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1. In December, 1733, Edward and Eliza Seward were shipwrecked. Luckily, they landed on Old Providence Island, because they found buried treasure there. Whose treasure did they find?
2. Everyone knows the story of Wild Bill Hickok's "Dead Man's Hand". The day before his death, at the hands of sore loser Jack McCall, Hickok had been lucky enough to win a sum of money from McCall. Unluckily, on the next day, Hickok's usual chair facing the door was taken, and McCall shot him in the back. How much money had Jack McCall lost to Hickok?
3. What was Wild Bill's "Dead Man's Hand"?
4. King Louis XV had the good luck to raise 600,000 francs with the receipts from the very first French lottery. Who persuaded the King to start a lottery in the first place?
5. King Henry VIII had a little gambling problem with the dice. He lost something he probably should not have been betting with in the first place. What was the King unlucky enough to lose?
6. On Aug. 8, 1840, a Mrs. Watts of Linville, Texas was left for dead by Chief Buffalo Hump and 500 Comanche warriors. What, luckily, saved her life and the lives of the residents of Linville, Texas that day?
7. Something fell on Joseph Figlock as he was walking down a street in Detroit, Michigan in the 1930s. A year later, while walking down the same street, it happened again. Luckily, he survived both incidents, but exactly what was it that fell on Mr. Figlock twice?
8. In 1976, Ronald Wayne was working at Atari and met two young programmers, both called Steve. Together, they started a company where Wayne owned an initial 10%. Unluckily, he thought that there would be too many speed bumps to make the company successful, so he sold his share back to them. What company did Wayne pass up on?
9. Unluckily, what happened to the original manuscript of Robert Louis Stevenson's "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"?
10. A prophet had predicted the Greek dramatist Aeschylus (525 BC-456 BC) would perish with a blow from Heaven. Unluckily, eventually it did happen. What actually struck poor old Aeschylus from above?
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