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Published:July 14, 2009, 6:47 AM

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Updated: August 21, 2010, 12:38 AM

1. Name the two stars of the MGM movie “Pat and Mike.”

2. Winston Churchill and the British Conservative Party lost control of Parliament immediately after World War II. Who succeeded Churchill as prime minister?

3. In Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Ugly Duckling,” how does the “duckling” find out that he is really a beautiful white swan?

4. Was John F. Kennedy the youngest U. S. president?

5. Is West Virginia larger or smaller geographically than Virgina?

6. Did the Brooklyn Dodgers ever win a World Series?

7. On which side did the Indians fight in the Seven Years War in the 1700s?

8. What colors did early Egyptians use to decorate their eyes?

9.Who preceded John Paul II as pope?

10. What was Gene Autry’s theme song?

ANSWERS

1. Spencer Tracy (Mike Conovan) and Katharine Hepburn (Pat Pemberton).

2. Clement Attlee.

3. He sees his reflection in the water of a little lake.

4. No, although he was the youngest elected president, entering that office at age 43. Vice President Theodore Roosevelt succeeded to the presidency at age 42, upon the death of William McKinley.

5. Smaller. West Virginia is less than three-fifths the size of Virginia.

6. Once, in 1955 against the New York Yankees. The Brooklyn Dodgers lost eight World Series. The Dodgers in Los Angeles have won five and lost four World Series.

7. They fought with French Canadian colonists against British and American colonists.

8. They painted the undersides green and used black on the lids, lashes and eyebrows.

9. John Paul I.

10. “Back in the Saddle Again,” by Autry and Ray Whitley.

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