Scholar's Bowl QuestionSet 2
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| In this city, Wissahicken Creek goes through Fairmont Park. This city can be entered by crossing the Delaware on the Betsy Ross Bridge. One of its buildings is where the Second Continental Congress wrote the Declaration of Independence. What is this city? | show 🗑
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| show | Niccolo Machiavelli
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| This man stabbed Henry Rathbone to begin his escape. Boarding house owner Mary Surratt was one of 4 people hanged for conspiring with this man who was shot and killed in a burning barn. Samuel Mudd was arrested for treating his leg after he killed Lincoln | show 🗑
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| This author wrote about Prendick and human-animal hybrids in the "The Island of Dr. Moureau". In another novel, Martians invade Earth but are killed by common disease. Name this author of "Time Machine" and "The War of the Worlds". | show 🗑
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| This US President used the US Army to desegregate Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas and helped create the nation's Interstate Highway system. He was the Supreme Commander during the D-Day invasion. Name this man who was president after Truman | show 🗑
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| show | Richard Wagner
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| This author wrote about an old woman who refused payment to a thieving doctor because she couldn't see her belongings. In other stories, a mouse saves a lion from hunters and a farmer kills a goose that lays golden eggs. Who is this Greek author? | show 🗑
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| show | Battle of Marathon
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| This was the Greek goddess of spilled the blood of her lover into sea anemones after he was killed by a bear. She was the lover of Adonis and the wife of Hephaestus. Name this Greek goddess of love and beauty | show 🗑
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| show | A Midsummer Night's Dream
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| Name the country on the Horn of Africa that is considered a failed state for its inability to control a civil war for its territory or piracy in its waters | show 🗑
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| This is the scientific term for the reaction in which is fuel is burned. Some liquids are so volatile that they will spontaneously undergo this type of reaction at room temperature | show 🗑
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| Burning hydrocarbons such as gasoline, in the presence of oxygen results in the formation of two other gases. Name either | show 🗑
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| This scientific term describes reactions such as combustion reactions that result in a net release of energy | show 🗑
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| show | "Ode to a Grecian Urn"
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| This author wrote "Ode to a Grecian Urn", "Ode to a Nightingale" and "Hyperion" | show 🗑
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| Name this period from 1865-1877, a time of recovery from the US Civil War that saw the passage of the 14th and 15th amendments | show 🗑
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| show | Rutherford B Hayes
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| show | 16th
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| Which amendment stated that the Quartering of Troops is illegal? | show 🗑
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| show | Ernest Hemingway
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| show | Japan
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| In one novel by this writer, a character named Protopopov becomes the lover of Natasha. Name this Russian author of "The Three Sisters" and "The Cherry Orchard", | show 🗑
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| Density equals mass divided by this quantity. Give this term for the amount of space an object occupies for which a cube equals side length cube | show 🗑
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| The US government suggested using race as the basis of this practice in the 1990's. It was first used in 1812 and was named for the former Governor of Massachusetts who used this practice to redraw the Congressional boundaries to favor one political party | show 🗑
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| This document replaced the word "property" in John Locke's list of unalienable rights listing instead "the pursuit of happiness". It was written by a committee including John Adams. 56 men signed this document attacking King George III. | show 🗑
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| show | Mediterranean Sea
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| show | Friction
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| show | Hispaniola
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| For any odd number greater than one, there exists one of these types of sets where that number is the smallest of the three elements. Name these sets of three integers a, b, c, which satisfy the equation a squared plus b squared equals c squared. | show 🗑
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| show | Treaty of Versailles
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| Maurice Ravel's "Bolero" and Bizet's "Carmen" are operas from this country | show 🗑
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| show | Pluto
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| show | Ivanhoe
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| Wedge and rope type are informal terms to denote small and large ones of these phenomena. 28 different damage indicators measure their severity on the Fujita Scale. Name these violently rotating windstorms that occur in the famous "Alley" part of the US | show 🗑
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| One figure involved in this event is drunk with the blood of saints. During it 7 vials are poured by 7 angels in order to wreak havoc. It is set to take place on the Hill of Megiddo. Death, Famine, War, and Pestilence are the "Four Horseman" of this event | show 🗑
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| show | Panama Canal
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| Name the author of "How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin", "How the Leopard Got Its Spots", and "The Jungle Book" | show 🗑
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| Emma Lazarus's poem "The New Colossus" is inscribed on its plaque at its base. Name this steel and copper statue of a woman in New York Harbor, a symbol of freedom to millions of immigrants to America | show 🗑
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| The Statue of Liberty was sculpted by this man using the repousee technique of hammering its shape from the inside out. The face is reportedly that of his mother | show 🗑
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| show | France
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| show | Kidneys
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| What event began with the 1929 Stock Market Crash? | show 🗑
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| show | Herbert Hoover
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| show | The Little Prince (written by Antoine du Saint-Exupery)
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| show | A Rose
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| show | Tariffs
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| show | Arnold Schwarzenegger
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| Consisting of Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropons, these three Greek females control the threads that make up people's lives. | show 🗑
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| show | Catch -22 (Written by Joseph Heller).
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| This ruler was supported and succeeded by the Vizier Ay. He reverted many of the religious reforms made by his father including the worship of Aten. After dying in a chariot accident, he was buried in a tomb discovered by Howard Carter in 1922. | show 🗑
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| This number squared is the solution to the Basel problem. One experiment to calculate this number exploits Buffon's needle problem. Give this ration of a circle's circumference and diameter an irrational number approximately 3.14 | show 🗑
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| In this painting a man plays a trumpet behind two soldiers who are walking away from the viewer. A woman in the foreground of this painting walks a monkey on a leash. Painted with dots instead of brushstrokes, what is the name of this Georges Seurat work? | show 🗑
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| This speech notes that America has been given a "bad check" but its speaker refuses to believe that "the bank of justice is bankrupt". The author delivered this speech given on Aug 28, 1963 in Washington D.C. | show 🗑
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| show | Frank Lloyd Wright
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| show | James Bond
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| show | Pearl Harbor
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| show | The Scarlet Letter
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| Landscapes consisting of this rock are known as karsts and often feature cracks and holes where acidic water dissolves it. Name this calcium carbonate rock, a common sedimentary rock used as building materials for the pyramids | show 🗑
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| show | Caves
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| This is the longest river of its nation after the Severn. Name this river that passes through Oxford on its route to the North Sea in London | show 🗑
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| show | London Eye
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| Some conspiracy theorists claim that a gunman involved in this event stood on a grassy knoll in addition to the gunman found in the Texas School Book Depository. Name this November 22, 1963 event in which Texas governor John Connally was shot | show 🗑
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| The Warren Commission concluded that this man was the lone gunman responsible for JFK's death. After fleeing from the Book Depository, he killed police officer J.D. Tippit before being captured in a movie theater. | show 🗑
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| show | Jack Ruby
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| This man had ten sons with Leah, Bihah, and Zilpah. Name this biblical figure later named Israel who was the father of Benjamin and his favorite wife Rachel | show 🗑
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| Kent Brantly, Nancy Writbol, and Rick Saccra contacted this disease in 2014. Name this viral disease which cause fever, vomiting, and dangerous hemorrhaging and internal bleeding. Its mortality rate is greater than 50% | show 🗑
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| show | Beowulf
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| show | Molarity
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| show | GDP (Gross Domestic Product)
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| show | Exports
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| show | Langston Hughes
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| This Russian wrote about Pozdnyshev who kills his wife after she cheats on his with a violinist in The Kreutzer Sonata. This man also wrote War and Peace | show 🗑
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| show | Star Spangled Banner
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| Francis Scott Key was inspired to write the lyrics for the Star Spangled Banner after seeing the flag arise above this fort in the Chesapeake Bay | show 🗑
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| show | Oscar Wilde
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| show | Eminent Domain
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| The title boy of this Sergei Prokofiev work is warned by his grandfather to be careful in the meadow lest he be eaten by the other title character an animal represented by French horns | show 🗑
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| In one movement of this 1940 Walt Disney Film, Leopold Stokowski's Philadelphia Orchestra plays Paul Dukas, "The Sorcerer's Apprentice as Mickey Mouse fails to control his magic spells | show 🗑
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| Fruit flies like humans utilize these two chromosomes for determining the sex of individuals | show 🗑
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| The novels "Absalom Absalom!" and "As I Lay Dying" are set in this US State | show 🗑
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| Give this term for the ability of a metal to be stretched into a wire. It is often compared to malleability, the ability to be compressed into a flat sheet | show 🗑
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| show | Solomon's Temple
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| El Greco painted a city from this country in his "View of Toledo". Name this country the home of El Greco, Salvador Dali, and Pablo Piccasso | show 🗑
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| These wars began in the First Battle of St Albans and are named for the flowery badges of the competing factions. Name this war between the Houses of Lancaster and York over who would rule England | show 🗑
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| show | Battle of Bosworth Field
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| This phenomenon travels through air at the speed of 343 meters per second at sea level. Name this audible vibration whose loudness can be expressed on the decibel scale | show 🗑
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| At the end of this play, the title character is lauded as "the noblest Roman of all" Name this historical play by Shakespeare in which the title Roman emperor is betrayed by senators led by Cassius and Brutus | show 🗑
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| show | Ides of March
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| This gods heart became the morning star after he threw himself on a funeral pyre. Identify this Mesoamerican god, a feathered serpent who was the rival of Tezcatlipoca | show 🗑
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| show | Battle of Hastings
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| In 1297, this kingdom defended its freedom at Stirling Bridge by routing a surrounded English army. This kingdoms forces at Stirling Bridge were led by William Wallace | show 🗑
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| show | Big Bang Theory
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| In some legends, Brahma was born from one of these Indian water flowers which represent purity and are symbolic to Buddhism | show 🗑
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| show | Torque
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| show | Lever
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| This lever is one of 6 classical devices known by this name. Each of these devices including the wedge and pulley, manipulate the direction or amount of an applied force. | show 🗑
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| At its premier, this work's final movement ended with a girl's choir from St Pauls school fading out in a nearby room. This suite's composer adapted part of it into music for the hymn "I Vow to Thee my country". Name this orchestral suite by Gustav Holst | show 🗑
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| show | 8th
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| This deity turned the shepherd Battus to stone when he didn't keep his promise and along with Aegipan, he recovered sinews from Typhon. This god lulled the 100 eyed Arus to sleep and saved Odysseus from Calypso and Circe. Who is the Greek messenger god? | show 🗑
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| show | Thyroid
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| show | Pituitary gland
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| What is the length of time that a member of the House of Representatives must have been a citizen of the US | show 🗑
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| show | Zinc
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| To the nearest minute, how long does it take the sun's light to reach the earth? | show 🗑
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| The prophet Abraham is known as the Father of which 3 world religions? | show 🗑
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| This town is famous for being the setting of a Rossini Opera that features the characters of Coun Almaviva, Rosina, and Figaro. What city in Spain is famous for its bullfighting, Flamenco music, and Don Juan? | show 🗑
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| show | Indian Ocean
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| show | Chromosphere
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| show | Louis Armstrong
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| show | George Gershwin
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| show | Philippines
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| show | Karl Marx
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| Medicare and Social Security were two programs under this man's "Great Society". Name this president who became president after JFK's assassination | show 🗑
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| show | Marquis de Lafayette
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| This figure was nearly killed by his own father when Medea tricked the father into giving this figure a poisoned cup of wine. Name this first King of Athens and the slayer of the Minotaur. | show 🗑
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| This president served in WWII and a book about him in that war was called "Profiles in Courage". He ordered a failed invasion of Cuba in the Bay of Pigs. He helped resolve the Cuban Missile Crisis. What is the name of this president | show 🗑
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| This brother of John F Kennedy was killed by Sirhan Sirhan | show 🗑
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| This instrument was played by John Coltrane and Charlie Parker. Name this instrument whose alto and tenor varieties have a U shaped bend and tilted bell and are common in jazz ensembles | show 🗑
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| What amendment states that no person has the right to incriminate themselves | show 🗑
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| What is the name given that orders a person to appear in court as a witness | show 🗑
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| show | Ambidextrous
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| This element is yellow when it is first removed from the earth. One of its commercial use is for fertilizer. Name this element that is mainly known for its rotten smell | show 🗑
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| show | The Great Gatsby (by F Scott Fitzgerald)
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| show | Zelda
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| show | Elias Howe
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| show | Anna Sewell
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| show | Abraham Lincoln
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| Who said "Ich bin ein Berliner"? | show 🗑
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| show | Evita
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| Who invented the mercury thermometer in 1714? | show 🗑
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| show | Antoine Lavoisier
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| show | Fagin
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| show | Hannibal
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| Two angles that have the sum of 180 degrees are said to be... | show 🗑
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| show | Sector
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| This scientific scale gives the degree of basic or acidic qualities in a liquid | show 🗑
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| Which US Constitutional amendment was the only one to be repealed? | show 🗑
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| show | Steel Drum
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| Damascus is the capital of what Middle Eastern country? | show 🗑
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| show | Gross
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| This was the name of the military nobility in pre Industrial Japan. What title was proudly worn by a warrior who had a special sword and served his emperor to the death? | show 🗑
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| show | Spanish American War
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| Who wrote "Where the Wild Things Are" | show 🗑
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| In what school grade was Harriet the Spy? | show 🗑
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| What is the study of light called | show 🗑
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| show | Forbidden City
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| show | Beijing
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| show | Number the Stars
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| Which American poet wrote these famous lines"The woods are lovely, dark, and deep/But I have promises to keep"? | show 🗑
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| show | Cannes
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| show | 1,000
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| Name the country that makes the Kia car | show 🗑
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| This poisonous yellow brown liquid is often used as a stain when preparing microscope slides. Required for proper thyroid function, what is this element in the halogen group that has the atomic number 53 and the chemical symbol I | show 🗑
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| show | Elie Wiesel
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| A state of rest or balance created when two opposing forces are of equal strength is called | show 🗑
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| Buck, a domesticated dog from California must adapt to life as a sled dog in Alaska in what novel by Jack London? | show 🗑
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| This astute entrepreneur founded the Standard Oil Company and was the richest man in the world when he retired | show 🗑
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| show | Hestia
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| show | Prometheus
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| show | 6
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| What is the maiden name of George Washington's wife Martha | show 🗑
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| What is the maximum number of eighth notes that can be placed in any measure of a four-four piece of music? | show 🗑
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| This international organization has 6 principal agencies including the General Assembly and the Security Council. What is the name of the organization that was established in 1945 after World War II to replace the League of Nations? | show 🗑
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| show | 19th
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| Who wrote the Nancy Drew series? | show 🗑
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| show | Blarney Stone
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| show | The Great Gatsby
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| show | Vacuole
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| Joseph Henry and Charles Wheatsone invented early versions of this communication device that was based on the electromagnet. What is this now outdated invention refined and improved by Samuel Morse that put the Pony Express out of business? | show 🗑
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| Located on the edge of Central Park on what is known as Museum Mile, what is the name of the largest museum of art in all of the United States? | show 🗑
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| show | Robert Boyle
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| show | Seine
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| show | Arkansas
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| What is the complementary color of blue | show 🗑
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| An organism that derives its nutrition from a living hot is called a | show 🗑
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| show | Niels Bohr
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| This island was the birthplace of Napoleon Bonaparte | show 🗑
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| show | William Shakespeare
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| This decision can be overturned by a 2/3 vote in Congress. The president can use what power to overturn legislation adopted by Congress? | show 🗑
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| show | Pocket Veto
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| show | West Side Story
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| He composed the music for "West Side Story" and "On the Town | show 🗑
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| This character in West Side Story who Is a member of the Jets falls in love with Maria and sings the duet "Tonight". He kills her brother Bernardo at the end of Act I | show 🗑
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| show | Farenheit 451 (By Ray Bradbury)
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| show | Albinism
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| Because a person must inherit the albinism gene from both parents to have the disorder, albinism is this type of genetic trait | show 🗑
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| One of these diagrams which show the possible allele combinations of two parents can be used to find the chance of two carriers having an albino child | show 🗑
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| 108 of these poems are collected in Phillip Sidney's Astrophel and Stella. William Shakespeare wrote 154 of what 14 line poems often written in iambic pentameter? | show 🗑
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| show | Petrarch
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| show | John Milton
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| The first Roman emperor was this man born with the name Octavius, who defeated Mark Antony after the breakup of the Second Triumvirate | show 🗑
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| According to legend, this Roman emperor fiddled while Rome burned | show 🗑
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| show | Hadrian (Hadrian's Wall)
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| show | Heat
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| show | Nathan Hale
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| The Treaty of Verdun divided this man's land between Lothair, Charles the Bald, and Louis the German. Name the this son of Pepin the Short, a Frankish king who conquered must of Western Europe | show 🗑
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| On Christmas Day in 800, Charlemagne was given this title by Pope Leo III. Other rulers to hold this position included Otto the Great, Frederick Barbarossa, and Charles V. | show 🗑
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| show | Mobius strip
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| On May 2, 2011, Operation Neptune Spear was executed by the Navy Seal's Team 6 by President Barak Obama. That operation ended with the death of 5 adults including the Al-Qaeda leader named... | show 🗑
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| Indicated by an angle opening to the right, this instruction is found below the staff and indicates for the music to get louder | show 🗑
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| show | Alexander Graham Bell
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| show | 14th
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| I miles equals how many feet | show 🗑
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| show | Friendship 7
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| 64 to the 1/2 power is | show 🗑
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| 14 to the zero power is | show 🗑
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| He wrote Animal Farm and 1984 | show 🗑
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| This woman was a prominent American abolitionist, social activist, and poet. She introduced the idea of Mother's Day in 1870 but is more well known for writing "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" | show 🗑
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| show | Daniel Chester French
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| Formally known as British Honduras, this tiny country was the last British colony in Central America. Name this country that is bordered by Mexico and Guatemala | show 🗑
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| show | Lemony Snicket
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| show | Plymouth Rock
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| This club and its members were the creation of Ann Martin. With its original members Kristy, Mary Anne, Claudia, and Stacey, what club became the subject of over 30 books? | show 🗑
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| show | Pupil
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| show | Lloyd Alexander
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| Ireland is the only country whose official symbol is this musical instrument. What is this instrument the official symbol of Ireland that appears on government publications? | show 🗑
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| show | Cyprus
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| show | 36
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| show | Etiquette
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| show | E Pluribus Unum
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| show | The Eagle
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| What French artist known for his sculptures created The Thinker and The Kiss? | show 🗑
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| show | Missouri
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| IN 1967 this quarterback passed for more than 4,000 yards in one season and won the Superbowl that year. Who was this Jets quarterback that was nicknamed "Broadway Joe"? | show 🗑
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| Where is Mt Kilimanjaro located? | show 🗑
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| What constitutional amendment granted Congress the authority to collect income tax? | show 🗑
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| show | Border of Pakistan and China
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| On Nov 3, 1957, the Russians launched Sputnik 2. What animal was on board? | show 🗑
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| What ten letter term is defined as the sum total of the chemical reactions that occur in an organism to maintain life? | show 🗑
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| This island is the 4th largest island in the Mediterranean Sea. It is located west of Italy, southeast of France, and north of Sardinia. What is the name of this island, the birthplace of Napoleon Bonaparte? | show 🗑
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| show | Chorus
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| show | House of Burgesses
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| show | Le Marseillaise
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| Who wrote the nonsense poem "Jabberwocky" | show 🗑
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| In the early 1500,s what Spanish Conquistador conquered the Incan Empire and found treasures of gold and silver in the Andes Mountains? | show 🗑
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| show | Ishmael
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| show | Inuits
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| show | Masai Tribe
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| show | Paul Gauguin
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| This author wrote the semi autobiographical novel "Go Tell it on the Mountain" and had this to say about the love of his country "I love America more than any country in the world, and exactly for the reason I insist on the right to criticize her " | show 🗑
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| In what sport would you be likely to hear the terns "ducks on the pond", "can of corn", and "Baltimore chop"? | show 🗑
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| show | Pro Bono
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| show | Namaste
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| show | Captain James Cook
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| Infamous for his use of secret police and gulag labor camps, who was the Soviet leader from 1922-1953? | show 🗑
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| show | The Miracle Worker
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| show | Tennessee Williams
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| This English scientist invented the Seismograph | show 🗑
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| show | The Faerie Queen
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| show | Cubism
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| What Latin phrase means "Seize the Day"? | show 🗑
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| What is the capital of Finland? | show 🗑
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| show | Fusion
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| show | Francisco Franco
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| A light fencing sword is called a | show 🗑
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| The type of boat used by Charon on the River Styx | show 🗑
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| show | Enrico Fermi
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| Who created the Hungarian Rhapsodies? | show 🗑
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| Who created the Wedding March? | show 🗑
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| A figure of speech that combines contradictory terms such as jumbo shrimp | show 🗑
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| Christopher Columbus was sent by Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand of Spain to sail on his voyage however he was not Spanish. What nationality was Christopher Columbus? | show 🗑
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| show | The Pieta
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| This is the largest moon around Uranus | show 🗑
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| show | Sn
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| Which clause stated that slaves would be counted on a fractional basis in determining a state's representation in the House of Representatives? | show 🗑
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| Starts with the letter P. 10 letter word that means a direct ancestor | show 🗑
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| What was the name of the group led by Vladimir Lenin which overthrew the Russian government in 1917 and later renamed itself the Communist Party of the Soviet Union? | show 🗑
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| This group of R0oman common people were forbidden to assume political or priestly office or to marry into higher class | show 🗑
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| show | Madame Butterfly
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| show | Hippolyta
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| show | The Waste Land
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| Who was the longest serving director of the FBI from 1935-1972? | show 🗑
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| show | Fidelity, Bravery, Integrity
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| What Latin phrase means "In Good Faith"? | show 🗑
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| show | Persona non grata
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| Who wrote Great Expectations? | show 🗑
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| show | Wilt Chamberlain
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| show | Jackie Robinson
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| This future queen of France was born in Austria and was the daughter of the Holy Roman Francis I and Austrian Empress Maria Theresa. She was executed by the guillotine in 1793. Who was the wife of Louis XVI? | show 🗑
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| show | The Year of the Lord
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| show | St Augustine
