Scholar's Bowl QuestionSet 2
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| show | Philadelphia
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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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| show | H.G. Wells
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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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| Name the German composer of "Lohengrin", "Tristan and Isolde" and "Das Rheingold"which begins his "Ring of the Nibelung" operas | show 🗑
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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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| show | Somalia
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| show | Combustion
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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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| This poem describes the decorations on the sides of the title vessel. Name this poem that proclaims "Beauty is truth-that is all/Ye know on earth and all ye need to know? | show 🗑
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| show | John Keats
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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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| Reconstruction ended when federal troops left the south under this president who defeated Samuel Tilden in the election of 1876. | show 🗑
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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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| The Shinto religion is practiced by inhabitants in this country | show 🗑
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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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| show | The Declaration of Independence
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| The deepest part of this body of water is known as "Calypso Deep" Major cities on this body of water include Ajaccio, Palermo, and Beruit. Islands include Cyprus, Crete, and Sicily. Name this body of water found in Europe and Africa | show 🗑
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| What force is greatly reduced in a situation where a car is sliding on an icy road? | show 🗑
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| show | Hispaniola
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| show | Pythagorean Triples
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| show | Treaty of Versailles
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| show | Spain
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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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| show | Apocalypse or Armageddon
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| This city in upstate New York, just downstream from Niagara Falls, annually gets feet of snow caused by Lake Erie. This city has the second most people in New York, after NYC. | show 🗑
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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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| In return for being granted a fief, a vassal had to finance an army for the lord. These mounted warriors, commonly depicted wearing suits of armor and following a code of chivalry, were the primary fighters in those armies. | show 🗑
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| show | fiefdom
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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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| After hanging from Yggdrasil for nine days, Odin discovered this alphabet, composed of angular symbols used in Norse culture. | show 🗑
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| show | exothermic
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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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| show | Abolitionism
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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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| show | Orr
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| Alabamian who won 4 gold medals in track and field in 1936 Olympics | show 🗑
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| Kind of shoe laced over the instep or an English university (Starts with o) | show 🗑
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| show | Ohms
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| Court painter and goldsmith designer for Henry VIII (Starts with H) | show 🗑
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| show | Hydrogen
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| US President from 1877 to 1881 who withdrew Federal troops from the South | show 🗑
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| Carthaginian general who led a train of elephants across the Alps | show 🗑
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| Iron-protein complex in red blood cells that functions as oxygen carrier (Starts with H) | show 🗑
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| Hilo, Oahu, Kilouea are cities in what US State? | show 🗑
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| show | Charles I
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| show | Oliver Cromwell
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| The Aztec god of this, Tlaloc , received child sacrifices so that this would occur. In Mayan mythology, Chac was the god of this. The Hopi tribe performs dances to make this happen so that crops can grow | show 🗑
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| In this novel Daisy Buchanan runs over and kills her husband's mistress Myrtle Wilson. Name this novel that sees the title character hold lavish parties at his West Egg home in hopes of attracting his love Daisy. | show 🗑
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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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| The 2008 Supreme Court case D.C. v. Heller dealt with this Constitutional amendment. Name this amendment which establishes a right to bear arms. | show 🗑
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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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| Jellyfish and adult starfish show this kind of symmetry in which multiple lines can be drawn through the center of the body to give equal halves. | show 🗑
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| Nickname of Louisiana because of its many marshy slow moving inlets | show 🗑
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| Author who wrote Superfudge" & "Are you there God it's me Margaret"? | show 🗑
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| Animal used as a symbol of the US on the Great Seal | show 🗑
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| Lumberjack known for digging Lake Michigan for water for hsi ox | show 🗑
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| Kentucky pioneer hero known for his hunting and shooting skills | show 🗑
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| show | Botany
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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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| show | Tempura
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| Verb designating the oxidation that takes place on the surface of silver (starts with t) | show 🗑
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| show | Thoreau, (Henry David)
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| show | Tin
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| Device that increases or decreases the voltage of an alternating current (starts with t) | show 🗑
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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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| show | Liar
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| show | Lincoln (Nebraska)
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| Saint Exupery's character who cleans 3 miniature volcanoes each week on Asteroid B-612 (Starts with L) | show 🗑
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| Brother of Mary and Martha who was raised from the dead by Jesus after 4 days in the tomb (Starts with L) | show 🗑
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| American aviator known as "The Lone Eagle". (Starts with L) | show 🗑
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| show | LaFayette
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| Latin name for the constellation whose name means Balance | show 🗑
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| show | Kuwait
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| show | Kennedy
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| show | Kaiser
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| Sacred Muslim shrine at Mecca (Starts with K) | show 🗑
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| Leaping, plant eating marsupials native to Australia (starts with K) | show 🗑
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| British pirate whose legendary British treasure was prominently featured in Robert Louis Stevenson's "Treasure Island" (Starts with K) | show 🗑
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| Village on the Nile, site of ancient Thebes (Starts with K) | show 🗑
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| American author of the lines "I think that I shall never see, A poem lovely as a tree" (Starts with K) | show 🗑
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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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| show | Kampuchea
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| African desert partly located in Botswana (Starts with K) | show 🗑
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| Pitch thrown without a spin in baseball (Starts with K) | show 🗑
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| Robert Louis Stevenson novel featuring David Balfour (Starts with K) | show 🗑
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| 5 letter English term for American French Fries (Starts with C) | show 🗑
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| show | Catherine
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| Hill on which Jesus was crucified (Starts with c) | show 🗑
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| show | Cajuns
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| American equivalent for the British word biscuit (Starts with C) | show 🗑
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| show | comet
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| Author of "Last of the Mohicans" (Starts with c) | show 🗑
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| show | Cleopatra
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| Science dealing with the climate and climatic conditions (Stars with c) | show 🗑
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| show | Jinn
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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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| show | LBJ
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| show | Jovian
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| Flag flown on pirates ships (Starts with J) | show 🗑
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| show | Jesse James
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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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| Middle name of President William Clinton (Starts with J) | show 🗑
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| Rainbow Coalition leader who was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1984 & 1988 (Starts with J) | show 🗑
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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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| Mideast country of King Hussein I with Amman its capital (starts with J) | show 🗑
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| show | Joan of Arc
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| show | Jack Sprat
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| "Steel-drivin man" who beat a steam drill in digging a hole (Starts with J) | show 🗑
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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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| First Chief Justice of the US (Starts with J) | show 🗑
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| American naval hero known for saying "I have not yet begun to fight" in the Revolutionary War (Starts with J) | show 🗑
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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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| show | Jabberwocky
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| show | Isabella
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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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| North Atlantic island that is the westenmost country of Europe (Starts with i) | show 🗑
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| Peninsula on which Spain is located (Starts with i) | show 🗑
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| Grammatical label for an exclamatory word such as "HEY"! (Starts with I) | show 🗑
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| Mytholigcal goddess of the rainbow | show 🗑
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| Another name for polio (Starts with I) | show 🗑
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| show | Immune
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| Acute contagious disease caused by a virus, a killer strain of which claimed many lives in 1918 | show 🗑
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| show | Antartica
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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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| show | Windows
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| “Abby” & “Jay Leno” were the first 2 of these characters captured when this game was played on Twitch. Characters are ranked using CP, & 6 of these characters can be used when battling at a gym. It has creatures such as Magikarp & Pikachu. | show 🗑
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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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| Paul von Hindenburg a national hero during this war. French forces stopped a German advance at Marne, resulting in 4 years of trench warfare.Name this war started by the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and ended with the Treaty of Versailles | show 🗑
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| show | 9
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| show | Louis XIV
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| show | Sistine Chapel
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| show | Ring of Fire
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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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| show | Beer Hall Putsch
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| show | Tom Sawyer
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| show | Klay Thompson
