Memolink Lotto / LuckySurf Trivia - August 2007

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What female activist helped women gain the right to vote in the 19th century, and had her likeness adorn an American coin in the 20th century?

Susan B. Anthony

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The Internet was born at which University of California?

UC Los Angeles

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What major body of water does the Mississippi River flow into?

Gulf of Mexico

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What rare, colorless, gaseous element glows reddish orange when an electric charge passes through it?


Neon

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Joe Louis, heavyweight champion of the world from 1937 to 1948, won how many consecutive championship fights?

25

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Calamari is the name for what animal cooked as food?

Squid

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Who was the French existentialist writer that declined the 1957 Nobel Prize for literature?

Jean Paul Sartre

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In the 1200s the Persians introduced what exciting sport played with an animal, today played with a ball?

Polo

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What period of human culture followed the Stone Age and preceded the Iron Age?

Bronze Age

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Who was the first British prime minister in the 20th century to serve three consecutive terms?

Margaret Thatcher

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What plant, native to hot, dry regions of the U.S. and Mexico, is grown for ornament, fiber, and food, but more famously as the main ingredient of tequila?

Agave

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Silver is the traditional gift for which numbered wedding anniversary?

25th

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Who is the main female character in Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind?


Scarlett O'Hara

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Who was the second human being to walk on the moon?

Edwin Aldrin