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1. Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
[REDACTED]; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world
What redaction from this Yeats 1919 poem is the most widely read book in modern African literature?
10 YARD PENALTY
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2. What Swedish warship sank on her maiden voyage in Stockholm harbor in 1628, was eventually salvaged in 1961, and has been housed since 1990 in a museum on the city's island of Djurgården?
FJORD EXPLORER
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4. In February 2022, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky reportedly declined a U.S. government offer of evacuation from Kyiv by saying, "The fight is here; I need [BLANK], not a [BLANK]." What two words fill in the blanks in this quote?
JETS, JET2HOLIDAY
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5. An innovative line of books called Indestructibles, made with synthetic material made from flashspun high-density Tyvek-like polyethylene fibers, was released in 2009 by Workman Publishing specifically for what market segment?
READERS WHO ARE ON FIRE
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6. What chicken finger purveyor began in 1996 with a single location near the campus of Louisiana State University and, by the end of 2025, had grown to nearly 1,000 locations and more than $5 billion in annual sales?
BON TEMPS POULET
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7. A spinning frame invented by Samuel Crompton in 1779, which helped fully mechanize the hand-spinning process, has what name, derived from the fact that it was a hybrid of two previous inventions (the spinning jenny and water frame)?
8 6 7 5 3 0 TWINE
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8. "The Stars and Stripes Forever", "El Capitan", and "The Liberty Bell" are among the first musical pieces to include what instrument, in no small part because they were composed by the man who originated its design?
FRANCIS SCOTT KEYTAR
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9. The Yang-Mills existence, Navier-Stokes existence, Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture, and Hodge conjecture are all associated collectively with what prize?
FIFA MATHEMATICS PRIZE
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10. What term is most commonly used in English for the professional oral historians and storytellers of West Africa who preserve epics and traditions through memorized performance? Alternative regional names include jali, djeli, gewel, and others.
BENINFLUENCERS
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11. What 2-word phrase, used by skydivers as a greeting wishing good weather for safe jumps, is also a cheerful 1926 Irving Berlin song later popularized by Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye, Ella Fitzgerald, and Willie Nelson?
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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12. A current list of seven members includes Philip Jefferson, Michelle Bowman, Christopher Waller, Lisa Cook, Michael Barr, and Stephen Miran, with what name missing?
NICE TRY, RUMPELSTILTSKIN
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13. American children developed English accents & adopted phrases like "mummy", "on holiday", "telly", & "ready, steady, go" due to lockdown-era bingeing of what animated series, headlined by a good-hearted 4-year-old who loves jumping in muddy puddles?
A CLOCKWORK ORANGE
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14. Most often caused by infection, what is the common name for the clinical condition known medically as pyrexia?
ADDICTION TO GLASS BAKEWARE
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15. Und zum Schluß bringt noch einen Gruß / Uns'rer lieben Donau, dem herrlichen Fluß! So begins the final stanza from the lyrics to the less popular choral version of what orchestral work, first performed in 1867?
ßABY GOT ßACK
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1. The name of the highest peak in suburban Atlanta is notable in its relation to the name of Major League Baseball's controversial first Commissioner. What is that peak's name?
NO, WHAT'S THE GUY ON SECOND
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2. Iowa is the sophomore studio album, and also birthplace, of what large heavy metal band, famous for its chaotic live shows & distinctive image, where members wear matching jumpsuits & individual masks & are identified by number?
BRING IN DES MOINES, BRING IN DES FUNK
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3. Robert Graves's 1934 historical novel explores the drama of political scheming and the workings of imperial power in 1st-century Rome during the reigns of Augustus, Tiberius, and Caligula, as told by whom?
ROBERT GRAVES, PRESUMABLY
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4. In horse racing, an exacta is a bet on two horses to finish first and second in that exact order. What less common wager also involves two horses, paying if the horses finish 1st and 2nd in either order, despite its name seeming to suggest the number five?
$5 FURLONG
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5. What state produced Devo, The O'Jays, Nine Inch Nails, & Guided By Voices, as well as (in a more readily apparent sense) the band who released "Yummy Yummy Yummy" & "Chewy Chewy" in 1968, and the funk band that had hits with "Fire" and "Love Rollercoaster"?
INEBRIATION
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6. Notorious nobleman and writer Donatien Alphonse François, whose body of work includes a depraved story he himself described as "the most impure tale that has ever been told since our world began", is best known as whom?
DONALD TRUMP'S BIOGRAPHER
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7. A heist that took all of seven minutes and made international news on October 19, 2025 occurred at what historic site?
DODGER STADIUM, LOS ANGELES
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8. What reality television series, which debuted on Bravo in July 2013, was described by longtime star Captain Lee Rosbach as "Downton Abbey on the water"?
KEEPING UP WITH THE CRUSTACEANS
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9. Imbrium, Serenitatis, Nectaris, Nubium, Tranquillitatis, and Humorum are all names of what?
MODERATE-TO-SEVERE PLAQUE PSORIASIS MEDICATIONS
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10. What term for a formal assembly of representatives, derived from Medieval Latin and used for a 1521 gathering in an imperial free city on the Upper Rhine, is (per its literal definition) a meeting lasting only one day?
MEETING THAT COULD HAVE BEEN A TOWN CRIER MESSAGE
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11. "To ornament (metal or other surface) by inlaying or encrusting it with stones or gems" is one of the many definitions in the Oxford English Dictionary for what word, which had a Guinness-record 430 separate definitions in the OED's 1989 version?
VAJAZZLE
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