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| This animal is thought to have sprung from the blood of Medusa when Perseus cut off her head. What is the name of this winged horse? | show 🗑
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| show | Griffin
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| This president was said to have eaten tainted meat when he served in the military during the Spanish American war. He read Upton Sinclair's The Jungle and wanted to clean up the meatpacking industry while President of the US. What was his name? | show 🗑
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| Which US president had the nickname "Tricky Dick"? | show 🗑
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| Which US president had the nickname "Dutch" | show 🗑
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| What is the main metallic element obtained in the ore bauxite? | show 🗑
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| Who am I? I was one of country music's biggest stars of the 1950's and 1960's. I had a huge hit with "Ring of Fire". I married June Carter in 1968. A movie about my life was released in 2005 called "Walk the Line" | show 🗑
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| show | Guns and Roses
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| What adjective meaning disagreeable, unpleasant, and disgusting has been used to describe a large Himalayan snowman? | show 🗑
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| Unlike postulates that cannot be prove, what is the term for geometry generalizations that can be proven? | show 🗑
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| This spice along with mace is derived from evergreen trees and is used in eggnog. | show 🗑
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| show | Mustard Seed
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| show | Klondike
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| This is an African American holiday celebrated in December | show 🗑
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| show | Kosher
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| This is the capital of Malaysia and its largest city | show 🗑
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| show | Al Fine
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| show | Portuguese
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| The rat in E.B. White's book " Charlotte's Web" is called | show 🗑
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| This state is the setting for the Karen Hesse's book "Out of the Dust" | show 🗑
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| show | Argo
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| This is the name of the protagonist in the book "Hatchet" | show 🗑
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| This is the city that is the setting of the book "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" | show 🗑
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| show | Bucket
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| This is the last name of the four orphaned ruler in C.S. Lewis' "Chronicles of Narnia" | show 🗑
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| This state is the setting for Harper Lee's novel "To Kill A Mockingbird" | show 🗑
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| show | Tesseract
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| This Dutch painter is known for his self portraits, landscapes, and sunflower paintings. His first major work was the "Potato Eaters". What Post Impressionist painter of "Starry Night" famously cut off his own ear? | show 🗑
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| show | Jackson Pollock
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| show | Rapunzel
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| show | Phyllis Reynolds
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| In what historic village near Pine Ridge Reservation was the last major battle fought between the Lakota Sioux and U.S. Troops? | show 🗑
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| show | More gorgeous
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| What is the superlative degree of the word soon? | show 🗑
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| What is the term for the opposite of an asset? | show 🗑
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| This musical which premiered in 1967 and was revived on Broadway in 1999 is based on a Peanuts Comic Strip by Charles M. Shultz. Give the name of this production the title which refers to Snoopy's owner. | show 🗑
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| show | Oklahoma
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| show | Cosmonaut
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| Sometimes called a pen name or its French counterpart "non de plume" ad similar in many ways to the word "alias" this words purpose is to conceal the identity of a writer. What is this name used by writer's Samuel Clemens and William Sydney Porter? | show 🗑
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| What is the name of the majestic hall of the Norse gods with the capital city of Asgard? | show 🗑
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| This country was the scene of an attack on a US diplomatic base on Sep 11, 2012 in which ambassador Chris Stevens and 3 other Americans were killed in an Islamic terrorist attack. | show 🗑
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| show | Sherwood Forest
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| Joan of Arc secured French independence in 1429 at what famous battle? | show 🗑
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| What was the name of the famous battle in which the Norman leader William conquered England in 1066? | show 🗑
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| In Watership Down this is the name of the brother of the rabbit leader who has a valuable sixth sense | show 🗑
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| A low, nearly flat triangular shaped plain of deposits at the mouth of a river is called a.... | show 🗑
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| show | 25th
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| During this period of music that focused on feelings were the composers Berlioz, Chopin, and Mendelssohn | show 🗑
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| This character uses the disguise of "Mr. Underhill" at the Inn of the Prancing Pony" and he is poisoned by Shelob. Name this friend of Samwise Gamgee who carries the ring in J.R.R. Tolkein's "Lord of the Rings" | show 🗑
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| show | Thomas Paine
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| One of his oratorio's is called "The Representation of Chaos:. This composer of "The Creation" was known as the "Father of the String Quartet" and is best known for his works "Military", "Clock", and the "Surprise Symphony" | show 🗑
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| One cause of this conflict was the explosion of the U.S.S. Maine in Havana, Cuba. Identify this 1898 conflict which saw the US take the Philippines and Puerto Rico from a European country | show 🗑
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| This newspaper owner supposedly told his reporters that if they furnished pictures of Spanish atrocities in Cuba, he would pay for the war. He was accused of practicing "yellow journalism" | show 🗑
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| This company's failures include the Edsel and the Pinto whose gas tanks were known to explode. The company is named after its founder who creator the first assembly line for mass production. | show 🗑
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| This executive order by US President Abe Lincoln occurred after the Union victory at Antietam and freed the slaves in the Confederacy | show 🗑
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| Its creation story sees the birth of the home island from Izanagi and Izanumi. Name this religion the former state religion of Japan. | show 🗑
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| show | Kami
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| show | Paris
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| show | Thurgood Marshall
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| show | 5th
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| show | Chuck Yeager
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| Encased in a circle and a square, Leonardo da Vinci drew a spread eagle male figure that was thought to be an attempt to examine anatomical proportions. It was made famous in the book "The Davinci Code". What was the name of this figure? | show 🗑
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| show | Lithium
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| show | Nautilus
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| show | Kelvin
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| show | Harriet Tubman
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| This classical composer wrote over 600 musical pieces. Taught by his father to play both the violin and piano he composed his first symphony at age 8. | show 🗑
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| show | Ellen Raskin
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| show | Charles Richter
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| This American physicist discovered the radiation belts that surround the earth | show 🗑
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| What is the name of the authoring language that is used to create documents on the World Wide Web | show 🗑
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| This poem begins with the lines "By the Shores of Gitche Gumee/By the Shining Big Sea Water/Stood the wigwam of Nokomis. What is this epic Henry Wadsworth Longfellow poem that tells the story of an Indian brave who becomes the leader of his people? | show 🗑
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| show | Chordata
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| show | U.S.S. Missouri
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| A good example of the school of American Regionalism, this 1930 artwork featured a farm couple posed before a white house in what painting by Grant Wood? | show 🗑
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| In 1767, Britain placed taxes on lead, paper, paint, glass, and tea imported by the American colonists. What burdensome laws were met with resistance in the colonies and led to the Boston Massacre in 1770? | show 🗑
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| In what city and country is the Uffizi Gallery located? | show 🗑
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| What word with the root word cede means to act as a go between or intermediary? | show 🗑
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| NASA's first space station that orbited the earth from 1973 to 1979 was called? | show 🗑
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| show | Apollo 13
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| show | Friendship 7
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| show | The Scream
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| show | John Calvin (Calvinism)
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| show | Predestination
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| show | I came, I saw, I conquered
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| This city is home to the Gateway Arch and Busch Stadium | show 🗑
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| show | Oedpius Rex
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| In one scene in this movie, the title character is encouraged to swear profusely. This character played by Colin Firth needs to deliver an oration to his country at the beginning of WWII. Name this movie about a British ruler with a speech impediment | show 🗑
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| Mark Zuckerburg founded this popular social networking site in 2004 | show 🗑
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| This archipelagic nation features the islands of Java, Sumatra, Borneo, and Bali | show 🗑
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| This man was president during the Iran-Iraq War. His regime lasted until 2003 and he was executed in 200 for crimes against humanity. | show 🗑
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| show | Blue
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| show | Leo Tolstoy
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| This is the Latin name for moon | show 🗑
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| show | Apollo 11
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| How many moons does Mercury have? | show 🗑
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| show | Ottawa
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| show | Astrid Lindgren
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| Name the 16th century Spanish artist trained by Greek monks who painted "View of Toledo? | show 🗑
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| Which South American leader was known as the "George Washington of South America"? | show 🗑
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| show | Fortissimo
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| show | Coda
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| How many keys are on a standard keyboard? | show 🗑
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| How many years are in a score? | show 🗑
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| show | 14
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| In which two states is the Hoover Dam located? | show 🗑
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| show | Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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| Only two of England's rulers were not crowned here. Name the great national church located near the Houses of Parliament where England's rulers are crowned | show 🗑
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| show | Ambrosia
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| show | Archery
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| Franklin W. Dixon authored a mystery series about two brothers from Bayport. What is their first and last names? | show 🗑
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| Name the first black woman to take a stand against slavery and promote the idea of women's suffrage | show 🗑
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| show | Declaration of Independence
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| What is the name of medieval chemistry where the goal was to change base metals into gold? | show 🗑
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| show | Peat
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| Which Union general did Robert E Lee face in the Battle of Gettysburg? | show 🗑
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| Who was the first president to be inaugurated in the White House? | show 🗑
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| Who was the rubber industry's pioneer that discovered the vulcanization process? | show 🗑
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| show | Cyrus McCormick
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| What was the name of the collie dog who saved his owner Timmy and his family from many near tragic experiences? | show 🗑
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| What was the name of Dennis the Menace's dog? | show 🗑
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| show |
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| show | 2/3
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| In Disney's animated feature Peter Pan, Wendy and her brothers are led to the magical world of Neverland by their hero Peter Pan. Once there they meet many new friends. What is the name of the group that includes Foxy, Rabbit, Skunk, and Chubby? | show 🗑
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| This singer was nicknamed "Old Blue Eyes" | show 🗑
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| This singer was nicknamed "The Man in Black? | show 🗑
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| From what country did Mexico gain its independence on September 16, 1810? | show 🗑
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| In a triangle, what is a line segment from a vertex to the opposite side that divides the vertex in half? | show 🗑
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| show | 5
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| show | Acropolis
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| show | Mary Poppins
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| The 20th amendment changed the date that the US president takes office from March 4th to this date | show 🗑
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| What is the more frequently word used for the French art term papier colle? | show 🗑
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| show | Baltic Sea
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| This element's Latin name is cuprum | show 🗑
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| show | Gold
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| show | Gaffer
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| This schoolteacher was killed in the Challenger Space Shuttle disaster in 1986. | show 🗑
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| show | Earl Warren
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| show | Anne Sullivan
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| show | Juliette Gordon Low
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| show | Didgeridoo
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| The annual ceremony for these awards takes place on December 10th of each year in Stockholm and Oslo. What are these awards given for outstanding contributions in the field of physics, chemistry, literature, economics, medicine, and peace? | show 🗑
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| An environmental area in an animals habitat that provides for the needs of the animal is called a.... | show 🗑
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| The point in space that is directly below where you are standing: an antonym for zenith | show 🗑
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| Who was the first woman appointed to the Supreme Court by US President Ronald Reagan.? | show 🗑
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| show | Hemophilia
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| What famous architect designed the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum located in Cleveland, Ohio? | show 🗑
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| show | 14
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| What Revolutionary War general was so sneaky and elusive that he was nicknamed the "Swamp Fox" | show 🗑
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| What George Bernard Shaw play forms the plot for the musical "My Fair Lady"? | show 🗑
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| What exotic female dancer was accused of spying for the Germans during WWI was shot by a French firing squad in 1917? | show 🗑
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| What property of a mineral allows it to break along a smooth plane surface? | show 🗑
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| show | Brazil
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| show | Mark Spitz
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| What was the name of the female pharaoh that seized power in 1479 B.C.? | show 🗑
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| show | C O 2
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| show | had lain
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| This is the star ingredient in Hawaii's famous "blue plate" special and was the subject of many Monty Python spoofs. What is the name of this product made from pork shoulder that fed thousands of Hawaiians during WWII? | show 🗑
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| show | Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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| A famous cartoon by Benjamin Franklin was first published in the Pennsylvania Gazette in 1754. The cartoon shows a snake cut into segments representing separate colonies. What famous phrase appeared encouraging colonial unity? | show 🗑
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| show | Pierre L'Enfant
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| Upon meeting this author, Abraham Lincoln remarked "So you are the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war!" To whom was he referring? | show 🗑
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| show | Fathom
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| This book describes human beings as "the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that Nature ever suffered to crawl upon the face of the earth". In which book by Jonathan Swift can you find this quote? | show 🗑
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| show | John D Rockefeller
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| show | Laissez Faire
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| This Irish author was a self proclaimed atheist in his younger years but converted to Christianity at 33. Religion played a major role in his books including the Screwtape Letters and the Great Divorce as well as a book about the 4 Pevensie children. | show 🗑
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| show | Hieronymus Bosch
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| show | Cambodia
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| show | Violin
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| show | Circumference
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| show | The Raven
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| This philosopher wrote about the creation of the soul of the world and discussed Atlantis in his work Timeaeus. He depicted a slave learning the Pythagorean Theorem in his work Meno. Name this student of Socrates | show 🗑
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| show | Australia
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| During his travels, Aeneas meets this Queen of Carthage who falls in love with him. When Aeneas leaves, she burns herself alive but not before calling down an eternal curse upon him. | show 🗑
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| English translation of the Spanish word "muerte" | show 🗑
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| A substance's mass to volume ratio is called | show 🗑
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| An art museum guide is called a | show 🗑
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| He authored "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" | show 🗑
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| Jurgis Rudkis appears in this novel written by Upton Sinclair. Its publication prompted the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906. | show 🗑
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| show | Cleveland
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| This color in French is called NOIR | show 🗑
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| show | Korean War
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| Who coined the term Continental Drift Theory and the term Pangaea? | show 🗑
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| This Portuguese prince is credited with spurring the age of exploration due to his support of cartography and journeys to the coast of Africa | show 🗑
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| This Portuguese explorer was the first European to sail around the tip of Africa at the Cape of Good Hope | show 🗑
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| This city's river is dyed green every year on St Patrick's Day. The city's Millennium Park contains the sculpture known as the Bean. The city's tallest tower is the Wills Towers (formerly known as the Sear's Tower). Name this largest city in Illinois. | show 🗑
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| show | Myopia
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| show | George III
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| Name the 1848 women's rights convention organized by Lucretia Mott. | show 🗑
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| One work by this author sees the protagonist and her sister Mary teased by Nellie Olson. In addition to the Banks of Plum Creek, this author wrote about her life in "The Big Woods". Who is this author of Little House on the Prairie? | show 🗑
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| show | Kent State University
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| This woman was the first woman to be awarded the Order of Merit by an English King. In her early years she helped the poor and medical needy. She rose to prominence during the Crimean War as a nurse. Who was this woman known as "The Lady with the Lamp"? | show 🗑
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| show | Aerodynamics
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| show | Agamemnon
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| This literary character was torn between love and the pursuit of wealth. In the novel she says of her daughter "I hope she'll be a fool-the best thing a girl can be in this world". Name this woman in the Great Gatsby who married Tom but falls for Gatsby | show 🗑
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| show | Dollar Diplomacy
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| What does the term MIDI stand for when it refers to the technology standard that allows computers to network with electronic musical instruments? | show 🗑
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| Discovered in 1799 by Napoleonic soldiers this basalt rock is inscribed with a message written in 3 languages. It is the key to deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphs. What is the name of this important archeological find? | show 🗑
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| show | Hail to the Chief
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| show | Catalyst
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| In what Spanish city would you find the cathedral called La Sagrada Familia designed by the famous architect Antoni Gaudi? | show 🗑
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| In what country would you find the huge plateau called the Deccan that is located in the southern portion of its peninsula section? | show 🗑
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| This is the name of the book that John F Kennedy wrote about his navy experiences for which he was awarded a Pulitzer Prize | show 🗑
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| show | November 1963 in Dallas Texas
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| show | Harvard, Massachusetts
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| show | Peace Corps
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| What was John F Kennedy's wife name? | show 🗑
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| What is the term for a pair of rhyming lines that are the same length? | show 🗑
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| show | Irony
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| show | Soliloquy
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| show | Etymology
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| This battle saw fighting in Peach Orchard and a bayonet charge on Cemetary Ridge that is called Pickett's Charge. Identify this battle which saw Lee's Invasion of Pennsylvania repelled and was the turning point of the Civil War. | show 🗑
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| show | Boris Yelstin
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| He was accused of improprieties in a real estate deal gone bad called "Whitewater" though he was never charged. He served as Governor of Arkansas before becoming the 42nd president of the US. He was also accused of having an affair with Monica Lewinsky | show 🗑
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| show | New Mexico
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| What is the name of the force that causes an object to ultimately slow down or stop? | show 🗑
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| This ancient city fought against Spain and Sicily. The greatest general won victories after bringing Elephants across the ALPS. Name this city state that was defeated by Rome during the Punic Wars whose leader was Hannibal | show 🗑
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| This former Massachusetts governor ran for President in 2008 as the Republican nominee against Barak Obama | show 🗑
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| These cells in the nervous system utilize both axons and dendrites to relay messages originating in the brain | show 🗑
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| show | Moses
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| show | Thor
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| An object or person's capacity to float in water is called | show 🗑
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| Grand Teton National Park is located in what state? | show 🗑
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| During the Texas Revolution this landmark served as a stronghold for the Texian defenders. What is the name of this mission that was the site of Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie's death? | show 🗑
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| This is the only president in US history to have been elected by unanimous vote | show 🗑
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| show | Andrew Jackson
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| show | Art Deco
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| What word is the imaginary line across a picture where the viewer's eyes are focused to give a feeling of perspective in a painting? | show 🗑
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| show | Pupa
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| show | Blubber
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| show | Dr. Cornelius
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| This synthesized material is often substituted for diamonds. Slightly harder than most precious gems, what low cost and durable synthetic gem is the more economical competitor to diamonds? | show 🗑
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| Flanders field is a US military cemetery in which lay the bodies of 368 WWI veterans. It was commemorated by Canadian Lt. Col John McCrae in his famous poem "In Flanders Field". In what country is this cemetery located? | show 🗑
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| show | Chlorosis
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| The eldest of a famous family of literary sisters, she dared to describe women as "in revolt against their lot" needing to do more than make puddings, knit stockings, or play the piano. Name this author who used the pen name Currer Bell & wrote Jane Eyre | show 🗑
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| show | Aldebaran
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| What is the four letter French acronym for the international governing body for association football which holds the Soccer World Cup tournament every 4 years? | show 🗑
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| What word means literary theft and occurs when a writer copies another writers ideas or exact words? | show 🗑
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| show | Daughters of the American Revolution
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| show | Five
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| show | Four
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| How many sharps are in a G Major? | show 🗑
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| show | Six
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| For how many years is a patent valid in the US? | show 🗑
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| show | Aerodynamics
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| show | The Mouse King
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| Although this pipe smoking comic strip character was a little rough around the edges, he had a solid sense of right and wrong. He was popular during the Great Depression. Name this "sailor man" character who made his debut in 1929. | show 🗑
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| show | Joseph Smith
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| show | Glucose
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| show | Walk
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| show | Nassau
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| show | Insulator
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| Who wrote "Frindle"? | show 🗑
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| Who wrote "Holes"? | show 🗑
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| Besides Sacagawea and Susan B Anthony, this other famous face is featured on a US one dollar coin. He was a graduate of the US Military Academy and was our 34th president. | show 🗑
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| What Italian musical term which can be translated as "lively" or vivid directs the musician to play a selection in a quick up tempo manner? | show 🗑
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| show | Dead Albatross
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| show | Incan
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| What is the shape of the path of an object that is propelled away from the earth and then is drawn back in by gravity? | show 🗑
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| My scientific name is Ursus Maritimus and my favorite food is seals. What mammal am I? | show 🗑
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| show | Waterloo
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| show | D flat minor
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| A style in art in which small dots of colors are applied to the canvas in order to make up a bigger picture. Seurat is known for using this style | show 🗑
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| show | Cubism
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| Who wrote the poem "If"? | show 🗑
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| Name the island where Al Capone spend the majority of the 1930's | show 🗑
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| show | Trail of Tears
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| What mineral is often added to toothpaste and dental rinses in an attempt to make teeth stronger by causing dissolved calcium to settle back into the enamel of the teeth? | show 🗑
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| This American author's books for young children have been distinctive because they are created in a collage technique, using hand painted papers, cut & layered to form bright images. Name the author of The Very Hungry Caterpillar & Brown Bear Brown Bear | show 🗑
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| Fern Lodge was a favorite spot for John Muir and Ansel Adams to view this famous waterfall. Identify this famous three stage waterfall in California | show 🗑
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| show | G
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| The Dream Team made its first Olympic appearance in 1992 while the Redeem Team went to the 2008 games in what sport? | show 🗑
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| show | Mercury
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| This man revolutionized the world with his 1793 invention of the cotton gin | show 🗑
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| This American was the first to process a profitable way to cross the Mississippi River when he developed the first marketable steam boat. | show 🗑
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| show | Post Script
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| What is the capital of Switzerland? | show 🗑
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| What is the capital of Lithuania? | show 🗑
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| This is the point that marks the northern boundary of the Drake Passage and was named after a Dutch town. It is really part of the Tierra del Fuego archipelago of southern Chile. What is South America's most southern point? | show 🗑
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| show | Fuse
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| What tool is needed to apply mortar to bricks? | show 🗑
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| What is the occupation of a person who builds structures using bricks, concretes, or stones? | show 🗑
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| show | Apatosaurus
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| Continuous of chronic gross or bad breath is called | show 🗑
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| show | Chyme (KIME)
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| show | The Wolves of Willoughby Chase
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| In what Andrew Clements book does Cara publish a school newspaper that reports only the truth, even at the expense of her teacher's job? | show 🗑
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| During the 1940's and 50's, this song writing duo created several popular Broadway musicals which included "Oklahoma!", "Carousel" , " South Pacific", and "The King and I" | show 🗑
