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| Which Englishman founded a colony in present-day North Carolina, only to permanently lose it despite friends asking him 'Where did you see it last?'? | |
| Which crop's discovery helped ensure the success of the Jamestown colony after being marketed with the slogan, 'It won't gradually turn your lungs into malignant lumps of carbon!'? | |
| What national holiday traces its origins to a 1621 Puritan celebration of a successful harvest, which was followed by watching the traditional Lions-Bears game? | |
| Which historic document begins with 'When in the course of human events', and continues later with 'nobody ever reads all the way through these legal documents'? | |
| Which famous Emanuel Leutze painting implausibly depicts George Washington in a rowboat with 'a group the size of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir'? | |
| Which amendment to the Constitution states that 'you have the right to a trial before a jury of people too stupid to get out of jury duty?' | |
| Which 1804-1806 expedition discovered that the Louisiana Purchase contained not just Louisiana, 'but a whole bunch of other states as well'? | |
| Which two presidents preceding Abraham Lincoln were so inconsequential that 'as far as we can tell, they were both president at the same time'? | |
| Which territory, acquired by Secretary of State Seward Folly in 1867, was so inconveniently located that Congress voted to shrink and relocate it for easier map-making? | |
| Which U.S. president spent much of the year after his presidency by going to Africa and 'attempting to kill every animal larger than a wristwatch'? | |
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| Which commodity did John D. Rockefeller monopolize in the late 19th century, allowing him to become wealthy by 'putting hotels on both Park Place and Boardwalk'? | |
| What 'noble experiment' passed the U.S. House of Representatives with a 'vote of 9-2', with 416 members absent due to 'severe headaches'? | |
| In which early 20th century organization did Britain and France have 1-0 win-loss records, compared with 0-1 records for Germany and Austria? | |
| Fill in the blank: Warren Harding won the 1920 presidential election by promising a 'return to ____', which 'as far as we know is not even a real word.' | |
| Which John Steinbeck novel, along with its much lesser-known companion 'Pinto Beans of Lust', captured the bleak nature of the Great Depression? | |
| What term is used to describe the British-French foreign policy of the 1930s that said, 'if you can't trust an insane racist criminal dictator, whom can you trust'? | |
| In which landmark 1954 court case did the Supreme Court end school segregation by ruling that 'nobody, black or white, should have to go to school in Topeka, Kansas'? | |
| Which Soviet satellite, launched in 1957, had global consequences such as forcing all the students in Mrs. DeLucia's 5th-grade class to 'study a LOT more science and math'? | |
| What vague condition did Jimmy Carter describe as afflicting the U.S. in the 1970s, surprising those who thought the problem was '652 billion percent' unemployment and inflation'? | |
| Which 1984 presidential candidate promised to raise taxes in a shrewd move that 'earned him the support of more than half the members of his immediate family'? | |
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