- Historical Dates incl Battles & Wars (Year they began or start/finish years), 1666 - Great Fire of London (8.93)
- Capitals of the World, New Zealand - Wellington (8.85)
- State Capitals of America, Arkansas - Little Rock (pronounced Ark an' saw!) (8.82)
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- Capitals of the World, Jordan - Amman (8.75)
- Capitals of the World, Cayman Islands - Georgetown (8.75)
- Country or City Nicknames, Las Vegas - Sin City (8.75)
- State Capitals of Australia, South Australia - Adelaide (8.75)
- Boxing Weights Classes (from lightest to heaviest), 1. Straw (8.75)
- Phonetic Alphabet, O for Oscar (8.75)
- Maths Times Tables (cubed numbers), The cube of 4 is 64 (8.75)
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Arts & Literature
Miscellaneous
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'Doh Ray Me' is called the Tonic Sol-Fa
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'I Vow to Thee My Country' is in Holst's Jupiter
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'Ode to Joy' was in Beethoven's 9th symphony
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Aristotle, Socrates & Plato were the three great Greek philosophers
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Beethoven was born in Bonn
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Beethoven wrote 9 symphonies
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Donatello's famous works include David, St. Mark & Crucifix
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Frederic Chopin was a Polish composer
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Hans Christian Andersen was born in Odense, Denmark
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Ivy League: (American Universities) Cornell, Princeton, Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Dartmouth, Pennsylvania & Brown
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John Constable was an artist
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Joseph Haydn was the Father of the Symphony composing 104 of them!
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Key Signature order: Treble Clef FCGDAEB Bass Clef BEADGCF
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Modern day Paris was designed by Baron Haussmann
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Mount Rushmore - George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt & Abraham Lincoln
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Nessun Dorma is in the opera, Turandot
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Order of the vowels
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Santa's Reindeers are Blitzen Vixen Donner Dancer Dasher Prancer Comet Cupid
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Shakespeare's Hamlet took place in Elsinore Castle, Denmark
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Sonnet is a 14 line poem
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Sophocles, Euripides & Aeschylus were the 3 Greek Tragedians
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The Mousetrap had its world premiere in 1952
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The Passion Play is performed every ten years in Oberammergau, Germany (May to October)
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The Statue of Liberty holds the seven spiked torch in her right hand
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There are 88 keys on a piano
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Thumbelina was written by Hans Christian Andersen (author)
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William is the first name of Shakespeare
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William Shakespeare was born and died on April 23rd (23/4)
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William Shakespeare wrote 37 plays
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