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| show | My Fair Lady
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| The song "Tomorrow" comes from what musical? | show 🗑
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| What class of chemical compounds dissolves in water to form a solution that conducts electricity? | show 🗑
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| What Greek mathematician discovered that the buoyant force of an object in a fluid is equal to the weight of the fluid displaced by the object? | show 🗑
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| What French scientist found that the volume of a gas increases with increasing temperature provided that the pressure does not change? | show 🗑
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| show | Caffeine
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| show | Pablo Picasso
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| show | Bones
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| show | Wizard's Hall
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| show | Kiera Knightley
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| show | Turkey
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| Which branch of science are Nicolaus Copernicus, Tycho Brahe, and Johannes Kepler most often associated? | show 🗑
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| show | Connotation
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| Steven Spielberg, Gerald Ford, and Sam Walton were among those who reached achievement as the highest ranking in the Boy Scouts. What is the name of this rank associated with a symbol of our country? | show 🗑
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| show | Fresco
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| show | Empty-Nesters
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| What treeless plain is found in the far north where the ground remains frozen all year long? | show 🗑
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| What Dutch city is home to the International Court of Justice or World Court as it sometimes called? | show 🗑
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| show | Birds
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| Which animated Disney movie has the characters Maurice, Philippe, Lumiere, and Belle and featured Angela Lansbury as the voice of Mrs. Potts? | show 🗑
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| show | Simile
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| show | Memorial Day
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| What device used to detect radioactivity consists of a metal rod with two thin metal leaves at one end? | show 🗑
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| An optical instrument on a submerged submarine that views objects above the surface is called a | show 🗑
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| The point at which is the moon's orbit is closest to the earth is called the | show 🗑
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| What state's southern border is considered the Mason-Dixon Line? | show 🗑
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| show | Brasilia
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| What is the capital of Argentina? | show 🗑
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| Who invented the pencil? | show 🗑
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| show | Alfred Nobel
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| show | King Camp Gillette 1901
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| Who invented the Sewing Machine? | show 🗑
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| When was Chess invented? | show 🗑
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| Who invented the moving assembly? | show 🗑
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| What year did the Hindenberg disaster occur? | show 🗑
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| show | Robert Goddard in 1926
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| show | Boeing
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| show | Skylab in 1973
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| show | Charles Babbage in 1834
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| show | Spanish Armada
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| A fear of spiders is known as.... | show 🗑
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| Scientific name for Vitamin C | show 🗑
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| What date was known as Armistice Day? | show 🗑
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| show | Constantine
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| What is the name of the largest group of coral reefs off the coast of Australia? | show 🗑
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| Which gas is in higher concentration in exhaled air than inhaled air? | show 🗑
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| Oceania is the name given to many groups of thousands of islands in which body of water? | show 🗑
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| show | 56
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| show | John Hancock-Massachusetts
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| French scholar Jean Francois Champollion set out at age 12 to study ancient languages in order to decipher which stone containing Egyptian hieroglyphics? Where is this stone located today? | show 🗑
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| show | "As YouLike It"
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| English poet who wrote in his sonnet London 1802 "England hath need of thee, she is a fen of stagnant waters" | show 🗑
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| show | Winston Churchill
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| Who declared Ronald Reagan's supply side economic policy as "Voodoo Economics" | show 🗑
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| Which of the original 13 colonies was founded by the Calvert's a wealthy family of English Roman Catholics? | show 🗑
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| What two states claim the first official Mardi Gras? | show 🗑
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| Which two states claim the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island? | show 🗑
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| show | Queen Elizabeth I
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| What type of subatomic particles make up Beta Rays? | show 🗑
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| show | Yellow Fever
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| Canadian territory of the Klondike Gold Rush in 1897 | show 🗑
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| He was known as the "Sun King" of France whose reign lasted from 1643-1715 | show 🗑
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| show | Protestant Reformation
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| Family House of King Henry VIII of England | show 🗑
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| Name the King of France who was known as "The Citizen King" who reigned from 1830-1848 who had to leave France during the French Revolution. He returned in 1814 after Charles X was forced to give up the throne. | show 🗑
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| show | Helium
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| show | Impressionism
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| show | Paradise Lost
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| Who is known as the "Father of Basketball"? | show 🗑
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| show | Indicative
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| What four US capitals are named after US Presidents? | show 🗑
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||||
| What is the basic SI unit of energy? | show 🗑
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| The Liberty Bell suffered a crack on July 8, 1835 while it was tolling for the death of which U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice? | show 🗑
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| Name the "Father of Astronomy". He also is known for his discoveries of the 3 laws of Planetary Motion | show 🗑
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| show | Ellipse
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| Identify the Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court who presided over the 1954 Brown v Board of Education of Topeka decision | show 🗑
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| Part of the body that includes 8 small bones called carpals | show 🗑
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| show | White Noise
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| show | London
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| show | Krypton (Superman's home planet)
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| This is the ancient Celtic language of Scotland which is still spoken today | show 🗑
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| show | Clans
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| Author of the Lord of the Rings" Trilogies | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Academy
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||||
| US city virtually destroyed by a great fire in 1871 supposedly by Mrs. O'Leary's cow knocking over an oil lamp | show 🗑
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| show | Ulysses S Grant
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| The first national park in the US (1872) | show 🗑
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| Which 3 countries are known as the Benelux? | show 🗑
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| What does an altimeter measure? | show 🗑
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| Which US president was originally named Leslie Lynch King Jr? | show 🗑
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| show | His Shadow
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| show | Rosh Hashanah
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| Which two authors wrote the Communist Manifesto? | show 🗑
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| show | Religion
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||||
| Who said "Working men of all countries....Unite!" | show 🗑
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||||
| In Greek mythology the original void was called "Chaos" a term today that means utter confusion and disorder. Which term for the Greek word "order" and "good arrangement" designates the opposite of Chaos? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Bruce Lee
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| show | Scott Joplin
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| What Spanish city is the setting the Opera "Carmen"? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Vasco de Gama
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| show | King Nebuchandezzar
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| In what country did the Battle of Marathon take place and how far did Pheidippides run to achieve the victory? Who was Greece at war with at the time? | show 🗑
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| Which stone serves as the key to Egyptian Hieroglyphics and how many languages were found on the stone discovered in Egypt in 1799? | show 🗑
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||||
| Identify the ancient Greek philosopher who was ordered to drink hemlock after being found guilty of corrupting the youth of Athens in 399 B.C? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Tom and Jerry
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||||
| Identify the cartoon mouse and squirrel from Frostbite Falls, Minnesota who archenemies are Boris and Natasha. | show 🗑
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||||
| show | We the People
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||||
| show | Four score and seven years ago
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||||
| What are the 5 W's of Journalism and are the essential questions a good reporter asks? | show 🗑
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||||
| What 4 animals of the zodiac have legs? | show 🗑
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||||
| Identify the 4 H's for which the 4 H Club is named. | show 🗑
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||||
| Identify the 4 C's that denote the value of a diamond | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Id, Ego, Superego
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| show | KGB
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||||
| Identify the 4 crime fighters known as the Fantastic Four | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Larry, Curly, Moe
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||||
| show | Alvin, Simon, Theordore
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||||
| Identify the 4 pizza eating turtles named for Renaissance painters in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles films and comic books | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Huey, Dewey, and Louie
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|
||||
| Name the 5 family members who lived at 742 Evergreen Terrace in the town of Springfield on the cartoon show The Simpsons | show 🗑
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||||
| Which American boxer is remembered for saying "I float like a butterfly and sting like a bee"? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Andy Warhol
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| show | Bunsen (Burner)
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| A unit the measures the intensity of sounds | show 🗑
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||||
| Ethical code of conduct administered today to Medical graduates after the Greek Father of Modern Medicine | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Cosmology
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||||
| show | Etymology
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|
||||
| What is the study of the atmosphere and weather called? | show 🗑
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||||
| What is the study of world religions called? | show 🗑
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||||
| What is the study of birds called? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Water
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|
||||
| What does the word Alma Mater mean? | show 🗑
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||||
| What is the name of the skullcap worn by Jews at prayers and by Orthodox and Conservative Jews at all times? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Ad Nauseam
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||||
| The Latin phrase "E Pluribus Unum " means? | show 🗑
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||||
| The Latin phrase "Ex Post Facto" means? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Per Person
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||||
| show | After Death
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||||
| The Latin phrase "Quid Pro Quo" means? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Word for Word
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||||
| show | Line of people
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| show | Bonsai
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|
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| What does the Hindi word "Dinghy" refer to? | show 🗑
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| What does the Sanskrit word "Guru" refer to? | show 🗑
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| What is the Arabic term for the Holy War undertaken by Muslims against infidels? | show 🗑
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| What does the Sanskrit word "Karma" mean ? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Glory or praise for achievement
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||||
| The art of folding paper into intricate patterns is called.... | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Samurai
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||||
| The Hebrew word "Shalom" means..... | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Gold, Sword, Juno, Utah, Omaha
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|
||||
| show | Guilds
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|
||||
| 2 word name for the Mongol armies under the Khans that ruled Russia for 2 centuries | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Czar or Tsar
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||||
| show | Ivan IV
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||||
| show | Renaissance/Florence, Italy
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||||
| show | Johann Gutenbuerg (German)
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||||
| How many wives did Henry VIII have? Can you name them? | show 🗑
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||||
| Identify the Queen of England who said as the Spanish Armada was approaching in 1588, "I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king.." | show 🗑
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| show | Peter
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||||
| Who was the King of England during the American Revolution serving from 1760-1820? | show 🗑
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||||
| On what great national holiday does France celebrate the people's attack on a fortress used as a prison on July 14, 1789? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Napoleon Bonaparte
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|
||||
| Identify the founder of the nursing profession who was known as the lady "Lady with the Lamp". In what war did she serve as a nurse in 1854? | show 🗑
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||||
| Identify the Mexican revolutionary and bandit whose forces killed some American citizens in New Mexico in 1916, the American general who unsuccessfully pursued him for 11 months in Mexico. | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Benito Mussolini,/Fascist Party/ll Duce
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||||
| Identify the Catholic nun called the "Saint of the Gutters" and known for her work with the poor in India | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Jimmy Carter/Iran
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| show | South Africa/Apartheid
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||||
| show | US, Russia, China, Great Britain, France
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||||
| After solemnly renouncing the Copernican doctrine of heliocentricity before the Spanish Inquisition in 1633, he said "But still it (the earth) moves? | show 🗑
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||||
| Identify the English architect who resesigned many churches around London after the Great Fire of London in 1666 and is known by this description on the St Paul's Cathedral "If you seek this monument, look around you" | show 🗑
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| show | Marie Antoinette
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| show | Russia
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| show | Blood, Toil, Sweat, and Tears
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| show | Ronald Reagan
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| What are the 3 requirements to become President of the US according to the US Constitution? | show 🗑
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| He was president of the Continental Congress in Philadelphia when the Declaration of Independence was adopted on July 4, 1776 | show 🗑
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| show | Delaware
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|
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| What 3 verbs complete the oath of office taken by the president of the US. "I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the US & will to the best of my ability, _______, _________, & _________ the Constitution of the US | show 🗑
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| What does the term Blue Moon refer to? | show 🗑
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||||
| This character was " killed "outside a courthouse after a civil war over the Super Hero Registration Act. This former SHIELD member often faces off against the Red Skull with his sidekick, Bucky Barnes. Name this patriotic avenger with a star shield | show 🗑
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| This band was originally called Sweet Children, and they performed their song “Basket Case. Name this pop punk band that in 2012 released 3 albums. One of their album's is called American Idiot. | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Mad Hatter
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||||
| show | Oysters
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|
||||
| The modern version of this poetic form was invented by Adelaide Crapsey and consists of lines that are 2, 4, 6, 8, and two syllables respectively. Derived from the French word for 5, name this type of poem that contains five unrhymed lines | show 🗑
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||||
| An Australian bird related to the kingfisher whose cry sounds as if it is laughing | show 🗑
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| Who elects the US President if none of the candidates receive the requisite number of the electoral votes? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | William Herschel
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|
||||
| show | Distributive Property
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|
||||
| show | Autotroph
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|
||||
| What story written by Elizabeth Speare, features Kit Tyler, Quaker Hannah, Nathaniel Eaton, and a terrifying witch hunt and trial? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Recessive Trait
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||||
| show | Asthenosphere
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||||
| What curved lines on a weather map connect areas of equal pressure? | show 🗑
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| This Asian city is the largest cargo port in the world and is located in the mouth of the Yangtze River. It is the largest city in China with a population of over 20 million. What is the name of this city? | show 🗑
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| US currency bills over $100 were last printed in 1945 and officially discontinued in 1969. However they are still legal tender in the US and collector's items. What American president appeared on the $1,000 dollar bill? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Hipparchus
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| show | Brackets
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|
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| This force can be witnessed in soap bubbles causing the beading of water on the surface of a waxed car, and in the presence of a meniscus in a test tube filled with liquid. What is this force that is caused by the attraction between water molecules? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Breathe Free
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|
||||
| What politician nicknamed "Little Giant" defeated Abraham Lincoln in 1858 for a US Senate seat but lost to Lincoln in the 1860 US Presidential election? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | George Washington
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|
||||
| This author wrote about the problems of the working class people at the time of the Industrial Revolution. Who is this English author who wrote "David Copperfield", "Oliver Twist", and "A Tale of Two Cities"? | show 🗑
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||||
| What type of geometric figure's area would you be calculating if you used the formula: A = 1/2 H (B 1 + B2)? | show 🗑
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||||
| What instrument developed by John Milne in 1893, detects and measures the direction, intensity, and duration of movements of the ground? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | First Samuel
🗑
|
||||
| In what famous Opera do we meet a sailor who is cursed forever to sail on a ghost ship, and Senta the woman who delivers him from the curse? | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Skylab
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|
||||
| show | Accomplice
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|
||||
| show | Zinc
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|
||||
| Who am I? I am a French artist who started cutting out paper shapes and gluing them on a background when I became to sick to stand at an easel. My most famous collage is titled "Icarus" | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Vertex
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|
||||
| In what US state is Brooks Range located? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Rose or Flower
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||||
| What type of stock is named after a high value poker chip? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | 19th
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|
||||
| What was the name of the sorcerer in the ballet "Swan Lake"? | show 🗑
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||||
| What musical group recorded the album "In Rainbows" in 2008? | show 🗑
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||||
| In Greek Mythology, what mortal challenged Athena to a weaving contest? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | The tree of golden apples
🗑
|
||||
| show | Nerve Tissue
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|
||||
| show | Saliva
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| show | They produce eggs that develop outside the mother's body
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| What US state was once nicknamed the Hog and Hominy state? | show 🗑
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| How many half steps are contained within one octave? | show 🗑
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| The sequel to Ben Stiller's first "Night at the Museum" movie was set in the Smithsonian. What New York City museum was the setting for the first movie? | show 🗑
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| What poisonous dark colored spider can be easily recognized by the red hourglass mark on its side? | show 🗑
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| show | The 7 Continents
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| What Native American Indian tribe developed the game of LaCrosse? | show 🗑
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| During what musical time period did Mozart compose? | show 🗑
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| What is the more common name for myocardial infarction? | show 🗑
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| What are x and y called in the equation x=13y? | show 🗑
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| show | Saturn
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| What branch of science specializes in classifying the diverse forms of life and was studied by scientists such as Carolus Linnaeus? | show 🗑
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| Light produced by heat is called? | show 🗑
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| Light produced by bombarding of molecules of gas in a tube is called? | show 🗑
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| show | Repeating decimal
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| Any whole number that has more or two factors is called a.... | show 🗑
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| show | Pinocchio
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| show | Water
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| show | Binary Stars
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| The Pacific Ring of Fire includes over 160 active volcanoes. One such volcano is located in the Cascades Ranges and is famous for an eruption in 1980. What is the name of this volcano that killed 57 Washington State residents? | show 🗑
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| In what US state was President Lyndon B. Johnson born? | show 🗑
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| What 10 letter term refers to any arthropod such as a lobster that has a hard exoskeleton, two pairs of antennae, and mouthparts that are used for crushing and grinding food? | show 🗑
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| This musical was originally titled "Lets Go Steady". The story is about a rock and roll singer named Conrad who is drafted into the army. What is the name of this popular musical in which you would hear the songs "One Last Kiss", & "Put on a Happy Face" | show 🗑
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| show | Pennsylvannia
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| show | Joseph Stalin
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| In this William Golding book, one of the stranded boys says "This is an island. At least I think that it is an island. That's a reef out in the sea. Perhaps there aren't any grownups anywhere"? | show 🗑
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| In this Lois Duncan book, a group of teenagers plot to kidnap their English teacher take him in a secret spot in the woods, tie him up, and force him to beg forgiveness for all of his unfair actions. | show 🗑
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| show | Robert Newton Pack
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| Complete this science analogy: The negative electrode of a battery is to a cathode as the positive electrode of a battery is to an.... | show 🗑
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| show | October
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| He was America's first US Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security | show 🗑
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| What sense organ on the roof a snake's mouth works with its forked tongue to distinguish and identify scents? | show 🗑
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| In what branch of art did Italian artist Donatello excel? | show 🗑
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| What is the only Central American country that does not border the Caribbean Sea? | show 🗑
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| show | Lactic Acid
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| show | Robin Williams
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| show | Orville Redenbacher
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| show | Port
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| What is the right hand side of a ship called? | show 🗑
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| show | Thymus
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| show | Spleen
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| show | 92
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| show | Cronus
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| show | 6 inches (Radius is 1/2 the diameter)
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| What famous blimp burst into flames and became the subject of the nation's first coast to coast radio broadcast in May 1937? | show 🗑
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| show | Peanuts
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| Dolly, Billy, Jeffy, and Barfy all are characters in what comic strip? | show 🗑
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| Jon, Odie, Liz the spider, and Nermal are all characters in what comic strip? | show 🗑
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| show | Protractor
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| show | Kelvin
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| show | Cajuns
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| show | Schwa
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| show | A Flat
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| show | Squares
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| What is the term for an isolated mountain peak that rises from the ocean floor but remains submerged? | show 🗑
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| A fault that occurs when rocks on both sides of the fault move horizontally with respect to each other is called a.... | show 🗑
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| show | Howard Hughes
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| What color does an object appear if it absorbs all of the other colors? | show 🗑
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| What government department has the responsibility of overseeing the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, the US Mint, and the Internal Revenue Service? | show 🗑
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| show | Drag
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| What does the FM stand for referring to the band that's used by most broadcast radio stations in the United States? | show 🗑
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| George Westinghouse owned a successful company. What general category of product was its specialty? | show 🗑
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| This sea creature is related to sea urchins and sand dollars. It has been called the "tiger of the ocean bottom" because of its hunting skills. It can crawl onto a closed clam shell, attach itself, and pull the shell open. Name this creature. | show 🗑
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| Identify which historical figure made this headline :December 19, 1957: "Army Drafts Rock and Roll King" | show 🗑
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| Name the musical version of Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet set against the backdrop of clashing street gangs (Sharks & Jets) on New Yorks' West Side where a Polish boy and Puerto Rican girl fall in love. | show 🗑
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| The B-29 Super fortress bomber that dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima is called .... | show 🗑
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| The Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress that was the first to complete 25 combat missions over Germany in World War II was called.... | show 🗑
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| show | 60 percent
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| This organization is responsible for ensuring the security of the US Treasury as well as protecting the President, Vice President and their families. | show 🗑
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| Created by George Washington on August 7, 1782, this military medal is awarded to service members who have been wounded at the hands of the enemy. | show 🗑
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| show | Owl
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| What Revolutionary War colonel uttered the famous words "Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes" in the 1775 Battle of Bunker Hill? | show 🗑
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| show | Atlas
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| show | Commensalism
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| Symbiosis is Greek word that literally means "living together" What type of symbiosis occurs when one organism benefits from the relationship and the other is harmed? | show 🗑
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| show | Congruent
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| What secondary color of light will be produced when red and green light are mixed? | show 🗑
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| show | Axons
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| What is a female kangaroo called? | show 🗑
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| In the traditional version of the children's song "The Farmer in the Dell" , what did the rat choose? | show 🗑
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| What 1974 Supreme Court Case legalized abortion in the first trimester of pregnancy? | show 🗑
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| show | Mickey Mouse Club
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| What Disney Channel show based on a pop singer with a double identity featured the theme song "The Best of Both Worlds". It starred Miley Cyrus. | show 🗑
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| In what US state is the Little Bighorn Monument located? | show 🗑
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| In what US state would you find the Gila Cliff Dwellings? | show 🗑
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| show | Pablo Picasso
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| show | 38
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| Of the four states of matter, which state of matter occurs during fusion? | show 🗑
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| What does an entymologist study? | show 🗑
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| This son of Hermes was born with legs and horns of a goat | show 🗑
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| show | Iris
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| show | Promethus
