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Question 1 of 10
What name is shared, more or less, by a brand of footwear associated with basset hounds and by cornbread balls served in the US South?
Question 2 of 10
Elias Howe successfully sued Isaac Singer for violating his patent on what invention?
Question 3 of 10
Diaspora is the scattering of people from this present-day country. Aliyah is their return to it. What country?
Question 4 of 10
What ten-letter African country has four syllables, each of which is also a proper English word?
Question 5 of 10
After the first two cracked, the third version of this was created in 1753, by the firm of Pass and Stowe in Philadelphia. It's cracked now, too. What is it?
Question 6 of 10
Who has wanted to make a movie about the abolitionist John Brown, considered rebooting Bret Easton Ellis's Less Than Zero, wanted to make Casino Royale with Pierce Brosnan as Bond in the 60s, thought about making a third part in his famous series and wanted to bring together two brothers who had appeared in different movies for a prequel?
Question 7 of 10
What would you use a lathe for?
Question 8 of 10
He figured out gravity and the three laws of motion, but apparently never figured out how to get a woman into bed. Who?
Question 9 of 10
Brian Wilson wrote "Don't Worry Baby" for the Ronettes, but decided to record it himself, with what band?
Question 10 of 10
Despite having lost Texas, Neuvo Mexico and Alta California to the US, along with a good chunk of Neuva Vizcaya, what country still has 31 states, as of 2011?
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