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1. What word, extended from a more popular term, refers to a fictional book of between 20,000 and 50,000 words?
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2. Who wrote the famous 1855 poem The Charge of the Light Brigade?
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3. In 1960 the UK publishing ban was lifted on what 1928 book?
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4. In bookmaking how many times would an quarto sheet be folded?
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5. Who wrote the seminal 1936 self-help book How to Win Friends and Influence People?
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6. Who in 1450 invented movable type, thus revolutionising printing?
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7. Which Polish-born naturalised British novelist's real surname was Korzeniowski?
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8. Which short-lived dramatist is regarded as the first great exponent of blank verse?
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9. Who wrote the maxim 'Cogito, ergo sum' (I think, therefore I am)?
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10. Who was the youngest of the three Brontë writing sisters?
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11. What is the Old English heroic poem, surviving in a single copy dated around the
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12. Kathryn Ferry is at the Riverhead Theatre, Louth on 21 October talking about her new book about Butlins. What anniversary is the holiday camp celebrating in 2011?
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13. What relatively modern school of philosophy, popular in literature since the mid 1900s, broadly embodies the notion of individual freedom of choice within a disorded and inexplicable universe?
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14. What was the pen-name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson?
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15. Who wrote Dr Zhivago?
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16. What term and type of comedy is derived from the French word for stuffing?
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17. What term originally meaning 'storehouse' referred, and still refers, to a periodical of various content and imaginative writing?
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18. Who wrote the significant scientific book Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, published in 1687?
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19. What 16th century establishment in London's Bread Street was a notable writers' haunt?
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20. Who wrote the 1845 poem The Pied Piper of Hamelin?
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21. What is the name of Lincolnshire’s Poet Laureate?
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22. Which American poet and humanist wrote and continually revised a collection of poems called Leaves of Grass? was
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23. The period between 1450 and 1600 in European development is known by what term, initially used by Italian scholars to express the rediscovery of ancient Roman and Greek culture?
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24. What is the main dog character called in Norton Juster's 1961 popular children's/adult-crossover book The Phantom Tollbooth?
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25. Who detailed his experiences before and during World War I in Memoirs of a Foxhunting Man, and Memoirs of an Infantry Officer?
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26. What significant law relating to literary and artistic works was first introduced in 1709?
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27. What is the name of the new character in David Benedictus’ Return to the Hundred Acre Wood?
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28. Who wrote the 1891 book Also Sprach Zarathustra (Thus Spake Zarathustra)?
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29. From what country does poet Grace Nichols come from?
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30. What word, meaning 'measure' in Greek, refers to the rhythm of a line of verse?
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31. Cheap literature of the 16-18th centuries was known as 'what' books, based on the old word for the travelling traders who sold them?
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32. What was Samuel Langhorne Clemens' pen-name?
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33. Derived from Greek meaning summit or finishing touch, what word refers to the publisher's logo and historically the publisher's details at the end of the book?
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34. Japanese three-line verses called Haiku contain how many syllables?
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35. Stanley Kubrick successfully requested the UK ban of his own film based on what Anthony Burgess book?
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36. The ISBN (International Standard Book Number) code was increased to how many digits from 1 January 2007?
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37. The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis asserts that people's perceptions and attitudes are affected particularly by what: book covers, book price, or words and language?
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38. What is the female term equating to a phallic symbol?
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39. James Carker is a villain in which Charles Dickens novel?
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40. What famous 1818 novel had the sub-title 'The Modern Prometheus'?
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41. Who wrote the 1947 book The Fountainhead?
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42. Who founded The Penguin Café Orchestra?
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43. By what name is the writer François-Marie Arouet (1694-1778) better known?
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44. Which pioneering American poet and story-teller wrote The Fall of the House of Usher?
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45. According to Matthew 27 in the Bible what prisoner was released by Pontius Pilate instead of Jesus?
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46. What was the 1920s arts group centred around Leonard and Virginia Woolf and the district of London which provided the group's name?
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47. What Japanese term (meaning 'fold' and 'book') refers to a book construction made using concertina fold, with writing/printing on one side of the paper?
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48. What were the respective family names of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet?
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49. Who wrote The Power of Positive Thinking in 1953?
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50. Around 100AD what type of book construction began to replace scrolls?
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51. What name for a lyrical work, typically 50-200 lines long, which from the Greek word for song?
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52. Who wrote the 1866 book Crime and Punishment?
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53. Who wrote the 1513 guide to leadership (titled in English) The Prince?
