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Оглавление1 Which “Gateway to the West” is the largest city in the state of Nebraska?
2 Which company released the motion picture film format, Super 8, in 1965?
3 Robert De Niro learned to play the saxophone for which 1977 film?
4 The last US president born as a British subject, who was the first president to die in office?
5 John Schnatter is the eponymous founder of which delivery pizza chain?
6 Which US songwriter had his right leg amputated in 1958, a consequence of a 1937 riding accident?
7 Which US psychologist proposed a hierarchy of needs in his 1943 paper A Theory of Human Motivation?
8 Who is the US composer of a 1933 overture to The School for Scandal and the 1958 opera Vanessa?
9 Christopher Nicholas Sarantakos is the real name of which American magician and illusionist (b.1967)?
10 Who has hosted the TV series Inside the Actors Studio since its debut in 1994?
11 The Shure 55H Series II is known as ‘The legendary “Elvis-…”’ what?
12 Calling itself the “Geographical Center of North America”, Rugby is a town in which state?
13 The Gibbs-Coolidge paintings are the only surviving complete set of which portraits?
14 Which TV miniseries centred on the Marines, Robert Leckie, Eugene Sledge and John Basilone?
15 The dry goods store A. Schwab is the only original business remaining on which Memphis street?
16 Using the stereolithography process, Chuck Hull of 3D Systems designed the first working what?
17 Which American (1908–91) is the only two-time winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics?
18 Which NFL franchise is the only not-for-profit, community-owned major league professional sports team in the US?
19 Nicknamed “The Thumper”, which Boston Red Sox legend had a career batting average of .344?
20 Which US ballet dancer is pictured?
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