MHS Scholars Bowl
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| show | Bolero
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| show | Richard Lovelace
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| In Tagalog myth, a hybrid of a man & this creature can be tamed by plucking 3 of its spines. This may have been inspired by an avatar of Vishnu with this creature's head who returns stolen Vedas to Brahma. Name these animals that pull Arjuna's chariot | show 🗑
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| show | Joseph Stalin
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| A mosque in this city has neo-Ottoman style with concrete shells interspersed with glass walls & 3 towers over the river. A building here houses St. Peter's Bell & a golden triple sarcophagus. This German city on the Rhine home of huge Gothic cathedral. | show 🗑
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| Stone examples of these structures may be made of 5 blocks shaped to symbolize the 5 elements In Japan, examples of these structures are called sekito. Name these East Asian variants of the Buddhist stupa, towers with eaves hanging off several tiers | show 🗑
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| Harvard professor Gary Urton created a huge database cataloging over 700 of these objects. Figure-eights appear on these objects & were made of fibers spun from alpaca or llama hair. What is a system of knotted strings used for communication by the Incas? | show 🗑
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| The Vitruvian man inspired Tony Smith to make a steel sculpture of one of these objects titled Die. Henri Matisse mocked a rejected entry to the Salon d'Automne as a "painting made of" these "little" objects. | show 🗑
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| show | Mani
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| The world is called "enemy-occupied territory" after this book describes Manichean dualism as the "most sensible creed" behind Christ. C.S. Lewis's namesake "trilemma" was presented in this book compiled from radio talks | show 🗑
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| show | Ferromagnetism
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| show | Creating False Memories
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| show | Symphony in Gray Major by Rubén Darío
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| Name these beings, to whom grottoes such as "Coventina's Well" were dedicated. A Greek word for "bride" covers the range of these minor nature deities, who were divided into such groups as dryads and oreads | show 🗑
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| By claiming this woman was more beautiful than them, her mother angered the Nereids. The Egyptian god Ammon's oracle tells her father Cepheus to chain her to a rock, but she is soon rescued from the monster Cetus | show 🗑
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| This tune, "Baa Baa Black Sheep" & Glenn Miller's "In the Mood," is the earliest surviving music recorded on a computer. This song attributed to John Bull, represents England in Wellington's Victory. Its tune is shared by "My Country 'Tis Of Thee." | show 🗑
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| This composer's time in England inspired his hymn "God Save Emperor Francis," later becoming "Deutschlandlied." Variations of the hymn appear in one of the Erdödy Quartets by this "father of the string quartet." | show 🗑
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| These troops were developed in Persia to counter horse archers, since their Greek name suggests, their heavy armor protected them from arrows. These cavalrymen were later adopted by the Byzantines. | show 🗑
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| Genoese mercenaries who wielded these weapons were often employed against horse archers, since footmen had a rather easy time hitting large targets with bolts from these mechanical ranged weapons | show 🗑
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| show | nitrogen
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| Las Vegas Gazette publisher J. H. Koogler embellished the exploits of this figure, who was a member of a group called the Regulators. Name this Wild West outlaw who was only 21 years old when he was killed in Fort Sumner by Pat Garrett. | show 🗑
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| show | Lincoln County War
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| While in the Nazi Party, Carl Schmitt wrote a critique of the mechanistic conception of the state in this Thomas Hobbes book, beginning with a religious analysis of the title creature from Abrahamic tradition. | show 🗑
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| show | California Institute of the Arts
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| Fu Hao may have collected many artifacts made of this material from the Liangzhu culture. In Chinese traditions, a mythological emperor who headed the pantheon was named for this green mineral | show 🗑
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| The "Holy Maid of Kent" Elizabeth Barton was executed for prophesying ill fortune from this woman's marriage. This person's headless ghost supposedly haunts the Tower of London and her execution was prominently supported by Thomas Cromwell. | show 🗑
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| show | Kendrick Lamar
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| show | pronouns
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| Sandbars can sometimes form in these regions where a river splits into many channels as it nears its mouth. These regions are named for their resemblance to a Greek letter. | show 🗑
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| show | infrared spectroscopy
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| show | Essenes
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| The shape formed by joining these points by straight lines is sometimes called the Kasner polygon. Name these points that divide a line segment exactly in half. | show 🗑
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| show | Varignon's
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| Fighters in this conflict executed 16 Americans. The Tampico affair occurred & an operation that led George Patton to receive the nickname "Bandito. Name this conflict that the US was drawn into during a raid by Pancho Villa & led by John J Pershing. | show 🗑
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| . The "re-entrant" keyhole motifs on these objects are variably interpreted as a fountain or as a gateway to heaven. Users point the mihrab towards the qibla while performing rakat atop these objects, which includes steps of kneeling and prostration. | show 🗑
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| show | SSRI's (Selective Seratonin Rebuke Inhibitors)
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| This text contains a set of 9 practical principles such as "Become acquainted with every art," which are supplemented by the 21"spirtual principles" of the author's Dokkodo. Name this treatise made up of Books of Earth, Water, Fire, Wind, and Void. | show 🗑
