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Second Fiddle: Multiple Choice
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- 01At the 49th Academy Awards, which of these iconic films lost the Best Picture award to "Rocky"?
- 02Who was the leader of the Soviet Union for a brief period between Yuri Andropov and Mikhail Gorbachev?
- 03Excluding the greater metropolitan area, what is the second-largest city proper in Canada by population?
- 04After Mount Kilimanjaro, what is the second-highest mountain in Africa?
- 05Who was the runner-up when Roger Bannister famously became the first person to run a mile in under four minutes?
- 06Which Japanese author is frequently mentioned as a perennial contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature but has yet to win?
- 07Who independently conceived of the theory of evolution through natural selection around the same time as Charles Darwin?
- 08What is the second-longest river in South America after the Amazon?
- 09Which scientist's 1928 experiment with pneumonia-causing bacteria first demonstrated a "transforming principle" that was later identified as DNA?
- 10Which dynasty immediately preceded the Ming Dynasty in China?
- 11Who was the original drummer for The Beatles before being replaced by Ringo Starr in 1962?
- 12Who did Muhammad Ali defeat in the famous 1974 "Rumble in the Jungle" heavyweight championship fight?
- 13Who was the last Anglo-Saxon king of England, defeated by William the Conqueror at the Battle of Hastings?
- 14Who served as Abraham Lincoln's vice president during his first term in office?
- 15Who was the second person to walk on the moon, immediately after Neil Armstrong?
- 16The element Gallium was discovered in 1875, fulfilling a prediction by Dmitri Mendeleev who had called it by what placeholder name?
- 17Harper Lee's novel "Go Set a Watchman," published in 2015, was the controversial first draft of which earlier classic?
- 18From which specific form of Latin did the modern Romance languages like French, Spanish, and Italian directly descend?
- 19Which contemporary of Isaac Newton claimed that Newton had stolen his work on the inverse-square law of gravitation?
- 20After Ferdinand Magellan was killed in the Philippines, who took command of the expedition and completed the first circumnavigation of the globe?