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What is Public Enemies?In 1988 the Beach Boys had a No. 1 hit with this song from the Tom Cruise movie "Cocktail"
What is Kokomo?This is the height of K2, the 2nd highest mountain.
What is 8,611 m or 28,251 feet?After the deed, he leaped to the stage shouting "Sic semper tyrannis"
John Wilks Booth"Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future."
Who is John Wilks Booth?He died Nov. 22, 1963 in a car.
Who is President John F. Kennedy?On October 7, 1849, at age 40, he died in Baltimore; the cause of his death is unknown and has been variously attributed to alcohol, brain congestion, cholera, drugs, heart disease, rabies, suicide, tuberculosis, and other agents.
Who is Edgar Allen Poe?More candy sold the week of this holiday than any other in the U.S.
What is Halloween? This area of Romania dates back to Roman times, bounded on the east and south by the Carpathian mountain range, and extended in the west to the Apuseni Mountains. Most commonly known due to a certain character in a Bram Stoker novel.
What is Translyvania?At 20 million pounds, this is the most popular candy bought for Halloween in the U.S.
What are Reese's pieces? (loved by extraterristials since 1982) ;)The first in a series of movies with the same name, this first movie was directed and scored by John Carpenter and starred Jamie Lee Curtis in her first screen appearance.
What is Halloween?On October 1, just six people were able to sign up for this federal program.
What is Obamacare?This part of the brain is often referred to as the "fear center"
What is the amygdala?This online communication innovator is expected to launch it's IPO on November 7.
What is Twitter?This is the average gestation period of a house cat.
Too tough? The answer is 33 days.This is the French word for fog.
What is brouillard?This movie starred Jennifer Connelly and Ben Kingsley about a house.
What is House of Sand and Fog?This movie stars 4 famous actors meeting for a bachelor party in Las Vegas.
What is Last Vegas.This book is titled after a big pile of sand.
Who are Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins?This American state has the highest minimum wage.
What is Washington state?This city's mayor recently admitted to smoking crack.
What is Toronto?The lead character in "Goodbye Mr. Chips" has this as a profession.
What is a teacher?Every seven years, Vulcans go through the urge/need to mate. What is this called?
What is Pan Farr?Twitter just priced it's IPO at this per share.
What is $26?This was just taken by rocket up to the international space station
What is the Olympic torch? (very cool)This American football player just walked away form 1 Millions dollar contract.
Who is John Moffitt?This Canadian leader's latest escapade has him ranting on a just released video tape.
Who is Rob Ford?This is the capital of the Ukraine.
Sue Em wrote: "Who is John Moffitt?This Canadian leader's latest escapade has him ranting on a just released video tape."
Love this one Sue! :)
What is Kiev? (capital of the Ukraine)This substance makes up about 57% of total body weight (varies by sex/age)
what is water?these colorful vegetables were prized by Greeks and Romans as aphrodisacs
What are parsnips?Who killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand that resulted in the beginning of World War I?
Who is Gavrilo Princip (member of Black Hand)?Monster typhoon just ravaged this country
What is The Phillipines?Who wrote 'In Flanders fields'?
John McCraeWho said "“Psychopaths... people who know the differences between right and wrong, but don't give a shit."
Who is Elmore Leonard?Stephen King's novel about the events leading up to Kennedy's assassination.
What is 11/22/63?
This is area where some believe there may have been another shooter during Kennedy's assassination
This is area where some believe there may have been another shooter during Kennedy's assassination
What is the grassy knoll?He killed Lee Harvey Oswald.
Who is Jack Ruby?
This Russian jeweler was known for making Easter eggs out of precious metals and gemstones rather the mundane materials
This Russian jeweler was known for making Easter eggs out of precious metals and gemstones rather the mundane materials
Who was Faberge?In this Jane Austen novel, a woman finds love with a man she had previously rejected.
What is Persuasion?This country was devastated by a typhoon this weekend.
What is the Philippines?This is the chemical symbol for sugar.
What is C6H12O6? (Glucose)Based on the desert-dwelling Bedouin and Kalahari Bushmen, these distinguished fighters live out amongst the dunes on the spice-laden planet known as 'Arrakis'.
Who are the Fremen?This project by Occupy Wall Street has purchased $15 million of private American debt.
What is the Rolling Jubilee project?What is the name of the typhoon that struck the Phillipines last weekend?
What is Haiyan?This famous Ameircan trainer got in trouble on the TV show she works on this week for giving contestants caffeine pills.
Who is Jillian Michaels?This former American Idol winner is coming back to The Biggest Loser after the caffeine incident was announced.
Who is Ruben Studdard? He was the spanish waiter in Fawlty Towers.
Manuel played by Andrew SachsThis Florida escaped murder charges in 2012 and has once again been arrested in Florida. This time for aggravated assault with a weapon and criminal mischief.
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