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| show | The Messiah (part of Hallelujah Chorus)
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| After the Great Chicago Fire, the mayor declared this type of law to prevent looting and riots. In addition to times of disorder, this type of law is often instituted in occupied territories. | show 🗑
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| This sea lies between the Bosporus and the Dardanelles. The cities of Erdek and Izmit name two gulfs on this Turkish inland sea which borders Istanbul opposite the Black Sea. | show 🗑
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| Glass electrodes are most often used to measure this quantity. If a solution has a value lower than 7 for this quantity, it is considered acidic | show 🗑
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| show | chalcogens
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| The first production of Athol Fugard's Serpent Players was an adaptation of this play The Cure. The prologue wishes that "all of you might be tricked as" the "wise young woman" Lucrezia, whom Callimaco gives the title drug while disguised as a doctor. | show 🗑
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| The 16th and final chapter of this book traditionally includes its "Longer Ending". Notable passages unique to this book include the Parable of the Growing Seed and an account of a naked "young man" fleeing the Garden of Gethsemane after Jesus's arrest. | show 🗑
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| In 2021, Cai developed an 11-step artificial anabolic pathway to produce this compound from carbon dioxide. When this compound is suspended in water, it forms a non-Newtonian fluid called "oobleck. Name this polymer of glucose | show 🗑
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| The lawyer Constance Baker Motley has been called the "Civil Rights Queen." Motley wrote the original complaint in this 1954 case, which effectively overruled Plessy v. Ferguson and struck down racial segregation in public schools. | show 🗑
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| Constance Motley represented this man in a case whose witnesses included Robert Ellis, the registrar at the University of Mississippi. RFK sent federal marshals to protect this person, who was later shot during his March Against Fear. | show 🗑
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| This book contains the story of Nadab and Abihu, who were punished for offering a sacrifice with foreign fire. Name this book of the Bible concerned with purity. This third book of the Bible follows Exodus in the Pentateuch. | show 🗑
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| show | al-Qaeda
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| show | Sephardic
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| Rumina, a protectress of breastfeeding mothers, had her temple near the cave where this creature nursed Romulus and Remus | show 🗑
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| show | A Flat Major
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| Author Kobo Abe hails from this Asian country that developed noh and kabuki theater | show 🗑
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| In 2022, this state's Department of Human Services sued former professional wrestler Ted DiBiase & football Hall of Famer Brett Favre for inappropriately receiving funds from welfare. | show 🗑
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| show | Prisoner of War Camps
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| In 1996, a market next to this river was found to be selling the meat of a "rock rat". There are "4,000 islands" in this archipelago's river. The river flows through Vientiane and Phnom Penh before reaching Ho Chi Minh | show 🗑
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| Evidence from Super-Kamiokande suggests that the half-life of these particles is over 10 to the 20 times greater than the age of the universe. Name these positively-charged nucleons whose decay has yet to be observed | show 🗑
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| Ash Wednesday was written as a "conversion poem" upon the conversion of this poet of "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" to Anglicanism | show 🗑
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| show | polymers
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| J. M. W. Turner's painting The Slave Ship was likely inspired by a 1781 massacre on this ship, whose crew was prosecuted for murder. 132 enslaved Africans were thrown overboard and the company sued for insurance money claiming they lost human cargo | show 🗑
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| show | Acropolis
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| Cecrops' daughter Aglaura bore a daughter with this god named Alcippe, who was then raped by Halirrhothius. The first trial in Athenian history occurred after this god killed Halirrhothius out of anger | show 🗑
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| show | Weather Underground
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| show | Phillipines
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| show | Los Posadas
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| White South African David Benatar's Better Never to Have Been promotes this pessimistic view that human procreation is morally wrong due to children's future suffering. | show 🗑
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| show | juntas
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| show | lotus
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| Cairo is known as the "city of a thousand" of these architectural features. Name these towers that are built atop mosques from where the muezzin delivers the call to prayer. | show 🗑
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| show | gamma ray bursts
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| Magnetars are a highly-magnetized type of these stars, whose mergers can cause short gamma-ray bursts. These incredibly dense stars are made up of a certain subatomic particle. | show 🗑
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| Specific arrangements of microtubules appear both in cilia and these structures, whose whip-like motion helps propel sperm cells. | show 🗑
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| While in a cave with the kidnapped woman Charite, this character hears the story of Cupid and Psyche. Name this protagonist of the Roman novel The Golden Ass, whose name is shared with the novel's author | show 🗑
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| show | Heart of Darkness
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| Made of marble, granite, and gneiss, this Robert Mills designed structure stands over 555 feet tall making it the tallest stone structure in the world. Completed in 1884, what obelisk was built to honor the first US president? | show 🗑
