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Saturday, January 30 Not all students are fans of their school's sports teams. Some have used votes on team mascot names as a chance to poke fun at the whole sports-obsessed culture on campuses. That's why the University of California-Irvine named its team the Anteaters,…Read more. Friday, January 29 One of the biggest comedians of the 1970s was born Frederick Karl Pruetzel, to a Hungarian father from Germany. He also had a Puerto Rican mother, though, and you know him as Freddie Prinze. In his stand-up routines, he called himself a Hunga Rican …Read more. Thursday, January 28 A few days ago, we mentioned that there were two well-known George Wallaces. There are also two somewhat-well-known George Segals. One George Segal is the banjo-playing actor best known for roles on the TV show "Just Shoot Me" and in the …Read more. Wednesday, January 27 When you think Freemasons, you think of powerful white men, covertly pulling the levers of power in their ruthless quest for world domination. And, also, Richard Pryor. The comic legend joined Henry Brown Lodge No. 22 in Peoria, Ill., a year after …Read more.

Thirty years ago today, militant Iranian students stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran, taking 90 staff and U.S. Marines hostage. Several women and African Americans were released, as well as one very ill man. A number of Americans hid in the Canadian embassy, which smuggled them out. The remaining 52 hostages were released 444 days later. One of the students, by the way, may have been Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Even under Communist rule, Catholics, including John Paul II, came to visit Lithuania's Hill of Crosses. For centuries, Catholic pilgrims have come and left behind crucifixes, and today there are some 50,000 of them there. Many of the crosses were left in memory of Lithuanian rebels who disappeared during anti-Russian rebellions in the 1800s, so the site has special significance when Lithuania was part of the Soviet Union, which tore down many of the crosses.

What name is shared by Philip Pirrip in a Dickens book, by a South Park character and by each member of Gladys Knight's backup band?

A) Pap

B) Pip

C) Pop

D) Pup

Previous answer: Stockholm is Sweden's capital.

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