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1. The winner of the 2005 French Open became the youngest men's Grand Slam champion since Michael Chang won the French Open in 1989. Who was this 19-year-old sensation?
2. What South American country had mass anti-government demonstrations in its capital, despite an offer of resignation by its president, Carlos Mesa?
3. MTV bestowed its first lifetime achievement award to what celebrity at the 2005 MTV Movie Awards?
4. Glynn Birch became the first male president of what organization?
5. Ever since the discovery of the presumed-extinct ivory-billed woodpecker in the United States, locals have taken to getting mohawk-like haircuts called the Woodpecker and eating ivory-billed burgers as a way to celebrate their new-found neighbor. In the marshes of what state was the woodpecker spotted?
6. What actor from the film "All the President's Men" played the title role in the new Broadway production entitled "Mark Twain Tonight"?
7. Republican Katherine Harris, former Florida Secretary of State, made famous in 2000 with her pivotal role in the U.S. presidential election, announced that she was going to run for U.S. Senate in 2006. What Democratic senator is she looking to unseat?
8. Michael Cunningham won the 1998 Pulitizer Prize for "The Hours" in which he connects three novellas through Virginia Woolf's "Mrs. Dalloway". This time, in his new novel "Specimen Days," he pulls three stories together through the work of which noted poet?
9. What famous writer, according to Navy records released by the National Archives, told doctors he was "writing a novel, in the style of James Joyce ... and averaging approximately 16 hours daily?"
10. Eighth grader Anurag Kashyap won the 78th annual National Scripps Spelling Bee by correctly spelling this word meaning melodic tone:
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