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wife, Queen Aleta of the Misty Isles, during the sack of Rome in a.d. 450?
    10. Currently, only the queens of Spain and Belgium and the grand duchess of Luxembourg hold the privilege of wearing white when they visit whom?

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    1938 B ENNY G OODMAN BRINGS JAZZ to Carnegie Hall, in what is now considered the most important single concert in jazz history. The performance also produces
The Famous
1938
Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert,
the music industry’s first-ever double LP.
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    NEVER HEAR THE END OF IT
    What artists were responsible for these double albums?
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    Easy
    1.
Electric Ladyland
    2.
Exile on Main Street
    3.
Back to Basics
    4.
Bitches Brew
    5.
Sign ‘o’ the Times
    Harder
    1.
The Fragile
    2.
Wheels of Fire
    3.
Self Portrait
    4.
In Your Honor
    5.
The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
    Yeah, Good Luck
    1.
Being There
    2.
Daydream Nation
    3.
English Settlement
    4.
Tinsel Town Rebellion
    5.
Tales from Topographic Oceans
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    1972 D AVID S EVILLE, creator of the Chipmunks, dies in Beverly Hills. “Seville” is really Ross Bagdasarian, an Armenian-American songwriter from Fresno.
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    A SHOT IN THE ARM(ENIAN)

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    1. What Michigan pathologist invented the Thanatron and the Mercitron?
    2. What placekicker’s famous “gaffe” kept Miami from shutting out the Redskins in Super Bowl VII?
    3. Who spoke his native Armenian, not Kazakh, while playing Azamat in the
Borat
film?
    4. What
Law & Order: CI
regular wrote and starred in the play
Talk Radio
?
    5. Who defeated Tom Bradley twice in California gubernatorial elections?

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JANUARY 17
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    1912 R OBERT S COTT’S EXPEDITION reaches the South Pole, only to find that Roald Amundsen has beaten them there by more than a month. Scott’s entire party dies of frostbite and hunger on its return trip.
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    SONGS OF THE SOUTH
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    1. What’s the Latin name for the atmospheric glow also called the “southern lights”?
    2. What’s Cartman’s first name on
South Park
?
    3. At what nation does Panama “attach” onto South America?
    4. What’s the dominant fruit flavoring in Southern Comfort?
    5. According to the trivia chestnut, the first foreign country you’ll hit traveling due south from Detroit is…Canada. What Canadian city sits just across the Detroit River?
    6. What TV family lived at Southfork Ranch?
    7. In 2002, the NFL created the AFC and NFC South divisions. Which of their eight teams actually plays its home games to the north of two of its “North” division counterparts?
    8. What style of “Dirty South” hip-hop was pioneered by Atlanta rapper Lil Jon?
    9. From 1968 on, what group used the so-called Southern strategy?
    10. What’s the most populous city in the Southern Hemisphere?

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    1921 D IRECTOR R OBERT F LAHERTY and Nanook, his Inuit leading man, leave Port Harrison, Quebec, to film the big bear hunt scene for Flaherty’s pioneering documentary
Nanook of the North.
Flaherty actually took liberties with facts that would make Michael Moore blush—“Nanook”’s real name was Allakariallak, and he usually hunted with a gun, not the primitive spear that Flaherty insisted on.
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    DOC HOLLYWOOD
    How much do you know about other classic documentaries?
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    1. What 1994 documentary focused on Chicago high school students William Gates and Arthur Agee?
    2. What legendary director-to-be was one of the editors of 1970’s
    Woodstock
?
    3. All the numbers in the titles of Michael Apted’s
Up
documentary series are multiples of what number?
    4. What’s the only title shared by an Oscar-nominated Best Picture and an Oscar-nominated Best Documentary Feature?
    5. The 1991 doc
Hearts of Darkness
follows what movie’s chaotic production?

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    1950 E LEVEN MEN VANISH with $2 million in Boston’s Great Brink’s Robbery, at the time the biggest robbery in U.S. history.
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    HEIST HEIST BABY

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    1. What famous 1963 heist was masterminded by Bruce Reynolds, author of
The Autobiography of a Thief
?
    2. Pablo Picasso was one of the