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In 2008, Terry Kniess got on the "Price is Right" stage by nailing the price exactly right. And when he made it to the Showcase Showdown, he got the price exactly right again becoming (possibly) the first person to ever do so. The producers were suspicious and stopped tape. Drew Carey was unenthusiastic. But Kniess wasn't cheating. He'd realized that items were reused with the same prices, and memorized the prices.

 

What city's first female mayor, Jane Byrne, was followed by its first black mayor, Harold Washington?

A) Chicago

B) Detroit

C) Los Angeles

D) New York City

 

Previous answer: Henry Laurens was in the Tower of London.

 

TRIVIA FANS: Send the trivia questions you've always wanted answered, or original TriviaBits ideas of your own, with your full name and hometown, to Paul Paquet at paul@triviahalloffame.com or visit him online at www.triviahalloffame.com.

 

Paul Paquet has been writing trivia since the early 1990s and has written roughly 100,000 questions.

For more, visit triviahalloffame.com or email him at paul@triviahalloffame.com.

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