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| What state is known as the "Grand Canyon State" ? | show 🗑
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| show | Tweens
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| show | War of 1812
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| This figure's first wife provided him protection in Egypt with her beauty. This Biblical character sent Hagar and Ishmael away to please his wife Sarah who was pregnant at age 90 with Isaac. Name this patriarch -considered the Father of the Jewish people | show 🗑
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| What author of the Animorphs and the Everworld Series came out with another series known as The Remanants? | show 🗑
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| show | objective
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| What type of verb always requires a direct object to complete its meaning? | show 🗑
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| This war was also known as "Desert Storm" and "Desert Shield" | show 🗑
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| show | Mexican Jumping Bean
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| show | Grandma Moses
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| What Mexican artist became known for his murals depicting the history of Mexico from the time of colonization to the 1950's? | show 🗑
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| show | Calliope
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| What term refers to the general process of building compounds from elementary substances through one or more chemical reactions such as in direct combinations? | show 🗑
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| What country in the Middle East is slightly larger than Alaska and was known as Persia until 1935 before becoming an Islamic Republic in 1979? | show 🗑
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| show | Hydorelectric
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| show | Bandwagon
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| show | Manatee
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| In what national park can you find Tower Falls, Mammoth Hot Springs, Steamboat Geyser, and Old Faithful? | show 🗑
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| show | Most
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| What is the positive degree of the word worst? | show 🗑
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| How many members are in the House of Representatives? What determines how many representatives are in each state? | show 🗑
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| show | Ethanol
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| show | Mr. Spock/Montgomery Scott or Scotty
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| show | Maggot
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| show | 6
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| Pyramids served as ancient burial vaults. For which pharaoh was the Great Pyramid of Giza built? | show 🗑
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| This bay is the largest estuary in the United States and measures 200 miles long. What bay divides Maryland into two parts? | show 🗑
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| show | Transitive Property of Equality
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| Identify this 2009 animated film. This movie is about a spunky tween who is seeking attention from her parents. She finds a hidden door that leads to a parallel universe. The movie was directed by the director of the Nightmare Before Christmas. | show 🗑
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| show | Pennsylvania
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| show | Magnetosphere
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| What type of simple organism is the most common type of plant plankton found in the oceans? | show 🗑
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| These are the people who went to California in 1849 to search for gold. | show 🗑
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| show | Fireside Chats
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| show | Pierre
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| show | Prague
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| This Italian city is famous for its Leaning Tower | show 🗑
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| show | Paris
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| show | Statue of Limitations
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| In what novel by William Goldman and movie of the same name directed by Rob Reiner, do the characters of Inigo Montoya, Prince Humperdink, Westley, and Buttercup all appear? | show 🗑
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| What basketball foul is called when the defense interferes with the flight of a field goal attempt when the ball is above the basket. | show 🗑
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| I was an Italian explorer and cartographer. I made voyages to Central and South America from 1499 to 1502. I was one of the first Europeans to suggest that the Americas were not the East Indies but a new world. Maybe that's why America is named for me | show 🗑
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| The temperature on the daytime side of this planet is 800 degree and is because it has no atmosphere,it can't hold in heat so the darkside falls to negative 280 degrees. What is this planet- the smallest and closest to the sun? | show 🗑
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| In what home city does the Pistons play? | show 🗑
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| show | Halloweentown
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| The language Russian is written using this script invented by the namesake Greek Orthodox Saint | show 🗑
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| What is the language arts term for modifying a verb into various forms? | show 🗑
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| show | Diamond
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| Along with brackets and braces, what other type of punctuation mark is used in math to enclose mathematical quantities? | show 🗑
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| What artery carries blood from the heart to the lungs? | show 🗑
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| When using Microsoft Word, what function key can be pressed to obtain help from the office assistant? | show 🗑
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| show | The Color Purple
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| What mathematical symbol resembles a number 8 that is positioned on its side? | show 🗑
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| show | Carbon Dioxide
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| show | White Blood Cells or Leukocytes
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| This was Ferdinand Magellan's only ship to have survived the trip around the world | show 🗑
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| show | Elegy
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| With what shoe company did Shaquille O Neal first sign with after he joined the NBA? | show 🗑
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| show | Keratin
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| What is the only branch of the US Military that is not part of the Department of Defense? | show 🗑
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| show | Dictionaries
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| show | fissures
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| show | Vladimir Putin
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| American realism painter known primarily for his seascapes such as "Breezing Up" | show 🗑
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| show | Texas
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| There is a space shuttle near the top of this state's quarter because Cape Canaveral was the launch site for US manned space missions. | show 🗑
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| show | Plate Techtonics
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| This is a chemical reaction in which yeast and other mirco -organisms break down sugars to create carbon dioxide, alcohol, and water | show 🗑
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||||
| An atom that has extra protons or electrons is called an.... | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Genome
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| show | The Last Judgement by Michaleangel
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| The Great Sandy Desert and the Great Victoria deserts are located on which continent? | show 🗑
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| What force works against thrust and attempts to slow down an object that is moving through the air? | show 🗑
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| Telescopes that collect light with lenses are called refractors. What are telescopes that use mirrors to gather more light called? | show 🗑
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| This first presidential debate to be televised in the 1960 presidential election was between which 2 candidates? Who won the debate? | show 🗑
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| Samson's mistress who betrayed him to the Philistines by cutting off his hair. | show 🗑
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| This African American won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for playing the character Trip in 1989's "Glory" He won a Best Actor award for his role in "Training Day". He was nominated for his roles in Cry Freedom, The Hurricane & Malcolm X , & Fences. | show 🗑
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| This English town's cliffs were allegedly left white with soap when Alfred Stormalong's ship scraped by. | show 🗑
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| show | Sophocles
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| show | Maurice Ravel
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| show | Indonesia
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|
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| show | Blue
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| show | Acceleration
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| show | Las Menias or the Maids of Honor by Diego Velazquez
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| show | Occupy Wall Street
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|
||||
| This land mass lies east of the Suez Canal and the Ural Mountains. It contains 60% of the world's population. What is the largest continent in the world comprising 9% of the world's total land area? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Rose Bowl
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|
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| This term is a type of architecture found in Eastern Greece and islands such as the Temple of Athena Nike. What is this style distinguished by columns that have vertical flutes & a capital which is decorated with a scroll-like design called a volute. | show 🗑
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| show | My Brother Sam is Dead
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| What man is featured on the front side of the nickel? What building is featured on the back side of the nickel? | show 🗑
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| While an actively loyal French citizen, this scientist never lost her Polish identity. She named the first chemical element she discovered "polonium". What 20th century female scientist won two Nobel prizes for her work in Chemistry & discovered radiation | show 🗑
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| Which of our senses is most often associated with the word redolent? | show 🗑
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| What term describes the type of Greek Architecture as seen in the Parthenon, in which columns are fluted, contain no base, and exhibit a plain capital? | show 🗑
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| show | Rembrandt (Van Rijn)
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| show | Time
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| One example of them is the appeal to authority. Name these incorrect arguments that contain a logical problem. | show 🗑
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| show | Laura Ingalls Wilder
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| show | Andrew Wyeth
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| What two letter abbreviation derives from a Latin phrase meaning "For Example" | show 🗑
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| show | Pink
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| show | Cepheus
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|
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| This racquet sports awards the Thomas Cup to the men's champions &the Uber Cup to the women's champions. It has been an Olympic sport since 1992. What sport has participants use their racquets to hit a shuttlecock over the net to their opponents? | show 🗑
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| show | Jellyfish
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|
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| show | Mikhail Gorbachev
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|
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| show | Moses
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| show | Vanishing Point
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|
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| What kind of color is formed when any two of the three primary colors are mixed? | show 🗑
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||||
| What score in golf is better than a birdie because it is two strokes under par? | show 🗑
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| show | Misanthrope
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| show | Federal Reserve
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| show | Logrolling
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| What type of variable is measured in a controlled experiment? | show 🗑
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| show | Bell
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| The first computer generated full length feature film was released in 1995. Name this film by Pixar. | show 🗑
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||||
| What state is nicknamed "The Green Mountain State"? | show 🗑
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| According to the nursery rhyme, "Little Boy Blue" the sheep is in the meadow. Where is the cow? | show 🗑
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| What metamorphic rock is often used to create the bed of a high quality pool or snooker table? | show 🗑
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| show | Atlantis
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|
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| What vitamin found in tomatoes, soybeans, leafy vegetables and liver, is vital for proper blood clotting and normal liver function? | show 🗑
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| show | Cartographer
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| What is the math term for a number from which another number is being subtracted? | show 🗑
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| Who is the author of the children's book "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" as well as the James Bond spy novels? | show 🗑
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| What is the ballet term for making a complete turn on one leg? | show 🗑
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| show | Frequency Modulation
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| show | Choreographer
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| What 3 syllable word is a synonym for tadpole? | show 🗑
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| In which star constellation is the Crab Nebulae found? | show 🗑
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| Which of the 5 relative pronouns indicates possession? | show 🗑
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| show | Hepatitis
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|
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| show | hors d'oeuvre
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| show | Spencer
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|
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| Complete this analogy about camels: Dromedary is to one hump as ___________________ is to two humps. | show 🗑
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||||
| The Alps cover over 60% of this country and over half the peaks are 4,000 meters high. What is the name of this country that borders France, Italy, and Austria and whose capital is Bern? | show 🗑
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| show | 7
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| Who wrote Maniac Magee? | show 🗑
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| Name the musical instrument for which "Syrinx" was written and when tuned in the Key of C, usually features a B b (B flat) thumb key. | show 🗑
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| Vitamin B-1 is called Thiamin. Vitamin B-2 is called Riboflavin. What is another name for Vitamin B-3? | show 🗑
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| show | Redwall
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|
||||
| Every 4 years, on January 20th, a newly elected U.S. President is sworn into office. What is this ceremony called? | show 🗑
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| From what plant is the opium drug obtained? | show 🗑
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| show | Al Gore
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| show | Aside
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| show | A Bug's Life
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| show | Sally
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| According to the popular children's song on what item did the old man play knick knack when he played two? | show 🗑
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| Originating in Southern England, what sport consists of two teams of 11 players that compete in an oval arena with a 22 yard pitch at its center? | show 🗑
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| Eric Heiden was famous in what winter Olympic sport? | show 🗑
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| The largest asteroid in the asteroid belt is.... | show 🗑
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| show | Encrypt
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| show | Google
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|
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| This portion of a hog is used to flavor beans and soup. What term applies to the lower portion of a hog's hind leg? | show 🗑
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||||
| According to one of Aesop's Fables, what type of food did the Fox say was sour when he was unable to get it from the tree? | show 🗑
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| show | Fish eggs
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| show | Guatemala
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| show | Centripetal
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| With what South American country did the U.S. first attempt to negotiate a treaty under which the Panama Canal would be built? | show 🗑
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| What bone forms the back of the human skull? | show 🗑
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| The chief areas of weather disturbances, figuratively called the battle zones of air masses, are called ... | show 🗑
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| Golda Meir was the first female prime minister of what country? | show 🗑
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| A folksong about what American hero includes these words? Said de Big Bend Tunnel on de C & O road gonna cause de death of me | show 🗑
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| show | Cerebral Cortex
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|
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| show | reflexes
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| Which is the only branch of U.S. government with the power to interpret the Constitution? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Time Machine
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|
||||
| show | Suez Canal
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||||
| show | dendrite
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||||
| Alun Lewis' poem, "After Dunkirk," is about what war? | show 🗑
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| show | commensalism
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||||
| What common expression means that it is easier to endure discomfort if someone is experiencing it with you? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Chickens
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|
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| show | Gordian Knot
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|
||||
| Statuary Hall, the Great Rotunda, and the Senate Chamber are in what building? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | England
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| show | transmitter
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| What war resulted in the end of the Ottoman, German, Russian, and Austro-Hungarian empires? | show 🗑
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| One reason the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2007 failed to pass the Senate was that it included provisions for what critics called the "A" word. What is the "A" word? | show 🗑
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| Who broadcast this message in 1944? People of the Philippines. I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God, our forces stand again on Philippine soil, soil consecrated in the blood of our two peoples. | show 🗑
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||||
| show | levees
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| show | taxation
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| show | minimize
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| show | electromagnet
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| This Truman Capote novella is about Holly Golightly, a woman who makes her living by socializing with rich men. Audrey Hepburn played Holly in the movie rendition of this novella. | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Scientology
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|
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| show | Planet 9
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| show | Tom Clancy
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| In the novel, Hunt for Red October, Red October is this kind of vehicle. Other such vehicles in the work include the USS Dallas | show 🗑
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| This phenomenon is responsible for making a straight rod appear bent when it’s dipped partially in water. Name this phenomenon that causes light to bend as it passes between two media. | show 🗑
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| This man coined the term “Iron Curtain” in a speech condemning the Soviet Union. Name this Prime Minister of Britain during World War II. | show 🗑
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| show | Back to the Future
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| show | The Beatles
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| show | Drinking Gourd
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| show | quilts
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| show | Scylla
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| Benito Mussolini was a proponent of this far-right political ideology, which emphasizes the state over the individual via an authoritarian ruler | show 🗑
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| show | Muhammad Ali
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| show | Pol Pot
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| During Harry Potter’s second year at Hogwarts, an impressive seven books were assigned for the Defense Against the Dark Arts class, which was taught by this author of Holidays with Hags, Travels with Trolls, and Gadding with Ghouls | show 🗑
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| In the early 1990s, Hogwarts first-years were assigned this textbook on magizoology, written by Newt Scamander. This book contains flobberworms, fire crabs, and dragons, and was the subject of a 2016 Muggle-made documentary film starring Eddie Redmayne. | show 🗑
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| show | Buffalo
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| John Jay wrote four of the five initial essays in this collection, which was mostly written by James Madison and Alexander Hamilton. This collection argued in favor of the Constitution | show 🗑
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| show | sphygmomanometer
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| show | Hannakuh
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| The sides of this top, often played with during Chanukah, are inscribed with Hebrew letters that traditionally stand for “a great miracle happened there.” | show 🗑
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| This system persisted in Russia until the 1861 abolition of serfdom, Name this social system of medieval Europe in which lords provided land to vassals, who then protected the lords. | show 🗑
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| show | knights
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| While this term can refer to the property, wealth, and/or rights given by a lord to his vassal, it most often refers to the parcels of a lord’s land provided to the vassal. | show 🗑
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| The 2015-16 NBA season ended with 3 legends leaving the game. This Los Angeles Lakers legend turned the season into his personal farewell tour. In this player’s final game, he scored 60 pts against Utah while putting up the most shot attempts in the NBA | show 🗑
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| show | runes
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| Reactions that give off heat to their surroundings are known by this term, which uses a Greek root for “outward.” | show 🗑
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| show | Sons of Liberty
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| Adventure Time and the Powerpuff Girls reboot both air on this TV channel, which once produced the Boomerang block of classic animation and still airs the Adult Swim block at night. | show 🗑
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| show | Fitzwilliam Darcy
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| show | Pythagoras
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| After the Pequod is destroyed in Moby Dick, Ishmael floats to safety on one of these objects, which had been brought along on the voyage by Queequeg. | show 🗑
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| show | Malcolm X
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| Colostrum is the “first” produced of this substance, which passes antibodies between individuals . It also contains lysozymes to kill bacteria. It has oxytocin which promotes production of this liquid in the mammary glands that is food of young mammals | show 🗑
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| show | microwave
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| This wave has the highest frequency on the EM spectrum and is released in nuclear decay | show 🗑
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| John Brown was a militant advocate of this cause, which achieved its goal with the 13th Amendment. | show 🗑
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| show | Kansas
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| show | origin
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| American markswoman and star attraction of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show (Stars with O) | show 🗑
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| Author of The Iceman Cometh and Long Day’s Journey into the Night (Starts with O) | show 🗑
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| Canadian hockey player, first defenseman to score 100 points in a season (Starts with o) | show 🗑
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| show | Owens
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| Kind of shoe laced over the instep or an English university (Starts with o) | show 🗑
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| Unit of electrical resistance (Starts with o) | show 🗑
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| Court painter and goldsmith designer for Henry VIII (Starts with H) | show 🗑
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| The most abundant element in the universe | show 🗑
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| US President from 1877 to 1881 who withdrew Federal troops from the South | show 🗑
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| show | Hannibal
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| show | Hemoglobin
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| show | Hawaii
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| show | Charles I
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| One leader of opposition to Charles I of England was this man who later became Lord Protector. His cavalry led the New Model Army to victory over Charles at the Battle of Naseby. | show 🗑
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| show | Rain
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| show | The Great Gasby by F Scott Fitzgerald
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| show | Gibbous
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| Impressionists like Edgar Degas and Pierre Auguste Renoir hailed from this European nation. A Post-Impressionist from this country was Paul Cézanne. | show 🗑
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| show | 2nd Amendment
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| show | Shinzo Abe
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| Animal body plans can be described by the # of axes that divide the body into equal parts. Arthropods & animals with backbones show the bilateral type, in which a line drawn down the middle yields a left & right side that are mirror images | show 🗑
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| show | Radial Symmetry
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| Nickname of Louisiana because of its many marshy slow moving inlets | show 🗑
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| show | Judy Blume
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| show | Bald Eagle
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| show | Paul Bunyan
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| show | Daniel Boone
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| Branch of biology dealing with plant life | show 🗑
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| Word that designates both a group of kangaroos and a group of at least 5 Boy Scouts or Girl Scouts (starts with t) | show 🗑
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| Term for paint in which pigment is mixed with egg yolk as a binder (starts with t) | show 🗑
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| show | Tarnish
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| show | Thoreau, (Henry David)
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| show | Tin
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| show | Transformer
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| Christian season beginning on the 4th Sunday before Christmas (starts with a) | show 🗑
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| First African American to win the Wimbledon Men's single tennis championship (starts with a) | show 🗑
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| In the poem "The Courtship of Miles Standish" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Miles Standish asks this young man to propose to his love Priscilla Mullens for him. (starts with a) | show 🗑
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| Homogeneous mixture of 2 or more metals such as bronze (starts with a) | show 🗑
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| 4 letter word for prevariacator (starts with L) | show 🗑
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| show | Lincoln (Nebraska)
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| show | Little Prince
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| show | Lazarus
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| American aviator known as "The Lone Eagle". (Starts with L) | show 🗑
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| French marquis who aided the US during the Revolutionary War (starts with L) | show 🗑
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| Latin name for the constellation whose name means Balance | show 🗑
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| show | Kuwait
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| US President for whom the Washington D.C. Center for the Performing Arts is named (Starts with K) | show 🗑
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| Title of the rulers of Germany from 1871-1918 (starts with K) | show 🗑
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| show | Kaaba Stone
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| Leaping, plant eating marsupials native to Australia (starts with K) | show 🗑
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| show | Kidd (Captain James)
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| Village on the Nile, site of ancient Thebes (Starts with K) | show 🗑
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| show | Kilmer (Joyce) in poem Trees written in 1913
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| Soviet leader who said in 1956 "Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you!" (Starts with K) | show 🗑
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| Former name of the Asian country of Cambodia (Starts with K) | show 🗑
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| show | Kalahari
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| Pitch thrown without a spin in baseball (Starts with K) | show 🗑
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| show | Kidnapped
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| show | Chips
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| Russian ruler nicknamed "The Great" and known as the "Little Mother of All Russians" (Starts with c) | show 🗑
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| Hill on which Jesus was crucified (Starts with c) | show 🗑
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| Name given to the Louisiana descendants of the French settlers from the Ascadian region of Eastern Canada (Starts with c) | show 🗑
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| show | Cookie
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| show | comet
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| Author of "Last of the Mohicans" (Starts with c) | show 🗑
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| Ancient Egyptian queen who loved Marc Anthony (Starts with C) | show 🗑
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| Science dealing with the climate and climatic conditions (Stars with c) | show 🗑
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| Supernatural beings that can take human form in Arabian folklore (Starts with J) | show 🗑
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| show | Jaybird
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| Olympic sprinter who became the first man to win gold in both the 200 and 400 meters at the 1996 Summer Olympics (Start with J) | show 🗑
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| Only US President sworn into office by a woman. He was sworn in aboard Air Force One | show 🗑
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| show | Jovian
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| Flag flown on pirates ships (Starts with J) | show 🗑
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| Missouri bankrobber who formed a gang with his brother Frank | show 🗑
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| Commander of the Bonhomme Richard that captured Britain's Serapis in September 1779 (Starts with J) | show 🗑
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| show | Jefferson
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| show | Jesse Jackson
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| show | LBJ (Johnson)
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| Large Indonesian island or any coffee (Starts with J) | show 🗑
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| show | Jordan
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| show | Joan of Arc
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| show | Jack Sprat
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| show | John Henry
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| Combat on horseback between mounted warriors with sharp long poles especially as a part of a contest in the Middle Ages (starts with J) | show 🗑
