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A Series Of Series

1. Name the ballplayer who holds the record for the most World Series games played. We'll list the top three Series players.

2. Not counting special situations, how many years must a player have played in the Major Leagues and into retirement before he can be voted into the Hall of Fame?

3. Four ballplayers were inducted into the Hall of Fame less than five years into their retirement. Name them.

4. What is the common name of the headquarters of the Criminal Investigation Department of the London Metropolitan Police?

5. This famed pianist-composer would be happy to return to Poland. He would not return to Poland while it was subject to foreign suppression, but carried with him a small urn filled with dirt from Poland. Name him.

6. Most people believed this product should not be treated as food. It was considered deadly by some. Thomas Jefferson was one of the first to treat it as food. What was this plant?

7. Name the commander of the first expedition to cruise around the world.

8. Which of the Founding Fathers was known as the "Father of the Constitution"?

9. What is the term for food covered with liquor, usually brandy, and ignited before it's served?

10.

Name the first female solo-transatlantic pilot.

Answers

1. The top three World Series players are Yogi Berra, 75, Mickey Mantle, 65, and Elston Howard, 54.

2. Except in special cases, a ballplayer must have played 10 years in the Major League and been retired for five years.

3. The four former players who were inducted into the Hall of Fame fewer than five years after they had left their active baseball careers were Babe Ruth in 1936, Lou Gehrig in 1939, Joe DiMaggio in 1955, and Roberto Clemente in 1973. Clemente was elected following his death during a charitable air flight to help storm victims.

4. We know it as Scotland Yard or the New Scotland Yard.

5. The famed musical wizard was Frederic Chopin (1810-49).

6. The questioned edible was the tomato.

7. The cruise commander was Ferdinand Magellan (c.1480-1521).

8. It was James Madison, who co-authored the "Federalist Papers."

9. The food treatment is flambe.

10. It was Amelia Earhart (1898-1937).

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