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| What despot's mausoleum was attacked by a mob in 1986 that wanted to keep him from rising on Judgment Day? |
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Papa Doc Duvalier.
The mob wanted to beat the Haitian president to death, ritually, even though he'd been dead for 15 years. |
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| Seismologists recently published a study in Applied Physics Letters that shows earthquakes can be predicted by analyzing what? |
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Ozone Levels.
When stone breaks apart, it releases ozone. Thus, examining ozone levels could also help scientists predict landslides and tunnel collapses. |
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| Which beer quotes William Shakespeare on its label? |
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Samuel Smith's Winter Welcome
It has been suggested that William Shakespeare's father was an ale-tester, testing beer for sugar impurities. |
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| Nicaraguan leader and officially the 73rd and 76th President of Nicaragua from 1 May 1967 to 1 May 1972 and from 1 December 1974 to 17 July 1979. As head of the National Guard, he was de facto ruler of the country from 1967 to 1979. He was the last member of the Somoza family to be President, ending a dynasty that had been in power since 1936. After being overthrown in an insurrection led by the FSLN, he fled Nicaragua in exile and power was ceded to the Junta of National Reconstruction. He was eventually assassinated while in exile in Paraguay. |
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| On what city's Russian Hill would you find Lombard Street, the "Crookedest Street in the World"? |
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| Vice Presidents under Franklin D. Roosevelt |
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Harry S. Truman
Henry A. Wallace
John N. Garner
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Used in brewing beer since 736 AD, hops are a type of what? |
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| Up until 1969, what newest state of the USA used a former royal palace as its capitol building? |
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| In what year did the Nazis invade Soviet Russia? |
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| 1941- Even though they invaded they were unable to take it over. |
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