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National League All-Star team, thanks to ballot stuffing?
    3. What Suns forward beat out Dr. J, Dominique, and Clyde Drexler to win the NBA’s first Slam Dunk Contest?
    4. What college football contest is fought between the Kai and Aina squads?
    5. At just twenty-one, who became the youngest MVP in NBA All-Star Game history?

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JANUARY 15
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    1870 T HOMAS N AST CREATES a lasting symbol when he depicts the Democratic Party as a donkey in “A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead Lion” for
Harper’s Weekly.
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    COVERING YOUR ASS
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    1. In what play does a character appropriately named Bottom get an ass’s head?
    2. What movie ends by introducing a litter of five “dronkeys”?
    3. What holy day celebrates Jesus’s entry into Jerusalem on the back of a donkey?
    4. What is a female donkey called?
    5. In what “Kounty” were the antics on
Hee Haw
set?

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    1919 I N B OSTON, A TWO-MILLION-GALLON TANK explodes without warning, causing the Great Molasses Flood. Buildings are leveled and twenty-one people killed by a thirty-foot wall of delicious goo.
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    SUGAR SUGAR
    A trivia quiz that should satisfy your sweet tooth.
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    1. Whose unusual first name is derived from an Italian musical term for “with sweetness”?
    2. What is Charlie’s last name in Roald Dahl’s
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
?
    3. What stadium hosted college football’s Sugar Bowl from 1975 to 2005?
    4. What Hershey’s candy is so named because the original manufacturing process couldn’t produce the perfectly round candies the company wanted?
    5. At what infamous concert did the Rolling Stones first play their eventual number one hit “Brown Sugar”?
    6. Strawberry, lemon, or banana—until a World War II shortage caused a change to vanilla, what was the original flavor of the cream in Twinkies?
    7. What organ produces insulin and glucagon, the hormones that regulate blood sugar?
    8. What is “the sweet science,” according to A. J. Liebling, who popularized the term?
    9. What’s the name of the head elf in charge of baking Keebler cookies?
    10. What classic Disney song was inspired by lyricist Robert Sherman’s five-year-old son receiving the Sabin polio vaccine at school?

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    1986 HBO AND C INEMAX begin scrambling their programming. Millions of dish owners either buy a decoder or learn to recognize nudity in doubled purply-green form.
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    SCRAMBLED TV
    Rearrange these phrases to spell out appropriate TV show titles.
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    Easy
    1. Slow elimination—what a bore
    2. A pioneer hut: heroes till it
    3. City life
    4. Oho! Must jest!
    5. No, a mighty bad NFL tool

    Harder
    1. Next-day ethics
    2. Do-re-mi can ail
    3. We are devious she-pets
    4. Cue holy agent band
    5. Plot norm: emaciated sex

    Yeah, Good Luck
    1. Agony mastery
    2. Pathetic preen
    3. My rent: so cheap
    4. Sphere intro
    5. Lean girls chase
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JANUARY 16
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    1895 A CACHE OF BURIED WEAPONS is discovered in the gardens of Queen Liliuokalani’s palace in Hawaii, and though she denies any involvement in the attempted coup, she is forced to abdicate and placed under house arrest for years. According to her own account, it is during her imprisonment that she writes the famous song “Aloha Oe.”
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    ON HER MAJESTY’S SERVICE
    Prove you’re trivia royalty with this queenly quiz.
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    1. In 1893, who became the first woman ever to appear on a U.S. postage stamp?
    2. What famous wax sculptor made the death mask of Marie Antoinette?
    3. Ten of the sixteen countries of which Queen Elizabeth II is head of state are found in what continent?
    4. Who are Frederick Dannay and Manfred B. Lee?
    5. What is a young bee fed to ensure that it develops into a queen?
    6. Who is the only Zanzibari in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?
    7. What lagoon south of Queens, New York, is named for a local Indian tribe and has nothing to do with the Caribbean?
    8. In 1973, who left her husband, producer Robert Evans, to marry her costar Steve McQueen?
    9. What fictional character married his