LANGUAGE - What is the term for the device in this photograph, which is similar to a catapult, and takes its name from the Old French for "to throw over"? Click here for imageTREBUCHET
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POP MUSIC - This hit 1984 song, which reached #2 on the Billboard Hot 100, became the first German-language record to reach the top ten on the US charts since "Sailor (Your Home Is the Sea)" by Lolita 23 years earlier. 99 LUFTBALLOONS
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GEOGRAPHY - Name the river which flows from southwestern China through northern Vietnam to the Gulf of Tonkin, which shares the same name as the river which flows along the border between the states of Texas and Oklahoma. RED RIVER
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SCIENCE - This is the botanical term for a plant's straight tapering root that grows vertically down, which forms a center from which other roots sprout, and which many plants use to access ground moisture. TAPROOT
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WORLD HIST - 1494's Treaty of Tordesillas, which divided the newly discovered lands outside Europe in the New World, was signed by what two nations (between whom the lands were divided)? SPAIN, PORTUGAL
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TELEVISION - What is the major significance of the television shows Duet, MarriedÉwith Children, Mr. President, and The Tracy Ullmann Show? THE FIRST PRIMETIME SHOWS ON THE FOX NETWORK