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Who is Abraham Lincoln?
He was the 16th President of the United States
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1957
This year was Stony Brook founded.
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What is The Pacific Ocean?
This ocean is the largest.
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What are London & Paris?
The two capital cities that are the cities in Charles Dicken's "A Tale of Two Cities"
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What is Mardi Gras?
This festival in the U.S. referred to as "Fat Tuesday"
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Who is Albert Einstein?
This person published the General Theory of Relativity in 1915
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The Colonial Athletic Association
The conference the Stony Brook football team joined in 2013.
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What is Arizona?
This state has the Grand Canyon.
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What is Moby-Dick by Herman Melville?
The famous novel that begins with the line, "Call me Ishmael"
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What is the Capybara?
This animal, found in South America, is the world's largest rodent.
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Who is Paul Pierce?
This NBA player goes by the nickname "The Truth"
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Biology, Psychology, Health Science, Business Management, Economics, Sociology, Computer Science, English, Political Science, and Applied Mathematics & Statistics
7 of the 10 most popular majors at Stony Brook.
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Who is Vishnu?
Krishna & Rama are avatars for this Hindu God
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Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
In which book does the reader encounter the wonderfully tiny inhabitants of Lilliput?
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What is Salt?
The only rock regularly eaten by humans is
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Who is Ludwig van Beethoven?
This person composed the piece titled "Fur Elise"?
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98%
The percentage of instructional faculty that hold doctoral degrees or the highest degrees in their fields.
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What is Mandarin Chinese
The most commonly spoken language in the world?
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Who is Grendel?
The name of the monster in "Beowulf"?
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What is the manticore?
This mythological beast has the head of a man, the body of a lion, and the tail and feet of a dragon
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Who is Hugh Hefner?
This person holds the Guinness World Record for the longest surviving editor-in-chief of a magazine?
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Shirley Strum Kenny (1994-2009)
Our current President is Samuel L. Stanley Jr., the president of the university before him was...
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Who are China, France, Russia, United Kingdom, United States?
The five permanent members of the UN Security Council?
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They are all murderers
What do the narrators of the Edgar Allan Poe stories "The Black Cat," "The Tell-Tale Heart," and "The Cask of Amontillado" all have in common?
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What is Hypertext Mark-up Language?
HTML stands for...
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