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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The five parts of T. S. Eliot's 1922 masterpiece "The Waste Land" | "The Burial of the Dead," "A Game of Chess," "The Fire Sermon," "Death By Water," and "What the Thunder Said." |
| The five stages of the biological process of mitosis (the production of new body cells from existing ones) are | interphase, prophase, metaphase, anaphase, and telophase. Interphase is not technically a part of mitosis, but it still sometimes finds its way in. |
| The five original winners of Nobel Prizes (1901) were | Wilhelm Röntgen (physics) Jacobus Henricus van't Hoff (chemistry) Emil Adolf von Behring (physiology or medicine) Sully Prudhomme (literature) Henri Dunant and Frédéric Passy (peace) |
| Five nationalist Russian composers are often referred to as "The Mighty Handful" or "The Five." | Modest Mussorgsky (1839 -1881), Mily Balakirev (1837-1910), Alexander Borodin (1833-1887), Cesar Cui (1835-1918), and Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908). |
| The codenames for the five beaches attacked in Operation Overlord on D-Day are | Gold, Juno, Sword, Utah, and Omaha. The first three were attacked by British and Canadian forces while the latter two were assaulted by American troops. |
| There are five classical "orders of architecture," a term that primarily refers to the design of the columns used in the building. They are the | Doric (simple, used for the Parthenon-Greek) Ionic (fancier, fluted w/scrolls on their capitals-Greek) Corinthian (baroque, acanthus-like leaves for capitals. Greek) Tuscan (plain, similar to Doric. Roman) Composite (mix of Ionic/Corinthian. Roman) |
| The first five members elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame were | Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Christy Mathewson, and Walter Johnson. |
| Hydrogen produces an infinite series of spectral lines. The first 5 of those series are named after scientists who observed them before it was known that they were actually examples of the same phenomenon. | From lowest to highest energy of the final level, they are known as the Lyman, Balmer, Paschen, Brackett, and Pfund series. Only the Balmer series exists in the visible spectrum. |
| There are only five regular polyhedra, three-dimensional shapes with congruent regular polygons for sides. These, known as the Platonic solids, are ). | the tetrahedron (4 triangular sides), cube (6 square sides), octahedron (8 triangular sides), dodecahedron (12 pentagonal sides), and icosahedron (20 triangular sides |
| Islam has five fundamental tenets of religious life, a group known as the Pillars of Islam. They are the | declaration of faith (Shahadah), prayer (Salat), giving charity to those in need (Zakat), fasting during the month of Ramadan (Sawm), and the pilgrimage to Mecca (Hajj) to be performed once in each adherent's lifetime. |