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1. The Scottish island, Ailsa Craig, is renowned as a source for raw materials used to make what piece of sports equipment? A) Curling stones B) Fencing foils C) Field hockey sticks

D) Snowboards

2. Chicago’s Von Steuben Day Parade is famously featured in which film? A) “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” B) “Meet the Parents” C) “Risky Business” D)” The Untouchables”

3. Which famed “man of letters” worked for a brief time as a postmaster in Oxford, Mississippi?

A) Truman Capote

B) William Faulkner

C) John Grisham D) Tennessee Williams

4. This year marks the first time that which two nations qualified for the FIFA World Cup?

A) Azerbaijan and Japan B) Cambodia and Laos C) Iceland and Panama D) Mauritania and Saudi Arabia

5. The extinction of terrestrial dinosaurs might have been due to a meteor that impacted Earth at Chicxulub crater in what present-day country?

A) Canada

B) Iran

C) Mexico

D) Russia

6. In “Finding Nemo,” Nemo’s father is a clownfish with what fishy first name?

A) Catfish

B) Marlin

C) Pike

D) Walleye

Answers

1) Curling stones

2) “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” 3) William Faulkner

4) This year marks the first time that Iceland and Panama have qualified for the FIFA World Cup. 5) Mexico

6) In “Finding Nemo,” Nemo’s father is a clownfish named Marlin.