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This ship carried English Pilgrims from England to Cape Cod in 1620.
What is the Mayflower?
The Mayflower carried about 100 passengers across the Atlantic Ocean, and its journey led to the founding of Plymouth Colony in what is now Massachusetts.
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This three-letter word is the name of a large flightless bird from Australia.
What is an emu?
The emu is the second-largest bird in the world after the ostrich and can run at speeds of up to about 50 km/h.
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This jazz legend recorded “What a Wonderful World,” “Hello, Dolly!” and “Jeepers Creepers.”
Who is Louis Armstrong?
“What a Wonderful World” is considered his signature song.
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In the nursery rhyme, this many fiddlers were called for 'Old King Cole'.
What is three?
In the nursery rhyme, he “calls for his fiddlers three.” The rhyme first appeared in print around 1708.
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In 2011, this British prince married Catherine Middleton in a widely watched royal wedding.
Who is Prince William?
The 2011 wedding at Westminster Abbey was watched by an estimated 300 million people worldwide, making it one of the most-viewed televised events in history.
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Princeton, Yale, and Brown belong to this prestigious group of universities in the United States.
What is the Ivy League?
Cornell, Columbia, Dartmouth, Harvard, and the University of Pennsylvania are the other Ivy League schools.
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This sport is played by teams like the Calgary Stampeders, San Francisco 49ers, and New England Patriots.
What is football?
The Stampeders play in the Canadian Football League (CFL). The 49ers and Patriots are members of the National Football League (NFL).
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Of these two instruments, this one is considered the world’s best-selling: guitar or harmonica.
What is the harmonica?
The harmonica became extremely popular in the 19th and 20th centuries because it is portable, inexpensive, and widely used in blues, folk, and country music.
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This American writer became famous for his bestselling military and spy novels such as The Hunt for Red October.
Who is Tom Clancy?
Tom Clancy’s novels were so detailed in military and intelligence operations that several were studied informally by defence professionals.
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This popular board game uses letter tiles to form words on a grid, with special squares that double or triple scores.
What is Scrabble?
The popular game was created in 1938. The game is played in 120 countries worldwide. It is currently produced in 29 different languages.
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This popular sandwich cookie has two chocolate wafers with a cream filling in the middle.
What is an Oreo?
The cookie was originally produced in 1912, but with lemon-meringue or cream flavours. The lemon-meringue flavour was discontinued in the 1920s.
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This orange vegetable is traditionally carved into a jack-o’-lantern for Halloween.
What is a pumpkin?
Pumpkins are native to North America and were originally carved by early settlers using turnips before pumpkins became the standard for Halloween decorations.
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This zodiac sign is symbolized by the lion.
What is Leo?
Leo is the zodiac sign for those born between July 23 and August 22.
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This tense Cold War standoff between the United States and the Soviet Union over nuclear missiles in Cuba occurred in this decade.
What are the 1960s?
The crisis lasted just 13 days, but it is widely considered the closest the world came to nuclear war during the Cold War.
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If you were casting on and purling, you would be doing this craft.
What is knitting?
Casting on is starting the stitches on the knitting needle. Casting off is removing the stitches from the needle. Purling is a type of stitch.
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This musical instrument was famously played by blues legend B.B. King and rock icon Jimi Hendrix.
What is the guitar (electric)?
Both B.B. King and Jimi Hendrix helped redefine what the instrument could do through expressive techniques like bending notes and distortion.
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A silver wedding anniversary celebrates this many years of marriage.
What is 25 years?
Gold is 50 years, and diamond is 60 years
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This is the name of Tarzan’s female companion in the classic stories.
Who is Jane?
The character of Jane is often portrayed as a cultured Englishwoman who becomes an explorer in the African jungle, forming a partnership with Tarzan that bridges two very different worlds.
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This Italian Renaissance artist painted the famous mural 'The Last Supper.'
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
The mural was painted between 1494 and 1498. Leonardo used an experimental dry-wall technique, which caused the painting to deteriorate quickly over time
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Of these two events, this one came first: Marie Curie’s discovery of radium or Jonas Salk’s development of the polio vaccine.
What is Marie Curie’s discovery of radium?
Marie and her husband, Pierre, made the discovery in 1898. The Salk vaccine was developed much later, in 1952.
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This American cartoonist created the comic strip featuring Charlie Brown and Snoopy.
Who is Charles M. Schulz?
He created Peanuts, one of the most influential comic strips in history, which ran for nearly 50 years and was translated into multiple languages around the world.
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Of these two countries, this one lies farther north in Europe: Poland or Sweden.
What is Sweden?
Sweden stretches far into the Arctic Circle in its northern region, where winter daylight can be extremely short and summer daylight can last nearly 24 hours.
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This is the capital city of Jamaica.
What is Kingston?
Kingston is the largest city in Jamaica and a major cultural center, widely regarded as the birthplace of reggae music.
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In the word “unconstitutional,” this many letters are vowels.
What is seven?
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This is the square root of 81.
What is nine?
9 times 9 equals 81.