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By The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

LITTLE ROCK — 1. Two men, each named David, pitched perfect major league baseball games in 1998 and 1999.

Identify either pitcher.

2.What role does Claude Rains play in the classic movie Casablanca?

3. Whom did Ava Gardner marry in 1942 and divorce the next year?

4. Who was vice president of the United States during the first two terms of President Franklin D. Roosevelt?

5. What kind of person is a “jughead”?

6. Australia’s largest city, Sydney, is in what state?

7. Is gun metal used strictly for making guns?

8. The tropical annual plant Jamestown weed is also known by another name. What is it?

9. Within 2 feet, how tall is a giraffe at birth?

Answers 1. In 1998, David Wells of the New YorkYan kees had a no-hitter against the Minnesota Twins, and in ’99 David Cone of the Yankees had a no-hitter against the Montreal Expos in an interleague game. 2. Captain Renault, the police chief in Casa blanca. 3. Mickey Rooney 4. John Nance Garner. He lived to age 98. 5. The word is slang for a stupid or foolish person. 6. New South Wales 7. Gun metal is also used for casting ma chine parts. 8. Jimson weed 9. About 6 feet

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