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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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| These stars lie on the upper right side of the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram, which classifies stars by their luminosity & temperature. Name these stars whose lower temperatures produce their namesake color. These stars will eventually become white dwarfs. | show 🗑
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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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| Felix Mendelssohn’s “Scottish” Symphony and Gustav Mahler’s “Tragic” Symphony are both in this key. Name this key, the relative minor of C major. To find this key, you can go down three half steps from C. | show 🗑
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| This note is the subdominant of C major. This note’s minor key has four flats, and this note’s major key only contains B flat. | show 🗑
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| show | Set
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| show | Horus
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| show | Hanging Gardens of Babylon
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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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| show | Archimedes
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| show | Screws
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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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| show | Trachea
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| show | Canada
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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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| show | Nathaniel Hawthorne
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| 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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| show | Zombies
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| One of these creatures, fetched the apples of the Hesperides. Another had his liver eaten by birds every day as punishment for giving fire to humans. These old gods, including Atlas & Prometheus, were overthrown and replaced in a war against Zeus. | show 🗑
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| show | Confederate Statues
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| Nephrons are the primary unit of this organ, which filters blood. Patients who have damaged or lost one of these bean-shaped organs may undergo dialysis | show 🗑
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| King Edward, Queen Mary, and their half-sister, Elizabeth, were the only children of this man, who split from the Catholic church and married six women in a desperate attempt to father more heirs | show 🗑
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| show | King Arthur Pendragon
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| This mystic was unable to protect King Arthur at the Battle of Camlann because he had been imprisoned in a cave by the sorceress Nimue, who had been this man’s student. | show 🗑
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| show | India
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| show | The Iliad
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| A great shield is made for this Greek hero, who had been made nearly invincible when his mother, Thetis, dipped him into the river Styx. This warrior does eventually kill Hector, who predicts this man’s eventual death. | show 🗑
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| Achilles dies before the Greeks finally defeat Troy with the use of this enormous, wooden structure. This apparent “gift” to Troy contains hidden Greek soldiers, allowing them to attack from inside the city | show 🗑
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| show | Oklahoma City Thunder
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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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| show | North Carolina
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| show | Avagrado's Number
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| Avogadro’s number, along with balanced equations and molar masses, is crucial to this branch of chemistry that calculates amounts of reactants and products in reactions | show 🗑
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| show | Hanukkah
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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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| show | Cherokee
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| show | 10
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| show | sustainable
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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 🗑
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| 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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| Because of its value in 1884, this element was used for the capstone of the Washington Monument. The ore bauxite is the primary source of this metal & is the most abundant metal in Earth’s crust. , Name this metallic element used to make soda cans. | show 🗑
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| This country's colonial empire included Angola & Mozambique &forts to protect Indian trade in Goa & Mumbai. Name this European country that sponsored caravel voyages by Vasco da Gama & Pedro Cabral, but not Christopher Columbus during the Age of Discovery | show 🗑
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| Portugal’s expansion in the Age of Discoveries was driven by this prince, known for his love of exploration. This son of John I captured and colonized the Azores. | show 🗑
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| show | Brazil
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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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| This Scottish economist was a vicious opponent of mercantilism, attacking it in works like The Theory of Moral Sentiments and The Wealth of Nations. | show 🗑
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| The egg-rolling done by geese and the spinning of webs by spiders can be described with this term. Name this type of behavior that is genetically hardwired from birth and done without any prior experience | show 🗑
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| show | Operant Conditioning
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| show | Book of Matthew
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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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| Ernest Hemingway’s last work was this calmer short story which focuses on Santiago’s attempt to catch a marlin. This work ends with Santiago dreaming of his youth after losing the marlin to a group of sharks. | show 🗑
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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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| show | Springs
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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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| By far the most popular video-streaming website in the US is this Google-owned website, which offers an ad-free “red” version. This site is the main outlet of JennaMarbles, Smosh, and the Fine Brothers | show 🗑
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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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| 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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| For her talkativeness, this nymph was cursed to only be able to repeat the words of others, and eventually wasted away to only her repetitive voice. | show 🗑
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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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| In this play, King Claudius marries his sister-in-law, Gertrude, immediately after the death of the title character’s father. Name this Shakespeare play about a Prince of Denmark who suspects Claudius of having murdered his father. | show 🗑
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| show | Ophelia
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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 🗑
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| In this battle, William Howe ordered cannons on Copp’s Hill to fire on the Americans. The order “don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes” was given during this battle, fought outside Boston. Name this Revolutionary War battle | show 🗑
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| show | Gerald Ford
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| A month after taking office, US President Gerald Ford controversially carried out this presidential action, noting that “someone must write the end to” a national tragedy. | show 🗑
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| show | 25th amendment
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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 🗑
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| Andy Serkis also played this corrupted hobbit whose only goal is to reclaim his “precious.” At the end of the Lord of the Rings film trilogy, this character smiles as he falls into the fires of Mt. Doom, having achieved his goal | show 🗑
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| show | Caesar
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| show | Adonis
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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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| show | Chesapeake River
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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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| According to legend, Abraham Lincoln called this author the “little woman who started the big war,” because she exposed the horrors of slavery in Uncle Tom’s Cabin | show 🗑
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| Name the Judeo-Christian patriarch whose wives, Leah and Rachel, escalated a war of child production by offering this man their handmaids Zilpah and Bilhah, making this man the father of twelve sons, including Judah and Joseph | show 🗑
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| show | Annie Oakley
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| show | Sitting Bull
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| The class Chondrichthyes, containing sharks and rays, has skeletons made of this flexible tissue also found in the human nose and outer ear. | show 🗑
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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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| show | Strikeout
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| This brother of Orthrus was unable to pierce the Nemean Lion skin worn by Heracles during his twelfth labor, during which this creature was captured from Hades. Name this three-headed guard dog of the Greek underworld. | show 🗑
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| A religion in this country practices Harae which involves washing away sin with water. Monks in this country created rock gardens to aid them in their meditations. Temples are fronted by red gates called torii . Zen Buddhism & Shinto are found where? | show 🗑
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| show | Genesis
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| show | Psalms
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| show | Hydraulic Fracturing
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| show | Star Trek
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| show | Avengers: Infinty War
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| show | Space Shuttle Challenger
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| show | teacher
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| show | Clarinet
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| show | Catcher in the Rye
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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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| show | Mohs Hardness Scale
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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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| This Greek hero, the son of Zeus and Danae, slew Medusa and later married Andromeda. | show 🗑
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| The Strait of Hormuz is the only route for ships to leave this body of water and enter the Indian Ocean. Name this body of water, in which the island country of Bahrain lies. | show 🗑
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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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| show | The Night Cafe
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| To predict the results of a trihybrid cross, one of these diagrams would need 64 individual boxes. For ten points each, Name this diagram used to determine the genotypes of offspring produced by parents with known allele | show 🗑
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| show | heterozygous
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| show | Gregor Mendel
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| show | Fallacy
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| show | Davy Crockett
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| Davy Crockett died while defending this San Antonio mission during the Texas War for Independence. William Travis and James Bowie also died at this fort. | show 🗑
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| show | Pepsi
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| show | Aristotle
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| show | Cat
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| The Latin name of a sword inspired this term. Name this athletic occupation, usually held by slaves, that fought in arenas for the enjoyment of Roman citizens | show 🗑
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| The grandest examples of gladiatorial combat took place in this Roman arena, the largest amphitheater ever built | show 🗑
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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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| In this ancient culture’s myth system, Xolotl guided the dead to Mictlan, an afterlife governed by Mictlantecuhtli. Quetzalcoatl used the bones from Mictlan to create the fifth version of the world in this culture’s myth system | show 🗑
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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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| show | Litmus paper
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| show | Aesop
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| show | Hoovervilles
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| The book of Matthew presents this text as a replacement for long, pagan-style prayers. In Catholicism,this text is recited between the decades of the rosarys. Name this common prayer that begins “Our Father, who art in heaven.” | show 🗑
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| This console’s games included Earthbound, F-Zero game, & Donkey Kong Country, and its controller used X and Y buttons in addition to A and B buttons. Name this 16-bit game console that was released in the US in 1991 and re released in 2017 with 20 games | show 🗑