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| show | John Jay
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| show | John Paul Jones
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| Discoverer of vaccination as a means of preventing smallpox (Starts with J) | show 🗑
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| Muslim term for holy war (Starts with J) | show 🗑
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| show | Jackson (Andrew)
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| Poem that includes the line "Twas brillig and the slithy toves/Did gyre and gimble in the wabe" (Starts with J) | show 🗑
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| Spanish queen who with her husband King Ferdinand sponsored Columbus voyage to America in the 15th century (Starts with I) | show 🗑
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| Singular for the word plural is indices (Starts with I) | show 🗑
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| Court of the Roman Catholic Church convened in the Middle Ages to suppress heresy (Starts with I) | show 🗑
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| show | immunity
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| show | International Date Line
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| Country whose name is included in the name of the Hoosier State (Starts with I) | show 🗑
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| US state whose name is included in the name of its capital (Starts with I) | show 🗑
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| Minnesota Lake that is the source of the Mississippi River (Starts with I) | show 🗑
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| Induction or installation of an official into office with a formal ceremony (Starts with I) | show 🗑
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| Shelia Burnford novel that includes the line "This journey took place in a part of Canada which lies in the Northwestern part of ..Ontario (Starts with I) | show 🗑
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| show | Iditarod
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| show | Iceland
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| show | Iberian
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| show | Interjection
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| show | Iris
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| show | Infantile Paralysis
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| show | Immune
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|
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| show | Influenza
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|
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| show | Antartica
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|
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| show | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
🗑
|
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| These animals have a vocal organ at the base of their trachea called the syrinx. These animals have an organ called a gizzard that stores swallowed stones to grind food. Name these animals who have wings and feathers. | show 🗑
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| show | Ludwig Van Beethoven
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|
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| show | Windows
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|
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| show | Pokemon
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|
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| This poet wrote that “I shall but drink the more” & that “I taste a liquor never brewed.” She claimed in another work that the title emotion “perches in the soul.” This poet wrote “I heard a Fly buzz – when I died,” & Because I could not stop for Death | show 🗑
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| show | World War I
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| This is the number of stories in a J. D. Salinger short story collection. Name this number which is also the number of circles of hell in Inferno, a section of Dante’s Divine Comedy | show 🗑
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| show | Louis XIV
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|
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| Michelangelo painted ignudi to frame the ceiling of this chapel. Michelangelo’s “The Creation of Adam” appears on the ceiling of this chapel, located in the Vatican | show 🗑
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| show | Ring of Fire
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|
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| French is the official language of this largest and most populous island of French Polynesia. | show 🗑
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| show | Mein Kampf
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| Hitler, the author of Mein Kampf , wrote it during his imprisonment after this failed coup to seize Munich. Other leaders of this coup included the acquitted Erich Ludendorff and Rudolf Hess, who edited Mein Kampf. | show 🗑
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| This fictional character feeds painkiller to his Aunt Polly’s cat Peter. Name this character who testifies against Injun Joe and later gets lost in McDougal’s cave with Becky Thatcher | show 🗑
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| show | Klay Thompson
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|
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| This stage is the beginning and longest stage of a star’s life. Hydrogen fuses into helium as the star expands in it. | show 🗑
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| show | Red Giants
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|
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| Joseph Welch asked this man “Have you no sense of decency?” during his Senate hearings. Name this Wisconsin senator who accused 57 individuals in the State Department of being Communist Party members. | show 🗑
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| Joseph McCarthy’s statements fueled anti-communist “scares” named after this color. This is the primary color of the Bolshevik flag | show 🗑
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| show | A Minor
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| show | F
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|
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| The Egyptian god Osiris engaged in a power struggle with this jealous god, his brother. This god eventually killed Osiris by chopping him into pieces and throwing his remains into the Nile. | show 🗑
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| show | Horus
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|
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| show | Hanging Gardens of Babylon
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|
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| Constructed by Sostratos during Ptolemy II’s reign, this ancient wonder of the world was located on the island of Pharos, and helped guide ships in the Nile River out of the harbor. | show 🗑
|
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| This Greek mathematician introduced the idea of simple machines. He famously remarked, “Give me a place to stand on and I will move the Earth.” | show 🗑
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| This simple machine is made of helical ridges, or threads. Name this simple machine that can be thought of as an inclined plane wrapped around a rod. | show 🗑
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| In this novel, the protagonist spends the majority of her life on her family’s plantation, Tara, before having to leave due to the Civil War. Name this novel written by Margaret Mitchell. | show 🗑
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| Identify this protagonist of Gone with the Wind , who chases after Ashley Wilkes despite being married to Rhett Butler. | show 🗑
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| Irritation of this organ leads to hiccups. Name this sheet of muscle that lies just below the lungs. It contracts and expands, allowing one to breathe | show 🗑
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| This part of the respiratory system allows air to pass by connecting the larynx to the lungs. | show 🗑
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| British troops burned Washington in retaliation for an attack on this territory that was meant to limit supplies to the Niagara peninsula. Name this former territory of British North America, land that became America’s northern neighbor | show 🗑
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| show | gold (Gold leaf)
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|
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| He wrote about Reverend Hooper wearing a mysterious “Black Veil”. In another book, Roger Chillingworth changes his name while pursuing his wife, who was marked with the title shameful symbol. What author wrote The Scarlet Letter & Twice Told Tales | show 🗑
|
||||
| In this city, hundreds of stone lions line a bridge named for Marco Polo. In a photo taken in this city , a man stands in front of a line of tanks in Tiananmen Square. The Forbidden City, the former home of the Emperor, is in what capital of China? | show 🗑
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||||
| Clementine is saved from these creatures in a Telltale game.A “bungee” version of this creature abducts Crazy Dave . Many Call of Duty games pit the player against, what reanimated corpses who serve as the main threat of The Walking Dead? | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Titans
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|
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| show | Confederate Statues
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|
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| show | kidneys
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|
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| show | Henry VIII
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|
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| Mordred betrayed this legendary king, who established the Round Table, went to war with Lancelot over his wife Guinevere, and was transported to Avalon after being mortally wounded at the Battle of Camlann | show 🗑
|
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| show | Merlin
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|
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| The musical concept of a raga, a progressive set of notes that provides emotions, is used in this country’s two primary schools of classical music, Carnatic and Hindustani. Name this country whose composers have included Ravi Shankar playing the Sitar. | show 🗑
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||||
| show | The Iliad
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|
||||
| show | Achilles
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|
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| show | Trojan Horse
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|
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| show | Oklahoma City Thunder
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|
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| These inventors developed three-axis control, which is key to maintaining a fixed-wing aircraft, in a patent filed in 1903. Name this pair of brothers who built and flew the first successful airplane | show 🗑
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||||
| The Wright Brothers successfully tested their airplane in 1903 on this east coast state’s Outer Banks in the city of Kitty Hawk. | show 🗑
|
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| This constant was defined by 12 grams of carbon-12, but recent measurements are based on a 1 kilogram silicon sphere. Name this chemistry constant, equal to about 6.02 X 10 to the 23rd power, that is the number of particles in one mole of any substance. | show 🗑
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||||
| show | stoichiometry
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|
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| show | Hanukkah
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|
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| Red, black, and green candles represent struggles, humans, and hope when held in a Kinara during this American cultural holiday | show 🗑
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| In the early 19th century, British ships impressed American sailors into service and British forces supported Native American raids on American settlers; in Congress, War Hawks agitated until James Madison asked for the declaration of this war. | show 🗑
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| During the War of 1812, Andrew Jackson won the Battle of Horseshoe Bend with support from this native tribe. Despite their service, this tribe was forced off their land with the 1835 Treaty of New Echota. | show 🗑
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| Give this number. It is the base of the decimal system and, as such, inspires the workings of the metric system. | show 🗑
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| Because of slash-and-burn agriculture needed to grow palm trees on rainforest soil, palm oil is usually not considered this type of crop. Give this term, which is applied to foods like coffee & cocoa if their production does not degrade the environment | show 🗑
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| Pirithous was punished for eternity for trying to kidnap this goddess. This goddess lived with her mother in the summer, but was forced to spend part of each year with her husband after consuming pomegranate seeds. Name this “Queen of the Underworld". | show 🗑
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| show | Boston
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|
||||
| A character in this novel nails a doubloon to his ship’s mast, and employs Queequeg and Starbuck. The narrator joins the crew of the Pequod & asks the reader to “Call me Ishmael.” Name this Herman Melville novel about a big whale | show 🗑
|
||||
| Characters in this 2016 film are employed above a Chinese restaurant. Patty says “I don’t know if it was a race thing or a lady thing” shortly before her team uses their proton packs to capture a paranormal being in NYC. “Who ya gonna call?” | show 🗑
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| show | Parting of the Red Sea
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|
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| show | Aluminum
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|
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| show | Portugal
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|
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| show | Prince Henry the Navigator
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|
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| Portugal’s colonies in the New World included the eastern coast of this modern-day country, gained in the Treaty of Tordesillas . Today, this South American country’s official language is still Portuguese | show 🗑
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| There is a conspiracy theory that this 1791 opera was a political attack on the queen Maria Theresa. This Mozart opera begins with the Queen of the Night singing high notes. The enchanted title object of this opera is given to Tamino to protect himself | show 🗑
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| This 18th century economic theory often led to high tariffs, monopolies, economic wars, & a devotion to keeping a trade surplus. Name this policy in which a nation tried to maximize the amount of gold & silver it possessed. | show 🗑
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| show | Adam Smith
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|
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| show | Instinct
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|
||||
| Many non-instinctual behaviors are learned through this process, in which rewards reinforce a behavior while punishments discourage it. During World War II, B. F. Skinner used this type of learning to train pigeons to guide navy missiles. | show 🗑
|
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| Answer the following about Jesus’s parable of the Pearl of Great Price. The parable appears in this gospel, the first book of the New Testament. This book is named for its apparent author, and precedes the books of Mark, Luke, and John. | show 🗑
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| The Pearl of Great Price also appears in an apocryphal Gnostic gospel attributed to this “doubting” disciple, who could not believe in the resurrection until he had felt Jesus’s wounds | show 🗑
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| Ernest Hemingway used his experience, this time as a reporter, to provide detail for this work set in the Spanish Civil War. In the novel, which takes its name from John Donne, Robert Jordan works with guerrillas to destroy a bridge. | show 🗑
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| show | The Old Man and the Sea
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|
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| Anthropologists flocked to this desert area in the 1940s after pilots “discovered” a series of geoglyphs. Name this South American plain, north of the Atacama Desert, where a series of namesake “lines” appear in shapes like spiders, monkeys, & birds | show 🗑
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| show | Andes Mountains
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|
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| show | Springs
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|
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| Balshar -al -Assad is the dictator of this Middle Eastern country, where protests began in the capital city, Damascus. | show 🗑
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| show | You Tube
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|
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| While YouTube dominates pre-recorded footage, this website reigns supreme in livestreams. Due to its recent acquisition by Amazon, Prime members can subscribe to one channel on this website for free each month | show 🗑
|
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| show | Yahoo!
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|
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| This is another unit for direct distance measurements. There are 30 of these between the Sun and Neptune, and exactly one between the Sun and Earth | show 🗑
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| show | Nymphs
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|
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| show | Echo
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|
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| Echo’s beloved was this beautiful human, who died when he fell in love with his own reflection, and transformed into a namesake waterside flower. | show 🗑
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| show | Hamlet
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|
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| show | Ophelia
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|
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| After protesting against this policy, Eugene Debs said “while there is a soul in prison, I am not free". Name this 1917 governmental policy affecting young men It was enacted after voluntary enlistment failed to create a 1 million man force in WWI | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Battle of Bunker Hill
🗑
|
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| This man’s presidency lasted less than 900 days, the shortest term for any US president who didn’t die in office. Name this Republican politician, who lost his only Presidential election to Jimmy Carter | show 🗑
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| show | pardoning former US President Richard Nixon
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|
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| show | 25th amendment
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|
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| Andy Serkis played the mysterious Supreme Leader Snoke in this franchise, whose film subtitled “The Last Jedi” focused on Rey’s relationship with Luke Skywalker. | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Gollum
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|
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| In his most recent film, Andy Serkis reprised his role as this leader of the “planet of the apes.” This character was originally the pet of Will Rodman, who likely named him after a Roman leader. | show 🗑
|
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| Aphrodite was the lover of this extraordinarily beautiful mortal man, and became so distraught at this man’s death during a hunt that she caused anemone flowers to bloom where his blood fell. | show 🗑
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| One section of this river separates the neighborhoods of Foggy Bottom and Georgetown from Rosslyn in Arlington County. Name this river, which flows past Ronald Reagan National Airport south of the Lincoln Memorial. | show 🗑
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| The Potomac River ultimately flows into this bay, bounded on the east by the Delmarva Peninsula. Cities on its northern shores include Annapolis and Baltimore. | show 🗑
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| Name this novel about Henry Fleming’s experience as a Union soldier in the Civil War. In this work, Henry talks to the Tattered Soldier moments before the latter’s death. | show 🗑
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| show | Harriet Beecher Stowe
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| show | Jacob
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| Buffalo Bill Cody worked with this sharpshooting woman to help popularize his show; that history inspired an Irving Berlin musical about this woman “[getting] her gun.” | show 🗑
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| show | Sitting Bull
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| show | Cartilage
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| Arthropods like insects and crustaceans have exoskeletons made of this tough polysaccharide that also makes up fungus cell walls | show 🗑
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| This feat was done 195 times in 2017 by both Chris Davis & Khris Davis. Doing this 4 times earns a golden sombrero. Symbolized by a letter K, what baseball stat can be earned by swinging & missing 3 times? | show 🗑
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| show | Cerebus
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| show | Japan
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| Many books in the Tanakh and biblical Old Testament have a well-established tradition regarding their authorship. Name this first book of both the Torah and Old Testament, which details the creation of the world and is usually attributed to Moses | show 🗑
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| show | Psalms
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| The rise in earthquakes in Oklahoma is believed to be related to the rise in this process, used in the oil and natural gas industry, in which pressurized liquid is used to crack underground rock, allowing the gas or oil to be collected. | show 🗑
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| show | Star Trek
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| show | Avengers: Infinty War
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| Christa McAuliffe was killed in the failure of this vehicle, which was launched in unusually cold conditions. Name this Space Shuttle that broke apart during liftoff in 1986. | show 🗑
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| show | teacher
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| show | Clarinet
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| The protagonist of this novel muses about where ducks go in the winter after visiting Central Park. For ten points each, Name this novel by JD Salinger , in which Holden Caulfield wanders around New York City after being expelled from Pencey Prep. | show 🗑
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| During the American Revolution, soldiers in the British army were known as “lobsters” and as this colorful term, based on their uniforms. | show 🗑
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| At the opposite end of the Mohs scale from diamond is this very soft mineral, used as a coating on rubber gloves and sometimes found in baby powder. | show 🗑
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| A sclerometer is normally used to find a mineral’s rank on this scale, though the Vickers scale has largely replaced it. Name this traditional scale of mineral hardness. Diamond ranks a 10 on this scale because it can scratch all common materials. | show 🗑
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| This mythical figure was the sister of Stheno and Euryale, and became the mother of Chrysaor and Pegasus after her death. Name this snake-haired Gorgon woman, whose gaze turned all who saw her into stone. | show 🗑
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| show | Perseus
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| show | Persian Gulf
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| Kuwait was invaded on the orders of this Iraqi dictator. A decade later, US forces invaded Iraq, took Baghdad, and captured this man | show 🗑
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| Name this van Gogh painting of the interior of a restaurant with red walls and a green ceiling. A man in white stands near the center of this painting, next to a pool table in the center of the room. | show 🗑
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| show | Punnett Square
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| If a breeding experiment results in 75% of the offspring showing the dominant phenotype, it is likely both parents have this genotype containing both a dominant and recessive allele. | show 🗑
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| show | Gregor Mendel
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| show | Fallacy
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| As a Congressman from Tennessee, this man opposed the Indian Removal Act; that stance cost him re-election in 1831. Name this politician who later fought in the Texas War for Independence. This figure became known later as the“King of the Wild Frontier.” | show 🗑
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| show | The Alamo
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| show | Pepsi
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| show | Aristotle
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| show | Cat
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| show | Gladiators
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| show | Colosseum
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| show | Mosque
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| show | Minaret
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| show | Harvard
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| show | Corner Kick
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| show | Crohn's Disease
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| show | Helheim
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| show | Aztec
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| This continent is home to the Drakensberg, a 600 mile long formation in the Great Escarpment, and Mount Kenya, which features over a dozen peaks. Name this continent whose highest peak, Kilimanjaro, stands over Tanzania | show 🗑
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| This common Ph indicator is extracted from a lichen and often embedded in a namesake paper that turns red in acids and blue in bases. | show 🗑
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| show | Aesop
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| The Bonus Army built one of these settlements in Washington, D.C., and in Central Park, Manhattan. Give this term for shantytowns built in the 1930s. “honoring” the US President blamed for the economic troubles that led to the widespread homelessness. | show 🗑
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| show | Lord's Prayer
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| show | Super Nintendo
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| show | Mario Kart
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| The northernmost land action of the Civil War took place in this state, when Confederate soldiers raided the city of St. Albans. Name this New England state, the home of the Green Mountains and the cities of Burlington and Montpelier | show 🗑
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| Name this Hindu creator god, who is usually depicted with four faces, each facing a cardinal direction. This god is part of the Trimurti with Shiva and the preserver, Vishnu. | show 🗑
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| After the god Ganesha came between Parvati and Shiva, Shiva beheaded him and replaced his head with that of this large animal, with ivory tusks and large ears | show 🗑
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| The 2017 “Medicare for All” bill was introduced by this Vermont Senator, an independent who ran for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination against Hillary Clinton. | show 🗑
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| show | Louis Pasteur
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| show | canopic jars
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| This poet wrote “Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair” in his poem, “Mother to Son.” Name this African-American poet of “I, Too” and “Theme for English B.” This author asked “What happens to a dream deferred?” in his poem Harlem. | show 🗑
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| show | Doctor Who
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| show | X Files
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| show | Berlin Wall
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| A statue of this story’s title character sits on a coastal rock in Copenhagen. Name this short story in which the youngest daughter of the Sea King bargains with a witch to get legs so that she can fall in love with a human prince. | show 🗑
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| show | Thumbelina
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| The ability for organisms to live in seawater is highly dependent on this quantity, which is higher in brackish water than fresh water. The Dead Sea has a value over 30% for this quantity, and ocean water is usually 3.5%. | show 🗑
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| The dissolved salts in the ocean give seawater a higher value for this property of mass per unit volume, making it easier to float in seawater compared to freshwater. | show 🗑
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| Sun Tzu, a general during China’s ancient Spring and Autumn Period, wrote this influential treatise on military tactics. Its 13 chapters include entries on using spies and moving armies. | show 🗑
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| show | Dionysus
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| This Greek goddess governed the harvest. This goddess made summer when her daughter lived with her, but let the plants die into winter during the parts of the year her daughter lived in Hades. | show 🗑
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| show | Hestia
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| show | Flying Dutchman
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| show | Surface Tension
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| show | Eiffel Tower
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| show | Space Needle
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| show | South Dakota
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| In this film, Etta Candy helps a character buy modern clothing &Isabel Maru makes a poison that can destroy gas masks. This film’s title character deflects bullets with her bracelets. What 2017 film stars Gal Gadot as an Amazon warrior? | show 🗑
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| show | Solid
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| show | Sublimation
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| show | Violin
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| show | Poor Richard's Almanac
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| show | Ben Franklin
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| show | Artemis
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| This legendary huntress and devotee of Artemis landed the first wound on the Calydonian Boar. This woman was later tricked into marrying Hippomenes when he beat her in a foot race. | show 🗑
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| show | Mark McGwire
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| show | Exoplanets
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| show | Goldilocks zone
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| This man’s brother, Hasdrubal, was killed at the Battle of the Metaurus, after which his head was cut off and thrown into this man’s camp. Name this Carthaginian general who invaded Italy over the Alps to attack Rome with Elephants | show 🗑
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| show | Ray Bradbury
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| Name this quantity, often measured as the number of species in a given area, that is particularly high in “hotspots” like Madagascar and Colombia. | show 🗑
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| show | Invasive Species
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| show | Kudzu
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| show | Louvre
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| show | Pythagorean Theorem
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| If two angles of a triangle have known sizes, the size of the third angle can be found by subtracting the two known sizes from this value. | show 🗑
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| The Thursday before Good Friday, which commemorates the Last Supper, is often given this name, which is thought to come from the Latin for “commandment.” | show 🗑
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| Although fuel concerns & improving American counterattacking forced a withdrawal, Admiral Yamamoto later lamented the cancellation of the third wave of this attack. Name this December 7, 1941 surprise attack on the US Pacific fleet. | show 🗑
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| Over 1,100 men were killed in the sinking of this battleship in Pearl Harbor. A floating memorial over the hull of this ship commemorates those lost during the attack. | show 🗑
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| show | Age of Enlightenment
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| show | Encyclopedia
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| show | Salons
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| show | Frankenstein
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||||
| show | Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle
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||||
| This singer is seen as a “Miley Cyrus impersonator” in a music video for a song that claims that “karma’s not a liar / she keeps receipts.” Another song says has the “eye of the tiger / dancing through the fire.” Name this artist behind "Roar" | show 🗑
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||||
| show | American Civil War
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| In an attempt to end the Civil War, Winfield Scott developed this plan to economically “strangle” the South. This plan, commonly depicted in newspapers as a snake, was a massive blockade of every Southern port. | show 🗑
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| A key aspect of the Anaconda Plan was to take complete control of the Mississippi River by seizing this city. David Farragut captured this city without a fight; as a result, historic buildings in its French Quarter survived the war | show 🗑
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| show | Throwing a Discus
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| Name these heavy, slow-moving masses that can carve sharp ridges called cirques into mountains. Some, but not all, of these masses disappeared at the end of the last ice age | show 🗑
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| The Pali Canon collects the teachings and sayings of this man, who developed the philosophy of the “Middle Way.” Name this man, who founded a namesake Indian religion and achieved enlightenment under the Bodhi tree | show 🗑
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| show | i
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| Disney is struggling to find Middle Eastern & Indian actors for this film’s lead roles, a live action remake of a 1992 movie and critics are doubting whether Will Smith can live up to Robin Williams’ original performance as the Genie. | show 🗑
