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1. According to the Beatles song "Glass Onion", what was Paul?
2. An ancient game came originally from India in the 6th century, then moved to Persia, where it was named 'shatranj'. In the 15th century, the rules stabilized into what they still are today. What is this game, which ends with Shâh Mât ("the king is defeated")?
3. In December of 1773, in Massachusetts, a group of colonists protested a new tax from Britain. What does history call this event?
4. Which spiny animal is sometimes called a 'furze-pig'?
5. Musician Dave Edmunds released a song (written by Hank DeVito) in 1979 that was a modest hit, but when Juice Newton covered it in 1981 it reached number two on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. What was this song?
6. What 18th-century 'delicacy' was made with a calf's head (boiled until soft), Madeira wine, an onion, chopped oysters, mutton broth and chopped-up brains?
7. Which NW English county is famous for its dense and crumbly cheese?
8. Which last name is shared by the director of 1978's "Halloween", the singer of "We've Only Just Begun", and the actress who played Cordelia Chase in "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"?
9. Which animals were 'Pink' in a 1972 John Waters movie starring the ineffable Divine?
10. Be what you would seem to be; or, if you'd like it put more simply--never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.
What name do all these correct answers have in common?
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