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| The Super Nintendo Classic also includes the first game in this racing series, in which Luigi and Yoshi can fire shells at each other on Rainbow Road. | show 🗑
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| show | Vermont
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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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| show | Bernie Sanders
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| This Frenchman and his colleague, Emile Roux, first showed that a “dead” virus vaccine could work when they saved Joseph Meister from rabies in 1885 | show 🗑
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| Though the organs of the poor were liquified and drained, wealthy Egyptians’ stomach, intestines, lungs, and liver were stored in these containers, which were decorated with and guarded by the four sons of Horus | show 🗑
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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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| This Fox show’s 2017 reboot was given another season in 2018. It follows the supernatural investigations carried out by FBI agents Mulder and Scully | show 🗑
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| In 1989, this physical barrier dividing the east and west halves of a German city was opened after 28 years | show 🗑
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| show | Little Mermaid
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| In this Hans Christian Andersen tale, a tiny girl escapes from a toad, a beetle, and a mole, and eventually marries a flower-fairy prince, who gives her wings. | show 🗑
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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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| show | Density
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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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| After this god’s mother, Semele, died at the sight of Zeus in his full glory, this god was reborn from Zeus’s thigh and spread the cultivation of grapes for wine throughout Greece. Name this Greek god of wine, merrymaking, and divine inspiration. | show 🗑
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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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| This first-born daughter of Cronus and Rhea oversaw the preparation of food from the plants that Demeter made grow. In some stories, this goddess kept the peace by giving up her seat in Olympus to Dionysus. | show 🗑
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| An Wagner opera based on this legendary story was inspired by an experience fleeing Latvia through stormy seas. Name this legendary doomed ghost ship that is cursed to sail the oceans forever unless its captain can convince a faithful woman to marry him | show 🗑
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| show | Surface Tension
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| This iron structure was built for the 1889 World’s Fair. It remains the world’s most visited monument and the tallest structure in Paris. | show 🗑
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| When Seattle hosted the 1962 World’s Fair, they commissioned this 600 foot tall observation tower, painted in “Astronaut White.” | show 🗑
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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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| The Four Seasons are, like hundreds of Vivaldi’s works, concertos written for this instrument. A traditional string quartet features a pair of these instruments. | show 🗑
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| show | Poor Richard's Almanac
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| Poor Richard’s Almanac was written under the name “Richard Saunders” by this inventor and founding father | show 🗑
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| When the mythical Greek King Oeneus snubbed this goddess, she released a vicious boar on his city-state of Calydon. Name this Greek goddess of the hunt, whose actions led to the Calydonian Boar Hunt | show 🗑
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| show | Atalanta
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| Aaron Judge broke his home run record with 52. The record for home runs in a rookie season was 49 by this Oakland Athletic in 1987. As a St. Louis Cardinal in 1998, he broke Roger Maris’ single season record, finishing with 70 home runs | show 🗑
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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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| “Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed” and “The Locusts” are from this American science fiction writer’s collection The Martian Chronicles. This man also wrote Something Wicked This Way Comes and “A Sound of Thunder.” | show 🗑
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| show | Biodiversity
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| show | Invasive Species
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| show | Kudzu
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| show | Louvre
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| This theorem, named for an ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher, sets the square of the hypotenuse of a right triangle equal to the sum of the squares of the two legs. As a formula, it’s usually written a squared plus b squared equals c squared | show 🗑
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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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| During the Enlightenment, Denis Diderot & French thinkers collaborated on one of these works, which collect human knowledge. While these works are often organized alphabetically, they provide much more detailed information than a simple dictionary. | show 🗑
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| Discourse during the Enlightenment in France took place in these gatherings, which were often organized by upperand middle-class women in their homes. | show 🗑
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| show | Frankenstein
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| This principle is often stated as the inability to exactly measure a particle’s position and momentum at the same time. Name this quantum physics principle. It was first introduced by Werner Heisenberg in 1927 | show 🗑
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| show | Katy Perry
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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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| This symbol appears with pi in the exponent of the e in Euler’s formula. Name this letter that symbolizes the basic unit of imaginary numbers, the square root of negative 1. | show 🗑
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| show | Aladdin
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| show | The Lion King
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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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| show | Frigg(a)
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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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| Name this body system that relies on the circulatory system to transport the hormones secreted by glands like the pituitary, pancreas, and thyroid. | show 🗑
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| show | homeostasis
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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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| In this book, Greta moves in with a family in Stillwater. Greta, her children, & Captain Cook become performers but are eventually released at the North Pole by Admiral Drake. Name this book about a man who takes care of some birds who prefer the cold | show 🗑
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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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| This substance is created in the anther & is stuck to the stamen. It can be blown by the wind or carried by insects to reach the pistil, where it will fertilize the plant . Name this substance made of small grains which allow plants to reproduce | show 🗑
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| show | Torah
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| The Elgin Marbles came from this ancient Greek building. Name this historic temple in Athens, which was mostly destroyed by the Ottoman Empire in 1687. | show 🗑
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| This animated Disney movie from 2000 was set in South America. Name this movie about Kuzco, who is turned into a llama and goes on an adventure with Pacha. | show 🗑
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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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| show | Rowley Jefferson
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| At the 2016 Grammys, Lady Gaga performed a tribute to this British singer who had recently died. He collaborated with Queen on the hit song “Under Pressure.” | show 🗑
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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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| show | Naaman
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| This term is used in biology to mean the way our bodies take in nutrients through the intestines or the way that chemicals enter through the skin. This term is used to describe what dark colors do to light and heat. Name this scientific term | show 🗑
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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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| show | Trombone
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| This place was formerly a U.S. military building called Fort Gibson. About 5,000 people a day passed through this place in New York near the Statue of Liberty, Name this immigration station from the early 20th century. | show 🗑
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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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| During Goblet of Fire, Cedric is killed by this wizard, a friend of James Potter who becomes a Death Eater and who can transform into a rat. | show 🗑
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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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| This presidential candidate participated in civil rights demonstrations in Chicago, &won the 2016 New Hampshire primary. He identifies as a democratic socialist. Name this Vermont senator who ran for president in 2016 | show 🗑
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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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| This character gives a lipstick tube that he finds to X-Ray, not realizing that it belonged to Kate Barlow. [Name this character from Holes whose first name is his last name spelled backwards. | show 🗑
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| The authors Primo Levi and Elie Wiesel wrote about their experiences in this place. Name this concentration camp that Anne Frank’s father survived. | show 🗑
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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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| One type of velocity is known by this name, which describes the velocity needed to leave Earth’s gravitational pull | show 🗑
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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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| Elijah travels to this mountain after fleeing Jezebel. Moses had received the Ten Commandments at this mountain. | show 🗑
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| Peter Pettigrew turns into a rat named Scabbers and, for a while, becomes the pet of this other character in the Harry Potter Series | show 🗑
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| These animals were sacred to the Egyptian goddess Hathor. Nandi is one of these animals owned by Shiva. One of these animals was made out of gold by the Israelites when Moses went to Mount Sinai. Name this animal, represented in the zodiac by Taurus. | show 🗑
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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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| This artist created several scenes of the Rouen Cathedral & the London Parliament. He also painted Haystacks & water lilies & launched an artistic movement with his paintings . Name this artist who painted Impression: Sunrise. | show 🗑
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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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| show | One Direction
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| Who was the only U.S. president to have earned a Ph.D.? | show 🗑
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| show | Wyoming
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| show | Killer Whale
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| What French port did 200,000 British troops flee on June 4, 1940 during WWII? | show 🗑
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| show | Calamity Jane
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| show | Dwight D Eisenhower
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| Why is the funny bone so called? | show 🗑
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| show | Battle of Thermopylae
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| This Muslim leader helped end the Third Crusade by allowing Christians free passage to the holy land. Name this sultan, the Kurdish founder of the Ayyubid dynasty, who ruled much of the Middle East until his 1193 death | show 🗑
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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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| Year-long period of chaos between 1793 and 1794 in France in which thousands of people were executed on orders of the Committee of Public Safety | show 🗑
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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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| show | Vladimir Lenin
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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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| Once in the Greek underworld, the dead were put before a panel of three judges: Aeacus, Rhadamanthus, and this man, whose wife Pasipha¨e had an affair with a bull. | show 🗑
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| show | Cerberus
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| show | Lucy Maude “L.M.” Montgomery
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| show | Great Expectations
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| show | orbitals
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| show | coulomb
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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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| This Libyan dictator was overthrown during the Arab Spring. This author of the Green Book had ruled Libya for 42 years | show 🗑
