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1 Who is the author of the book, "The Iron Lady: A Biography of Margaret Thatcher"? |
2 What was the monetary value of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989? |
3 What does the Peugeot company manufacture? |
4 How much did Mercury spend on advertising in 1993? |
5 What is the name of the managing director of Apricot Computer? |
6 Why did David Koresh ask the FBI for a word processor? |
7 What debts did Qintex group leave? |
8 What is the name of the rare neurological disease with symptoms such as: involuntary movements (tics), swearing, and incoherent vocalizations (grunts, shouts, etc.)? |
9 How far is Yaroslavl from Moscow? |
10 Name the designer of the shoe that spawned millions of plastic imitations, known as "jellies". |
11 Who was President Cleveland's wife? |
12 How much did Manchester United spend on players in 1993? |
13 How much could you rent a Volkswagen bug for in 1966? |
14 What country is the biggest producer of tungsten? |
15 When was London's Docklands Light Railway constructed? |
16 What two US biochemists won the Nobel Prize in medicine in 1992? |
17 How long did the Charles Manson murder trial last? |
18 Who was the first Taiwanese President? |
19 Who was the leader of the Branch Davidian Cult confronted by the FBI in Waco, Texas in 1993? |
20 Where is Inoco based? |
21 Who was the first American in space? |
22 When did the Jurassic Period end? |
23 When did Spain and Korea start ambassadorial relations? |
24 When did Nixon visit China? |
25 Who was the lead actress in the movie "Sleepless in Seattle"? |
26 What is the name of the "female" counterpart to El Nino, which results in cooling temperatures and very dry weather? |
27 Where did the 6th annual meeting of Indonesia-Malaysia forest experts take place? |
28 Who may be best known for breaking the color line in baseball? |
29 What is the brightest star visible from Earth? |
30 What are the Valdez Principles? |
31 Where was Ulysses S. Grant born? |
32 Who received the Will Rogers Award in 1989? |
33 What is the largest city in Germany? |
34 Where is the actress, Marion Davies, buried? |
35 What is the name of the highest mountain in Africa? |
36 In 1990, what day of the week did Christmas fall on? |
37 What was the name of the US helicopter pilot shot down over North Korea? |
38 Where was George Washington born? |
39 Who was chosen to be the first black chairman of the military Joint Chiefs of Staff? |
40 Who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991? |
41 What is the legal blood alcohol limit for the state of California? |
42 What was the target rate for M3 growth in 1992? |
43 What costume designer decided that Michael Jackson should only wear one glove? |
44 Who is the director of the international group called the Human Genome Organization (HUGO) that is trying to coordinate gene-mapping research worldwide? |
45 When did Lucelly Garcia, a former ambassador of Columbia to Honduras, die? |
46 Who is the mayor of Marbella? |
47 What company is the largest Japanese ship builder? |
48 Where is the massive North Korean nuclear complex located? |
49 Who fired Maria Ybarra from her position in San Diego council? |
50 When was Dubai's first concrete house built? |
51 Who is the president of Stanford University? |
52 Who invented the road traffic cone? |
53 Who was the first doctor to successfully transplant a liver? |
54 When did Nixon die? |
55 Where is Microsoft's corporate headquarters located? |
56 How many calories are there in a Big Mac? |
57 What is the acronym for the rating system for air conditioner efficiency? |
58 Name a film that has won the Golden Bear in the Berlin Film Festival? |
59 Who was President of Costa Rica in 1994? |
60 What is the fare cost for the round trip between New York and London on Concorde? |
61 What brand of white rum is still made in Cuba? |
62 What is the name of the chronic neurological autoimmune disease which attacks the protein sheath that surrounds nerve cells causing a gradual loss of movement in the body? |
63 What nuclear-powered Russian submarine sank in the Norwegian Sea on April 7, 1989? |
64 Who is the voice of Miss Piggy? |
65 Name a country that is developing a magnetic levitation railway system? |
66 Name the first private citizen to fly in space. |
67 What is the longest river in the United States? |
68 What does El Nino mean in spanish? |
69 Who came up with the name, El Nino? |
70 How many lives were lost in the China Airlines' crash in Nagoya, Japan? |
71 In what year did Joe DiMaggio compile his 56-game hitting streak? |
72 When did the original Howdy Doody show go off the air? |
73 Where is the Taj Mahal? |
74 Who leads the star ship Enterprise in Star Trek? |
75 What cancer is commonly associated with AIDS? |
76 In which year was New Zealand excluded from the ANZUS alliance? |
77 Who played the part of the Godfather in the movie, "The Godfather"? |
78 Which large U.S. city had the highest murder rate for 1988? |
79 What did Shostakovich write for Rostropovich? |
80 What is the name of the promising anticancer compound derived from the pacific yew tree? |
81 How many inhabitants live in the town of Ushuaia? |
82 How many consecutive baseball games did Lou Gehrig play? |
83 What is the tallest building in Japan? |
84 Which country is Australia's largest export market? |
85 Which former Ku Klux Klan member won an elected office in the U.S.? |
86 Who won two gold medals in skiing in the Olympic Games in Calgary? |
87 Who followed Willy Brandt as chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany? |
88 What is Grenada's main commodity export? |
89 At what age did Rossini stop writing opera? |
90 Who is the founder of Scientology? |
91 Which city in China has the largest number of foreign financial companies? |
92 Who released the Internet worm in the late 1980s? |
93 Who first circumnavigated the globe? |
94 Who wrote the song, "Stardust"? |
95 What country is the worlds leading supplier of cannabis? |
96 What time of day did Emperor Hirohito die? |
97 How large is the Arctic refuge to preserve unique wildlife and wilderness value on Alaska's north coast? |
98 Where is the highest point in Japan? |
99 What is the term for the sum of all genetic material in a given organism? |
100 What is considered the costliest disaster the insurance industry has ever faced? |
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