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1. In geography, the northernmost point on the African continent can be found in what country?
2. In U.S. Government, what percentage of the vote from both the House of Representatives and the Senate is needed to override a Presidential veto of a bill?
3. In art, give the last name of the artist known for painting 'The Death of Marat.' ?
4. In movies, which actor played James Bond in the film, 'A View to a Kill'?
5. In science, what did Ernst Rutherford shoot at gold foil which led to his discovery of atomic nuclei?
6. In computers, Bubble, Insertion, Selection, Heap, Quick, Merge, and Radix are all types of what?
7. In geography, which of these lakes is one of the 5 largest lakes in the world, measured by surface area?
8. In literature, which Shakesperean work contains the line, 'If you prick us, do we not bleed'?
9. In literature, which novel was originally published with an author pseudonym of Currer Bell?
10. In poetry, which poet wrote the work, 'Enoch Arden'?
11. In music, which is the first of the four operas contained in Richard Wagner's 'Der Ring des Nibelungen?'
12. In television, which of these people from the original TV Series 'Survivor' was the first to be voted off after the Tagi and Pagong tribes merged?
13. In history, who gave the nickname 'A splendid little war' to the Spanish-American War?
14. In 'miscellaneous,' which of these British ranks is the highest?
15. In movies, which of these political commentators appears briefly in the 1996 film 'Mission Impossible'?
16. In history, of the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World, which was the tallest?
17. In mathematics, a story goes that Pythagoras executed one of his pupils who devised which theory, radical for the time?
18. In mythology, what kind of animal is Jormangard in Norse myth?
19. In sports, besides 1994, what has been the only year without a World Series since the first one in 1903?
20. In science, 1 x 10 to the -35 seconds following the Big Bang, the universe entered which phase, after free quarks had been confined and condensed into normal particles?
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