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1. Isaac Newton is remembered for his profound contribution to Physics and Mathematics, but he also secretly practised a mysterious art connected to the "Philosopher's Stone". What might that be?
2. What name is shared by Tom Selleck's tv character Magnum, (two christian names) a Fox television business news anchor and a US general during the American Civil War?
3. "If it doesn't fit, you must acquit" was the famous phrase used by defense attorney Johnny Cochran in his closing arguments in the 1995 trial of a well known football star. Who was the defendant that was acquitted for the murder of his wife?
4. Which great British comic actor has played both Edmund Blackadder and Mr. Bean on television?
5. Despite having a degree from Harvard, this man worked for room and board as a handyman for Ralph Waldo Emerson and eventually in a pencil factory he inherited from his father. Who was this 19th-century American transcendentalist?
6. Swedish engineer Alfred Nobel invented dynamite. But what did his elder brother Ludvig invent while exploiting a certain natural resource in Russia?
7. What connection do Michelangelo, Babe Ruth, Greg Louganis, Barack Obama, and Greta Garbo have?
8. Surprisingly, which writer is NOT buried in "Poet's Corner" in Westminster Abbey?
9. With which state would you most associate the man born Thomas Lanier Williams?
10. Who said: "Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't"?
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