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54. William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey are commonly referred to as the 'what' Poets?
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55. Who is Jazz Domino Holly’s father?
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56. In bookmaking, a sheet folded three times is called by what name?
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57. What is the parrot's name in Enid Blyton's 'Adventure' series of books?
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58. Who wrote The French Lieutenant's Woman?
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59. What word, which in Greek means 'with' or 'after', prefixes many literary and language terms to denote something in a different position?
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60. "Reader, I married him," appears in the conclusion of what novel?
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61. Philosopher and writer Jeremy Bentham, 1748-1832, is associated with what school of thought?
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62. What influential American philosopher and author wrote the book 'Walden, or Life in the Woods'?
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63. The ancient Greek concept of the 'three unities' advocated that a literary work should use a single plotline, single location, and what other single aspect?
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64. Which statesman won the 1953 Nobel Prize for Literature?
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65. Who is the second oldest of the Pevensie children in C S Lewis's The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe?
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66. Who wrote the plays Three Sisters, and The Cherry Orchard?
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67. What technical word is given usually to the left-side even-numbered page of a book?
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68. Which two writers fought a huge unsuccessful legal action in 2006-7 claiming that Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code had plaguarised their work?
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69. What is the pen-name of novelist Mary Ann Evans (1819-80)?
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70. Who did Constance Lloyd marry?
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71. What technical word is given usually to the right-side odd-numbered page of a book?
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72. In what decade was the Oxford English Dictionary first published?
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73. What simple term, alternatively called Anglo-Saxon, refers to the English language which was used from the 5th century Germanic invasions, until (loosely) its fusion with Norman-French around 12-13th centuries?
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74. Who wrote Brighton Rock (1938) and Our Man in Havana (1958)?
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75. Laurens van der Post's prisoner of war experiences, described in his books The Seed and the Sower (1963) and The Night of the New Moon (1970) inspired what film?
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76. With which troubled son are parents Laius and Jocasta associated?
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77. Which Russian writer was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1970?
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78. The book Eunoia, by Christian Bok, suggests in its title, and features exclusively what, in turn, in its first five chapters?
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79. Which great thinker collaborated with Sigmund Freud to write the 1933 book Why War?
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80. Legal action by J K Rowling and Warner Brothers commenced in 2007 against which company for its plans to publish a Harry Potter Lexicon?
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81. Who wrote the 1939 book The Big Sleep?
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82. "In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice which I've been turning over in my mind ever since," is the start of which novel?
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83. In the early 1900s a thriller was instead more commonly referred to as what sort of book?
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84. Who wrote the books Les Miserables and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame?
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85. In what decade were ISBN numbers introduced to the UK?
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86. In 1969, P H Newby's book Something to Answer For was the first winner of what prize?
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87. Who established Britain's first printing press in 1476?
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88. What is the name of Alys Fowler’s most recent book called?
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89. The word 'book' is suggested by some etymologists to derive from the ancient practice of writing on tablets made of what wood?
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90. What is the name of the first digital library founded by Michael Hart in 1971?
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91. French writer Sully Prudhomme was the first winner of what prize in 1901?
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92. Who wrote Naked Lunch, (also titled The Naked Lunch)?
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93. In Shakespeare's King Lear, which two daughters benefit initially from their father's rejection of the third daughter Cordelia?
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94. What was Christopher Latham Scholes' significant invention of 1868?
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95. Which novel begins "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife..."?
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96. Japanese author and playwrite Yukio Mishima committed what extreme act in 1970 while campaigning for Japan to restore its nationalistic principles?
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97. Which American philosopher, and often-quoted advocate of individualism, published essays on Self-Reliance, Love, Heroism, Character and Manners in his Collections of 1841 and 1844?
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98. Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye, printed in Bruges around 1475 is regarded as the first book to have been what?
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99. Which French writer declined the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1964?
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100. What controversial novel begins: "[a person's name], light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, My soul," ?
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101. Jonathan Harker's Journal and Dr Seward's Diary feature in what famous 1897 novel?
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102. What is the technical name for a fourteen-lined poem in rhymed iambic pentameters?
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103. "Make then laugh; make them cry; make them wait..." was a personal maxim of which novelist?
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104. What is the land of giants called in Gulliver's Travels?
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105. What prolific and highly regarded American author, who became a British subject a year before his death, wrote The Wings of the Dove; Washington Square, and the Golden Bowl?
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106. What term for a short, usually witty, poem or saying derives from the Greek words 'write' and 'on'?
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107. What was the original title of the book on which the film Schindler's List was based?
