Five question general knowledge by RalliP

Champion(s):

McClintockJ

akambour
Full price for gum? That dog won't hunt, monsignor!

LivenickT

ChernicoffS
Even the president of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked. —Bob Dylan


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Quiz Description

quick general knowledge quiz. I am in corona-quarantine now after traveling, gonna see how many of these quizzes I can write.

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7 GoodmanDL 146 84 15
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8 emilyaviva 139 81 15
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9 MoskowitzJim 136 79 15
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13 ecpekkle 124 68 15
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Questions:

What Soviet grandmaster faced off with comrade Anatoly Karpov for the World Chess Championship five times between 1984 and 1990? This man first claimed the title belt by winning the second match, and he retained the championship by winning or tying each of the following matches.

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Garry Kasparov

Dean, Jess, and Logan are prominent love interests of what fictional character?

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Rory Gilmore

Most large mountain ranges originate at the boundary of two tectonic plates. The Hawaiian islands instead are developing as the Pacific plate passes over an type of location with what rhyming name?

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hotspot

What minor religion has its own Torah and a holy site at Mount Gerizim? Since ancient time this tradition has viewed the Jewish Torah and the Jerusalem Temple site as inauthentic to the tradition of Moses. A member of this sect is famously discussed in the New Testament.

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Samaritanism

Who is the only Democrat (i.e., not an independent) to ever win a U.S. Senate election in Vermont?

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Patrick Leahy