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| It is the home of a granite structure known as the Ka’aba Name this birth city of Muhammad, the holiest city in Islam. | show 🗑
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| Muslims face Mecca while performing their five daily prayers as part of this pillar of Islam | show 🗑
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| During the Hijra, Muhammad traveled to this city to the north of Mecca to escape persecution. | show 🗑
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| show | DNA
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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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| show | crook
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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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| George Washington was forced to leave this city & hold meetings in Germantown due to a 1793 yellow fever outbreak. This city’s Gazette & University were founded by Ben Franklin. The Declaration of Independence was signed in what Pennsylvania city? | show 🗑
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| This woman never actually cried “let them eat cake” when told of a famine affecting French peasants. Name this queen, who was executed a few months after her husband, Louis XVI, during the French Revolution | show 🗑
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| show | Clinton
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| show | Calculus
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| show | Korean War
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| Voting for the President and members of Congress takes place in this month, even though the electoral college doesn’t meet until December. | show 🗑
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| Only two states do not have a winner-take-all system for allocating their electoral votes for the presidency. Name either. | show 🗑
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| show | Iambic Pentameter
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| This “Bard of Avon” used iambic pentameter in most of his works, including a poem that begins “Two households, both alike in dignity/ in fair Verona, where we lay our scene…” that opens his Romeo and Juliet. | show 🗑
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| show | sonnet
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| Once known as brimstone, this element is an important component of black gunpowder and fertilizer. Name this element with atomic number 16 and chemical symbol S. | show 🗑
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| South of the states of New South Wales and Victoria is this Australian island-state, named for a Dutch explorer. | show 🗑
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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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| show | Checkpoint Charlie
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| This quanty is meant to stay within 1.5 to 2 percent per year. Give this term for the general increase in the price of goods and services in the economy | show 🗑
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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 🗑
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| show | The Crucible
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| Near the end of the Crucible play, John Proctor refuses to submit his signed confession, shouting “I have given you my soul; leave me [this thing].” | show 🗑
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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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| show | EPIDEMIOLOGY
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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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| The science of weights and measures is called: | show 🗑
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| The word atom is from a Greek word meaning: | show 🗑
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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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| Pollination by wind is called: | show 🗑
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| show | BACTRIAN
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| The art of growing dwarfed trees in small pots, a technique perfected by the Japanese, is known as what? | show 🗑
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| What is made from chicle? | show 🗑
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| The study of poisons is called: | show 🗑
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| A device used to measure the amount of moisture in the atmosphere is called a: | show 🗑
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| show | Thomas Edison
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| What is meant by the statement that an animal is oviparous? | show 🗑
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| Name the tropical American tree which produces the least dense wood known? | show 🗑
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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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| show | Violet
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| One trillion is 1 followed by 12 zeros. What is 1 followed by 18 zeros? | show 🗑
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| In the human body, what tendon attaches the gastrocnemius muscle to the calcaneus bone? | show 🗑
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| show | Homestead Act
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| Name the writing material made from tall water plants of ancient Egypt | show 🗑
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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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| show | Algebra
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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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| As of 2015, this 8-bar song by Patty and Mildred Hill is no longer under restrictive copyright protection, and can thus be sung as freely in movies and television as it can at your own annual party | show 🗑
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| show | Pearl
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|
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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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| show | War of the Worlds
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| show | Monsoons
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| show | Fidel Castro
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| show | Incredible Journey
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| Small county bordered by Syria, Jordan, and Lebanon headed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (Starts with I) | show 🗑
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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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| show | immigrate
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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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| Acute contagious disease caused by a virus, a killer strain of which claimed many lives in 1918 (Starts with I ) | show 🗑
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| show | Incan
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| State in which the Carters of the Moon National Monument is located (Starts with I) | show 🗑
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| Spanish queen who with her husband Ferdinand sponsored Columbus voyage to America in 15th century | show 🗑
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| show | Index
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|
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| Minnesota Lake that is the source of the Mississippi River (starts with I) | show 🗑
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| Law term for exemption from a duty or legal punishment (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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| Country whose capital is Tehran | show 🗑
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| show | International Date Line
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|
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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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| Image of a god used as an object or worship (Starts with I) | show 🗑
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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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| US President who wife Claudia Taylor was known as "Lady Bird" (Starts with J) | show 🗑
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| show | Java
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| show | Jordan
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|
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| Disease condition of the body characterized by a yellow coloration of the eyes ,urine, and skin (Starts with J) | show 🗑
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| "Steel-Driving Man" who beat a steam drill in digging a hole (Starts with J) | show 🗑
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| show | Jamaica
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|
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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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|
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| show | jihad
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|
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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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| Nursery rhyme character who build a house in which a cat killed a rat. (Starts with J) | show 🗑
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| show | Jefferson
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|
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| National flower of the US adopted in 1986 | show 🗑
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| show | Reinquist
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| show | Rio de Janeiro
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|
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| Jewish religious teacher (Starts with r) | show 🗑
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| Name this city, whose elected officials included tribunes, quaestors, praetors, and censors. This city’s inhabitants spread out over the Italian peninsula, displacing the Etruscans and Gauls. | show 🗑
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| Rome’s enemy during the Punic Wars was this Phoenician city-state, originally founded as a colony of Tyre. This city was destroyed at the conclusion of the Third Punic War | show 🗑
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| This Carthaginian general during the Second Punic War was defeated by Scipio Africanus at the Battle of Zama | show 🗑
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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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| This American poet wrote “The Death of the Hired Man” and other poems of rural life, including “Birches” and a poem that claims “good fences make good neighbors.” | show 🗑
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| show | Hera
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|
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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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| This scale measures the strength of hurricane based on windspeed, though it’s been criticized for not considering other factors like storm surge. | show 🗑
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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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| The Church of the Nativity was constructed in this city to commemorate the birthplace of Jesus. Upon arriving in this city for a census, Joseph and Mary were turned away from all of the inns. | show 🗑
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| show | Nazareth
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|
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| show | Herod the Great
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|
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| In the classic Latin poem Inferno, who is the the poem’s author and narrator, who journeys through nine Circles of Hell? | show 🗑
|
||||
| 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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|
||||
| show | The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe
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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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||||
| show | Gaia
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|
||||
| With Uranus, Gaia conceived this wife of Cronus, who was considered the mother of the Olympians by the ancient Greeks. | show 🗑
|
||||
| Name the sculpture that may represent Dante Alighieri. This nude, seated man hunches over with his chin on his fist as he carefully considers the plight of sinners. | show 🗑
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||||
| show | The Gates of Hell
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|
||||
| show | Speed of Light
🗑
|
||||
| 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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||||
| show | longitude
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|
||||
| show | metaphor
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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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|
||||
| A solution of chromate ions has this color, as does the precipitate formed when lead nitrate reacts with potassium iodide. Sodium compounds give off this color in a flame test.Name this color associated with elements like sulfur and gold. | show 🗑
|
||||
| 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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|
||||
| show | root
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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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||||
| A passing remark in the ruling of this infamous Supreme Court case invalidated the Missouri Compromise. More directly, this 7-2 decision ruled that slaves were not US citizens and could not sue in court. | show 🗑
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| In a song, this singer says, “You held me down, but I got up” before proclaiming that she has the “eye of the tiger / dancing through the fire.” Name this artist behind “Swish Swish” and “Roar.” | show 🗑
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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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|
||||
| A student of this branch of math may use Thales’s [thay-lees’s] theorem to construct a tangent line. Name this branch of math studied in Euclid’s Elements, which defines objects like points, lines, and angles. | show 🗑
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||||
| The Roosevelt Corollary modified this man’s namesake doctrine, & his goodwill tour of America was described as the “Era of Good Feelings.” Name this 5thPresident of the United States whose namesake doctrine limited European involvement in North America | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Pacific Ocean
