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"GENERAL" KNOWLEDGE
100

Ho, ho, ho!  The North Pole sits near the center of this ocean

Arctic Ocean

100

It's another name for a frankfurter

Hot dog

100

 Hemingway's "A Farewell to Arms" recounts the Italian retreat from Caporetto during this war

World War 1

100

In 1862 Don Facundo Bacardi built a distillery in Cuba to make this

Rum

100

Over the years, products from this manufacturer have included Buicks, Cadillacs & Oldsmobiles

General Motors

200

3 major types of these structures in the tropics: fringing, barrier & atolls

Reefs

200

A controversial problem, or a flaming tuber

Hot potato

200

In this Joseph Heller novel, Captain Yossarian pleads insanity in an attempt to get grounded from flying.

Catch 22

200

It's the part of your body that Aim is made to be used on

Teeth

200

In 1929 U.S. companies Postum & Birdseye combined to form this conglomerate

General Foods

300

The 2 bodies whose gravitational pull on the Earth has the greatest effect on ocean tides

Sun & Moon

300

This category's doing so well, it's "selling like" these pan-fried foods

hotcakes

300

Paul Baumer is a raw 18-year-old recruit at the beginning of this Erich Maria Remarque novel

All quiet on the western front

300

In 1880 Chesebrough Manufacturing Company began marketing this petroleum jelly

Vaseline

300

G.P. stands for this kind of doctor

General Practitioner

400

The Cyanea, a northern type of this, may have 100-foot-long tentacles & not one bone

jellyfish

400

Be nice, or I'll light the match that's stuck in your shoe in this classic practical joke

Hot foot

400

DAILY DOUBLE

In "Slaughterhouse Five", Billy Pilgrim survives the firebombing of this German city

Dresden

400

Talon is a trademarked name for these hookless fasteners

Zippers

400

"Towering" P.T. Barnum talent seen here

General Tom Thumb

500

You cross it going from Mogadishu to the Maldives

Indian Ocean

500

Not Don Juan's mattress, but an environment conducive to the growth of something undesirable

a hotbed

500

In a series of novels, Richard Sharpe fights the Peninsular War under the command of this historical duke

Duke of Wellington

500

A Native American was on this suntan lotion's first bottles in 1945 with the slogan "Don't Be A Paleface"

Coppertone

500

Title of the chief medical officer in the U.S. Public Health Service

Surgeon General (of the United States)