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Trivia Challenge

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  1. On Nov. 17, 1869, what canal opened that is the world’s longest canal without locks?
  2. What chemist discovered the element radium and later died of leukemia from exposure to it?
  3. What Native American vaudevillian born in November 1879 said, “Make crime pay. Become a lawyer”?
  4. On Nov. 18, 1963, what kind of telephone debuted?
  5. What is the fastest animal on land?
  6. In what horse racing locale were potato chips invented?
  7. On Nov. 19, 1867, what English author – who went to work in a factory at age 12 – arrived in Boston during a two-year reading tour?
  8. What tree has bark that has been called nature’s aspirin?
  9. What famous playwright’s plays all originally had male actors?
  10. What is the November birth flower?
  11. On Nov. 20, 1942, what 1,500-mile-long highway (originally called Alcan Highway) was officially opened?
  12. In 1976 Ronald Wayne sold a 10% stake in what company (also the name of a fruit) for $800?
  13. What was the first film that the Chinese government allowed to be filmed in the Forbidden City?
  14. On Nov. 21, 2000, the United Farm Workers called off a boycott of what product?
  15. Did napa cabbage originate in the Napa Valley?
  16. How are mashed potato, funky chicken and frug similar?
  17. On Nov. 22, 1995, the first wholly computer-animated feature-length movie was released; what is its name?
  18. What African rivers have the same names as two countries?
  19. How many hearts does an octopus have?
  20. November 23 is National Espresso Day; Italy applied to what UN organization to have espresso added to its list of the world’s intangible heritage?
  1. Suez Canal
  2. Marie Curie
  3. Will Rogers
  4. Touch-Tone (the first push-button phones)
  5. Cheetah
  6. Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
  7. Charles Dickens
  8. Willow
  9. Shakespeare’s
  10. Chrysanthemum
  11. The Alaska Highway
  12. Apple
  13. “The Last Emperor” (1987)
  14. Table grapes
  15. No; it is first recorded in the Beijing region. (Napa comes from “nappa,” a Japanese word.)
  16. They were popular dances in the 1960s.
  17. “Toy Story”
  18. Congo and Niger
  19. Three
  20. United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)

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