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Trivia Challenge

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  1. On Jan. 5, 1885, Boston swore in its first mayor of what ethnicity?
  2. In January 2023, what country at last eased COVID-19 travel restrictions and reopened its borders?
  3. In 1942 what folksinger from Oklahoma created a list of “New Years Rulin’s,” including “Save dough,” Stay glad” and “Change socks”?
  4. On Jan. 6, 1832, the New England Anti-Slavery Society was organized at the African Meeting House in what city?
  5. What island country’s flag includes a shipwreck image?
  6. On the radio, what was “the little town that time forgot, and the decades cannot improve”?
  7. On Jan. 7, 1927, the Harlem Globetrotters played their first game (in Hinckley, Ill.); in what year did they first play a game in Harlem: 1928, 1945 or 1968?
  8. What city – now the most linguistically diverse city in the world – has an old law stating that it is illegal to exhibit from house windows puppet shows or other entertainment?
  9. On Jan. 8 in what year was the U.S. national debt $0 (the only time): 1779, 1835 or 1851?
  10. How are Salvador, Rio de Janeiro and Brasília similar?
  11. In what play did Shakespeare write, “…winter tames man, woman, and beast…”?
  12. On Jan. 9, 1930, what hockey team won its 14th straight game?
  13. The Belgian city of Bruges created a pipeline (helped by crowdfunding) between its center and its suburbs carrying what?
  14. In January 1875, what well-known clergyman – a brother of author Harriet Beecher Stowe – was a party in an adultery trial that had a hung jury?
  15. On Jan. 10, 49 BC, what dictator-to-be defied a law by crossing the Rubicon River – and started a civil war?
  16. What word can mean a jester’s cap, part of a rooster and the name of a flower?
  17. How are “West Side Story,” “Mass” and “Fancy Free” similar?
  18. What is a High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle more commonly known as?
  19. In May 1989 Trump: The Game was launched with the tagline “It’s not whether you win or lose, it’s whether you win!”; what game inspired that game?
  20. January 11 is National Milk Day, which commemorates what milk storage method?
  1. Irish (Hugh O’Brien, who was born in County Cork)
  2. China
  3. Woody Guthrie
  4. Boston
  5. Bermuda’s
  6. Lake Wobegon
  7. 1968 (The team was from Chicago; the name Harlem Globetrotters was coined by their manager.)
  8. NYC
  9. 1835
  10. They have all been capital cities of Brazil.
  11. “The Taming of the Shrew”
  12. Boston Bruins
  13. Beer (between its brewery and bottling plant)
  14. Henry Ward Beecher
  15. Julius Caesar
  16. Coxcomb
  17. They are works by Massachusetts-born composer Leonard Bernstein.
  18. Humvee
  19. Monopoly
  20. Milk delivered in glass bottles

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