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ASIAN CITIES

This city, whose name means "ruler of the East", received a major economic boost in 1916 upon the completion of a construction project.

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What is Vladivostok?

UNIVERSITY TOWNS

Historically, the ability to cross the river with beasts of burden there gave this town strategic military importance.

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What is Oxford?

US PRESIDENTS

The only president to serve less than four full years in each of two separate terms

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Who was FDR? (First term was Mar 4, 1933 to Jan 20, 1937 due to passage of the 20th amendment, and died during his fourth term)

WORLD GEOGRAPHY

Besides Australia, it is the other country that is both the largest and first alphabetically in its continent.

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What is Algeria? (Negbait: Brazil, Canada)

BUSINESS

This company with over 37,000 locations worldwide is the world's largest distributor of toys.

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What is McDonald's?

GEOGRAPHY AND SHAKESPEARE

US state capital that shares its name with characters from two of Shakespeare's comedies

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What is Helena? (All's Well That Ends Well and A Midsummer Night's Dream)

FOOD, GLORIOUS FOOD Proctor & Gamble used supercomputers to give this snack its iconic shape: a hyperbolic paraboloid. What are Pringles? I like this one because I was able to figure it out. Pedantry alert: Procter, not Proctor. Sounds like someone knows a lot about proctors. Did you major in proct...

AFRICAN PLACE NAMES

English meaning of the name given by Portuguese explorers to the place where their compasses showed no magnetic deviation.

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What is Cape of Needles (Cabo Agulhas)?

U.S. PRESIDENTS

The only president whose childhood home is less than one mile from a national park.

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Who is Bill Clinton? (Hot Springs)/spoiler]

HALF-STUPID ANSWERS

The two US state capital cities whose flags contain images of a phoenix.

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What are Phoenix and Atlanta? (rose from the ashes of Sherman's march)

I'm still working full time in the same office, essentially. Whenever somebody takes a day off a rumor is started that they are out sick with coronavirus. Then they come back to the office, dispel the rumor, and everybody wonders why they bought into it. And then somebody else takes a day off and i...

ASIA

Over three billion people live in the countries bordering this country.

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What is Myanmar?

Add me to the "weird symptoms in February" list. I checked that I don't think I had it, but: starting in mid-February I came down with what I thought was the weirdest cold I'd ever had. Very little upper respiratory symptoms. I even remarked to a colleague, "I know I have a cold, but I can barely te...

RADIO

According to Statista, it's the most common radio station format in the US, with 2,179 stations as of January 2019.

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What is country? (not the most popular music genre overall, but it is in rural areas, and most of the country's land area is rural.)

THE DREADED OPERA CATEGORY Due to COVID-19, St. Petersburg's Mariinsky Theatre rescheduled their performance of this opera to the 9th, 10th, 12th, and 13th of December. What is the Ring Cycle? Good clue, with a tricky TOM, but is the Ring Cycle a single opera? Too bad they couldn't stretch it to a ...

U.S. GEOGRAPHY

These two state capitals are the most populous cities in their respective time zones.

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What are Phoenix and Honolulu?

THE DREADED OPERA CATEGORY Due to COVID-19, St. Petersburg's Mariinsky Theatre rescheduled their performance of this opera to the 9th, 10th, 12th, and 13th of December. What is the Ring Cycle? Good clue, with a tricky TOM, but is the Ring Cycle a single opera? Too bad they couldn't stretch it to a ...

THE DREADED OPERA CATEGORY

Due to COVID-19, St. Petersburg's Mariinsky Theatre rescheduled their performance of this work to the 9th, 10th, 12th, and 13th of December.

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What is the Ring Cycle?

VICE PRESIDENTS

The only post-Civil War VP to hold that office in exactly 2 different calendar years.

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Who is Gerald Ford?

ETYMOLOGY

Fu Tai is one of the world's leading manufacturers of these items whose name means "little shadow."

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What is an umbrella?