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|
||||
| India and Thailand are the largest exporters of this crop, whose varieties include Japonica, Jasmine, and Basmati. Name this important cereal crop in many Asian cultures that is grown in paddies. | show 🗑
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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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||||
| show | Anaconda Plan
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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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|
||||
| show | Albert Einstein
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|
||||
| show | electrons
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|
||||
| show | robots
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|
||||
| show | Isaac Asimov
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|
||||
| show | Marvin the Paranoid Android Robot
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|
||||
| show | India Indian subcontinent)
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|
||||
| The distinctive pyramidal peak of the Matterhorn resulted from many of these objects moving simultaneously. Name these heavy, slow-moving masses that can carve sharp ridges called cirques into mountains. Some disappeared at the end of the last ice age. | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Gautama Buddha or Siddhartha Gautama
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|
||||
| Some passages of the Pali Canon are memorized and recited as a form of this spiritual practice, which is often done to promote relaxation. The Buddha achieved enlightenment by doing this under the Bodhi tree | show 🗑
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| This symbol appears with pi in the exponent of the e in Euler’s formula. Name this letter that symbolizes the basic unit of imaginary numbers, the square root of negative 1. | show 🗑
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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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| Among Peter’s the Great's methods of Westernizing his people was placing a tax on this fashion choice. The tax was unpopular, as many men felt that this fashion choice was a religious duty. | show 🗑
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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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| 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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||||
| show | Hunchback of Notre Dame
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|
||||
| Homeostatic regulation of this process is controlled by melatonin produced by the pineal gland, setting circadian rhythms. This process goes through REM and non-REM phases over the course of, optimally, eight hours per night | show 🗑
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| The frequency of this action increased during the Obama administration to roughly 400,000 people per year. Name this process of expelling foreign nationals, commonly illegal immigrants, from a country. | show 🗑
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| show | gold leaf
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|
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| show | Nathaniel Hawthorne
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|
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| show | Barack Obama
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|
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| In this book, Professor Charity Burbage is killed by a snake. Characters discover the secret identity of R.A.B after receiving help from the elf, Kreacher. Horcruxes must be destroyed in order to kill Voldemort. Name this 7th book by JK Rowling | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Ludwig von Beethoven
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|
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| show | Free will
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|
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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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|
||||
| In Jainism, the arihat achieve this goal at death. The Eightfold Path is a guide for reaching this state, which frees a person from dukkha and samsara. Name this goal of Buddhism, a state of enlightenment which ends the karmic cycle of reincarnation. | show 🗑
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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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| Undercooked beef may be contaminated with this prokaryote that can divide every 20 minutes in a Petri dish. Name this Gram-negative, rod-shaped species that is normally found in the human large intestine, the most important bacterial model organism. | show 🗑
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||||
| Lines from this poet’s works are commonly translated as “should old acquaintance be forgot / and never brought to mind?” and “the best-laid plans of mice and men / oft go awry.” Name this Scottish poet who wrote “Auld Lang Syne” and “To a Mouse.” | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Mc Donalds
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|
||||
| For circles, this concept is called circumference. Name this geometric quantity, the total length of the path around a shape. | show 🗑
|
||||
| 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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||||
| This god and Zephyrus both fell in love with Hyacinth, who was accidentally killed by this god. This god pursued the nymph Daphne, and received his lyre from Hermes. Name this Greek god of light and music, the twin brother of Artemis. | show 🗑
|
||||
| In 2009, this city’s CN Tower lost its title as tallest tower in the world. This city, often nicknamed “the Six,” lies on the northwest shore of a Great Lake named for its Canadian province. Name this most populous city in Ontario and all of Canada. | show 🗑
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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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|
||||
| show | Goya
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|
||||
| This is the colorful collective name for the fourteen paintings Goya created on the walls of the Quinta del Sordo, so called because of the very dark colors that dominate these paintings | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Saturn
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|
||||
| In this work, Elie Wiesel recounts how he was deported from a ghetto in Sighet and his eventual arrival at Auschwitz. Wiesel’s loss of faith is shown in this work when he states god is “hanging here on the gallows.” | show 🗑
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| show | Anne Frank
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|
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| show | Jason
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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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| Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde were created by this Scottish author, who also created the character David Balfour in "Kidnapped". | show 🗑
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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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| Astronomers seeking stellar nurseries often search for this type of radiation, found between UV rays and gamma rays on the EM spectrum. | show 🗑
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| show | Protestant Reformation
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| show | Emmanuel Macron
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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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| show | The Battle of Bunker Hill
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| This landmass formed when Laurasia and Gondwana collided, and was first proposed by Alfred Wegener as a result of continental drift. The global ocean Panthalassa surrounded what most-recent supercontinent that broke up 200 million years ago? | show 🗑
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| show | Don Quijote of La Mancha
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| show | Major and Minor
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| A minor third can also be described as this type of third, because it is one note lower than the major third. Notes may be described by this term if lowered by half a step, or by “sharp” if raised half a step. | show 🗑
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| show | Gerald Ford
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| Andy Serkis plays the mysterious Supreme Leader Snoke in this franchise now owned by Disney | show 🗑
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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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| show | Peloponnesian War(s)
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| show | Jacob
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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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| show | redcoats
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| show | Medusa
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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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| show | HEMOGLOBIN
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| show | TIDES
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| show | BASALT
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| What are the 2 main factors causing the metamorphism of rocks? | show 🗑
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| What is the name for any segment with one endpoint at the center of a circle and the other endpoint on the circle? | show 🗑
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| In what organelle of a plant cell does photosynthesis occur? | show 🗑
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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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| The top platform of these structures were believed to bridge heaven and earth and were the site of priestly rituals. For the point, identify these terraced Mesopotamian temples, often cited as precursors to Egyptian pyramids. | show 🗑
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| show | Harriet Tubman
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| This man became paralyzed after he was shot by Arthur Bremer, when he tried to run for president. In 1963, this man declared his support for segregation “now,” “tomorrow,” and “forever.” Name this former Alabama governor. | show 🗑
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| show | doctors
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| show | Meryl Streep
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| show | Department Stores
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| show | One Child Policy
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| Along with Teddy Wilson she produced hits like “Easy Living” “If You Were Mine,” & "What Little Moonlight Can Do" Name this American jazz musician, nicknamed “Lady Day,” who popularized the anti-lynching protest song “Strange Fruit.” | show 🗑
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| The Gregg and Furman cases determined the standards of this amendment for Georgia laws concerning people on Death Row. Name this amendment that prohibits excessive bail, as well as “cruel and unusual punishment.” | show 🗑
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| show | Athens
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| This city’s police chief, Bull Connor, turned firehoses & dogs against child protesters in May 1963. It's 16th Street Baptist Church was bombed by white supremacists. Name this Alabama city from whose jail MLK wrote a letter advocating nonviolence. | show 🗑
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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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| show | Thomas Paine
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| Displays at this event included“human village” of African peoples. Buffalo Bill convinced Annie Oakley to join his Wild West Show here.. The Eiffel Tower was built to serve as an entrance for what 19th-century international exhibition held in Paris. | show 🗑
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| A minute of silence was observed before this piece was played four days after 9/11, and this B-flat minor piece was played on-air during the announcements of FDR and JFK’s deaths. Name this slow, somber composition by Samuel Barber. | show 🗑
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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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| What sport has a trophy called The America's Cup? | show 🗑
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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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| show | Celsius
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| show | Pears
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| show | to change
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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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| show | Andromeda
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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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| This word describes the code of honor of the knights during the Middle Ages. Blameless behavior, courtesy, and respect for women are among the elements of the code. What word am I looking for? | show 🗑
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| show | predicate
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| Proliferate means to spread rapidly. What does prognosticate mean? | show 🗑
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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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| show | Middle Earth
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| show | January
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| show | MIghty Mouse
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| What does valour (valor)mean? | show 🗑
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| show | Lithium
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| show | Pianissimo, or "play very softly"
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| Petrology is the study of what? | show 🗑
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| show | Styx
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| show | Cotton
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| show | Alliteration
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| He captured 132 Germans by himself and also an important machine gun post. He was honored as the greatest American hero of the First World War. Later, he became a minister. Who was he? | show 🗑
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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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| show | 1,000
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| What famous landmark was re-erected at Lake Havasu City, Arizona? | show 🗑
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| Geology Term: An open place for the extraction of stone. | show 🗑
