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Who is George Washington?
He was the first President and commander of the Revolutionary War.
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Who is Beyonce?
This artist was the featured artist on Lady GaGa's "Telephone".
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What is The Bible?
This is the best-selling non-fiction book of all time with more than 2.5 billion copies sold worldwide.
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Who is Muhammad Ali?
This athlete coined the phrase "Fly like a butterfly, sting like a bee."
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What is The Gold Rush?
This event caused a mad dash to the west and also gave San Francisco's football team it's name.
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Who is The Plain White T's?
This band sang the 2007 hit "Hey There Delilah".
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What is Goosebumps?
This series of children's horror fiction novels by American author R. L. Stine, initially published by Scholastic Publishing often had taglines like, "It's a Real Dead End"
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Who is Wayne Gretzky?
This athlete used the phrase, "100% of the shots you don't take don't go in".
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What is the Articles of Confederation?
This document was the first attempt at writing a constitution.
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Who are the Eagles?
This band is soaring high with the best-selling album of all time (United States) for a duo or group.
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What is Mark Twain?
This is the pen-name of the Mississippi river-boat pilot who created the fictional characters of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.
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What is Romeo and Juliet?
It is from this Shakespearean play that the expression 'parting is such sweet sorrow' derives from?
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Who are Lewis and Clark?
These two men were sent by Jefferson to learn about and survey the newly acquired Louisiana territory and also discover its plant and animal life.
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Who is Shinia Twian?
She has the best-selling album of all time for a female artist in the United States.
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What is A Tale of Two Cities?
This Novel by Charles Dickens begins with the line, "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..."
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Who is Neil Armstrong?
This man said 'Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed'.
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Who is John Adams?
This President was the first to live in the White House.
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Who is Cinderella?
Who is the Disney Princess that sang this lyric, "A dream is a wish your heart makes when you're fast asleep."
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Who is Dr. Seuss?
In 1936 while crossing the Atlantic on the luxury liner Kungsholm, the sound of the ship’s engines annoyed him, and his wife suggested that he use their rhythm to help him write a book in rhyme.
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Who is Marie Antoinette?
When being told that her French subjects had no bread, she supposedly sniffed, “Qu’ils mangent de la brioche”
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