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Trivia Questions

A bill signed in 1968 made it a federal public holiday on the second Monday in October

Matthew Maguire, a machinist, & Peter J. McGuire, a union founder, are credited with creating this holiday

This shipwrecked surgeon helps the Lilliputians defeat Blefescu, a neighboring empire

The first chapter of this novel is titled "The Old Sea-Dog at the 'Admiral Benbow'"

She rewrote "Elinor and Marianne" off & on for more than a decade before it became "Sense and Sensibility"

This Kipling beggar boy becomes a chela, or disciple, of a Tibetan lama

In this novel of the future, Mustapha Mond "had been the first to reveal the...dangers of family life"

This country's post-apartheid national anthem is "Nkosi Sikelel' Iafrka"

For centuries before 1939, this country was known as Siam

This country was once part of the Roman Empire & its name means "Land of the Romans"