| Question 1: During the Renaissance and the ________ eras, the remains of mermaids were a staple of cabinets of curiosities. | |||
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| Question 2: The Fiji mermaid was featured in ________ episode Humbug, where the episode circled around freakshows and had a guest performance by Jim Rose. | |||
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| Question 3: The Fiji mermaid was also made by Wizkids into a game piece for their monster-related collectible miniature game ________, in their circus-themed expansion Freakshow. | |||
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| Question 4: The Fiji mermaid (also Feejee mermaid) was a common feature of sideshows, which was presented as the mummified body of a creature that was supposedly half mammal and half fish, a version of traditional ________ stories. | |||
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| Question 5: The original exhibit was shown around the ________, but was lost in the 1860s when Barnum's museum caught fire. | |||
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| Question 6: Exhibits at Ripley's Believe It Or Not, ________'s Sideshow by the Seashore, and Bobby Reynolds's traveling sideshow all lay claim to the title, but in Nickell's opinion, none is to be believed. | |||
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| Question 7: These were often people afflicted with sirenomelia or a ________. | |||
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| Question 8: The exhibit has since been acquired by ________'s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology and is currently housed in the museum's attic storage area. | |||
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| Question 9: The Fiji mermaid came into Barnum's possession via his ________ counterpart Moses Kimball, who brought it down to Barnum in late spring of 1842. | |||
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