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Questions
1. U.S. PRESIDENTS: Which president declared that Thanksgiving would be celebrated on the last Thursday in November?
2. TELEVISION: What was the name of Roy Rogers’ horse on the TV series?
3. ACRONYMS: Where did the name “jeep” come from?
4. ASTRONOMY: The planet Venus has how many moons?
5. LANGUAGE: What is unusual about the words facetious, abstemious and arsenious?
6. FOOD & DRINK: What is foie gras?
7. GEOLOGY: What is the only rock that floats?
8. LITERATURE: In what 19th-century novel is the character of Captain Nemo introduced?
9. GEOGRAPHY: What inland U.S. state has the longest freshwater coastline?
10. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: What is the birthstone associated with the month of June?
Answers
1. Abraham Lincoln
2. Trigger
3. The military, where a “general purpose” vehicle was known as a GP.
4. None
5. All three words are spelled with the vowels in correct order.
6. A pate made of duck or goose liver
7. Pumice
8. “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea”
9. Michigan
10. Pearl
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