Is it that you were too lazy to think of new questions so you recycled
questions from previous rotating quizzes?
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> 1. what year did Connie Willis win her first hugo award, or name the year she won 2 hugo awards.
1981
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> 2. in "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", we learn that hagrid has a half-brother with an even shorter name; tony maudsley played him in the movie, to the extent that any human did. What is that half-brother's name?
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> 3. What writing system in use today can be seen as having been the first to use a binary encoding scheme for its characters?
Braille
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> 4. what is the name of europe's oldest insane asylum? you may give either the short name or its much longer full name.
Bedlam
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> 5. why was Harlan Ellison fired as a writer for disney studios on his first day at work?
suggesting inappropriate stories for Disney characters
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> 6. what movie was the next best picture oscar winner after "titanic"?
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> 7. name the welsh poet after whom frank lloyd wright named his wisconsin summer home.
Talesin
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> 8. what was the first fleet-to-fleet naval battle in history in which neither side's ships sighted nor fired upon each other?
Hey that was one of mine... Battle of the Coral Sea
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> 9. what organization was established on april 4th, 1949?
NATO
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> 10. who quit _the tonight show_ on april 4th 1967?
Steve Allen
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