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Answer: Detroit Red Wings

Inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame (which can be found in Toronto, Ontario) in 1977, Tim Horton's name can be found on 4 Stanley cups. He played 24 seasons for teams like the Sabres, Maple Leafs, Rangers and Penguins. He died in a car accident in 1974.

Answer: Washington, DC

It's located in the Foggy Bottom of the city, named because the area used to be a swamp. The George Washington University prides itself on its location - it is within blocks of such organizations as the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the White House and the State Department.

Answer: Jimmy Carter

Jimmy Carter worked very hard to secure peace in the Middle East during his time as President. It is widely considered that the Iranian hostage crisis contributed to Ronald Reagan winning the presidency. Incidentally, the Iranian hostages were released the exact same day that Carter left office.

After Reagan became President, Carter became very involved in such causes as Habitat for Humanity and traveled all over the world helping promote democracy. He has widely been considered the most active ex-President in the 20th Century.

Answer: Death of Eva Peron

Eva Peron was the wife of Argentine 'dictator' Juan Peron. In her life, she secured the love and adoration of thousands of people with her social programs designed to help the poor. She was also instrumental in influencing her husband to work towards giving women the right to vote (some say because she told him that those women would then be loyal Peronists and vote for him and his party). Eva Peron's death at age 33 helped keep her as Argentina's "Santa Evita" and she was later immortalized in a musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber.

Answer: Express

The store Gap has several 'types' including GapKids, babyGap, GapBody and Gap Outlet. It was founded in 1969, that's why the store uses either 1969 or 69 as a design on a lot of its clothing. The first store opened in San Francisco, California. It went public in 1976 and in 1977 Gap Foundation, its charitable section, was established. Banana Republic was bought in 1983 and GapKids first opened in 1986, followed by babyGap in 1990. Old Navy was born in 1994 - it had started out as a form of outlet store and soon became popular, opening its first stores in Canada in 2001.

Answer: Nixon resigned

He became the first President to resign from office. Spiro Agnew would have been the country's 38th President, but he resigned in 1973 because of another scandal. Gerald Ford, the man who had never been elected to that office and who never dreamed of running the country became President on August 9th. One of the first things he wanted to do was pardon Nixon so that the country could 'move on.' This led to many believing that he had let Nixon off too easily, and he would later lose the 1976 election to Jimmy Carter.

Answer: Broccoli

He was quoted as saying "I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli." This prompted growers of the green vegetable to send tons of it to the White House (the vegetables were given to local food banks). Broccoli was also forbidden on Air force One as pork rinds made their way onto the plane's menu.

Answer: 1984

This book popularized the phrase 'Big Brother' and has been used to warn against too much governmental intrusion into the private lives of its citizens. (Some people say President George W Bush's actions after September 11th - like the creation of the Department of Homeland Security - are the beginnings of George Orwell's 'predictions.')

Answer: Babylon 5

"Babylon 5" is considered the first science-fiction saga to be aired in the United States because it had a 5-year arc storyline. Although this sort of story had been done in places like the UK, the science fiction shows which had aired previously were all episodic (you could pretty reasonably watch each episode separately). With "Babylon 5", however, each episode would make only partial sense if it was viewed alone. JMS, the creator of the show, incorporated elements from all sorts of sources (like George Orwell's "1984", Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings" etc.) which can be found by the astute "Babylon 5" viewer.

Answer: Oboe

The oboe is a French instrument whose French name (hautbois) literally means 'high wood.' It's a bit thinner than a clarinet and has a double reed, not a single reed with a ligature to hold it to a mouthpiece like the clarinet has. There are lower-voiced versions of this instrument, the most well-known of which is the English Horn. However, oboe d'amore and bass oboes do exist.

For those who answered bassoon, although it is a double reed instrument it does not look like a clarinet. The clarinet is a couple of feet long while most bassoons are about five feet long - double that if you 'unbend' it. The bassoon also has a lower-voiced sibling called the contrabassoon - which is even larger than a normal bassoon.