TODAY'S QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS1.
The majority of episodes of the television series Little House on the Prairie are set in what U.S. state?
MINNESOTA
2.
Who was the author of the 6th c. BC Chinese military treatise The Art of War?
SUN TZU
3.
The corporation named after Russian-American designer and engineer Igor Sikorsky is today best known for the manufacture of what, specifically?
HELICOPTERS
4.
Identify the Swedish children's book character on this German postage stamp. Click here for image
PIPPI LONGSTOCKING
5.
In July of 2006, Canadian blogger Kyle MacDonald traded a role in the film Donna on Demand for a two-story farmhouse in Kipling, Saskatchewan, achieving his stated goal and concluding a series of barters which began with what object?
ONE RED PAPERCLIP
6.
Kruger National Park is the largest national park in what country?
SOUTH AFRICA
7.
What fraction of a pound does a single ground beef patty of a McDonald's hamburger (or cheeseburger, or Big Mac) weigh, before cooking?
1/10
8.
In September of 1947, dental student Herb Abramson and Turkish immigrant Ahmet Ertegun founded what record label, which exists still today as a division of Warner Music Group?
ATLANTIC RECORDS
9.
What was the title for the highest-ranking elected office and magistrate of the Roman Republic, serving as the heads-of-state (there were always two)?
CONSUL
10.
MAGLEV, a system of transportation which typically involves high-speed trains, is an abbreviation for what?
MAGNETIC LEVITATION
11.
What is the only sport in the current Winter Olympic Games that has no event for women (and thus is men only)?
SKI JUMPING
12.
Of the 27 states to have an official state beverage, 20 got milk. One (boring, lovable Indiana) has water (why even bother?). Only one has a soft drink. The soft drink is Moxie -- what is the state?
MAINE
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