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| In this novel, Ambrose Bierce crosses the El Paso border to find Pancho Villa. Name that novel where Harriet Winslow teaches English to the Miranda children written by Carlos Fuentes | show 🗑
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| show | Mount Kilimanjaro (Snows of Kilimanjaro)
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| This cultural event took place on Max Yasgur's farm in Bethel New York a few weeks after the Apollo Moon Landing. Attended by over half a million people what is the name of this historic | show 🗑
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| What English poet laureate wrote this? " In the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love." | show 🗑
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| A girl lies desperately ill of pneumonia. She decides to die as soon as the last leaf of five drops off the vine outside her window. But one leaf hangs on and she recovers. Name this short story by O. Henry. | show 🗑
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| show | Gothic
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| show | hydrogenous
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| show | Ruger
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| show | Syria
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| show | John Bunyan
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| show | postulate
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| In dioecious plants such as the kiwi, male and female flowers grow on separate plants. What category of plants have male and female organs in different flowers on the same plant? | show 🗑
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| In 1979, geologist Walter Alvarez found a reddish-gray layer of clay an inch thick in the Apennines. His father,Nobel Prize-winning physicist Luis Alvarez, showed that the layer contained what heavy metal found in high concentrations in meteorites? | show 🗑
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| What is the hyphenated name for an immature reaction in which aggressiveness is expressed by such passive measures as pouting, stubbornness, procrastination, and inefficiency? | show 🗑
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| show | Dalai Lama
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| In the five-kingdom classification system, which kingdom includes the only organisms that have prokaryotic cells, i.e. cells with no organized nuclei in a nuclear membrane? | show 🗑
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| show | effigy mounds
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| show | fungus or mold
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| The Pyrenees, Alps, Caucasus, Atlas, and Himalayan mountains consist of sediments that were once at the bottom of what sea that separated Laurasia and Gondwana? | show 🗑
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| Who wrote these stories? What Do You Mean It Was Brillig? The Unicorn in the Garden The Catbird Seat The Shrike and the Chipmunks The Bear Who Let It Alone | show 🗑
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| show | Mark Twain
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| The cosine of an angle equals the adjacent side divided by the .. | show 🗑
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| An electronic circuit operates once in 10 nanoseconds. How many operations does it perform in one second? | show 🗑
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| show | Charles Dickens
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| What musical tells of Tevye and his five daughters dealing with religious traditions and a czar's edict to remove them from their village? It features songs such as "Tradition" and "Matchmaker" | show 🗑
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| They live at depths of 500 to 2000 meters. The tiny male fish attaches itself to the much larger female of the species, and the bodies of the two fish fuse, with the male living as a parasite on the female. Name these fish with a built-in lure. | show 🗑
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| show | transversal
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| The Erechtheum was completed on the Acropolis in 405 B.C. The female figures that support its roof are modeled after maidens from the town of Caryae and are known as ... | show 🗑
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| During World War II, the code for the German Enigma machine was broken by the British intelligence service at what park? | show 🗑
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| Complete this quote inscribed on a rock in Lexington, Massachusetts. Stand your ground. Don't fire unless fired upon. But if they mean to have a war ... | show 🗑
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| show | adjudication
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| These lines are from Jack London's account of a disaster in what city? The old Mark Hopkins residence was just catching fire. On Mission street, a dozen steers lay dead across the street. Telegraph Hill was swept Friday night. | show 🗑
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| show | 90
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| show | copper
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| show | Mountain Meadows Massacre
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| Name the suite by Edvard Grieg consisting of these movements. Morning Ase's Death Anitra's Dance In the Hall of the Mountain King | show 🗑
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| show | Melpomene
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| show | Yalu
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| Complete this cry of the French Revolution. Liberty - Equality - | show 🗑
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| show | Gone with the Wind
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| Guided missiles are designed so their courses can be corrected at any time during their flight. What type of missile must be aimed during the first few minutes of flight before its fuel is exhausted? | show 🗑
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| This excerpt is about what zoologist? Her ongoing struggles to save her gorillas may have killed her. In 1985, her lifeless body was found in her Rwandan cabin. While authorities suspected poachers, they could never prove their allegations | show 🗑
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| show | a grain of sand
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| show | Securities Exchange Act
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| show | Snow Bound
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| show | 14th amendment
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| show | Egypt and Israel
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| show | Inquisition or Spanish Inquisition
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| show | Aristophanes
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| show | Horace Mann