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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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|
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| "All persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a state the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforth, and forever free." This was issued on September 22, 1862, by Abe Lincoln. | show 🗑
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| What is the main vegetable ingredient of a coleslaw salad? | show 🗑
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| "Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord," are the opening words of what familiar song? | show 🗑
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| show | Pax Romana
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| show | Gene Autrey
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| show | Holy Grail
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| Where do relief pitchers warm up? | show 🗑
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| show | Coffin Corner
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| show | 16
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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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|
||||
| Which month was named after the man who said, "The die is cast. I have crossed the Rubicon"? | show 🗑
|
||||
| . What NBA star withdrew his debut rap CD after league commissioner David Stern called it “coarse, offensive, and anti-social”? | show 🗑
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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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|
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| This baseball championship is played annually at Williamsport, Pennsylvania. | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Little Mermaid
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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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|
||||
| Castor and Pollux are the names of two stars in what constellation? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Bifocals
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|
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| show | waste
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|
||||
| Biologists have a word for the offspring of two animals or plants of different species which are crossbred. What is the word? | show 🗑
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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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||||
| show | Civil Engineering
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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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||||
| show | Centaurs
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|
||||
| show | To make new
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|
||||
| show | Civil War
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|
||||
| The first and last letters of our alphabet are A and Z. What are the first and last letters of the Greek alphabet? | show 🗑
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||||
| A triangle with all three sides congruent is called an equilateral triangle. What do we call a triangle with no sides congruent? | show 🗑
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||||
| To rid their nation of the monarchy during the Reign of Terror, French revolutionaries used what popular mode of execution? | show 🗑
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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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||||
| show | Perjury
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|
||||
| This animal is found at the beginning of an encyclopedia | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Whippoorwill
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|
||||
| Taco Bell had to pay an additional $11.8 million in interest to two Michigan men who successfully sued the fast-food chain for stealing their idea of an ad campaign featuring a talking what? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | anarchy
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|
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| show | Minuend
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|
||||
| show | WHEN YOU WISH UPON A STAR
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|
||||
| According to the Bible, what was man made from? | show 🗑
|
||||
| The study of man is called | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Guinea Pig
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|
||||
| show | yes
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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 🗑
|
||||
| These units were discovered by Robert Hooke in a slice of cork in 1665. They have many parts, including membranes, mitochondria, and nuclei. Identify these basic building blocks of life. | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Graceland
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|
||||
| Which boxer lost part of his ear to the teeth of Mike Tyson in 1997 in a televised fight? | show 🗑
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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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||||
| In the Bible Cain built a city named after his son. What is the name? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | locusts
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|
||||
| show | Emmanuel
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|
||||
| show | Revelations
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|
||||
| show | Ganymede
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|
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| An onomastician studies what? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Polaris
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|
||||
| Who said "necessity is the mother of invention" ? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | His Shadow
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|
||||
| Every fifteen minutes cockroaches do what? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Cancer
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|
||||
| Zero players were elected into this sport's Cooperstown Hall of Fame in 2013 | show 🗑
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||||
| This king's "wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east country, and all the wisdom of Egypt" | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Interjections
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|
||||
| show | Levi
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|
||||
| show | Hebrew
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|
||||
| show | Alice in Wonderland
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|
||||
| In Literature, After "Madeline" went to the hospital, "all the little girls cried, 'boohoo', we want to have our" this "out, too!" | show 🗑
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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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| If you have to wear a school uniform, it might include this short-sleeve collared shirt named for an equine sport | show 🗑
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| This sport uses a ball that was once made from pig stomach; bathing caps are needed too | show 🗑
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||||
| show | The Netherlands
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|
||||
| Sweet! In books by Judy Blume, Farley Drexel Hatcher is better known by this nickname | show 🗑
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||||
| Following a plane crash in the wilderness, Brian Robeson doesn't "bury" this title tool but uses it to survive | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Justice
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|
||||
| show | C.S. Lewis
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|
||||
| Extracting a pencil to cure "Writer's Cramp" in the patient in this game might require the nerves of a surgeon | show 🗑
|
||||
| We hope the Gingerbread People avoid the Molasses Swamp & make it to the Lollipop Woods in this board game | show 🗑
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||||
| "Here comes" this pint-sized beauty pageant sensation aka Alana Thompson in this TV Show. | show 🗑
|
||||
| SpongeBob & Squidward work at this restaurant | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Juneau
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|
||||
| On "Phineas and Ferb," a lone platypus stands up against the evil plans of this doctor | show 🗑
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||||
| show | penalize
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|
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| show | Naval Carrier
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|
||||
| show | "Clue"
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|
||||
| This game in which little men are lined up on rods in rows is also called table soccer | show 🗑
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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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|
||||
| 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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| The largest peninsula on earth is mostly made up of this Middle Eastern country | show 🗑
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| 277 miles long & often 1 mile deep, it's the largest gorge in the U.S. of A. | show 🗑
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| Chris Van Allsburg's "The ____ Express" | show 🗑
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| show | Amazon
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|
||||
| The 3 little kittens cried when they lost these | show 🗑
|
||||
| Peter Piper picked a peck of these | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Karate
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|
||||
| This art of decorative handwriting is from the Greek for "beautiful writing" | show 🗑
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||||
| Daniel Rutherford discovered this gas that makes up most of the atmosphere & called it "noxious air" | show 🗑
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||||
| show | pig
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|
||||
| show | glossary
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|
||||
| This cat from the "Shrek" movies got his own film | show 🗑
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||||
| Hydrogen has an atomic number of 1; this light gas, 2 | show 🗑
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| Appropriately, the name of this first book of the Bible means "origin" or "beginning" | show 🗑
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| A more original pole dance? This West Indies dance uses a progressively lowered bar | show 🗑
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| "Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you do" this lively South American dance in triple time? | show 🗑
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| show | Shag
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|
||||
| This term for ancient arenas like the Colosseum comes from Greek words meaning "viewing on both sides" | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Shetland
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|
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| show | Vain
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|
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| show | Drones
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|
||||
| show | Alice
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|
||||
| Vocab: "Aseptic", or "incapable of producing offspring | show 🗑
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||||
| show | latitude
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|
||||
| A phrase meaning a 180 in your situation, or a film with Jeremy Irons & Glenn Close as Claus & Sunny von Bulow | show 🗑
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||||
| 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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| A body such as Venus that moves in the opposite direction of other members of the solar system has this kind of motion | show 🗑
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| Traditionally, the shirt named for this British sport has broad stripes in 2 colors, a white collar & rubber buttons | show 🗑
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| The Youngers get a $10,000 insurance check & leave their apartment to move into the all-white Clybourne Park neighborhood is the plot of what play by Lorraine Hansberry | show 🗑
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||||
| Alec Baldwin asks, "What's in your wallet?" in ads for this company | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Priceline
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|
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| Flo, of the dark hair & red lipstick, wants drivers to try Snapshot from this insurance company | show 🗑
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||||
| Though its name harks back to medieval times, this genre of mystery & terror thrived from 1790 to 1820 | show 🗑
|
||||
| Rephrase this cliche: "Color a metropolis crimson" | show 🗑
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||||
| Rephrase this cliche: "Maintain one's digits folded" (for luck) | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | North Korea
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|
||||
| show | The North Sea
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|
||||
| George R.R. Martin's "Song of Ice and Fire" series includes "A Storm of Swords" & "A Dance with" these creatures | show 🗑
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||||
| show | sniper
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|
||||
| Number of feet in a statute mile | show 🗑
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||||
| For co-founding Farm Aid, this Country Music Hall of Fame member is in the Agricultural Hall of Fame too | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Arbor Day
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|
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| show | deploy
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|
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| Mix ginger ale & grenadine & garnish with fruit & you get the alcohol-free cocktail named for this child star | show 🗑
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||||
| show | grunge
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|
||||
| With both a hard & a soft G, this word means to eat gluttonously | show 🗑
|
||||
| In 'Finding Nemo', what is Nemo's dad's name? | show 🗑
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||||
| Vocab: The word clandestine is synonymous with the word.... | show 🗑
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||||
| Ascorbic Acid is another name for which Vitamin? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Sugar Rush
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|
||||
| show | grinning face
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|
||||
| A dried plum is properly known as a .....? | show 🗑
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| show | war supporter
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|
||||
| show | Malala Yousafzai
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|
