Questions On Turning Thirty-One, part I by KlionskyG

US HISTORY
Under the 31st US Congress, the 31st state was admitted to the Union. Name the state, one of only a few added after 1800 that was not previously an organized territory.

GAMES/SPORT
What team defeated the New England Patriots in Super Bowl XXXI, scoring on (at the time) both the longest Super Bowl TD pass (81 yards to Antonio Freeman) and the longest Super Bowl kickoff return (99 yards by Desmond Howard)?

LITERATURE
In the 31st and final chapter of which book will you find praises of a "woman of valor"? "Grace is deceitful, and beauty is vain; But a woman that fears the Lord, she shall be praised."

GEOGRAPHY
What US Interstate roughly parallels US-31 all the way from Mobile, AL through Nashville and Louisville before veering west in Indianapolis?

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CLASSICAL MUSIC
What prolific composer, born on the 31st day of the year, died at age 31? He is particularly known for his piano works and his settings of poems by Goethe and Schiller.

GRAB BAG
"On our first date, I treated her to the finest ice cream Baskin-Robbins had to offer, our dinner table doubling as the curb. I kissed her, and it tasted like chocolate."

This is a quote from a 3,000 pound monument near the center of ZIP code 60615. Who is "her"?

GAMES/SPORT
31 is the minimum number of moves required to move a stack of five discs of increasing diameter from one post to either of the other two according to the rules of what game, introduced in 1883 by French mathematician Édouard Lucas?

FILM
31 is the combined number of lifetime Academy Awards won by the man who has won the highest total, the woman who has won the highest total, and the oldest person ever to win an Oscar. Name any of these three people.

GEOGRAPHY
You would dial +31 to reach someone in what country, the most densely populated European country larger than 200 square miles?

For what it's worth, this country is also mentioned in Article 31 of the Treaty of Versailles and is part of Region 31 of the Sweet Adelines International (along with England, Scotland, and Wales).

SCIENCE
1,1'-(2,2,2-Trichloroethane-1,1-diyl)bis(4-chlorobenzene) has a more common name that has 31 letters (and no numbers). But this molecule is best known by a much shorter name.

Answer either:
- What are the 1st, 9th, and 17th letters of the 31-letter name?
- Alternatively, give the chemical formula of this molecule.

GAMES/SPORT
Bob Gibson set the modern (post-1920) record with a 1.12 ERA for the Cardinals in 1968, "the year of the pitcher". What pitcher won the World Series despite losing to Gibson both times they faced each other? During the regular season, he set the modern record with 31 wins, en route to being unanimously voted as both the AL Cy Young award winner and the AL Most Valuable Player?

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GRAB BAG
As of 2018, what was produced in 31 countries? The United States produced the highest quantity of it by far, but it only satisfied approximately a fifth of the national need.

France produced less than half as much, Ukraine less than a tenth, and Hungary and Slovakia far less -- but only in these four countries did it provide more than half of the national need.

CURRENT EVENTS
Last question in Part I; I hope to curry enough favor with you that you come back in a few weeks for Part II. And now on to the question:

In February 2019, less than ten miles from downtown Toledo, OH, Anthony Miracola set a world record by doing what 31 times in a minute?