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| What meteor shower seems to radiate from the region of the constellation named for the husband of Andromeda who killed the Gorgon Medusa? | show 🗑
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| Solve this equation for y. cy - 3a = 2h | show 🗑
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| What famous American writer was born during the appearance of Halley's comet in 1835 and died while it was in the sky in 1910? | show 🗑
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| These a pieces from what opera? Aragonaise March of the Smugglers Children's Chorus Bohemian Dance | show 🗑
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| show | The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
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| Name the process by which a magnetized or electrically charged object produces magnetism, an electric charge, or an electric voltage in another object without being in contact with it. | show 🗑
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| show | haboob
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| show | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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| What Swiss Protestant theologian said this in the 16th century? What is the intensifier in this line? After days of reviewing the alternatives, Wilma suddenly had what we all regarded as an insanely good idea | show 🗑
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| About whom was Alexander Hamilton speaking when he said this? No other man can sufficiently unite the public opinion or give the requisite weight to the office in the commencement of government | show 🗑
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| show | Henry David Thoreau
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| show | right angle
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| show | anhydride
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| show | Socrates
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| What story set in South Africa concerns a boy repeatedly victimized in a boarding school who later meets Hoppie Groenewald who instills in him a love of boxing? | show 🗑
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| show | doldrums
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| These parks are in what country? The Burren National Park Glenveagh National Park Ballycroy National Park Connemara National Park Killarney National Park | show 🗑
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| show | Chicago
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| show | Lonesome Dove
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| From what Esther Forbes story was this taken? "Oh, God help them," thought Johnny. "They haven't seen those British troops in Boston. They haven't seen the gold lace on the generals, those muskets - all so alike, and everyone has a bayonet." | show 🗑
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| They are ionically bonded compounds that dissociate into charged particles in water and conduct an electric current. Sodium chloride is one example. These compounds are known as . | show 🗑
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| show | grafting
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| show | 1984
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| show | cd (for candela)
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| show | 72 degrees
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| To what snake does this jingle apply? Red on yellow - kill a fellow | show 🗑
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| show | phloem tubes
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| What novel by Tom Clancy is about a covert war supported by the U.S. president and orchestrated by CIA officials against a drug cartel in Colombia, without the knowledge of the CIA's acting deputy director? | show 🗑
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| show | Taft-Hartley Act
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| show | druidism
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| show | Eratosthenes
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| show | alkaloids
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| Translate this line. Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum. | show 🗑
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| A cell such as an erythrocyte or leukocyte capable of free movement in a fluid as distinguished from a fixed cell in a tissue is called a ... | show 🗑
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| Who wrote these words? Trust thyself. Every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. | show 🗑
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| show | Czech Republic
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| Ulysses S. Grantʹs victory at this battle effectively cut the (*) Confederacy in half. Name this 1863 siege of a fortified town on the Mississippi River | show 🗑
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| show | Issac Newton
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| show | Indiana Jones
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| show | Zimmerman Telegram
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| show | Bane
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| This explorerʹs “foster father” Tyrker discovered grapes near their settlement at LʹAnse aux Meadows in northern Newfoundland. In AD 1000 he discovered “Vinland” after setting sail from Greenland. | show 🗑
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| show | blue
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| There are approximately 3.25 light years in one of these units, which are defined as the distance at which one astronomical unit subtends an angle of one arcsecond. | show 🗑
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| show | Battle of Gallipoli
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| show | Shoeless Joe Jackson (or Joseph Jefferson Jackson)
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| This friend of Romeo is stabbed to death in a duel with Julietʹs cousin Tybalt | show 🗑
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| This country is home to the Malagasy people, who name one of its two official languages. Name this African island nation that lies off the southeastern coast of the continental mainland. | show 🗑
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| The “ring‐tailed” is one type of these primates that are endemic to Madagascar, meaning that they are found nowhere else on earth | show 🗑
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| This element is used in incandescent light bulb filaments. Name this metal with atomic symbol W. | show 🗑
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| This man was accused of molesting his sisters in May 2015, leading to the cancellation of 19 Kids and Counting. | show 🗑