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| Donald Glover and James Earl Jones will play a father and son pair in this Disney remake, slated for 2019. Beyonce is in talks to join this film, both in the cast as Nala and on the soundtrack. | show 🗑
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| To correctly identify metals in a flame test, you can heat a sample with one of these devices, named for a German chemist, that uses a valve to adjust the gas-air mixture for a hotter flame | show 🗑
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| Solutions are often prepared in one of these glass containers with a narrow neck and wide bottom. These containers come in volumetric and Erlenmeyer types. | show 🗑
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| This goddess neglected to ask the mistletoe plant not to harm her son, which ultimately led to his death. Name this Norse goddess, the wife of Odin, whose blind son Hodr was tricked into killing her other son with a spear of mistletoe. | show 🗑
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| Frigg made everything in the world except mistletoe promise not to harm this god after he had prophetic dreams of his own death. This son of Frigg was killed by his brother, Hodr. | show 🗑
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| show | Endocrine System
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| Negative feedback loops are key to this property of the endocrine system in which factors like body temperature, glucose level, and blood pressure are maintained at stable values | show 🗑
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| DACA (Deferred Action Childhood Arrivals) applies to some 800,000 people often known by this term, derived from an acronym from a 2001 bill. To have this title one must have a high school diploma, a clean criminal record, and meet other requirements | show 🗑
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| show | Mongols
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| show | Mr. Poppers Penguins
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| Frank Sinatra was nominated for 6 of these awards in 1958. The group Pentatonix won one of these awards in 2015 & 2016 for their a cappella arrangement work. Name these music awards given by the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences. | show 🗑
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| show | pollen
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| show | Torah
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|
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| show | Parthenon
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| show | The Emperor’s New Groove
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| This character is upset about how much attention his younger brother Manny gets. Name this main character from Diary of a Wimpy Kid. | show 🗑
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| Greg’s best friend in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series is this kid, an only child who often goes on expensive vacations with his family. | show 🗑
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| show | David Bowie
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|
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| This writer wrote the song “A Boy Named Sue” for Johnny Cash. Name this writer, more famous for children’s poetry like his book Falling Up. | show 🗑
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| In 2 Kings 5, this army commander was told by a girl from Israel that the prophet in Samaria could heal him. This man first rejected Elisha’s directions, but was later persuaded. Name this leper who was made clean by washing 7 times in the Jordan River. | show 🗑
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| show | Absoprtion
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| In this book, the Cloud Men throw hail at the main characters as they are traveling across the Atlantic Ocean. Those characters include James Henry Trotter and Miss Spider. Name this Roald Dahl book about bugs who travel with a boy inside a large fruit | show 🗑
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| This instrument developed from the sackbut. To change the pitch of this instrument, players move part of the instrument to one of 7 positions 3 inches apart. This instrument represents the adults’ voices in Charlie Brown cartoons. Name this instrument | show 🗑
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| show | Ellis Island
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| show | Margaret Thatcher
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| This character is burned while trying to distract a dragon with a rock he turned into a dog. Name this student who, alongside Harry Potter, represented Hogwarts in the Triwizard Cup | show 🗑
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| show | Peter Pettigrew (Wormtail)
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|
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| This chess piece is allowed to move only along the diagonals of the chess board, meaning it always remains on the same color. | show 🗑
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| These animals build nests called drays. Some species can rotate their back paws and go down a tree head-first. The flying type of this animal glides using its skin like a parachute. Name these furry rodents, whose diets mostly consist of nuts & acorns | show 🗑
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| show | Bernie Sanders
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|
||||
| Rick Riordan has written a book series featuring Norse mythology, starring this character who discovers that he is the son of the Norse god Frey. | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Stanley Yelnats
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|
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| show | Auschwitz
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|
||||
| A type of velocity is this one, which occurs when an object is falling so that gravity is the only force acting on it; in other words, the object is in free fall. | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Escape Velocity
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|
||||
| During this phase, the majority of the moon is lit up by the Sun, but as the days pass, the amount lit decreases until the third quarter. | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Mount Horeb
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|
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| show | Ron Weasley
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| show | cow
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|
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| Over 2,500 entertainers have stars on this place’s “walk of fame,” along a boulevard sharing this place’s name. A famous sign spelling this place’s name is made up of 45-foot tall white letters. Name this LA neighborhood, home to America’s film industry. | show 🗑
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| show | Claude Monet
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|
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| Insects molt because they outgrow this structure, which is usually made of chitin . This protective structure is also present in crustaceans and shelled mollusks such as snails and clams. Name this structure that supports an animal from the outside | show 🗑
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||||
| This band’s music video for “Night Changes” has scenes in an Italian restaurant. They were created on The X Factor by Simon Cowell. This band’s album Four was the last to include Zayn Malik. Name this British boy band who sang “What Makes You Beautiful.” | show 🗑
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| show | Woodrow Wilson
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|
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| Which of the 48 contiguous U.S. states has the fewest people? | show 🗑
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| What’s the fastest swimming marine mammal? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Dunkirk
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|
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| show | Calamity Jane
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|
||||
| show | Dwight D Eisenhower
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|
||||
| show | It is the Humerus
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|
||||
| show | Battle of Thermopylae
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|
||||
| show | Saladin
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|
||||
| This group sang about “reading books of old” about Hercules, Achilles, & Spiderman in one song and described a “Blink 182 song/that we beat to death in Tuscon” Name this EDM-pop duo of “Something Just Like This” and “Closer.” | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Vietnam War
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|
||||
| American city in which “West Egg” and “East Egg” are fictional parts of Long Island in the The Great Gatsby | show 🗑
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| show | Reign of Terror
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| Russian scientist who published the first periodic table in 1869. | show 🗑
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||||
| Synonym for “man-made” that describes Technetium and Plutonium, which cannot be naturally found on Earth. | show 🗑
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||||
| show | tuberculosis (or TB)
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||||
| show | Elton John
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| German agents orchestrated this man’s return from exile via a sealed train ride from Switzerland. Name this first leader of the Soviet Union, a communist who led the Bolsheviks during the chaos of World War I. | show 🗑
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| To cross from the world of the living to the world of the dead, a soul had to pay a coin to this ferryman, who transported souls across Styx and Acheron. | show 🗑
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| show | Minos
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|
||||
| Souls were prevented from leaving Hades in the Greek underworld by this three-headed dog, who guarded the underworld. He was eventually captured by Heracles during his twelve labors. | show 🗑
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||||
| Anne of Green Gables is by this Canadian author. | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Great Expectations
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|
||||
| Niels Bohr described these entities as concentric paths. Molecular types can be classified as bonding or antibonding, while atomic ones are separated into s, p, d, and f types. Name these models of how electrons “revolve around” a molecule or atom. | show 🗑
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||||
| Electric charge is measured in this unit, whose unit abbreviation is a capital C in honor of its namesake. This unit is equal to one ampere per second. | show 🗑
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| In a 2015 song, Mike Posner laments an instance of drug use on this Mediterranean island. Name this Balearic island off the coast of Spain, known for its nightlife | show 🗑
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| show | Muammar Gaddafi (or Qaddafi)
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|
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| show | Mecca
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|
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| show | salah
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| show | Medina
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|
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| This substance is composed of adenine, guanine, cytosine, and thymine. Name this molecule that provides the genetic instructions for life and whose double helix structure was discovered by Watson and Crick | show 🗑
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||||
| Carcinogens can cause these events in DNA. The “frameshift” type of these events includes the insertion or deletion of a nucleotide, changing the genetic code | show 🗑
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| Richard Nixon was pardoned for various crimes arising from this scandal by Gerald Ford in 1974. Name this scandal that began with a break-in at the namesake hotel, where the Democratic National Committee was headquartered. | show 🗑
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| show | resign
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||||
| About a year before resigning, Nixon gave a speech in which he claimed the “people have got to know whether or not their President is” one of these people, before claiming “I am not” one of these people. | show 🗑
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| Class of arthropods with 8 legs, such as spiders and scorpions. | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Mars
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|
||||
| show | Philadelphia
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||||
| show | Marie Antoinette
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|
||||
| Two members of this political family were investigated by Kenneth Starr in the Whitewater Scandal. The husband was impeached, but not removed from office, for lying about his affair with Monica Lewinsky. Name this family that includes Bill and Hillary. | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Calculus
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|
||||
| show | Korean War
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|
||||
| show | November
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|
||||
| show | Nebraska and Maine
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|
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| “If music be the food of love, play on!” Name this type of metrical line, consisting of 10 alternating unstressed and stressed syllables | show 🗑
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||||
| show | William Shakespeare
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|
||||
| The prologue to Romeo and Juliet, as well as 154 of Shakespeare’s poems, are in this poec form, whose 14 lines are divided into three quatrains and a final rhyming couplet. | show 🗑
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| show | Sulphur
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| show | Tasmania
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| This god swallowed Halahala poison to save the world, and gained a blue-nted throat in the process. Name this Hindu god, whose powers of death and rebirth complement the maintainer Vishnu and the creator Brahma. | show 🗑
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| Twenty American and Soviet tanks had a standoff in October 1961 at this crossing in the Berlin Wall, near where Peter Fechter was shot in 1962 | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Inflation
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|
||||
| The Federal Reserve has 3 Congressionally-required objecves: stabilizing prices, maximizing employment, &controlling these values over the long run. If this rate is less than the inflation rate, the investment’s value will decrease over time. | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | The Crucible
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|
||||
| show | my name
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|
||||
| This man altered the system to beat the Kobayashi Maru simulation, that tests an officer’s ability under pressure. This man screams “KHAAAN!” in a film that ends with the death of Spock. Name this captain of the USS Enterprise on the series Star Trek. | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Catalyst
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|
||||
| show | ORNITHOPHILY
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|
||||
| show | Flax
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|
||||
| show | VULCANIZATION
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|
||||
| show | STAINLESS STEEL
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|
||||
| The branch of medical science which is concerned with the study of disease as it affects a community of people is called: | show 🗑
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||||
| The study of how people use tools to perform work and how people physically relate to their working environment is called: | show 🗑
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||||
| Occasionally, a bad cold will cause a decrease in a persons hearing ability. What is the name of the tube that becomes blocked to cause this problem? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | METROLOGY
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|
||||
| show | INDIVISIBLE
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|
||||
| This large bird of prey is related to the eagle. The bird is found on all continents. Three species, the swallow-tailed, white-tailed and the Mississippi are found in North America. What creatures travel in gaggles? | show 🗑
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||||
| Identify the Earth's largest INVERTEBRATE animal. | show 🗑
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||||
| show | ANEMOPHILY
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|
||||
| Name the type of camel that has two humps. | show 🗑
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||||
| show | BONSAI
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|
||||
| What is made from chicle? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | TOXICOLOGY
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|
||||
| A device used to measure the amount of moisture in the atmosphere is called a: | show 🗑
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||||
| Who was known as "The Wizard of Menlo Park"? | show 🗑
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| What is meant by the statement that an animal is oviparous? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Balsa
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|
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| If a scuba diver suffers from the "bends", this means that which gas is being rapidly released from the blood and tissues? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | PEWTER
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| "Fool's gold" is a common name for this mineral: | show 🗑
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| show | COSMOLOGY
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| Recent discoveries of ancient cratering near the Yucatan Peninsula support the theory that a meteor or cometary impact may have resulted in mass extinctions of species on Earth about 65 million years ago. During which geologic period was that impact? | show 🗑
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| What common flavoring comes from the long slender fruit of a climbing orchid? | show 🗑
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| In the Tyndall Effect, the intensity of scattered radiation is inversely proportional to the fourth power of the wavelength. Which one of the following colors of light would exhibit the most intense Tyndall scattering? | show 🗑
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| One trillion is 1 followed by 12 zeros. What is 1 followed by 18 zeros? | show 🗑
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| show | ACHILLES TENDON
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| This Congressional Act of 1862 gave Americans free land if they farmed the Great Plains | show 🗑
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| show | Papyrus
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| show | Merger
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| What bluish mineral, technically a hydrated phosphate of aluminum and copper, is used in Indian jewelry of the American Southwest? | show 🗑
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| The bassoon, clarinet and flute are part of which instrument group? | show 🗑
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| The nickname “doughboys” was given to American soldiers during which war? | show 🗑
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| ) What kind of front is indicated on a surface weather map by a line from which small triangles are emerging? | show 🗑
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| Letters are used as symbols which represent numbers in which branch of mathematics? | show 🗑
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| This recessive genetic disorder stunts growth and causes sweat to be overtly salty. The disorder causes one's lungs to fill with a thick mucus, causing difficulty breathing and often leading to pneumonia. | show 🗑
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| show | Happy Birthday
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| Macau and Hong Kong sit on the delta of a river named for this precious object. They can be farmed from oysters for use as jewelry. | show 🗑
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| This devious python in the Jungle Book hypnotizes Bagheera and the bear until they are freed by the “man-cub | show 🗑
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| Robert Herrick’s poem “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time” begins by commanding the young to “gather ye rosebuds while ye may,” and is a classic example of this poetic movement, whose name is Latin for “seize the day.” | show 🗑
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| show | Henry Clay
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| show | Masses
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| In this novel, a toxic black smoke and “heat-rays” finally stop, and destructive tripods are halted, when common Earth bacteria prove fatal to extraterrestrials Name this novel by H.G. Wells about a Martian invasion. | show 🗑
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| This phenomenon stems from differences in water temperature & on land, causing atmospheric convection in the form of sea breezes. The Himalayan Mts cause this by forcing rain. Name this weather pattern where a reversal of winds brings heavy rain to Asia | show 🗑
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| This leader gave the “History will Absolve Me” speech 6 years before he overthrew Fulgencio Batista. Nikita Khrushchev failed to arm his country during a 1962 Missile Crisis. Name the Communist leader who ruled Cuba for over forty years and died in 2016. | show 🗑
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| Sheila Burnford novel that includes the line "This journey took place in a part of Canada which lies in the northeastern part of Ontario." (Starts with I) | show 🗑
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| show | Israel
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| North Atlantic Island that is the westernrmost country of Europe (Starts with I) | show 🗑
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| show | Interjection
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| To move to a foreign country as a permanent resident (Starts with I) | show 🗑
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| Mythological goddess of the rainbow (Starts with I) | show 🗑
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| show | icicle
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| show | immune
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| show | influenza
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| Indian group Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro conquered in Peru in 1533 | show 🗑
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| State in which the Carters of the Moon National Monument is located (Starts with I) | show 🗑
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| show | Isabella
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| show | Index
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| show | Lake Itasca
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| show | immunity
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| show | Inquisition
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| Country whose capital is Tehran | show 🗑
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| show | International Date Line
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| Country whose capital is Dublin | show 🗑
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| US state who name is included in the name of the capital | show 🗑
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| State whose capital is Boise | show 🗑
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| show | Idiom
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| show | idol
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| "Rainbow Coalition" leader who was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1984 and 1988. (Starts with J) | show 🗑
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| show | Johnson
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| show | Java
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| Mideast country of King Hussein I with Amman as its capital | show 🗑
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| show | Jaundice
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| "Steel-Driving Man" who beat a steam drill in digging a hole (Starts with J) | show 🗑
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| Country in the West Indies whose capital is Kingston | show 🗑
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| US City in which the Gator Bowl is played (Starts with J) | show 🗑
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| First Chief Justice of the United States (Starts with J) | show 🗑
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| show | John Paul Jones
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| Muslim term for "holy war" (Starts with J) | show 🗑
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| American general who defeated the British army at the Battle of New Orleans on January 8, 1815. (Starts with J) | show 🗑
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| show | Jack Sprat
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| show | Jefferson
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| National flower of the US adopted in 1986 | show 🗑
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| Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court who succeeded Warren Burger in 1986 (Starts with R) | show 🗑
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| Brazilian city whose name literally means "River of January" | show 🗑
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| show | rabbi
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| show | Rome
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| show | Carthage
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| show | Hannibal
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| Early versions of this device employed filaments of platinum and carbonized bamboo, before tungsten was found to last longer. Name this invention, which consists of a wire filament heated to such a high temperature that the filament glows. | show 🗑
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| show | Robert Frost
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| This goddess tied Europa to a tree and put Argus’s eyes on the feathers of the peacock, which was sacred to this goddess. She was the daughter of Cronos and Rhea. Name this jealous goddess, the wife of Zeus | show 🗑
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| Two of these events can combine in the Fujiwhara effect. Name these storm systems with wind speeds of at least 74 miles per hour that develop from tropical storms. | show 🗑
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| This area of low pressure around which hurricanes form is the quietest area of the storm. It is surrounded by a dense wall | show 🗑
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| show | Saffir-Simpson
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| This man described “the shot heard round the world” in the poem “Concord Hymn” and wrote essays like “The Over-Soul.” Name this transcendentalist author of the essays “Self-Reliance” and“Nature.” | show 🗑
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| He wrote about the soldier Rinaldi in the short story " In Our Time". Name this American author, who also included Rinaldi in a novel about English nurse Catherine Barkley caring for American World War I soldier Frederic Henry, in A Farewell to Arms. | show 🗑
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| In this novel by Ernest Hemingway, the impotent soldier Jake Barnes, Robert Cohn, and Bill Gorton conflict over the affections of Lady Brett Ashley | show 🗑
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| This god gave birth to four beings from his mind. Legend says this Hindu god was hatched from a golden cosmic egg , and in the Puranas, it is said this god was born from a lotus that emerged out of Vishnu’s navel.Name this four-headed Hindu creator god | show 🗑
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| show | Bethlehem
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| show | Nazareth
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| Jesus spent the first years of his life in Egypt when Joseph and Mary fled from this murderous Roman king. After Jesus was born, the Magi reported his location to this king, who wanted to kill the “King of the Jews.” | show 🗑
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| show | Dante Alighieri
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| show | Virgil
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| The woman who later leads the narrator of Dante's Inferno through Heaven | show 🗑
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| show | Aruba
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| show | Hexadecimal
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| Roosevelt stated “the only thing we have to fear is...fear itself” during this 1933 speech, in which he outlined how he would respond to the Great Depression. | show 🗑
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| show | Fireside Chats
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| In this novel, the “Sons of Adam” and “Daughters of Eve” reward the Beavers and Tumnus in the castle Cair Paravel. Aslan helps the Pevensie children become kings and queens in what first-published novel in C.S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia? | show 🗑
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| In an eighteenth century addition to the Thousand and One Nights, Scheherazade tells the story of this man, who marries a princess after discovering a djinn in a magical oil lamp in a cave. | show 🗑
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| In some stories, Atlas is the son of Aether and this personification of the Earth, who also gave birth to Uranus. | show 🗑
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| show | Rhea
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| show | The Thinker
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| show | The Gates of Hell
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| show | Speed of Light
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| This physicist pioneered quantum theory by positing that light energy is emitted in discrete packets. A photon’s energy is equal to the frequency times this man’s constant, symbolized “h.” | show 🗑
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| Identify the geographical term defined as distance measured by degrees or time east or west from the prime meridian. | show 🗑
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| Identify the literary term defined as a comparing of two things without using the words "like" or "as" | show 🗑
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| show | fiber optics
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| Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman with this job by piloting Vostok 6. Others include the dog Laika, who died inside Sputnik 2. Yuri Gagarin, the first person in outer space, served as, what Soviet counterpart to US astronauts? | show 🗑
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| show | guns
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| show | Yellow
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| show | The Most Dangerous Game (accept The Hounds of Zaroff)
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| show | Jonathan Swift
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| show | Cookbook
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| This math operation can be expressed as fractional exponents, such as 64 to the 1/3 power. Name this operation symbolized by a checkmark-like symbol that extends over the input. | show 🗑
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||||
| If the universe is closed, then all space may contract back into a single point in an event called this, the opposite of the Big Bang. | show 🗑
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| show | mauve
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| James Tallmadge wrote that slavery in this state would exist, but eventually die away.Name this state, the subject of an 1820 compromise that allowed this state to have slavery as long as every new state north and west of it entered as a free state. | show 🗑
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| The Missouri Compromise also admitted this free state to the Union, keeping a North/South balance in the Senate. This state had previously been Massachusetts’ territory. | show 🗑
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| show | Dred Scott v Sanford
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| show | Katy Perry
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| The pulla type of this garment was worn in mourning, and the picta was dyed purple to be worn by Emperors. Name this large, woolen garment that was draped and folded over ancient Roman men. | show 🗑
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| show | Oliver Twist
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| show | Geometry
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||||
| show | Monroe (James)
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| show | Pacific Ocean
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| show | rice
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||||
| The dog Argus recognizes this man, who is held captive by (*) Calypso and tricks Polyphemus, a cyclops, by claiming to be “no one.” Name this title character of a epic poem by Homer, who has a ten-year journey home to Ithaca | show 🗑
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| During this war, the submarine H.L. Hunley sank twice during testing and once more in a real attack. Name this war in which the Monitor and Merrimack, two ironclads, clashed at Hampton Roads. | show 🗑
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| In an attempt to end the Civil War, Winfield Scott developed this plan to economically “strangle” the South. This plan, commonly depicted in newspapers as a snake, was a massive blockade of every Southern port | show 🗑
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| A key aspect of the Anaconda Plan was to take complete control of the Mississippi River by seizing this city. David Farragut captured this city without a fight; as a result, historic buildings in its French Quarter survived the war | show 🗑
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| show | throwing a discus
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||||
| Both the special and general theories of relativity were developed by this physicist, whose multiple breakthroughs in 1905 led to that year being called his Annus Mirabilis | show 🗑
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| Albert Einstein’s 1921 Nobel Prize cited his 1905 explanation of the effect in which shining light on metals causes them to emit these subatomic particles. | show 🗑
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||||
| Name these autonomous, humanoid machines from science fiction, which are governed by “Three Laws” that dictate that these things cannot injure a human or allow a human to come to harm | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Isaac Asimov
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||||
| show | Marvin the Paranoid Android Robot
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|
||||
| Centuries ago, Adam’s Bridge was a land connection linking Sri Lanka to this subcontinent, now the second-most populous country in the world. | show 🗑
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| show | glaciers
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|
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| The Pali Canon collects the teachings and sayings of this man, who developed the philosophy of the “Middle Way.”Name this man, who founded a namesake Indian religion and achieved enlightenment under the Bodhi tree | show 🗑
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||||
| show | meditation
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| show | i
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| Peter the Great ruled as Tsar of this country, which he led into the Great Northern War with Sweden | show 🗑
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| show | wearing a beard
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| This man is rumored to have stabbed his father with a pair of scissors. Name this character who hides trinkets in a tree outside his house and who carries Jem home after he is attacked. | show 🗑
