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1. Who danced cheek-to-cheek to Irving Berlin's music in the 1935 motion picture "Top Hat"?
2. "The Cat in the Hat" appears one day at the home of Sally and her unnamed brother where, with his companions Thing One and Thing Two, he entertains the children until their mother comes homes. Who wrote "The Cat in the Hat"?
3. In the "Harry Potter" books by JK Rowling, new students at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry are assigned to one of four "houses" in the school by which method?
4. Psycho-neurologist Oliver Sacks (1933-2015) wrote numerous books about extraordinary cases of brain function and malfunction. Which of the following was a somewhat fictionalized collection of several of his cases?
5. The Man in the Yellow Hat is a friend, companion and father-figure to whom?
6. Idwal Jones' 1945 novel "High Bonnet" is about what profession?
7. The Hatter in Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Though the Looking Glass" is called "mad." Why?
8. Which Randy Newman song about a woman who does a strip-tease for her man appeared in 1972 and was covered by Joe Cocker in 1986?
9. Which Terry Pratchett children's novel, set in Discworld, describes the maturation of Tiffany Aching, a young witch?
10. Which Johann Wolfgang von Goethe poem became a musical composition by Paul Dukas which became a Walt Disney cartoon starring Mickey Mouse in "Fantasia" (1940)?
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