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| The title “Tsar of All Russia” was first used by this 16th‐century Russian ruler who built St. Basilʹs Cathedral and created a standing army called the streltsy | show 🗑
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| show | Marvin Gaye
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| show | mimicry
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| show | orcs
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| show | Ang Lee
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| show | gargoyles
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| This movie based on the life of U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, considered to be one of the most lethal in his line of work, received six Oscar nominations | show 🗑
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| What is a person called when they sow discord on the Internet by starting arguments or upsetting people, by posting inflammatory, extraneous, or offtopic messages in an online community? | show 🗑
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| show | House of Medici
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| show | irresponsible
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| What is the antecedent in this line? The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever. | show 🗑
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| show | genius
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| show | people
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| An 1874 ad began with "Farmers! Take Notice! The Greatest Invention of the Age!" This advertisement was for what new product invented by Joseph Glidden to keep livestock from roaming onto other settlers' lands? | show 🗑
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| In "Lord of the Flies," what is used to call meetings and also functions as a symbol of authority? | show 🗑
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| show | tautology
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| show | two-headed
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| A troubled relationship between Jake Barnes and Lady Brett Ashley is at the center of The Sun Also Rises, a novel by this bullfighting enthusiast who also wrote A Farewell to Arms | show 🗑
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| In some Christian denominations, Maundy Thursday includes this ritual performed during the Mandatum ceremony after the homily. Name this ritual performed by Jesus for his disciples after the Last Supper | show 🗑
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| Many works in this medium feature the character of Kilroy. Identify this artistic medium. One of the most celebrated artists in this medium was the subject of Julian Schnabel's film, Basquiat, and signed much of his work as SAMO. | show 🗑
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| In a work titled for this man, a dog sleeps in front of a pair of slippers and next to a resting lion. Identify this saint who can be seen working in his study in an engraving by Albrecht Dürer. | show 🗑
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| show | And the Band Played On
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| This hero inserts a lead-tipped spear into the fire-breathing mouth of his greatest enemy, causing it to suffocate to death on the melting lead. Name this hero who slays the Chimera after using a golden bridle to tame the winged horse Pegasus. | show 🗑
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| show | Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre
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| show | cattle
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| Jerusalem's Old City is home to a quarter named for this country, the first officially Christian nation in the world. Name this modern-day country whose diaspora communities grew after its people were targeted for extermination by the Ottoman Empire | show 🗑
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| This term for adjusting district boundaries to establish a particular group's political advantage was first coined in the Boston Gazette in reaction to redistricting laws enacted under a namesake Massachusetts governor. | show 🗑
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| This mathematician used a proof by contradiction to demonstrate the infinitude of the primes. He also wrote The Elements. | show 🗑
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| show | solenoids
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| show | deus ex machina
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| show | Strom Thurmond
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| show | Palatine Hill
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| The Savoy Ballroom in New York is considered the birthplace of this dance, Name this swing dance developed in Harlem in the 1920s and 30s which grew out of the Charleston and may have been named for an aviator. | show 🗑
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| The Book of Rites is one of the "Five Classics" of this Chinese philosophical tradition, named for the advocate of filial piety whose teachings are compiled in the Analects. | show 🗑
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| show | Kepler's third law
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| Name these terraced religious buildings. A seven-storied example called the Etemenanki, which was dedicated to the god Marduk, got a reference in Herodotus's histories. | show 🗑
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| show | Adonis
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| Adonis is killed by one of these animals after being warned not to go hunting. That animal may have been the "Erymanthian" one sent by Apollo to punish Aphrodite for blinding his son Erymanthus. | show 🗑
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| show | "The Girl From Ipanema"
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| show | Vitamin C
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| Many buccaneers and pirates raided this large class of long-beaked ships, which sailed in annual fleets taking silver between New Spain and Manila | show 🗑
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| show | Hans Christian Anderson
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| A character in this story gets a piece of a shattered magic mirror in his eye & his heart, which causes him to only see the bad in things. Name this short story where Gerda rides a reindeer to Lapland to save Kai from inside the title character's palace | show 🗑
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| show | Michaelangelo
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| This nation's athletes took home 20 gold medals at the 1972 Summer Olympics. Identify this Communist nation ruled by men such as Walter Ulbricht. A border separating this nation from its capital neighbor contained Checkpoint Charlie | show 🗑
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| show | zoonotic
