1. Hallowe'en, All Hallows (Saints) Evening, which comes just before All Hallows Day, was celebrated on the Celtic Calendar'sCross Quarter celebration of Samhain (Summer's End). It is believed to have been the start of the New Year on the CelticCalendar. What other Celtic Cross Quarter day is still observed regularly here in the United States and elsewhere?
February 2nd, Ground Hog Day, Celtic Imbolc (Lamb's Milk), later Catholic Candlemas
https://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Cross-Quarter+Days
2.
Which early civilization first exhibited a number system with a
specific character for zero in a true positional place notation?
A. Indian? B. Chinese? C. Pre-Columbian Meso-America? D. Ancient Middle East?
C. Pre-Columbian America
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/0#Pre-Columbian_Americas
3. In the film "Ground Hog Day" who played Buster who presided over the ground hog shadow-detecting ceremony?
Brian Doyle-Murray, Bill Murray's older brother
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Doyle-Murray
4. Peggy Lou Snyder, a vaudeville dancer and vocalist who appeared under the name of Harriet Hilliard, later married a formercollege football player and saxophone-playing band leader. They had two sons, Eric and David. They became a famous comedy family. What was her married name?
Harriet Nelson
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Nelson
5. What was the name of the British physician who developed the concept of "vaccination" by exposing patients to the more benign cow pox to build their immunity to the scourge of small pox?
Edward Jenner https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Jenner#Invention_of_the_vaccine
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