating The Bats!
Cats and Dogs, Living Together
Easy Ones
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Last week, Philadelphia hosted the United States Presidential general election debate.  The only other time it has done so is in:

1976

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Tailor Jacob W. Davis, upon meeting this German-born American mogul, helped develop a popular brand of jeans

Levi Strauss

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Batman, the Detective Comics hero, has fought all of the following characters except for who:

Hello Kitty

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Many of the cats at the Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum at Key West are notable for what odd attribute?

They have six toes

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“The BIg Easy” is a popular name for what American city?

New Orleans, Louisiana

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Philadelphia served as the United States capital on and off until this year, when the capital permanently changed to Washington D.C?

1800

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This American song, featuring the lyric “terrible swift sword”, also has lyrics that also provides the title for the Jonathan Steinbeck novel The Grapes of Wrath”

The Battle Hymn of the Republic

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Sonic the Hedgehog first appeared in video game form in what year?

1991

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The painting “Poker Game”, the first of the 18 painting series by Cassius Marcellus Coolidge colloquially known as the “dogs playing poker” paintings was sold in 2015 for how much money?

$658,000

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Eric Wright, better known as Eazy-E, was a member of what popular rap group?

NWA

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To prevent rowdy sports fans from hurting themselves or others, Philadelphia often takes what step before major sporting events that impact teams in the city?

Greasing the lamp posts

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Jonathan Swift’s 1729 satirical essay, “A Modest Proposal”, opined that the Irish should relieve their economic troubles by doing what:

Selling their children for food

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 “The Hogs” is a popular nickname for the football team of this college’s football team

The University of Arkansas

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Which of these Presidential pet names is fake?

Baron Speckle, the tuxedo cat of Teddy Roosevelt

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 “Easy”, better known as “Easy Like Sunday Morning”, is a song performed by The Commodores, whose lead singer was this person

Lionel Richie

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The University of Pennsylvania has had two United States Presidents as alumni.  One is Donald Trump.  The other is:

William Henry Harrison

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 “The Brave Little Tailor”, a 1938 short film featuring an underdog tailor defeating a giant, features this animation star as the titular tailor

Mickey Mouse

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According to the Guiness Book of World Records, the world’s largest cricket bat (meaning, a bat used in the sport of cricket) is how long?

56.10 feet long

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Which of these songs do NOT feature in the musical Cats?

Heathcliff’s Heavyside Hullabaloo

400

Star of Easy Rider Jack Nicholson is famously a fan of what Los Angeles sports team?

The LA Lakers

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Canonically, the Phillie Phanatic, the mascot for the Philadelphia Phillies, was born where?

The Galapagos Islands

500

The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (or SWIFT) is headquartered in what European country

Belgium

500

Hoggish Greedly, “a pig-like human who represents the dangers of overconsumption and greed”  is a, surprise, villain, on what 90s cartoon show?

Captain Planet and the Planeteers

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The official resident cat at 10 Downing Street, the residence of the UK Prime Minister, holds what official title:  

Chief Mouser to the Cabinet

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 “Easy Easy” was a top 20 single by the national football (soccer) team of what country?

Scotland

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