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Stomach cancer is 20% more common in people with this blood type.
What is type A blood?
This character was featured in Shakespeare's work and is best known for backstabbing Caesar and helping assassinate him.
Who is Brutus?
This type of sound effect is usually found in sitcoms, and originates from 4th century B.C. Greece where playwrights would hire bands of helpers to laugh at their comedies in order to influence judges.
What is claque? What is canned laughter?
This four-winged flying insect can eat its own weight in 30 minutes.
What is a dragonfly?
In traditional folklore, this pointy-eared mythical creature sat on people's chests while they slept to give them bad dreams.
What is an elf?
What is assault?
This man developed a writing system for the blind at age 15 for which it is named after.
Who is Louis Braille?
One of the most common first names for European monarchs throughout history.
Who is Charles?
A literary term for the correct choice of words in writing or speaking.
What is diction?
What is embalming?
This 19th century author was famous for his rags-to-riches novels that inspired much of American idealism. He was also accused of molesting local boys at a church in Massachusetts.
Who is Horatio Alger?
These savage Norse soldiers from the middle ages are said to have gone into battle in the nude.
What are Berserkers?
The author of The Canterbury Tales. Was also fined for beating a Franciscan friar in London.
Who is Geoffrey Chaucer?
Who is Walt Disney?
This common party drug was originally patented as an appetite suppressant in the 1920s.
What is ecstasy?
The brother of Moses, sort of the Frank Stallone of ancient Judaism. The loser brother Mom didn't talk about too much.
Who is Aaron?
This liquor was allegedly invented when a Dutch ship master concentrated wine to add water to later, but the sailors began dipping into the concentrate.
What is brandy?
A Spanish conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought Mexico under foreign control.
Who is Hernán Cortés?
This French philosopher and mathematician is known for establishing a connection between geometry and algebra.
Who is René Descartes?
Book of the Old Testament in the Bible. Here is an excerpt:
"I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all."
What is Ecclesiastes?
This Germany city is home to the Schwertbad-Quelle, the hottest sulfur spring in the country.
What is Aachen?
What is bearbaiting?
These two men were the original Siamese twins. Born in Siam China in 1811, they were joined at the waist by a tubular band about three inches long and and one inch diameter.
This British poet wrote this verse:
“A little rule, a little sway,
A sunbeam in a winter’s day,
Is all the proud and mighty have
Between the cradle and the grave.”
Who is John Dyer?
Code used by the German military command to encode strategic messages before and during World War 2. First broken by the Poles in the 1930s.
What is Enigma?