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1. An aerial test platoon from the 29th Infantry Regiment were the first to invoke this Native American’s name, because he symbolized fearlessness and was hard to catch.

2. The retelling of this congressman’s exploits is shameless. But he was twice a widower, a foe to President Andrew Jackson and was eventually killed in San Antonio.

3. When this namesake company was founded 112 years ago, it essentially had the American market cornered. Today it shares the proverbial road with myriad international competitors.

4. When this chain of 1700 casual dining locations was put under scrutiny for its cleanliness, it was found to have a rather favorable batting average when it came to health inspections.

5. This car company boasts the most viral commercial of all time, when in it a masked child (believes he) forces a car to start to the score of John Williams.

6. This website, which popularized the Rickrolling trick, uses a whopping 200 terabytes of data every day.

7. Who who was the Egyptian man who who served his final day as UN Secretary General in 1996?

8. This website is the progeny of MSN Search, and will lead you to all sorts of information from sweet cherry varieties to characters from Friends to bestselling crooners.

Courtesy of The Democratic Republic of Trivia