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Questions:

1. Was Snoop Dogg a Crip or a Blood?
   
2. In which year was the first software MP3 encoder released: 1986, 1990, 1994, or 1998?
3. The pairing of salt and pepper as table condiments dates back to which century: 17th, 18th, 19th, or 20th?
4. Which of the following television shows is not a spinoff: The Colbert Report, The Cosby Show, Happy Days, Frasier, Melrose Place, NCIS, or The Simpsons?
5. Which one word can fill both of these blanks: _____ journalism, _____ pornography?
6. What special characteristic have lodestones?
7. The official airspeed record (for a manned, air-breathing jet aircraft) of 3529 km/h (2193 mph) was set in which decade: 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, or 2000s?
8. Given any separation of a plane into contiguous regions, producing a figure called a map, what is the maximum number of colours required to colour the regions of the map so that no two adjacent regions have the same colour?
9. How many centimetres in a metric foot?
10. In poetry, which of the following is not a metrical foot: a pyrrhic, an iamb, a makron, a spondee, or a trochee?

Answers:

1. Crip.
2. 1994. (The filename extension .mp3 was chosen the following year; previously, the files had been named .bit.)
3. 17th century. (Seventeenth-century French cuisine considered pepper the only spice which did not overpower the true taste of food.)
4. The Cosby Show.
5. Gonzo.
6. Magnetism. (Lodestones are naturally magnetised pieces of the mineral magnetite and were used as the first magnetic compasses.)
7. 1970s. (The record was set in 1976 by a Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird.)
8. Four.
9. 30.
10. Makron. (A pyrrhic consists of two short syllables; an iamb, a short syllable followed by a long; a trochee, a long followed by a short; and a spondee, two long syllables.)