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This Hall of Famer holds the all-time record for most career grand slams with 23.
Alex Rodriguez
This tiny European microstate, completely surrounded by Italy, is the world's oldest republic and sits atop Mount Titano.
San Marino
A _____ is a unit of type size in printing, a punctuation mark, and a unit of distance equal to 1/6 of an inch.
Pica
This tractate of the Mishnah, whose name means "Ethics of the Fathers," is one of the most widely studied texts in all of rabbinic literature.
Pirkei Avot
This 1798 legislation, passed during the Adams administration, made it a crime to publish "false, scandalous, or malicious" writing against the government and is considered an early test of First Amendment limits.
The Sedition Act (Alien and Sedition Acts)
Before Cal Ripken Jr., this player held the consecutive games played record with 2,130 straight games.
Lou Gehrig
The Atacama Desert, one of the driest places on Earth, spans parts of Chile and this neighboring country.
Peru
Fill in both blanks with the same word: "The judge issued a _____" and "The carpenter used a _____ to shape the wood."
Plane (accept: ruling)
The Shema is drawn from three passages in the Torah. The first is Deuteronomy 6:4 — name either of the other two books from which the additional paragraphs are taken.
Numbers or Deuteronomy (Numbers 15:37-41 and Deuteronomy 11:13-21)
Before becoming president, this man served as the commanding general of US forces in the Mexican-American War and was the Whig Party's presidential nominee in 1848.
Under the old 'neighborhood play' rule, middle infielders turning double plays were protected from contact. What does the current rule (post-2016 replay era) actually require the fielder to do?
Maintain contact with the base (actually touch second base)
This US state has the longest coastline of any state in the contiguous 48.
Michigan (accept Florida)
_____ can mean the hard outer layer of bread, a legal claim to property, or Earth's outermost rocky layer.
Crust
This Hebrew term, literally meaning "the ingathering of exiles," refers to the return of Jews to the Land of Israel.
Aliyah
The Supreme Court's 1954 ruling in this landmark case declared racial segregation in public schools unconstitutional.
Brown v. Board of Education
Rickey Henderson broke Lou Brock's all-time stolen base record in 1991. How many career stolen bases did Henderson finish with?
1,406
The Bosphorus Strait divides this city between two continents and is one of the world's most strategically important waterways.
Istanbul, Turkey
This word can follow "over" and precede "work," and also describes a structure crossing a river.
Bridge
The Talmud was compiled in two versions. Which version — completed in Babylonia around 500 CE — is considered the more authoritative of the two?
The Babylonian Talmud (Talmud Bavli)
This 1944 executive order, signed by FDR, authorized the forced relocation and incarceration of over 100,000 Japanese Americans during World War II.
Executive Order 9066
In 1968, this pitcher posted a 1.12 ERA — the lowest single-season ERA in the modern era — prompting MLB to lower the pitching mound the following year.
Bob Gibson
Only two countries in the world share a land border with just one other country. Canada is one — name the other.
Portugal (borders only Spain)
This seven-letter word means both a unit of weight equal to 2,000 pounds and an informal term for a large amount of something.
Tonnage (accept: ton)
Maimonides articulated 13 Principles of Faith. Which of these was NOT among them: resurrection of the dead, the coming of the Messiah, God's incorporeality, or the authority of the Talmud?
The authority of the Talmud
The Trail of Tears refers to the forced relocation of the Five Civilized Tribes in the 1830s. What act of Congress authorized the removal?
The Indian Removal Act of 1830