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  • In 2000, Dan Greaney introduced the notion of Donald Trump as President of the United States into a grimly dystopian episode of this TV series. Was it Family Guy, South Park, The Simpsons or American Dad?
    The Simpsons
  • What is the adverb form of coincidence? Where is the main stress?
    coinciDentally
  • True or false: You can remove chewing gum from your hair by using peanut butter
    True
  • True or false: Chewing gum is bad for your concentration.
    False. It actually helps you to concentrate
  • The famous pyschologist, Carl Jung, experienced a strange coincidence during an analysis session with a patient. The patient was describing to Jung a dream she'd had about an Egyptian scarab beetle. What happened next?
    A scarab beetle flew through the window
  • True or false: If you are chewing gume when cutting onions,it will stop your eyes from watering.
    True
  • What is a word that means based on mathematical data?
    Statistically
  • What is the adjective form of mystery? Where is the main stress?
    mySterious
  • What is another expression for coincidence?
    a twist of fate
  • What is a word that means having an important and usually negative effect on the future?
    fateful
  • What is the adjective form of science? Where is the main stress?
    scienTific
  • On October 25 1988, a soccer game took place in the Congo between the two teams Bena Tshadi and Basangana. All 22 players came down with food poisoning and the match had to be adandoned. True or false?
    False. A single bolt of lightning killed the entire Bena Tshadi team
  • What is the adverb form of theory? Where is the main stress?
    theoRetically
  • True or false: A man named Joseph Figlock was walking down a street in Detroit when a baby fell from a high window and landed on top of him. A year later, A baby fell from a window again and was again caught by Figlock
    True
  • What is another word for unlikely?
    Improbable
  • What author was born on the day of the appearance of Halley’s Comet in 1835, and died on the day of its next appearance in 1910? Edgar Allen Poe, William Faulkener, Mark Twain or Sam Halley?
    Mark Twain
  • True or false: The first name for chewing gum was “Blibber-Blubber”
    True
  • If not for the 200-year difference, this American rock guitarist and George Handel would have been neighbours. They lived at 23 and 25 Brook Street, respectively, in London. Was it Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Brian Jones, Mark Knopfler
    Jimi Hendrix.Jimi Hendrix claimed to see the ghost of the composer who lived next door 200 years before.
  • On March 6 2002, two 71 year-old twin brothers were killed in bicycle accidents on the same stretch of road, just two hours apart. In which country did this coincidence take place? Austria, Japan, Finland or Switzerland?
    Finland
  • What is another way of saying extremely rare?
    one-in-a-million
  • How many times was professional golfer, Lee Trevino, struck by lightling?
    3 times
  • Give three words that mean (the) chances
    the odds, probability, likelihood