||||
| Your 'rotator cuff' is a group of muscles and tendons found in your .....? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | bandana
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|
||||
| show | extras
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|
||||
| Word that stars with F meaning extremely hungry | show 🗑
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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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|
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| show | candidate
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|
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| show | colony
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|
||||
| 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 🗑
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||||
| Name this hit games from Pop-cap. The objective of this Pop-cap game is to swap one of the titular objects with an adjacent one to form a horizontal or vertical chain of three or more, possibly causing a cascade. | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Avatar
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|
||||
| He sends his father back in time to save his mother. This is what leader of the human resistance in the Terminator series? | show 🗑
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||||
| This mountain range is home to Pike’s Peak and Banff National Park. Name this mountain range that runs from British Columbia to New Mexico. | show 🗑
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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 🗑
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||||
| 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 🗑
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||||
| 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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| These uncountable nouns imitate the sound that they denote. Examples include words like “bang,” “tick,” and “buzz.” | show 🗑
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| show | Jamestown
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| Lake Okeechobee borders the northern part of this area. Thousands of invasive Burmese pythons have been captured here. Name this area in South Florida which contains millions of acres of protected marshes and wetlands. | show 🗑
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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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| show | Hermes
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| show | Beowulf
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| This god’s carriage is pulled by two goats that are eaten and resurrected each time. He will kill Jörmungandr and take nine steps before dying from its venom. | show 🗑
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| 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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| show | Swan Lake
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| Unlike hail, this is a water droplet that freezes after hitting a cold layer of air. Despite an older definition, it is not simply a mix of rain and snow. | show 🗑
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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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| show | Bonus Army
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| This figure is a common trickster in Native American folklore and was believed to control the rain in Navajo mythology. In one story, this figure forces humanity to move into the “fifth world” when he angers Water Buffalo | show 🗑
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| show | Anansi
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| show | trumpet
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| show | Lil Uzi Vert [or Symere Woods]
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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 🗑
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| show | Mount Kilimanjaro
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| show | Berlin
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| In this novel, the narrator repeats the saying: “I yam what I am,” Tod Clifton is later shot by the police & Dr. Bledsoe expels the narrator from the school. The narrator ends up living underground with 1,369 light bulbs. Name this book by Ralph Ellison. | show 🗑
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| show | Marc Antony
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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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| Prokofiev's Peter & the Wolf opens with a duck arguing with an animal represented by this instrument. Ravel’s Bolero opens with this solo instrument. Prince Tamino receives the power to turn sorrow into joy with a magical one of these woodwinds. | show 🗑
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| show | Confucius
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| This creature was confused when Ortygia was covered with waves to fulfill a prophecy that a woman could only give birth where the sun did not shine. Name this dragon oracle who was killed by a four-day-old Apollo | show 🗑
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| show | Leto
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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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| show | Pliny the Younger
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| Arianism stands in contrast to this orthodox doctrine of God, which states that the Godhead is composed of three equal, eternal, and distinct hypostases or “persons,” sharing one unified “ousia” or “essence.” | show 🗑
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| The Works Progress Administration was part of this much broader FDR program fighting the Great Depression. | show 🗑
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| This object was believed by the pre-Islamic Arabs to be the “right hand” of the god al-Rahman. It is currently kissed in the Istilam ritual as part of the hajj. | show 🗑
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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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| Girl with a Pearl Earring is an oil painting by which Dutch Golden Age painter? | show 🗑
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| What is Mickey Mouse's dogs name? | show 🗑
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| Which famous American musician was fatally shot by his father on April 1, 1984 and had hits with "Let's Get it On" , "Whats Going On, and "Heard it Through the Grapevine". | show 🗑
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| show | Deion Sanders
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| show | Texas
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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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| show | 100
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| What nationality was Frederic Chopin? | show 🗑
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| What’s the best known artificial international language? | show 🗑
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| Who lived at 221B, Baker Street, London? | show 🗑
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||||
| How many dots are there on a pair of dice? | show 🗑
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| show | 64
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| show | English
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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 🗑
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| show | Spirit of St Louis (achieved in 1927)
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| The Wars of the Roses (1455-85) were fought between which two houses of England? | show 🗑
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| Which German city endured the worst bombing of World War Two in February 1945 | show 🗑
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| What Russian cleric was poisoned, shot and finally drowned on December 30, 1916? | show 🗑
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| show | Law of Conservation of Energy
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| show | Heat of Chiles
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| show | xylem
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| In the Lion King, where does Mufasa and his family live? | show 🗑
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| What was the name of the whale in Pinocchio? | show 🗑
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| show | Robin Williams for the voice of the genie in Aladdin
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| show | Beauty and the Beast
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| show | Ariel and Meridia
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| show | Space Mountain
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| show | radiation
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||||
| Which type of dog has breeds called Scottish, Welsh and Irish? | show 🗑
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||||
| In the film Babe, what type of animal was Babe? | show 🗑
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| show | Rome
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||||
| show | Aries
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| show | Tinkerbell
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|
||||
| show | Springfield
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||||
| show | Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
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||||
| show | Yuletide
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||||
| show | Jacob Marley
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|
||||
| show | Green Bay Packers
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||||
| show | Usain Bolt
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||||
| Which NFL team has won the most Super Bowls? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Thomas
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| show | 10
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||||
| show | 40
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||||
| According to the Book of Exodus, what is kept in the Ark of the Covenant? | show 🗑
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| show | Argus
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| In what country would you find the ancient temple Angkor Wat? | show 🗑
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| show | Silver
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||||
| show | Charles Babbage
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|
||||
| show | Carly Rae Jeppson
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|
||||
| show | Compact Disk Read Only Memory
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| show | Miley Cyrus
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| show | 9
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||||
| The Roman numeral L stands for? | 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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||||
| show | Walmart
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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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| In Latin, words representing this part of speech must agree in number, case, and gender with the words they modify. They may have comparative and superlative forms. What is this part of speech that often expresses some characteristic of a noun? | show 🗑
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| Congressman . Ambassador to the United Nations. Chairman of the Republican National Committee . Director of the CIA. US President from 1989-1993. What oil millionaire fits this description? | show 🗑
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||||
| The body needs ions of this alkaline earth metal to transmit nerve impulses, to contract muscles, and to coagulate blood. What is this element, whose carbonate and phosphate are the major constituents of human bones? | show 🗑
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| show | World's Fair
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| show | Crash
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| In 1917, what did President Wilson say "must be made safe for democracy"? | show 🗑
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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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| show | Industrial Revolution
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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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| show | 40 Days
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| show | Hurricane Harvey
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|
||||
| This archeological site contains a temple called El Castillo, dedicated to the god Kukulcán, which has 365 steps ( number of days in the year.) Name this archeological site in the Yucatan peninsula, which was excavated by American Edward Thompson | show 🗑
|
||||
| ] During the Civil War, this Union naval officer gave the order “Damn the torpedoes, full steam ahead!” at the 1864 Battle of Mobile Bay after having captured New Orleans from the Confederacy in 1862. | show 🗑
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| show | Niagara Falls
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|
||||
| What is it called when a soccer player scores two goals in a game of soccer? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Black Sea
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|
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| show | Austraila
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|
||||
| What was the name of the coffee shop in the sitcom Friends? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | shoes
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|
||||
| show | Hail Mary
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|
||||
| On the popular social website Reddit, what does AMA stand for? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | pigs or swine
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|
||||
| show | Central Processing Unit
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|
||||
| MMA is the acronym for what full-contact combat sport? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Suez Canal
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|
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| On which popular website do users send tweets? | show 🗑
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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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|
||||
| show | standing
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|
||||
| Ancient Carthaginians and the Greek city-states led by Syracuse fought for control over this island from 600-250 BC. Name this Mediterranean island whose major cities include Palermo and Messina that was granted autonomy in a 1946 referendum. | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Shield volcano
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|
||||
| show | Itzhak Perlman
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|
||||
| show | Dilbert
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|
||||
| show | English
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|
||||
| show | The Mafia
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|
||||