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| Name this principle demonstrated by Lavoisier when he burned a piece of wood and showed that the total weight remained constant. It's the basis of stoichiometry. | show 🗑
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| show | Water Water Everywhere
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| show | Achilles
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| show | Vitamin K
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| Cartoonists poked fun at the port wine-colored birthmark on this leader's head. He withdrew his troops from Afghanistan & pursued the policies of "openness" (glasnost) & "restructuring." (perestroika). He was the last leader of the Soviet Union. | show 🗑
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| show | Desdemona
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| A big-breasted male god of this name symbolizes the flooding of the Nile. Another god of this name is a son of Horus who protects the lungs and personifies the canopic jars together with his brothers Imsety, Duamutef, and Qebehseneuf | show 🗑
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| show | Frank Lloyd Wright
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| show | Julius & Ethel Rosenberg
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| show | Narnia
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| Von Ebnerʹs glands & the parotid glands both produce this material. It contains the antibody immunoglobulin A as well as the enzyme amylase that begins the digestion of starch, and it coats the mucosa of the mouth. this watery fluid found in the mouth. | show 🗑
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| show | Johann Sebastian Bach
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| show | Australia
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| show | Omar Khayyám
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| show | Diffraction
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| show | Powhatan
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| show | tobacco
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| show | astronomical unit
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| This authorʹs most controversial novel depicted the suicide of a doctorʹs wife in provincial France. Name this author of Madame Bovary | show 🗑
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| The sinking of this ship in 1915 helped prompt the United States to enter World War I. Name this British sea vessel, an ocean liner whose destruction led to the deaths of almost 1,200 people | show 🗑
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| show | activation energy
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| Two of the Olympians were children of the Titaness Leto who gave birth to them on the floating island of Delos | show 🗑
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| show | Blurred Lines
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| show | Alaska
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| show | A Portrait of Dorian Gray
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| show | Perseus
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| show | Gian Lorenzo Bernini
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| show | Jack London
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| SIG E CAPS and the Beck Inventory are screening tools used to detect this disease, which is usually treated with selective (*) serotonin reuptake inhibitors. Symptoms of this disease include decreased appetite, lack of energy, and suicidal thoughts. | show 🗑
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| Sabina. The protagonists of this work own a dog named Karenin who dies of cancer. Those protagonists are killed in a car crash during the Prague Spring. Name this novel about the womanizing Tomas and his love Tereza, the a novel by Milan Kundera. | show 🗑
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| John Watson belonged to this school of psychology with Edward Thorndike and B.F. Skinner. It believes that a human's responses to stimuli are all gained by conditioning. | show 🗑
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| show | Cuban Missile Crisis
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| show | Dubliners by James Joyce
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| This wife of Heracles killed him when she was tricked into giving him a robe smeared with the blood of the centaur Nessus. | show 🗑
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| show | Paul Bunyan
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| show | Pecos Bill
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| Uncle Remus narrates stories about this troublemaker who is often in opposition to Br’er Fox and Br’er Bear. In one story, this character gets stuck to a tar baby. | show 🗑
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| A major victory for one side in this long conflict was the Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa, in which the Almohads were efeated.Identify this 800-year-long effort by Christians to reclaim the Iberian Peninsula from the Moors. | show 🗑
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| The 2nd of these uses a valveless trumpet, while the5th of them features an "affetuoso" 2nd movement for flute, violin, & harpsichord. Identify this composition that was writtenfor a German margrave. The last of them is unusually scored for no violins. | show 🗑
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| In this novel, Clifford is imprisoned for murdering his uncle Jaffrey. Name this novel in which the title structure is built by Thomas Maule and occupied by the cursed Pyncheon family. | show 🗑
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| show | The Scarlet Letter
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| show | Secretary of War
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| show | aorta
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| show | aortic aneurysm
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| This battle was fought in order to relieve Sir Philip Mowbray, and one side created a series of camouflaged pits. [10] Name this 1314 battle fought near Sterling castle, a key victory for the Scots in the first Scottish War of Independence. | show 🗑
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| show | Turandot
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| At its meetings, members of this George Fox-founded sect use “plain speech.” Members of this sect sit together in silence and participate in“unprogrammed worship.” Name this Christian denomination, the Society of Friends, who broke off from the Shakers. | show 🗑
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| During a eulogy, a character in this novel states “Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.” 2 characters in this novel visit the Anne Frank House. Cancer patients Augustus Waters and Hazel Grace are in what novel by John Green? | show 🗑
