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1. Lon Myers, an amazing American sprinter and middle distance runner of the late 19th century, set an astonishing number of records during his career, including eleven world records. He won one race wearing only one shoe, and another race - how?
2. By the 20th century, which English king, before he inherited the throne, was the longest serving Prince of Wales?
3. Has there ever been a toilet god?
4. Remaining with Maoris momentarily, it was believed that if a Maori warrior died, his son could gain his father's power by biting which part of his father's dead body?
5. Just as young men of the 1950s had their own style of walking (as portrayed in the 1978 movie "Grease"), young fashionable men of the 1880s and 1890s also had a special way of walking. When he first began his political career as a fashionable young go-getter, which future American president greatly amused the older, conservative members of parliament when he first minced into the Assembly in this way?
6. Alberta Martin, who died in 2004, was called the last living widow who had produced a child in her marriage to a soldier from the American continent. In which war had this soldier fought?
7. What little nighttime creature falls victim to the White Nose Syndrome?
8. Found in Kent in the south east of England, what is the Folkestone White Horse?
9. What practice does geophagy involve?
10. This well-known actress is of Jewish descent. She starred in the 1944 movie "To Have and Have Not" opposite her future husband who was married at the time to another woman. She is a first cousin to the ninth President of the State of Israel. Who is she?
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