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By The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
This article was published July 21, 2009 at 2:52 a.m.
LITTLE ROCK — 1. Who built a huge estate at San Simeon in California?
2. What two lines precede these Simple Simon nursery rhyme lines: "... He pricked his fingers very much / Which made poor Simon whistle"?
3. Who played the role of the genie on the television show I Dream of Jeannie?
4. Only one of the following makes of automobiles was not made in the same factory: Auburn, Cord, Crosley and Duesenberg. The exception?
5. Fill in the blank. Rome and __________ were adversaries in the Punic Wars of more than 2,000 years ago.
6. Who plays the role of the movie producer who devises a phony war in the 1997 motion picture Wag the Dog?
7. What was Dwight D. Eisenhower's age, within three years, when he was named to command the European Theater of Operations in World War II?
8. Name the three countries that border on Jordan.
Answers 1. William Randolph Hearst 2."Simple Simon went to look / If plums grew on a thistle ..." 3. Barbara Eden 4. Crosley 5. Carthage 6. Dustin Hoffman 7. He was 51, in 1942. 8. Israel, Saudi Arabia and Syria
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