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| Mary Jo Kopechne drowned after a member of this family drove off a bridge in the Chappaquiddick incident. Sirhan Sirhan killed a member of this family in the Ambassador Hotel. What family included the assassinated president John Fitzgerald? | show 🗑
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| show | photons
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| show | Iranian Hostage Crisis
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| This song begins with the line “I hear the drums echoing tonight,” and tells the listener to “Hurry boy, it’s waiting there for you.” Name this song by Toto, which describes “Kilimanjaro [rising] like Olympus above the Serengeti” on the title continent | show 🗑
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| show | Berlin
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| show | Marjorie Taylor Greene
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| Priests in this religion can be called houngans or mambos depending on their gender. A practitioner of this religion, Marie Laveau, was known as its “Queen of New Orleans.” Name this religion whose practitioners worship loa and use namesake dolls | show 🗑
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| show | Ernest Rutherford
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| A poem in this language ends after a king dies fighting a dragon, causing Wiglaf to blame his people’s cowardice. That poem in this language opens with “Hwæt” & describes its title character fighting Grendel. Name this language that Beowulf was written in | show 🗑
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| A ruling by this man in Brandenburg v. Ohio made the “clear and present danger” test. This man wrote that shouting fire in a crowded theater would not be free speech in that case, Schenck v. United States. Name this Supreme Court justice & son of a poet | show 🗑
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| He composed Petrushka A high bassoon solo opens their most well-known ballet, which shows a virgin dancing herself to death and caused riots at its 1913 premiere. Name this composer of The Firebird &The Rite of Spring. | show 🗑
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| show | Les Miserables
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| show | Great Expectations
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| At the start of this holiday, the gates of Hell become closed and the devils are chained up. A key practice during this holiday is broken by iftar, the sunset meal, & Laylat-al Qadr occurs during the last ten days of this Islamic holiday | show 🗑
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| A character in this play complains about how women tell their husbands to eat their eggs, eventually yelling “DAMN MY EGGS!!” This play opens with a character saying “You're not the only person in the world got to use a bathroom” to his son Travis | show 🗑
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| show | Guernica
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| show | Battle of Antietam
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| show | Rainbows
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| show | Battle of Actium
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| A clicking sound in this art form, may be produced with castanets, & cupped hands are used. The painful tone used in this art form may represent the suffering of the Roma people. This dance is prominent in the Andalucia region of southern Spain. | show 🗑
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| It’s not the Texas Rangers, but the “short porch” benefits this team’s left-handed hitters, such as Anthony Rizzo and formerly Joey Gallo. Giancarlo Stanton, Gerrit Cole, and Aaron Judge are players on,what MLB team also known as the “Bronx Bombers”? | show 🗑
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| The phrase “HURRY UP PLEASE IT’S TIME” is repeated in this poem’s section “A Game of Chess.” This poem, dedicated to Ezra Pound, ends with “shantih shantih shantih.” What poem opens with “April is the cruelest month” was written by T.S. Eliot? | show 🗑
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| The most hoodoos in the world can be found in this state’s Bryce Canyon National Park. The “Devils Garden” area of a national park in this state, which contains features named “Landscape” and “Delicate,” is near its town of Moab. | show 🗑
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| This commander, who claimed to hear the archangel Michael and Saints Margaret and Catherine, had her most famous victory at Orleans. Name this French commander during the Hundred Years War, who was burned at the stake for cross-dressing | show 🗑
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| show | Massachusetts
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| show | Lake Tahoe
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| show | William Shakespeare
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| show | France
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| show | Edvard Greig
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| show | Naruto
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| A character in this play pays to work in a flower shop on Wimpole Street after marrying Freddy Eynsford-Hill. The protagonist observes a man taking notes on her in Covent Garden. Colonel Pickering makes a bet with Henry Higgins to make Eliza Doolittle l | show 🗑
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| show | modifier
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| show | Pennsylvania
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| These relationships are classified based on whether the two species involved receive benefit, are harmed, or neither. Name this type of close interaction between two organisms | show 🗑
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| show | The Things They Carried
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| This mathematician developed a summation technique in which the sum of all the positive counting numbers seems to equal −1/12. Name this mathematician from India who worked closely with G. H. Hardy. | show 🗑
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| show | Pappus (of Alexandria
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| This leader made a pledge to convert to Christianity if he defeated the Alemanni at the Battle of Tolbiac & he followed through with the support of his wife Clotilda. Name this 5th & 6th-century leader who is considered the first ruler of what France. | show 🗑
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| The Apollo program sent Americans to the Moon. This project came before Apollo and after Project Mercury. Ten flights from this project included two astronauts each. | show 🗑
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| This French pointillist painted A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte | show 🗑
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| show | “How Do I Love Thee? Let me count the ways.” or Sonnet 43
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| show | Henry II
