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FRIDAY 5 THE HARD WAY
7/18/14

1. March is the third month of what calendar?

GREGORIAN made by Pope Gregory XIII in 1582 as a corrected version of the Julian calendar.

2. What is the term for a solid figure with flat faces that are polygons?

POLYHEDRON

3. Fearing that young boys might not read a book written by a woman, her publishers demanded that she use two initials, rather than her full first name. Who is this successful writer?

Joanne Kathleen (JK) Rowling

4. The 1985 film, The Jewel of the Nile , was the sequel to what movie, and who were the two main stars?

ROMANCING THE STONE / KATHLEEN TURNER / MICHAEL DOUGLAS

5. Populated by Polynesians as early as 1000 B.C. this island group in the Pacific was first sighted by European explorers in 1722, and since 1899 has been administered by the United States. The capital is Pago Pago. What is it?

American Samoa; half credit for Samoa, different country.

 

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