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| show | Bunsen Burner
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| The protagonist of this work is described as a “prince of yesterday” and a “fools’ pope.” Name this Victor Hugo novel about Quasimodo, the title deformed bell-ringer of a Paris cathedral. | show 🗑
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| show | Sleep Cycle
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| show | deportation
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| A woman and man are shrouded in this material in Gustav Klimt’s The Kiss, which is covered in this material’s decorative “leaf” form. Name this precious metal that can best be hammered into a thin, decorative sheet when its purity is roughly 22 karats | show 🗑
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||||
| In a novel by this author, Roger Chillingworth changes his name while pursuing his wife, who has been marked with the title shameful symbol. Hester Prynne was created by what author of Twice-Told Tales and The Scarlet Letter? | show 🗑
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| show | Barack Obama
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||||
| show | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows
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||||
| show | Ludwig von Beethoven
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| show | Free will
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| For two months of this battle, soldiers defended Pavlov’s House against Friedrich Paulus’s Sixth Army, who eventually surrendered to Georgy Zhukov. Name this lengthy World War II siege of a Russian city named for the Soviet premier. | show 🗑
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| show | Rockets
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| show | Nirvana
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| show | 9
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|
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| August Spies was executed in this city for his role in the Haymarket Square bombing. In 1871, Mrs O’Leary’s cow legendarily started a “Great” fire in, what largest city of Illinois? | show 🗑
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| show | E Coli
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| show | Robert Burns
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| Morgan Spurlock relied on this company for 30 days as part of his 2004 documentary Super Size Me. In 2017, this company hosted a giveaway for their 1998 special, Szechuan sauce. Name this fast food chain that sells Big Macs under the “golden arches.” | show 🗑
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| show | Perimeter
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| An orange sits on a windowsill in the left side of this painting as well as a pair of wooden shoes, a small dog , and a woman in a long, green dress. Name this painting of an Italian merchant and his new bride, created by Jan Van Eyck. | show 🗑
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| show | Apollo
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| show | Toronto
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| show | Flowers
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| show | Los Angeles
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| show | sorting
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| show | permutation
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||||
| Name the Spanish artist, who painted La maja desnuda, La maja vestida, and The Third of May, 1808 | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Black Paintings
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| In one of Goya’s Black Paintings, this Roman counterpart of the Titan Cronus is shown Devouring His Son, gnawing on the left arm of a bloodied and headless body. | show 🗑
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| show | Night
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| show | Anne Frank
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| This man recruited Castor, Pollux, Heracles, Atalanta, and other heroes to accompany him on a difficult quest set by this man’s uncle, Pelias. Name this Greek hero, who led the Argonauts on a quest for the golden fleece | show 🗑
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| Pelias sent Jason after the golden fleece after Jason arrived in Iolcus wearing only one of these pieces of clothing. An oracle had warned Pelias that he would be threatened by a man wearing only one of these strappy pieces of footwear | show 🗑
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| After Jason returned with the golden fleece, this woman helped him claim Pelias’s throne by tricking Pelias’s daughters into killing him. When Jason tried to marry Glauce, this sorceress killed Glauce and the sons she had with Jason in revenge | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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| show | Robert Louis Stevenson
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|
||||
| The photograph Pillars of Creation shows stars being formed within the “Eagle” one of these bodies. Name these interstellar clouds of dust and gas. They may be planetary, like the Cat’s Eye, or supernova remnants, like the Crab | show 🗑
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| show | X Ray
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| Martin Luther’s break from the Catholic Church began this period of religious history, in which Protestants tried to change the workings of the church. | show 🗑
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| This current President of France defeated Marine le Pen in the 2017 elections. | show 🗑
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| show | The Grapes of Wrath
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| The losing side in this battle was led by a brother of Tecumseh known as “the Prophet,” . Name this 1811 battle. 29 years later, the winning general capitalized on his victory at this battle by using it in a campaign slogan | show 🗑
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| When Elizabeth saw this figure, her baby jumped in her womb, foretelling John the Baptist’s relationship with this immaculately-conceived woman’s son. name this biblical woman, who traveled to Bethlehem with Joseph and gave birth to Jesus. | show 🗑
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||||
| show | FBI
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|
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| The order “don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes” was given during this battle, which was fought outside Boston. Name this early Revolutionary War battle that, despite its name, was fought mostly on Breed’s Hill | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Pangaea
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| show | Don Quijote of La Mancha
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| show | Major and Minor
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| show | flat
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| This man’s presidency lasted less than 900 days, the shortest term for any US president who didn’t die in office. Name this Republican politician, who lost his only Presidential election to Jimmy Carter. | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Star Wars
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||||
| Aphrodite was also the lover of this extraordinarily beautiful mortal man, and became so distraught at this man’s death during a hunt that she caused anemone flowers to bloom where his blood fell. | show 🗑
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| show | Harriet Beecher Stowe
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|
||||
| Athens and Sparta feuded in this series of 5th century BCE wars. This conflict ended with Athens’ navy getting destroyed at Aegospotami and Sparta installing the Thirty Tyrants to control Athens. | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Jacob
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|
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| A member of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show was this Lakota chief who, with Crazy Horse, defeated General Custer at the Battle of Little Bighorn. | show 🗑
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| During the American Revolution, soldiers in the British army were known as “lobsters” and as this colorful term, based on their uniforms. | show 🗑
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| This mythical figure was the sister of Stheno and Euryale, and became the mother of Chrysaor and Pegasus after her death. Name this snake-haired Gorgon woman, whose gaze turned all who saw her into stone. | show 🗑
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| show | Punnett squares
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| show | heterozygous
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| Name this 1800's politician who fought in the Texas War for Independence and died at the Alamo. This figure became known later as the “King of the Wild Frontier.” | show 🗑
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| Name these insects that perform a waggle dance to communicate to each other where food sources are located relative to their honeycombs. | show 🗑
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| What is the primary oxygen-carrying protein found in red blood cells | show 🗑
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||||
| show | TIDES
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|
||||
| What is the name of the rock that makes up most of the ocean floor and volcanic ocean islands? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | HEAT AND PRESSURE
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| show | RADIUS
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||||
| show | CHLOROPLAST
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|
||||
| show | FERMENTATION
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| show | HYDROGEN PEROXIDE
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||||
| What is the scientific name for the white of a cooked egg? | show 🗑
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||||
| What term is generally used for biological catalysts? | show 🗑
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||||
| Every triangle has how many vertices? | show 🗑
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| Wayne Morse was one senator to oppose a law, named after this body of water that granted LBJ the power to deploy American troops in Southeast Asia. The Turner Joy & the Maddox were attacked by torpedo boats in what gulf off the coast of North Vietnam? | show 🗑
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| show | ziggurats
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|
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| show | Harriet Tubman
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|
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| show | George C Wallace
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|
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| Fictional examples of these people named BJ Hunnicut and Hawkeye Pierce worked in the 4077th during the Korean War in the T.V. show M*A*S*H. Name these professionals who work “without Borders” in warzones to heal the wounded. | show 🗑
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| show | Meryl Streep
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|
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| show | Department Stores
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| Violators of their policy are blocked from holding government jobs. This policy has increased sex-selective abortion & a massive gender imbalance, due to a cultural bias in favor of having sons. Name this policy meant to control the population of China. | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Billie Holiday
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| show | 8th amendment
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|
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| show | Athens
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|
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| show | Birmingham
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|
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| show | Space Needle
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|
||||
| The Bozeman Trail connected Wyoming to this state, where the 7th Cavalry was destroyed in 1876 by a Native American coalition that included Sitting Bull & Crazy Horse. Name this state where the Battle of Little Bighorn was fought near Billings | show 🗑
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||||
| Name the author of Rights of Man who proposed an American Magna Carta in his 1776 pamphlet, Common Sense. | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Worlds Fair 1889
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|
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| show | Adagio for Strings
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|
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| Both he and the headless horseman were in love with Katrina, in the story THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW by Washington Irving. Name this character | show 🗑
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||||
| What sport has a trophy called the Stanley Cup? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Yacht Racing
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|
||||
| show | Alimony
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|
||||
| The oldest living thing in the U.S. is named for a Civil War general. It is located in Sequoia National Park. What is its name? | show 🗑
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||||
| A group of similar cells is called a tissue. What do scientists call a group of similar tissues? | show 🗑
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||||
| October 4, 1957, was the day the Space Age started with the launching of a Russian spacecraft. What was it called? | show 🗑
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||||
| Medical term that describes massive bleeding. | show 🗑
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||||
| Lord Kelvin was the British physicist who devised the absolute temperature scale. What scientist developed the Centigrade scale? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Pears
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|
||||
| show | to change
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|
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| Its chemical formula is FeS(2). Technically, it's called iron sulfide, or iron pyrites. It is shiny yellow; it occurs abundantly as a native ore. In popular terms, what is it called? | show 🗑
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| She was chained to a rock to be devoured by a sea monster, but was rescued by Perseus. Daughter of Cassiopeia, she was placed among the stars after her death. What is her name? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Edward VIII
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| Botany is the branch of science dealing with the study of plants. What branch of science involves the study of fossils? | show 🗑
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| Only one of our fifty states was an independent country, recognized by the United States, before it became a state. Name it. | show 🗑
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| show | Chivalry
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| Every complete sentence must contain a subject and this part, containing the verb. Name it. | show 🗑
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| show | To predict or foretell
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| show | quiver
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| What musical instrument did the famous Benny Goodman play? | show 🗑
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| A federal judge ruled that which NFL team could keep its trademark name and logos because a group of activists didn’t provide enough evidence that the team’s moniker insulted a substantial number of Native Americans? | show 🗑
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| The setting for J.R. Tolkien's LORD OF THE RINGS. | show 🗑
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| show | January
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| show | MIghty Mouse
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| show | Courage or bravery
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| show | Lithium
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| If a passage of music is marked "pp," what does it mean? | show 🗑
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| show | rocks
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| show | Styx
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| show | Cotton
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| In poetry, what do we call the repetition of initial consonant sounds? | show 🗑
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| show | Alvin C. York
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| The first declaration of war leading to the First World War was made on July 28, 1914. Who declared war on whom? | show 🗑
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| show | Battle of Fort McHenry
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| show | 10
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| What does M stand for in Roman numerals? | show 🗑
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| What famous landmark was re-erected at Lake Havasu City, Arizona? | show 🗑
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| show | quarry
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| show | Abraham Lincoln
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| What gas makes up about 78% of the earth's atmosphere? | show 🗑
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| If you have ever been to the national capital building in Washington, D.C., you have probably stood in the circular hall under the massive central dome. What is this interior space called? | show 🗑
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| show | drake
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| show | Emancipation Proclamation
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| show | Cabbage
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| show | BATTLE HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC
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| The reign of Augustus began a 200-year period of peace in Rome. During the two centuries, commerce flourished and the standard of living got better. Historians use a Latin phrase to describe this period. What is it? | show 🗑
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| show | Gene Autrey
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| The quest of this object is the subject of such masterpieces as Wagner's opera PARSIFAL, Tennyson's poem IDYLLS OF THE KING, and Malory's book about the death of King Arthur. In medieval legend, it was the cup used by Jesus Christ at the Last Supper. | show 🗑
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| Where do relief pitchers warm up? | show 🗑
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| show | Coffin Corner
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| How many tablespoons are in a cup? | show 🗑
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| show | 5 yards
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| show | a divot
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| show | WW 2
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| show | July (Julius Caesar)
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| show | Allen Iverson
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| Right after the Civil War, many northern politicians went South to take advantage of the confusion left after the war. What were these scoundrels called? | show 🗑
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| show | 1
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| show | Little League
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| A statue by Edvard Ericksen at the water's edge in Copenhagen harbor depicts the heroine of one of Hans Christian Andersen's stories | show 🗑
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| The friends Porthos, Athos, and Aramis, are better known by what collective name? | show 🗑
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| show | Cucumbers
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| A sports arena built by the Emperor Titus year A.D. 80 still stands despite centuries of pillage and earthquakes. Name this tourist attraction and the European city where it's located. | show 🗑
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| show | wind speed
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| show | Gemini
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| What did Benjamin Franklin invent because he got tired of having to carry two pairs of glasses with him--one for close-up and the other for distance? | show 🗑
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| As stated in the popular proverb, what does haste make? | show 🗑
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| show | hybrid
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| Booker T. Washington was the first black to receive an honorary degree from what Ivy League school? | show 🗑
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| This branch of engineering deals primarily with the design, construction, and maintenance of public works such as highways, bridges, and waterways. What is this discipline called? | show 🗑
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| Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1901. Roentgen is chiefly remembered for the discovery of what? | show 🗑
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| A race of monsters in Greek mythology had the chest, arms, and head of a man, and the belly and legs of a horse. Members of this race were called what? | show 🗑
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| show | To make new
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| What war did Billy Yank and Johnny Reb fight? | show 🗑
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| show | Alpha and omega
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| show | Scalene
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| show | Guillotine
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| In 1922, an English archeologist named Howard Carter and his patron Lord Carnarvon discovered one of the richest finds in history. What did these two men find? | show 🗑
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| When a person gives false testimony under oath in a court of law, it's called what? | show 🗑
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| show | Aardvark
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| show | Whippoorwill
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| show | Chihuahua
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| show | anarchy
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| show | Minuend
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| Name the song sung by Jiminy Cricket in Walt Disney's PINOCCHIO | show 🗑
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| According to the Bible, what was man made from? | show 🗑
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| The study of man is called | show 🗑
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| What rodent has no tail? | show 🗑
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| "Oui" in French means? | show 🗑
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| show | veto
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| show | John Hancock
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| What term refers to a person who wanted to see slavery ended? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | cell
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| show | Graceland
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| show | Evander HOlyfield
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| What's the name of the bird that cartoon cat Sylvester chases in vain? | show 🗑
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||||
| The Ten Commandments are found in which two books of the Bible? | show 🗑
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| show | Enoch
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| show | locusts
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| show | Emmanuel
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| show | Revelations
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| What is the largest moon of Jupiter called? | show 🗑
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| show | Names
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| show | Polaris
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| show | Ovid (Ancient Greece)
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| show | His Shadow
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| show | Fart
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| At the age of 15, Jack Andraka won an Intel Award for a noninvasive method of early detection for the pancreatic form of this disease | show 🗑
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| Zero players were elected into this sport's Cooperstown Hall of Fame in 2013 | show 🗑
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| show | King Solomon
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| show | Interjections
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| This brand is known for its 501 Original Fit jeans | show 🗑
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| show | Hebrew
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||||
| show | Alice in Wonderland
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| show | Appendixes
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| From the back cover of this book: "In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem" | show 🗑
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||||
| show | polo
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| show | water polo
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| In 2013 Queen Beatrix of this country abdicated in favor of her son, Prince Willem-Alexander | show 🗑
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| Sweet! In books by Judy Blume, Farley Drexel Hatcher is better known by this nickname | show 🗑
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| show | hatchet
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|
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| Brothers is the brother store of this clothing store for tween girls whose name means "equitableness" | show 🗑
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| show | C.S. Lewis
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| show | "Operation"
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| show | "Candy Land"
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| show | Toddlers and Tiaras
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| show | The Krusty Krab
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| show | Juneau
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| show | Dr. Doofenshcmitz
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| show | penalize
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|
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| show | Naval Carrier
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|
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| show | "Clue"
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|
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| show | "Foosball"
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| Literally or figuratively, it's what you wave when you surrender | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Yellow card
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|
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| Ryan Seacrest interviews celebs arriving at the Oscars "live from" this colorful place | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Penultimate
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|
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| show | Saudi Arabia
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|
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| show | Grand Canypn
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|
||||
| Chris Van Allsburg's "The ____ Express" | show 🗑
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||||
| The Nile is longer, but in terms of volume, this is the world's largest river | show 🗑
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||||
| The 3 little kittens cried when they lost these | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Pickleed Peppers
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|
||||
| show | Karate
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|
||||
| show | Calligraphy
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|
||||
| show | Nitrogen
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|
||||
| It was stolen by Tom, Tom, the piper's son | show 🗑
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||||
| show | glossary
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|
||||
| This cat from the "Shrek" movies got his own film | show 🗑
|
||||
| Hydrogen has an atomic number of 1; this light gas, 2 | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Genesis
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|
||||
| A more original pole dance? This West Indies dance uses a progressively lowered bar | show 🗑
|
||||
| "Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you do" this lively South American dance in triple time? | show 🗑
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| Also a haircut style, it's the R&B-based state dance of South Carolina | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Ampitheater
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|
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| A breed of horse & a breed of dog are named for these Scottish islands | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Vain
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|
||||
| show | Drones
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|
||||
| $600 27 After eating the cake that had "Eat me" spelled out in currants, she said, "Curiouser and curiouser!" | show 🗑
|
||||
| Vocab: "Aseptic", or "incapable of producing offspring | show 🗑
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||||
| Distance from the equator measured in degrees | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Reversal of Fortune
🗑
|
||||
| Applesauce & sour cream are 2 traditional accompaniments to these potato pancakes | show 🗑
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||||
| A "kid" who lets himself in after school because his parents are working is known by this compound word. | show 🗑
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||||
| show | retrograde
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|
||||
| show | rugby
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|
||||
| show | A Raisin in the Sun
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|
||||
| Alec Baldwin asks, "What's in your wallet?" in ads for this company | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Priceline
🗑
|
||||
| Flo, of the dark hair & red lipstick, wants drivers to try Snapshot from this insurance company | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Gothic Novel
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|
||||
| Rephrase this cliche: "Color a metropolis crimson" | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Keep your fingers crossed
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|
||||
| show | North Korea
🗑
|
||||
| The English Channel & the Strait of Dover connect this body of water with the Atlantic Ocean | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | dragons
🗑
|
||||
| Navy SEAL & expert marksman Chris Kyle called his autobiography "American" this type of shooter | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | 5,280
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|
||||
| show | Willie Nelson
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|
||||
| The contributions of J. Sterling Morton include this tree-planting holiday first observed on April 10, 1872 | show 🗑
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||||
| show | deploy
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|
||||
| Mix ginger ale & grenadine & garnish with fruit & you get the alcohol-free cocktail named for this child star | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | grunge
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|
||||
| show | gorge
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|
||||
| show | Marlin
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|
||||
| show | secrete
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|
||||
| show | Vitamin C
🗑
|
||||
| The kart-racing game in the movie 'Wreck-It Ralph' is called | show 🗑
|
||||
| The word 'coconut' comes from a 16th century Portuguese word 'cocos' meaning .....? (a) angry face (b) weeping face (c) grinnning face | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | prune
🗑
|
||||
| With reference to 1960s slang words, if a teenager called you a 'hawk' in the 1960s what would they be accusing you of? | show 🗑
|
||||
| In October 2014, at the age of 17, she became the first teenager to win a Nobel Peace Prize for her work to allow girls to get education in Palestine. | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | shoulder
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|
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| show | bandana
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|
||||
| show | extras
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|
||||
| show | famished
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|
||||
| A reference book containing lists of synonyms is called a | show 🗑
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||||
| show | vixen
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|
||||
| What is the term for a person running for public office? | show 🗑
|
||||
| A group of bees is a swarm and a group of gnats is a horde. What Is a group of ants? | show 🗑
|
||||
| Consider the line, "Which is the witch who wished the wicked wish?" What is the phrase for any such a group of words difficult to articulate rapidly? | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Bejeweled
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|
||||
| show | Avatar
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|
||||
| show | John Connner
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|
||||
| show | Rocky Mountains
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|
||||
| Ohm’s law states that the voltage between two points in a circuit is proportional to this quantity. Give this quantity that measures the flow of electric charge which is often symbolized “I.” | show 🗑
|
||||
| Name this process of inducing an altered mental state, in which the subjects demonstrate increased conscious attachment, heightened memory, and increased susceptibility to suggestion | show 🗑
|
||||
| One of this project’s longtime benefactors was Leland Stanford. Name this major network that was completed at Promontory Point, Utah. Its construction was aided in part by a mass influx of Cantonese immigrant workers | show 🗑
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||||
| show | onomatopoeia
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|
||||
| The Massacre of Martin’s Hundred in Virginia occurred near this first permanent English settlement in America that suffered during the Starving Time. | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Florida Everglades
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|
||||
| show | Kit Kat
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|
||||
| This Nestle candy is made of chocolate nougat, peanuts, and caramel. Despite popular belief, its name comes from Grover Cleveland’s daughter rather than the name of a famous Yankee slugger | show 🗑
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||||
| Composed of chocolate, caramel, and rolled in crisped rice, this candy bar was named after a series of game shows. Its slogan is “That’s Rich!” | show 🗑
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||||
| This Greek deity, was sometimes called “Khthonios” because of his possible origin as a god of the underworld. In some stories he conducts dead souls to Erebus when he’s not busy delivering messages | show 🗑
|
||||
| This epic poem is one of the oldest works written in Old English; it follows the titular Geatish hero who comes to the aid of Hrothgar, King of the Danes | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Thor
🗑
|
||||
| In a wire loop in a magnetic field, this quantity =the strength of the field X the dipole moment X the sine of the angle between them. Symbolized tau, this is the vector acting on an extended object; it is a force exerted on an axis of rotation | show 🗑
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||||
| This figure once cheated in a sledding race by causing her opponent, Poli’ahu, to almost fall into a stream of lava. Believed to reside in the Kilauea volcano. Name this goddess of fire and creator of the Hawaiian islands. | show 🗑
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||||
