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Trivia Questions

At the touch of a button on July 1, 1939, this Clay Puett invention made its horse-racing debut

Charles Goodyear vulcanized rubber, and this Charles used rubber to waterproof cloth

The lower part of this New York river is an arm of the Atlantic ocean

In Cole Porter's song, these words follow "can't look at hobbles and I can't stand fences"

Frederick II agreed to lead one of these for the pope, but due to an epidemic he didn't go and was excommunicated

Of desert, swamp or forest, the type of land composing almost one third of the U.S.

France's 1778 recognition of this nation's independence was a virtual declaration of war on Britain

They are South Dakota's example of dome mountains, which are raised up by pressure in the earth's crust

The congress held here hoped to restore Europe to the way it was before Napoleon

This war was thought to be mythical until late 19th century excavations proved it really occurred