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Q 01In which US state is the National Mustard Museum?
- AVermont
- BWisconsin
- COregon
- DOhio
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Wisconsin
Founder Barry Levenson, a former Wisconsin assistant attorney general, started collecting in 1986 to console himself after the Boston Red Sox lost that year's World Series.
Q 02What makes up the collection of Zagreb's Museum of Broken Relationships?
- ALetters between estranged family members
- BShattered artworks restored by visitors
- CDonated mementos from failed relationships
- DDivorce court documents from around the world
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Donated mementos from failed relationships
Donated mementos from failed relationships, each with its donor's anonymous story; the collection toured for four years before opening in 2010 as Zagreb's first privately owned museum.
Q 03Yokohama's Cup Noodles Museum honors which inventor, who created instant ramen in a small work shed?
- AJiro Ono
- BMomofuku Ando
- CYoshiaki Shiraishi
- DTakeshi Yasuma
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Momofuku Ando
Momofuku Ando invented Chicken Ramen in 1958 in a small work shed, then followed it 13 years later with Cup Noodles, which carried instant noodles around the world.
Q 04Keswick's Derwent Pencil Museum exists because of a 1500s deposit of what mineral?
- AGraphite
- BLead
- CCalcium carbonate
- DSlate
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Graphite
Graphite from Seathwaite was so pure it could simply be sawn into sticks, and Elizabethan England even lined cannonball moulds with it for rounder, farther-flying shot.
Q 05In which city is the Sulabh International Museum of Toilets?
- ACairo
- BMumbai
- CLondon
- DNew Delhi
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New Delhi
The Sulabh International Museum of Toilets in New Delhi was established in 1992. Its exhibits come from 50 countries and are arranged chronologically - Ancient, Medieval and Modern - covering 3000 BC to the end of the 20th century.
Q 06A museum in Fort Mitchell, Kentucky, claims to be the world's only one devoted to which performance art?
- AVentriloquism
- BMime
- CPuppetry
- DMagic
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Ventriloquism
Ventriloquism: Vent Haven grew from businessman W.S. Berger's roughly 500 dummies and now holds more than 1,000 ventriloquist figures from 20 countries.
Q 07The Derwent Pencil Museum's secret WWII pencils concealed what to help downed airmen escape?
- AA map and a tiny compass
- BA razor blade and matches
- CLock picks and wire
- DA message and a whistle
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A map and a tiny compass
A map and a tiny compass: pencils hiding escape maps and compasses were among MI9's gadgets, and gadget-maker Charles Fraser-Smith is often cited as the model for Bond's Q.
Q 08Berlin's Deutsches Currywurst Museum celebrated a street food credited to which woman?
- AHildegard Knef
- BMarlene Dietrich
- CLeni Riefenstahl
- DHerta Heuwer
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Herta Heuwer
Herta Heuwer is credited with selling the first currywurst in Berlin in 1949, spiced with curry powder from British soldiers, though food historians suspect several vendors had a hand.
Q 09What are the volunteer tour guides at the free SPAM Museum in Austin, Minnesota, called?
- ASpam Scouts
- BSpambassadors
- CMeat Mentors
- DCan Captains
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Spambassadors
The SPAM Museum calls its volunteer guides Spambassadors. They offer visitors small samples of SPAM on toothpicks or pretzel sticks, known as Spamples.
Q 10Columbus, Georgia's lunch box museum celebrates a craze launched in 1950 by which TV cowboy's box?
- ARoy Rogers
- BGene Autry
- CHopalong Cassidy
- DThe Lone Ranger
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Hopalong Cassidy
Hopalong Cassidy: Aladdin's 1950 box was the first children's lunch box based on a TV show, and sales leapt to 600,000 in its first year.
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