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1. Three witches huddle around a boiling cauldron and chant a spell: "Eye of newt, and toe of frog, wool of bat, and tongue of dog." In which play do these conjurers appear?
2. In the 1986 science-fiction film "Aliens" (which was a sequel to the 1979 film "Alien"), which of the characters was affectionately nicknamed "Newt"?
3. The 1936 novel "War with the Newts" describes a race of newts near Sumatra which are captured and "employed" by humans to work in aquatic endeavours. The newts quickly learn human language and culture, only to turn against humans. Who wrote this satirical work of science fiction?
4. Which politician nicknamed "Newt" served as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1995 to 1999?
5. At Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in J.K. Rowling's "Harry Potter" series of stories, what is the N.E.W.T.?
6. In what television cartoon series (shown in Germany, Canada and the US in the Nineties) does a newt kept as a pet eat "Zippo for Newts" newt food and grow to be six feet tall (and to speak English)?
7. In which Kurt Vonnegut novel does Felix Hoenikker, the co-inventor of the atomic bomb, play a children's game with his son Newton "Newt" Hoenikker on the day that Hiroshima is bombed.
8. A programming library called NEWT was popular and is still used in some computer applications. What does it do?
9. All newts are salamanders but not all salamanders are newts. Newts are found in Europe, North America and Asia. To what taxonomic family and subfamily do they belong?
10. In the Jeeves and Wooster stories by P.G. Wodehouse, one of Bertie's chums is fascinated by newts and both studies and keeps them. Who is this newt-enamoured friend?
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