WORLD HIST - What was the acronymic name of the former official news agency of the Soviet Union, which after the dissolution of the USSR was redefined and renamed the Information Telegraph Agency of Russia. TASS
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THEATRE - 1912's The Crock of Gold, by Irish novelist James Stephens, provides the basis for what Broadway musical, which involves a stolen magical pot of gold, and its leprechaun owner's attempts to retrieve it, amidst shenanigans? FINIAN'S RAINBOW
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GEOGRAPHY - This African enclave is both the southernmost landlocked country in the world and, positioned in the Drakensberg and Maloti mountain ranges, the only independent state in the world that lies entirely above 4,000 feet in elevation. LESOTHO
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TELEVISION - On the television sitcom Cheers, what was the nickname of Sam Malone, played by Ted Danson, during his former career as a pitcher for the Boston Red Sox? MAYDAY
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BUS/ECON - What do the letters in RBS -- one of the world's largest banking and insurance holding companies, and among the world's largest of any kind by market capitalization at it's peak -- stand for? ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND
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LITERATURE - The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth, a book written in a effort to extract the message and doctrine of of Jesus while removing supernatural aspects like the resurrection, virgin birth, and other miracles, was written by what former U.S. President, after whom the book is commonly known? THOMAS JEFFERSON
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