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Sunday Special - Either / Or


1. What disease, known as "the silent epidemic", is the number one cause of kidney disease in the world?
a. - Diabetes
b. - Alcoholism
2. Is scarlet fever a bacterial or a viral infection?
a. - Viral
b. - Bacterial
3. In 2002, American citizen Caesar Barber became known for his lawsuits
against what industry? a. - Asbestos
b. - Fast food
4. She played Carrie in her first movie role and went on to play the girl who dropped her ice cream cone. Both roles were uncredited.
a. - Natalie Wood
b. - Sissy Spacek
5. Whose poetry encouraged us to take the road "less traveled by"?
a. - Walt Whitman
b. - Robert Frost
6. Which conqueror said, "Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools."?
a. - Alexander the Great
b. - Napoleon Bonaparte
7. 'Waterlilies' was painted by whom?
a. - Monet
b. - Manet
8. Novelist Agatha Christie visited South Africa and Hawaii in 1922. In both places she enthusiastically took up a newly fashionable outdoor activity.
What was it?
a. - Gardening
b. - Surfing
9. After which major war was the UN founded?
a. - WW I
b. - WW II
10. Who was the judge who presided over the Watergate trials?
a. - John Sirica
b. - Sam Irvin
11. Is a Siamese fighting fish a freshwater or salt water fish?
a. - Fresh
b. - Salt
12. Belle Boyd was a spy during the American Civil War : Which side did she spy for ?
a. - North
b. - South
13. The League of Nations dissolved on April 18, 1946, about three months after the first meeting of this organization.
a. - UN
b. - NATO
14. How is the scientific name of an animal written?
a. - Species, then Genus
b. - Genus, then Species
15. Why was the British Christmas plum pudding named as such when it contained no plums at all?
a. - The word "plums" once described raisins
b. - Plums were representative of Christ .
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1. - a
2. - b
3. - b
4. - a
5. - b
6. - b
7. - a
8. - b
9. - b
10. - a
11. - a
12. - b
13. - a
14. - b
15. - a
 

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