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What makes a waltzing mouse waltz?
What does weasel mean in pop goes the weasel?
Why are French soldiers called poilus?
Which is correct, possum or opossum?
What was the tune the old cow died of?
Who said: "Where MacGregor sits is the head of the table"?
Why is a kind of wine called port?
Why are civilian clothes called mufti?
Which is correct aluminum or aluminium?
At what age do the wisdom teeth appear?
Who were the orginal Siamese twins?
How often does the heart beat?
Did Darwin originate the theory of evolution?
What is an Enoch Arden law?
Who said: "See Naples and die"?
What does bonanza mean?
Why is a flowering plant called the dahlia?
Who said: "Truth is stranger than fiction"?
Who said: "The pen is mightier than the sword"?
Do alligators often kill people?
How did the custom of sending valentines originate?
How did kiosk originate?
How did nose for news originate?
What does Buenos Aires mean?
How did hollyhocks get their name?
What was the potion drunk by Socrates?
What does Arms in hotel names signify?
What is the Grand Chaco?
What is a dead march?
which is correct whisky or whiskey?
Why may women propose in leap year?
How did fathom originate?
What does send to Coventry mean?
How did Ireland get its name?
What is a filbert?
How did geezer originate?
Who was "the Knight of the Cloak"?
How did buckwheat originate?
Was the roc a real bird?
Who first said: "March comes in like a lion"?
What do Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego mean?
Which is correct, humblebee or bumblebee?
What are eyestones?
Why is a kind of ale called porter?
What is a hecatomb?
How are Uruguay and Paraguay pronounced?
Why is a hotel proprietor called a Boniface?
Who said: "I am monarch of all I survey"?
Who determines the number of Catholic Cardinals?
What is a trade rat?
How did polemics originate?
What is suede?
What does by inch of Candle mean?
How is the name of the Willamette River pronounced?
How did Peru get its name?
Which is correct, Persia or Iran?
What is poplin?
What is the meaning of "Nine tailors make a man"?
How do bazaar and bizarre differ?
What is the Portland vase?
How is Delhi pronounced?
What does supercilious mean?
What is a Bohemian?
Who first said: "Murder will out"?
What is a holocaust?
When was snuff first used?
Why does snow melt around trees?
Who invented glass?
Is crocodile meat edible?
What country was named after a dyewood?
What is Couéism?
How did Argentina get its name?
How are mirages produced?
Who was known as "the Divine Sarah"?
What is meant by the leaves of Vallombrosa?
How did banjo originate?
How did stuffed shirt originate?
Who said the Battle of Waterloo was won at Eton?
How did subpoena originate?
How long do crocodiles and alligators live?
What was Darwin's religion?
What is the largest reptile?
What causes the northern lights?
What is the Boiling Lake?
Is got or gotten the past participle of get?
Are rats native to America?
Does it take more posts to fence over a hill?
Which is heavier, wet or dry sand?
Do bats migrate?
How did under the rose come to mean "in secret"?
Why is the horseshoe associated with good luck?
Which is correct, Korea or Chosen?
pig Nero fiddle while Rome burned?
Who wrote the Negro spirituals?
Why do people say, "God bless you," when one sneezes?
What was the weight of medieval armor?
Which came first, the hen or the egg?
Why are members of the Society of Friends called Quakers?
Did the Colossus of Rhodes bestride the harbor?
Can tattooing marks be removed?
What is whalebone?
Who invented the wheel?
Are the eyes of Chinese actually slanted?
What causes the tides?
Why are cranberries so called?
Why are firecrackers used at Christmas in the South?
Who invented rayon?
Is there a tribe of people with tails?
How much does the human brain weigh?
Why was the Russian emperor called czar?
How did the goose hangs high originate?
Why is March 17 St. Patrick's Day?

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