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108. Which land did Puff The Magic Dragon live in?
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109. Which Spaniard is known for his hallucinatory paintings?
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110. In mythology what was Minerva the Goddess of?
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111. In the Hans Christian Andersen story, which little girl was found inside the petals of a flower?
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112. JRR Tolkien (1892-1973) wrote the Hobbit in 1937 for his children and Lord of the rings in 1954/55. Give me 2 of his first names.
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113. Anthony Slinn closes Wolds Words Festival with a lecture about what?
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114. The Blue Boy is a work by which artist?
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115. Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?
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116. Who wrote the novel Dracula?
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117. Which armless statue was discovered by a peasant in 1829 on the Aegean island of Melos?
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118. Which 14th century poet wrote The Canterbury Tales?
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119. Which Disney film features the song 'The Bear Necessities'?
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120. What was Mickey Mouse's original name?
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121. How many holes are there in a ten pin bowling ball?
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122. If you were playing darts and got a 'Shanghai' score of 72 with 3 darts which number have you scored on?
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123. Name 3 James Bond films that have a one-word title.
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124. What is the title of the lowest order of the British nobility?
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125. What year was the first summer Olympiad televised live?
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126. What procedure did the IOC begin after a Danish cyclist died during the 1960 Summer Olympics?
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127. How many minutes does an Olympic basketball game last?
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128. What track favorite donned golden shoes to capture gold in both 200- and 400-meter 1996 Olympic sprints?
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129. What part of their vehicle's equipment are bobsledders only allowed to use after crossing the finish line?
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130. Who was unable to run the 200-meter final at the 1992 Olympics due to food poisoning?
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131. How many times did the Summer Olympics feature the sport of Live Pigeon Shooting?
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132. How many continents must a sport be played on before the IOC will consider making it an Olympic event for men?
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133. What athlete was protected by seven security guards at the 1994 Winter Olympics?
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134. What country competed alone in Athens' 4896 Olympic 100-meter Freestyle for Sailors?
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135. What walking sport should be added to the Olympics, according to 42 percent of U.S. sports editors, sportscasters and columnists?
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136. What Olympic event has runners wearing shoes with perforations to allow for drainage?
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137. How many seconds are there on an Olympic basketball shot clock?
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138. What Olympic field event consists of a crouch, shift, thrust, and release?
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139. What general stormed into the boxing ring at the 1928 Olympics to protest judges ruling for a South African over an American?
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140. What woman won five U.S. figure skating titles from 1969 to 1973, but never an Olympic gold medal?
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141. What country fielded 1996 Olympic women's teams that won gold in basketball, soccer and softball?
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142. What 1996 Olympic event had two U.S. squads playing each other for the gold medal?
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143. What U.S. Olympic city did the torch relay to Atlanta start in?
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144. What Olympic event's winner is considered to be the "world's greatest athlete"?
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145. How many of Carl Lewis' Olympic gold medals were won in long jump competitions?
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146. What legendary strongman laid out the 600-foot race course for the only event in the earl years of the ancient Olympics?
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147. What U.S. athlete was "about a week" pregnant when she broke the world 200-meter record at the 1984 Olympics?
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148. What woman was the only U.S. athlete to win a gold medal at the 1968 Winter Olympics?
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149. What U.S. team did 59 percent of American viewers root against during the 1996 Olympics, according to an ESPN poll?
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150. What sport did Margaret Abbott play to become the first U.S. woman to win Olympic gold, in 1900?
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151. What future screen star was the first person to swim 100 meters in under a minute, in 1922?
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152. What Olympic champ played an HIV-infected chorus boy in the play "Jeffery" in 1993?
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153. What did members of the Canadian swim team swear to give up during the 1996 Olympics?
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154. What country had a swim team that swore off drinking and Big Macs for the 1996 Olympics?
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155. What 37-year-old middle distance runner qualified for her fourth Olympic team in 1996?
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156. What sport is played with stones and brooms?
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157. What contest of team strength was an official Olympic event from 1900 to 1920?
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158. What Olympic aquatic event includes such positions as the Flamingo, crane and fishtail?
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159. How many athletes competed for Israel in the 1994 Winter Olympics?
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160. What 1960 Olympic champion lit the torch to start Atlanta's 1996 Olympic festivities?
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161. What apparatus do male gymnasts refer to as "the pig"?
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162. What new women's team sport was played on sand at the 1996 summer Olympics?
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163. Where were the Olympics originally held and who created them?
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164. Which god did the original Olympics honour?
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