| This woman got started in her field thanks to her correspondence with Louis Leakey. Most of her work was done at Gombe River National Park. Name this English primatologist, most notable for studying chimpanzees. | show 🗑
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||||
| Sometimes the lead actress also play the character Odile, the daughter of the enchanter Baron von Rothbart. Featuring a love affair with Prince Siegfried. Name this Tchaikovsky ballet that depicts Odette being cursed into becoming the title animal. | show 🗑
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||||
| show | sleet
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|
||||
| This precipitation comes in the form of icy pellets, which are kept in a cloud until it becomes too heavy to hold. The largest precipitate of this type was 8 inches in diameter. | show 🗑
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||||
| William D. Mitchell ordered the eviction of this group. Name this group of World War I veterans who marched on Washington for the immediate payment of money promised to them in 1924 by the Federal Government. | show 🗑
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||||
| show | coyote
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|
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| show | Anansi
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|
||||
| show | trumpet
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|
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| This rapper declares “all my friends are dead, push me to the edge,” on Luv is Rage 2. This rapper exclaims “Yeah!” to begin his guest verse on the song “Bad and Boujee” by Migos. Name this rapper of smash hits like “Money Longer” and “XO Tour Llif3.” | show 🗑
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||||
| show | free will
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|
||||
| This play features the line “some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon ‘em,” as well as the marriage of Duke Orsino. Set in Illyria. Name this Shakespeare play featuring the twins Sebastian and Viola. | show 🗑
|
||||
| This mountain’s Kibo crest is a volcanic peak which is said to have destroyed a Maasai village. This mountain’s namesake National Park is near the city of Mochi and the border with Kenya. Name this tallest mountain in Africa. | show 🗑
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||||
| An aerial campaign over this city led to the destruction of Kaiser Wilhelm Church. This city was the site of a blockade and subsequent airlift known as Operation Vittles. Name this city that was divided by a namesake wall during the Cold War | show 🗑
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||||
| show | The Invisible Man
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|
||||
| Cicero’s head & hands were sent to this leader after Cicero attacked him in writing & this man was defeated at the Battle of Actium. . Name this member of the Second Triumvirate who committed suicide to avoid capture by Octavian. | show 🗑
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||||
| Pharaohs were thought to be physical avatars of this deity, who also fathered the gods responsible for guarding canopic jars. The wedjat symbolizes this husband of Hathor. Name this falcon headed deity who defeated Set to avenge his father, Osiris. | show 🗑
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||||
| This city is home to the Ace Chemicals building. Roman Sionis leads a crime syndicate in this city dominated by the Maroni and Falcone crime families.This is what fictional New Jersey town famously patrolled by Batman? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | flute
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|
||||
| show | Confucius
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|
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| show | Python
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|
||||
| Python attempted to prevent Apollo’s birth by stalking this mother of Apollo and Artemis. | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Mt. Kilauea (Hawaii)
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|
||||
| In 2018, archaeologists found the remains of a man who escaped the destruction in this city only to be crushed by a boulder. Name this Roman city whose remains were preserved after it was covered by ash from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius & Herculaneum/ | show 🗑
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||||
| One of the prominent primary sources for the destruction of Pompeii is a letter by this man, who described watching the eruption from a distance and told of the death of his uncle, a general who tried to rescue citizens. | show 🗑
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||||
| show | The Trinity
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|
||||
| show | New Deal
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|
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| show | The Black Stone (Kaaba)
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|
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| This man is warned by David of Doncaster not to go to an archery contest. Name this folk hero who robbed from the rich and gave to the poor | show 🗑
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||||
| How many electrons does a hydrogen atom have? | show 🗑
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||||
| In the X-Men film franchise, Halle Berry played the role of which character? | show 🗑
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| show | Johannes Vermeer
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|
||||
| show | Pluto
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|
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| show | Marvin Gaye
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|
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| show | Deion Sanders
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|
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| The "Lone Star" state is which states slogan? | show 🗑
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||||
| Released in 1992, what is the best selling soundtrack album of all time from singer Whitney Houston? | show 🗑
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| show | (alarm clock)
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| show | ear
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|
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| show | 100
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|
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| What nationality was Frederic Chopin? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | esperanto
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|
||||
| Who lived at 221B, Baker Street, London? | show 🗑
|
||||
| How many dots are there on a pair of dice? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | 64
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|
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| show | English
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|
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| show | Bing Crosby
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|
||||
| What was the name of the pandemic which killed over 1% of the world’s population in 1918? | show 🗑
|
||||
| What was the name of Charles Lindbergh’s plane in which he completed the first non-stop solo trans-Atlantic flight? | show 🗑
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| show | York and Lancaster
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|
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| Which German city endured the worst bombing of World War Two in February 1945 | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Rasputin
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|
||||
| The energy of the Universe is constant; it can neither be created or destroyed but only transferred and transformed. What scientific law is this? | show 🗑
|
||||
| What does the Scoville Heat Unit Scale measure? | show 🗑
|
||||
| The hollow woody tissue in plants that carries water and minerals from the roots to throughout the entire plant is called the... | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Pride Rock
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|
||||
| What was the name of the whale in Pinocchio? | show 🗑
|
||||
| What actor was the first to receive a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor for providing a voice in a Disney Full Length Feature Animation? | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Beauty and the Beast
🗑
|
||||
| Which two Disney princesses featured red hair? | show 🗑
|
||||
| Which was the first rollercoaster to be built at Disney World? | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | radiation
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|
||||
| Which type of dog has breeds called Scottish, Welsh and Irish? | show 🗑
|
||||
| In the film Babe, what type of animal was Babe? | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Rome
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|
||||
| show | Aries
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|
||||
| show | Tinkerbell
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|
||||
| What is the name of the city where the cartoon family The Simpsons live? | show 🗑
|
||||
| Which colorful and much sung-about Christmas character was invented by American ad writer Robert L. May in 1939? | show 🗑
|
||||
| Which Christmas word means "turning of the sun"? | show 🗑
|
||||
| In Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, which was the first ghost to visit Ebeneezer Scrooge? | show 🗑
|
||||
| Which American Football team won the first two Super Bowls (in 1967 and 1968)? | show 🗑
|
||||
| Which Jamaican sprinter won gold medals at the 100m, 200m and 4 x 100m relay at three consecutive Olympic Games from 2008 - 2016? | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Pittsburgh Steelers (6)
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|
||||
| Which of the apostles doubted Jesus' resurrection until he saw him for himself? | show 🗑
|
||||
| How many plagues did God inflict upon Egypt? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | 40
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|
||||
| show | 10 Commandments
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| In Greek mythology, this creature with 100 eyes was killed by Hermes on order of Zeus in order to free Io. | show 🗑
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| show | Cambodia
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| Who is credited with inventing the first mechanical computer? | show 🗑
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| Who is the Canadian pop singer known for the song "Call Me Maybe"? | show 🗑
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| What does CD-ROM stand for? | show 🗑
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| Who played the title character in the TV series Hannah Montana | show 🗑
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| People who suffer from ithis disorder have their natural “fight or flight” response harmed. It results from a significant occurrence in their life. What is this mental condition, originally diagnosed among war veterans known by the acronym PTSD? | show 🗑
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| It has been one of the leading companies since 1997, 5 years after the death of its founder, the wealthiest man in the world in the 1980s. What is this company that has a museum in Bentonville, Arkansas & has more than 2.2 million employees worldwide? | show 🗑
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| Less than 3 minutes long, this piece starts out quietly, then gradually increases in volume and tempo as a troll chases Peer Gynt. What is the title of this most-often-performed piece by Edvard Grieg. | show 🗑
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| show | Adjectives
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| show | George H.W . Bush
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| London in 1851; Paris in 1889; Chicago in 1893; Buffalo in 1901; St. Louis in 1904; Chicago again in 1933-34; New York in 1939-40; Seattle in 1962; etc These were the sites and dates of what international exposition? | show 🗑
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| Unwanted termination of a computer program caused by software or hardware failure is called what? | show 🗑
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| show | The World
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| Name the longest war ever fought by the U.S. | show 🗑
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| ] An unfinished monument to this Lakota chief lies near Mount Rushmore. This man was imprisoned at Fort Robinson after having led the forces that defeated Custer at the Battle of Little Bighorn | show 🗑
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| This site contains a chamber called the Hall of Records that contains 16 porcelain enamel panels depicting the history of this site. Name this South Dakota monument that contains the heads of 4 US presidents carved into a mountain in the Black Hills | show 🗑
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| show | can-can
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| Samuel Slater memorized designs of British textile mills and brought the designs to the US, causing him to be nicknamed “Slater the Traitor.” Name this period in British history, which saw the increased use of steam power for mechanical production. | show 🗑
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| ] Palm Sunday, the last Sunday of Lent, commemorates Jesus’s triumphal entry into Jerusalem, during which he was welcomed by people shouting out this Hebrew word, sometimes translated as “Save now!” | show 🗑
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| Lent lasts for this number of days, commemorating how Jesus fasted for this number of days in the wilderness while being tempted by Satan. | show 🗑
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| show | Hurricane Harvey
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| show | Chichén Itzá
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| show | David Glasgow Farragut
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| These waterfalls, which collectively have the highest flow rate in the world, can be found on the Canada–United States border. These waterfalls can be viewed from boat tours on the Maid of the Mist. | show 🗑
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| show | a brace
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| show | Black Sea
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| A wombat is a marsupial native to what country? | show 🗑
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| show | Central Perk
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| The former Filipino first lady was known for her very large collection of what? | show 🗑
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| show | Hail Mary
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| show | Ask Me Anything
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| A “sounder” is the term used to refer to a group of what type of animal? | show 🗑
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| show | Central Processing Unit
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| show | Mixed Martial Arts
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| show | Suez Canal
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| show | Twitter
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| Established in the 1920s, what historic double-digit highway connected Chicago and Los Angeles? | show 🗑
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| The Punisher is a fictional character appearing in comic books published by which company? | show 🗑
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| show | Rocky III
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| At the premiere of Handel’s Messiah, King George I is said to have done this action during the Hallelujah Chorus. This action is now done traditionally by the audience during any playing of the chorus. | show 🗑
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| show | Sicily
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| This type of low-lying geological feature is built by long, fluid lava flows. Sheets of these flows dry and stack, creating these features known for the duration of their eruptions. | show 🗑
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| This Israeli-American violinist was diagnosed with polio at age 4, forcing him to walk with crutches and sit while playing. He played at Barack Obama’s 2009 inauguration | show 🗑
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| In this comic strip, the main character works in Silicon Valley & features an engineer interacting with an incompetently run office. A principle named after this comic strip is that companies will promote the least-competent employees doing less damage. | show 🗑
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| This second most commonly spoken language in Kenya after Swahili and is an official language there, as well as in neighboring Tanzania and Uganda | show 🗑
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| show | The Mafia
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| This program’s official name was the Space Transportation System. Name thislow-Earth orbital devices that was reusable. The prototype used in atmospheric testing, which was not capable of spaceflight, was named the Enterprise, and a total of 6 were built | show 🗑
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| This Christian sect, notable for its role in founding Pennsylvania, teaches non-violence. Colleges founded by members of this sect have a tradition of conscientious objectors | show 🗑
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| show | Lake Baikal
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| This Russian jeweler, possibly inspired by the Ukrainian tradition of Easter egg decorating, created ornately decorated eggs for Tsars Alexander III and Nicholas II | show 🗑
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| show | allergy
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| show | Sparta
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| show | cremation
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| show | John Hancock
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| show | friction
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| show | Chance the Rapper
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| The Abrahamic religions believe in a God with this quality of being able to do anything. | show 🗑
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| This author of Women Who Work: Rewriting the Rules of Success had scarves recalled because they did not meet federal flammability standards. She converted to Judaism before her wedding to Jared Kushner. Name this daughter of the President of the US | show 🗑
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| show | WALL E
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| The double type of this instrument enables the player to switch between the F division and the B-flat division. It is played with the right hand inside the bell, and pitch can be changed by altering its position. Name this instrument not from France. | show 🗑
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| show | Persephone
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| show | Pomegranate
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| show | Mexico
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| This element, the most basic, is the starting point of all nuclear fusion in stars | show 🗑
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| show | kryptonite
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| This mineral, often called the “living crystal”, was found on the planet Ilum and was used to power lightsabers. They were also stolen from Jedha for use in the Death Star in Star Wars. | show 🗑
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| show | U.S. Marshals Service
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| When in Mecca, salah involves praying facing this black granite structure which contains a meteorite which Muslims believe was placed there by Abraham and Ishmael | show 🗑
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| show | Contrabassoon
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| show | piccolo
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| show | One Child Policy
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| In order to consolidate power under Meiji rule, remnants of this class of people were unable to act as the policing force of Japan and were eventually abolished. | show 🗑
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| show | Treble Clef or G Clef
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| show | Pikachu
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| show | Atlanta
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| show | Declaration of Independence
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| In 1938, the British prime minister returned from Germany with a paper signed by Hitler. Name this British leader who declared this document meant "peace for our time." | show 🗑
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| What movement began on the evening of October 31, 1517 when Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the door of the Wittenberg church? | show 🗑
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| What river became the southern boundary of Texas according to the terms of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo? A. Gila B. Pecos C. Orinoco D. Colorado E. Rio Grande | show 🗑
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| These are chapters from what European document? the guarantee of the independence of the English Church limiting the king's right to scutage the guarantee of habeas corpus the guarantee of due process of the law | show 🗑
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| show | Seneca Falls Declaration
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| show | US Constitution
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| What five-letter slang term can have these meanings? -a spoon -a new and important news item -a single portion of ice cream | show 🗑
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| What is the last word in this motto of the New York Times? All the news that's fit to ... | show 🗑
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| What type of article in a newspaper sets forth the position or opinion of the paper upon some subject? | show 🗑
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| In what part of a newspaper would these headings be found? Help Wanted Motorcycles for Sale Homes for Rent | show 🗑
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| show | Walter Cronkite
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| show | muckrakers
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| show | retractions
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| show | paparazzi
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| show | vaquero
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| show | indivisible
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| show | Lead
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| Based on his early experiments with inoculating people for smallpox, Edward Jenner coined the word "vaccination" from vacca, the Latin word for what kind of mammal | show 🗑
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| show | peninsula
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| show | Julius Caesar
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| show | oxygen
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| Cerebral anoxia means that what substance is not being adequately supplied to the brain? | show 🗑
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| show | Old Yeller
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| show | Laura Ingalls Wilder
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| The old queen put something on the bedstead. Then she took twenty mattresses and piled them on top, and then twenty feather beds were placed on top of the mattresses, atop which the princess was to sleep. What was put on the bedstead? | show 🗑
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| A fictional spider named Charlotte spun the word "TERRIFIC" into her web in an attempt to save her friend from the slaughterhouse. Her friend was ... A. Porky B. Wilbur C. Horace D. Eeyore E. Francis | show 🗑
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| What kind of triangle has three unequal sides? A. skew B. scalene C. isoceles D. congruent E. equilateral | show 🗑
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| show | perimeter
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| What common toy could be described in these words? a quadrilateral with two pairs of equal adjacent sides, and consequently one pair of equal angles, with diagonals intersecting at right angles | show 🗑
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| show | mode
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| show | parallel lines
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| show | elements
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| show | water
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| show | plasma
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| show | volume
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| show | Joan of Arc
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| The murder of a public figure is called .. | show 🗑
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| show | battery
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| Stephen found a checkbook on the sidewalk and decided to sign the owner's name to one of those checks in payment for a stereo. That signing made him guilty of what crime? | show 🗑
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| show | Turkey
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| show | jealousy
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| show | rationing
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| Trichinosis is most frequently linked with what insufficiently cooked meat? | show 🗑
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| Mrs. Crocker prepared a lovely meal from the stomach lining of cows. This variety meat is ... A. veal B. tripe C. hominy D. chitterlings E. sweetbreads | show 🗑
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| Reminiscent of canned, chopped, pressed meat, unsolicited commercial E-mail messages are called ... | show 🗑
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| What Tibetan animal furnishes milk, butter, meat, hides, wool, and dung for fuel? | show 🗑
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| What command is issued to a team of sled dogs to begin pulling or move faster? | show 🗑
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| The adult can weigh up to 200 pounds. Name this largest of all dog breeds. | show 🗑
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| A mature female horse is called a ... | show 🗑
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| What sensual sow said this? My beauty is my curse! | show 🗑
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| show | the way that they are formed
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| show | sulphur
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| Which of the three categories of rock is most evident as you gaze at the Grand Canyon? | show 🗑
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| show | flint
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| show | shale
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| show | magma
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| In the geologic past, conditions were favorable for large-scale accumulation of plant remains, plus elements of the area & burial of the organic matter under thick layers of inorganic sediments. The heat & pressure converted this material into... | show 🗑
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| Fossils are practically never found in which two categories of rock? | show 🗑
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| Pyroclastic debris is ... A. at the base of cliffs B. deposited by winds C. ejected by volcanoes D. formed along beaches E. a product of organic decay | show 🗑
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| show | erosion
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| Limestone typically metamorphoses into ... A. slate B. basalt C. gneiss D. marble E. quartzite | show 🗑
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| show | igneous
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| show | water vapor
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| What month is supposed to come in like a lion and go out like a lamb? | show 🗑
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| show | precipitation and temperature
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| show | argon
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| What type of precipitation is formed when sulfur dioxide from coal-burning power plants combines with water vapor in the atmosphere? | show 🗑
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| show | the seasons would not change
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| What natural atmospheric phenomenon can heat surrounding air as much as four times hotter than the surface of the Sun? | show 🗑
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| show | snow
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| The three basic hydrologic components of the global water balance include evaporation, runoff, and ... | show 🗑
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| show | expanding gases along the path of the lightning
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| show | blue
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| At what latitude is precipitation most abundant? A. 0 degrees B. 30 degrees C. 50 degrees D. 70 degrees E. 90 degrees | show 🗑
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| What colorless gas is a major constituent of photochemical smog at the Earth's surface but is beneficial in the stratosphere by absorbing most of the Sun's ultraviolet radiation? | show 🗑
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| Which mammal is herbivorous? A. gnu B. seal C. bobcat D. polar bear E. sperm whale | show 🗑
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| Which mammals have prehensile tails? A. shrews B. beavers C. monkeys D. antelope E. porpoises | show 🗑
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| The name for this animal comes from Greek words meaning "river horse," but actually it is more closely related to pigs. It is the world's second-biggest land animal and spends a great deal of time in the water, eating vegetation. Name this creature. | show 🗑
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| Two fundamental characteristics of mammals are mammary glands and ... A. hair B. a cerebrum C. cranial nerves D. a bony skeleton E. endocrine glands | show 🗑
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| show | blue whale
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| In which location could you see a manatee? A. Central Plains B. Arizona deserts C. Florida estuaries D. Rocky Mountain taiga E. Pacific Northwest coastlands | show 🗑
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| show | King Tut
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| In the face of mutinies and strikes, he abdicated in March of 1917, thus ending the thousand-year-old Russian monarchy. Name this czar. | show 🗑
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| There are six wrestlers in a tournament, each of whom must wrestle every other just one time. How many matches must be played? | show 🗑
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| What unit of measurement is used to compare the intensities of different sounds? | show 🗑
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| show | shorter
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| The mistake is often made of saying that bats can fly in the dark because they have a built-in radar system. But radar depends on radio waves rather than sound waves. Bats actually have what kind of built-in system? | show 🗑
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| show | sonic boom
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| Immediately after leaving the Mississippi River, the Lewis and Clark expedition followed what river to the west? | show 🗑
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| The term "domestic violence" refers to violence that occurs ... A. at home B. in times of peace C. in the United States D. in a particular city E. without premeditation | show 🗑
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| show | jury
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| show | anulled
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| The final decision of the jury in a court of law is called the ... | show 🗑
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| show | acquittal
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| show | objection
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| show | contempt of court
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| What two-syllable term means "to take into custody" or "to apprehend?" | show 🗑
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| Who would be a likely defendant in a proceeding called a court martial? A. a juvenile B. a military officer C. a state legislator D. a savings and loan teller E. a person with foreign citizenship | show 🗑
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| What adjective reminiscent of a form of capital punishment describes a jury that is unable to reach a decision? | show 🗑
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| show | vandalism
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| show | assumed a new identity
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| show | alimony
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| show | reasonable doubt
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| The sheriff of Ottawa County, Ohio would have no legal authority to arrest a trespasser in Blaine County, Idaho because Idaho is outside of his ... A. realm B. suburb C. precinct D. jurisdiction E. accommodation | show 🗑
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| show | Pocahontas
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| Members of what American Indian tribe were effectively used during World War II to transmit secret messages in their native language? | show 🗑
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| show | Sioux
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| show | peninsulas
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| What is always present in the immediate vicinity of an estuary? A. fiord B. peninsula C. river mouth D. lateral moraine E. mountain range | show 🗑
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| What compound word may refer to any of these areas? swamp, peatland, slough, marsh, muskeg, bog, fens, pothole, mire | show 🗑
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| Geologists believe that, during the last ice age, the Bering Strait was the site of a(n) ... A. delta B. land bridge C. barrier reef D. immense atoll E. continental shelf | show 🗑
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| Which landform may consist almost entirely of calcium carbonate skeletons? A. reefs B. dikes C. deltas D. cirques E. calderas | show 🗑
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| show | bayous
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| Fiords abound in the ... A. Great Plains B. Gulf of Mexico C. Rocky Mountains D. Alaska Panhandle E. Caribbean Islands | show 🗑
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| show | tobacco
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| In December, 1860, an event occurred which lead eventually to the Civil War: what was the first state to secede from the Union? | show 🗑
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| show | Joan of Arc
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| What is the name for the form of government controlled by a privileged, hereditary ruling class, generally resented by the middle and lower class. | show 🗑
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| show | MGM
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| show | Botany
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| show | a woman scorned
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| Identify the 1992 best-selling self-help book with a heavenly name, written by John Gray. | show 🗑
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| show | Abraham Lincoln
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| show | Hinduism
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| What does DVD stand for? | show 🗑
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| What is the name of the kingdom where the 2013 animated movie Frozen is set? | show 🗑
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| What was John F Kennedy's middle name? | show 🗑
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| What is the most spoken language in the world? | show 🗑
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| Which fruit is the most popular and most consumed in the world? | show 🗑
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| Which is the biggest spider in the world? | show 🗑
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