| show | Space Shuttle
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|
||||
| show | Quakers or Society of Friends
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|
||||
| This largest freshwater lake by volume can be found in Russia. It is also the world’s deepest, at over a mile deep. | show 🗑
|
||||
| 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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| This is a hypersensitivity to something in the environment, the results of which can include sneezing, hives, or anaphylaxis | show 🗑
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||||
| This city-state’s militaristic society held a class of slaves called helots. It was a frequent adversary of Athens. | show 🗑
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| show | cremation
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|
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| show | John Hancock
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|
||||
| It can be calculated as the product of its namesake coefficient and the normal force. Coming in static and kinetic varieties is what force that appears between two sliding surfaces? | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Chance the Rapper
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|
||||
| show | Omnipotence
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|
||||
| show | Ivanka Trump
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|
||||
| One of this character’s prized possessions is a tape playing “Hello, Dolly!”He gets struck by lightning holding an umbrella & forces his companion Hal to stay behind as he is taken to the Axiom. Who is the trash-compacting robot, star of a Pixar film? | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | French Horn
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|
||||
| show | Persephone
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|
||||
| show | Pomegranate
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|
||||
| show | Mexico
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|
||||
| show | hydrogen
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|
||||
| show | kryptonite
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|
||||
| show | kyber
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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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|
||||
| The trio section of “Stars and Stripes Forever” contains an obbligato solo for this instrument. This instrument’s Italian name is “ottavino,” a reference to its high range, and are often doubled on by flute players | show 🗑
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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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||||
| This clef is seen on the upper staff of the grand staff used for keyboard instruments. The spiral of this clef centers on the second line of the staff, and is primarily used for higher pitched instruments. | show 🗑
|
||||
| They can be found holding a Light Ball in the Trophy Garden, and they are native to the Viridian Forest. The most famous member of this species rescues its partner from a flock of Spearow. Accompanying Ash Ketchum is what Electric Mouse Pokémon? | show 🗑
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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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||||
| show | Protestant Reformation
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||||
| show | Rio Grande
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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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|
||||
| What document was signed in 1787? A. the Bill of Rights B. the Monroe Doctrine C. the Treaty of Ghent D. the U.S. Constitution E. the Declaration of Independence | show 🗑
|
||||
| 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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||||
| show | print
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|
||||
| show | editorial
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|
||||
| show | Classifieds
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|
||||
| What American newsman closed his broadcasts with this line? And that's the way it is. A. Mike Wallace B. David Brinkley C. Horace Greeley D. Walter Cronkite E. Howard K. Smith | show 🗑
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||||
| show | muckrakers
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|
||||
| What is the name for an article printed in a newspaper that withdraws or takes back statements that were previously published by that paper? | show 🗑
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||||
| The freelance photographers who dogged Princess Diana right up until the moment of her tragic accident in Paris are the ... A. Anasazi B. Pavarotti C. paparazzi D. manicotti E. vermicelli | show 🗑
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||||
| show | vaquero
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|
||||
| show | indivisible
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|
||||
| Given Roman technology, "plumbing" must come from the Latin for what metal? | show 🗑
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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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||||
| The name for what land form is derived from Latin words which mean "almost an island"? | show 🗑
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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 🗑
|
||||
| show | Old Yeller
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|
||||
| show | Laura Ingalls Wilder
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|
||||
| show | pea
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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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|
||||
| Euclid referred to what when he said this? In the same plane they will never intersect or meet, no matter how far they are extended. | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | elements
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|
||||
| show | water
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||||
| It is an electrically neutral and highly ionized gas composed of ions and electrons and neutral particles. It is called the fourth state of matter and is estimated to constitute 99% of the universe. Name it. | show 🗑
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||||
| The density of an object refers to a relation between the mass of the object and its ... | show 🗑
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||||
| As instructed by her religious visions, this peasant girl went to Charles VII and obtained an army to free France from its English domination. She was ... A. Esmeralda B. Joan of Arc C. Madame Defarge D. Marie Antoinette E. Catherine de Medici | show 🗑
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| The murder of a public figure is called .. | show 🗑
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||||
| The legal definition of the term "assault" is the threat to use force. What legal term refers to the actual use of force? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | forgery
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|
||||
| Which country is in both Asia Minor and Europe? A. Iran B. Egypt C. Latvia D. Turkey E. Thailand | show 🗑
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||||
| show | jealousy
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|
||||
| show | rationing
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|
||||
| show | pork
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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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||||
| show | spam
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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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|
||||
| Brimstone is another name for ... A. sulfur B. copper C. uranium D. mercury E. platinum | show 🗑
|
||||
| Which of the three categories of rock is most evident as you gaze at the Grand Canyon? | show 🗑
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||||
| Which rock can be struck against steel to produce a spark? A. lava B. flint C. shale D. obsidian E. limestone | show 🗑
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||||
| show | shale
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|
||||
| All the igneous rocks on the Earth's surface were once a molten material called ... | show 🗑
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||||
| show | coal, oil, gas
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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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|
||||
| show | marble
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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 🗑
|
||||
| Two basic factors in a climate are ... A. altitude and latitude B. plant and animal life C. longitude and altitude D. wind speed and humidity E. precipitation and temperature | show 🗑
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||||
| About 78 percent of the atmosphere is nitrogen and 21 percent is oxygen. Most of the remaining one percent of the atmosphere is ... A. neon B. argon C. xenon D. helium E. hydrogen | show 🗑
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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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|
||||
| show | lightening
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|
||||
| What kind of precipitation is composed of regular hexagons? | show 🗑
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||||
| The three basic hydrologic components of the global water balance include evaporation, runoff, and ... | show 🗑
|
||||
| What causes thunder? A. clouds cracking B. lightning impacting the ground C. air particles slamming together D. lightning exceeding the speed of light E. expanding gases along the path of the lightning | show 🗑
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||||
| show | blue
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|
||||
| show | 0 Degrees (Equator)
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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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||||
| show | gnu
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|
||||
| Which mammals have prehensile tails? A. shrews B. beavers C. monkeys D. antelope E. porpoises | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | hippo
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|
||||
| show | hair
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|
||||
| Which is the largest whale? A. blue whale B. pilot whale C. killer whale D. beluga whale E. humpback whale | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Florida estuaries
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|
||||
| Who was buried in the Valley of the Kings? A. Pericles B. Louis XIV C. Julius Caesar D. Tutankhamen E. Genghis Khan | show 🗑
|
||||
| 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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||||
| show | 15
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|
||||
| What unit of measurement is used to compare the intensities of different sounds? | show 🗑
|
||||
| The higher the pitch of a sound, the ---- its wavelength. | show 🗑
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||||
| show | sonar
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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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| show | at home
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| Name the body of citizens chosen to determine certain questions of fact in criminal or civil proceedings. | show 🗑
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| A law that has been repealed has been ... A. vetoed B. annulled C. sent to committee D. passed by Congress E. voided by the Supreme Court | show 🗑
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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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| A lawyer's protest to a judge regarding a statement or question by the opposing attorney is called an ... | show 🗑
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| What infraction consists of a refusal to obey the rules, orders, and process of the courts of law? | show 🗑
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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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| A person who has taken an alias has ... A. assumed a new identity B. stolen negotiable bonds C. changed his citizenship D. kidnapped a young person E. received stolen merchandise | show 🗑
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| Don was ordered by the court to give his estranged spouse $2000 per month after their divorce. What is the 4-syllable name for such a payment? | show 🗑
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| A guilty verdict requires that the guilt of the defendant be established beyond ... A. suspicion B. any question C. reasonable doubt D. moderate disbelief E. sufficient reservation | show 🗑
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| show | jurisdiction
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| She was the daughter of Chief Powhatan who saved the founder of the Jamestown Colony from death. Name her. | show 🗑
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| show | Navajo
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| Fearing the Ghost Dance ritual might inspire an uprising, the U.S. cavalry slaughtered nearly 200 members of what tribe in 1890 at Wounded Knee? A. Hopi B. Sioux C. Apache D. Mohawk E. Seminole | show 🗑
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| show | peninsulas
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| show | river mouth
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| show | wtland
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| show | land bridge
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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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| In the year 1500, what product did Jacques Nicot introduce for the first time into France? | show 🗑
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| show | South Carolina
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| May 14 is a national holiday in France, celebrated in honor of which woman? | show 🗑
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| show | aristocracy
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| show | MGM
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| What is the name for the science or study of plants? | show 🗑
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| Finish the phrase with 3 words: "Hell hath no fury like ... " | show 🗑
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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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| Which 19th century personality said, "You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you can't fool all the people all the time." | show 🗑
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| The mental and physical exercise known as yoga evolves from what religion? | show 🗑
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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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| show | Chinese
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| show | bananas
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| show | tarantula
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