QUESTION: Trivia question: The creamy cherimoya/chirimoya fruit with a soft cactus-like skin is also known as the '(what?) apple'?
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ANS: custard

Mei Li:
What southern state, home of the 17th President of the United States, and site of many Union victories, was the first to be readmitted to the Union on July 24, 1866??
Shuai Zheng:
tennessee

Input question: Who supposedly fiddled while Rome burned (but actually didn't)?

Output answer: nero

question: Answer this question.

In which small Welsh village were over 100 children killed by a coal mine slag heap in 1966?
answer: aberfan

question: What is the answer: When its big neighbor made its debut at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, this country was asked to use a different name. It refused and thus became the only country to boycott the Winter Olympics. What is the country in question?
answer: taiwan

question: What is the answer: What noted author of books such as Bumble-Ardy, Seven Little Monsters, and In the Night Kitchen, among others, died yesterday of complications of a stroke at age 83?
answer:
maurice sendak