The “Temp”-ist
A New Record!
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Wonderful Women
100
This word describes a person’s usual emotional nature or tendency to react in certain ways. Someone with a fiery one may not be the calmest person in the room.
What is a temper? 
100
You’d need about 1,400 close friends to all sit on these “cushions” at the same time to set the world record.
What are whoopie cushions?
100
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Miniature writing artist David Pay reportedly wrote more than 300 alphabetic characters on a single grain of this food.
What is rice?
100
This monarch was in Kenya on February 6, 1952, when she learned her father, King George VI, had died. In that moment, a young princess suddenly became queen.
Who is Queen Elizabeth II?
200
This is a pattern or model that others can copy, whether for a document, craft, or design. It saves time because you do not have to start from scratch every time.
What is a template?
200
Jean François Vernetti has the world’s largest collection of these hotel items found on door handles.
What are “do not disturb” signs?
200
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Because he believed it was possessed by his dead fiancée, a man married one of these children’s toys.
What is a Barbie doll?
200
This ruler’s nickname suggests grandeur, but her empire still had plenty of legal problems to solve. Her 1767 commission was meant to help rethink and reform Russian law.
Who is Catherine the Great?
300
Oscar Wilde once quipped, “I can resist everything except” this.
What is temptation? 
300
With 3,307, Niek Vermeulen holds the record for the largest collection of these bags used by airline passengers.
What are barf bags or sick bags?
300
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Most people avoid being bitten by these animals even once, but Bill Haast survived more than 150 venomous encounters.
What are snakes?
300
For 15 years this woman led India through years of major change, conflict, and controversy. Before she was a prime minister, she was known by the affectionate nickname “Indu.”
Who is Indira Gandhi?
400
If a shrimp or slice of sweet potato takes a brief bath in batter and oil, it may become this Japanese favourite.
What is tempura? 
400
Collectively the world’s longest, these 10 body parts on Lee Redmond of Salt Lake City measured 261 inches.
What are her fingernails?
400
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A 3-year-old Ugandan boy was adopted and raised for four years by a colony of these human-like apes.
What are chimps?
400
This Caribbean country’s revolution included an all-female combat unit known as the Mariana Grajales Women’s Platoon. Their story adds a powerful chapter to the role of women in revolutionary history.
What is Cuba?
500
If someone avoids alcohol entirely for moral, religious, or health reasons, this word may describe their principle. It was a major theme in the movement that helped lead to Prohibition.
What is temperance? 
500
From 1975-1997, Ting Ming Siong served as this role at a record-breaking 1089 weddings.
What is best man?
500
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Every year a Filipino village recreates this event from around 30 A.D. using nails.
What is the Crucifixion?
500
In 1993, Tansu Çiller became the first woman to serve as prime minister of this large Muslim-majority country. She led the True Path Party and brought a historic first to national politics.
What is Turkey?