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Rivalries are a large part of college sports. Tail-gate parties, rallies, fight songs and comraderie. Riveting stuff. Which two Ivy League schools contest the oldest college football rivalry each year, known simply as "The Game"?

Harvard and Yale

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Known as "La Fête nationale" or "le 14 juillet" in France.

Bastille Day

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Careful! "orthostatic hypotension" or a sudden drop in blood pressure is caused by what?

standing up too fast, or a change in posture

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It often means a lavish country residence, but in Britain can also mean a housing development.

Estate

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This woman just became the youngest actress ever to win the Emmy for best actress in a drama.

Zendaya

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Crimson is Harvard's school colour as well. Harvard University has forty-one varsity teams for men and women, more than any Division I school in the country. Harvard does not offer athletic scholarships, nor does any Ivy League school. The Bulldogs are Yale's nickname, Big Green is Dartmouth, and the Tigers are from Princeton. Other Ivy League nicknames are the Brown Bears, Columbia Lions, Cornell Big Red and University of Pennsylvania Quakers.

Crimson

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This country has its Independence day commonly known to be May 5th but it is actually September 16th.

Mexico

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What was once called "baby" this drug is now known as "low-dose" this drug & given to adults to prevent blood clots.

Aspirin

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Synonym for a posse--a rapper's or an actor's, not a sheriff's (also borrowed from the French)

Entourage

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October 7, 1950 is the official founding date of her own order, the Missionaries of Charity

Mother Theresa

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The Ivy League consists of eight prestigious learning institutions in the northeastern United States: Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Cornell, Columbia and Brown Universities, the University of Pennsylvania and Dartmouth College.

In 1980, the United States led a group of countries in boycotting the Summer Olympic Games held in Moscow. As a result, the Olympic Boycott Games were born, beginning on July 16, three days before the official Olympics began. Which Ivy League school played host to these games?

Yale

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This was the first country to establish women’s suffrage and now has a dope lady running their government.

New Zealand

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What's the common name for "nocturnal enuresis"?

wetting the bed

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This word borrowed from the French can mean "access" as well as "main course"

Entrée

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In 1983 she went where no American woman had gone before.

Sally Ride

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The Ivy League consists of eight prestigious learning institutions in the northeastern United States: Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Cornell, Columbia and Brown Universities, the University of Pennsylvania and Dartmouth College. Seven of these were established before the American Revolution. Which one was founded last?

Cornell

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This country contains a quarter of the world’s forested area.

Russia

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"medial tibial stress syndrome" is something that can make running ouchie. What's the common name for it?

Shin splints

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What Abraham Lincoln famously helped out with.

Emancipation

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A peak in Oregon's Wallowa Mountains is named for this Shoshone interpreter

Sacagawea


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The Ivy League consists of eight prestigious learning institutions in the northeastern United States: Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Cornell, Columbia and Brown Universities, the University of Pennsylvania and Dartmouth College.

Which Ivy League school, established in 1754, was originally named King's College, after receiving a Royal Charter by King George II of Great Britain?

Columbia

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This European country has a flag that is nearly identical to that of Indonesia. A red stripe on top of a white stripe.

Monaco

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What's another name for "circumorbital hematoma"?

Black eye

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Alongside an anchor and a globe, the emblem of the Marine Corps has one of these.

Eagle


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This South African middle-distance runner and 2016 Olympic gold medalist is a woman with XY chromosomes.

Caster Semenya

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