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1. According to the old saying, whose grass is always greener?
2. What is a colloquial name for the U.S. dollar?
3. In Arthurian legend, who burst in upon the Christmas celebrations of the King's court, challenged one of the Knights of the Round Table to cut off his head and, when a knight had done so, calmly took his head under his arm and directed the knight to meet him at his own castle in a year and a day?
4. Name this 1941 Billboard Number One hit for Jimmy Dorsey and his orchestra with Bob Eberly and Helen O'Connell on vocals:
"In dreams I seem to hold you
To find you and enfold you
Our lips meet and our hearts too
With a thrill so sublime"
5. Where would you find the "green fairy"?
6. What is a greenhorn?
7. What colorful botanical name is shared by the New England Quaker poet John Whittier and Legolas, one of the Nine Walkers in J.R.R. Tolkien's heroic fantasy novel "The Lord of the Rings"?
8. In the Star Trek universe, Vulcans and Romulans have green blood instead of the familiar red of humans. What explanation is given for this phenomenon?
9. In Jim Butcher's Harry Dresden series, which character has eyes the color of worn dollar bills?
10. Why is the image seen through a night-vision device green?
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