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1. Which English sport was Oscar Wilde describing when he said, "The unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable?"
2. Who has been positively identified as Jack the Ripper?
3. The name, Elwood Edwards, may not sound familiar, but his voice will to many who had AOL for their service. Elwood would share some news with you, what was one of them?
4. Michael, arguably the best basketball player ever winning the NBA championship six times, Robert, the author of the "Wheel of Time" series, and Pascual, a German computational physicist, all share the same last name. What is it?
5. Which famous American visited Australia in 1895-6 for a lecture tour?
6. Which university proudly claims William Shakespeare as an alumnus?
7. A person who, in the US, is usually thought about in a very derogatory manner was instrumental in the capture of the British Fort Ticonderoga in May, 1775. Who was he?
8. The epitaph "Cast a cold Eye On Life, on Death. Horseman, pass by" is engraved on the Sligo tomb of which Irish poet, who wrote "The Wild Swans at Coole" and "The Lake Isle of Innisfree"?
9. Who lives at a place called "Los Pinos" (The Pines)?
10. Which Danish Nobel-laureate for physics, whose son was also a Nobel-laureate physicist, played an important role in the Manhattan Project to develop America's atomic bomb, after fleeing his Nazi-occupied homeland?
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