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| Though this atmospheric layer generally does not have clouds, This layer includes the ozone layer, & the absorption of ultraviolet light by ozone explains why this is the lowest layer in which temperature increases with height. Planes usually fly here. | show 🗑
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| show | inconsistent system
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| show | Black-ish
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| show | surface tension
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| The simplest version of this system has a moment equal to charge times displacement. Name this type of system whose simplest version consists of two equal but opposite charges separated by a distance. | show 🗑
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| This type of oscillation can be Give this three-word term for motion caused by a restoring force that is proportional to displacement. | show 🗑
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| One of the characters in this novel storms out of the room after saying “I shall be as dirty as I please: and I like to be dirty, and I will be dirty.” 1 Name this novel in which Heathcliff gets upset after being compared to the Linton children | show 🗑
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| Rembrandt said “A painting is complete when it has the shadows of a god.” Name the short title often given to Rembrandt’s Militia Company of District II under the Command of Captain Frans Banninck Cocq. | show 🗑
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| show | Cayman Islands
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| This protein is the most abundant protein in humans. Combining this sclero·protein with boiling water creates gelatin. This protein has a triple-helix structure. Name this protein that is a central component of ligaments and cartilage. | show 🗑
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| show | Miles Davis
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| show | George C Patton
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| This disease is characterized by both spasms & rigidity, to the point that breathing or swallowing is impossible. Humans often get this disease from a puncture wound that lets dirt into the body. Despite misconception, rust does not cause this disease | show 🗑
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| show | deviation
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| show | variance
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| show | tetrahedron
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| This person led several Seminole fighters during the Second Seminole War, but he was captured under a false flag of truce. This person died while still in captivity | show 🗑
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| Thor caught Jörmungandr while fishing with this giant and using this giant’s ox as bait. This giant cut the line, so they will fight again at Ragnarök. | show 🗑
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| This person lost the Battle of Falkirk. This hero of the Battle of Stirling Bridge was eventually executed on the orders of Edward Name this 13thcentury fighter who was replaced by Robert the Bruce as a leader in the War of Scottish Independence. | show 🗑
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| show | "All's Well That Ends Well"
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| The elevation of boiling point and the depression of freezing point caused by adding solutes are both these types of properties. Give this term for properties that depend on the amount of solute rather than properties of the solute | show 🗑
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| This colligative property is defined as the pressure that must be applied to a solution to stop fluid movement across a semi·permeable membrane | show 🗑
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| This person and Edwin McMillan shared a Nobel Prize for discovering plutonium and other transuranic elements. | show 🗑
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| show | Code of Hammurabi
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| show | Navajo
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| The Hindu version of the flood story, a continuously growing one of these animals told Manu how to save himself from the great flood, & Loki escaped from the Aesir in the form of this animal. Vishnu’s first avatar, Matsya, took the form of this animal | show 🗑
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| This Arkansan woman was appointed to succeed her brother Thaddeus in the Senate, and became the first woman to serve a full term in the Senate, winning three elections | show 🗑
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| show | Joseph (Raymond) McCarthy
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| show | blindness
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| The film Watchmen takes place during this man’s rule, revealing that he was elected President 5 times. In Call of Duty: Black Ops, this man teams up with Kennedy, Castro & McNamara to fight zombies. Name this. President who resigned following Watergate | show 🗑
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| show | The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
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| show | “Ozymandias”
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| show | etudes
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| show | dopamine
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| show | The North Star
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| show | Apep
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| During the Amarna period, Ra was syncretized with this creation god. He is the father of the moon god Khonsu by his wife Mut. | show 🗑
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| Andalusia Spain is home to this palace in Granada that was built by the Moors in the thirteenth century. It contains the Court of the Lions and has a name that translates as “the red fortress”. | show 🗑
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| Giorgio Vasari designed the Uffizi Gallery for Cosimo di Medici in this city. Name this Italian city, found in Tuscany, whose cathedral, the Santa Maria del Fiore, features an octagonal brick dome with no buttresses. | show 🗑
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| This play ends with the protagonist slamming the door as she leaves her husband Torvald. Name this play by Henrik Ibsen in which Nils Krogstad blackmails Nora Helmer because she defrauded him to finance a trip that Torvald took to Italy for his health. | show 🗑
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| show | Toni Morrison
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| This work by Tony Morrison ends with Milkman Dead leaping towards his former friend Guitar Bains. Earlier, Guitar tries to shoot Milkman, but accidentally kills Pilate instead. | show 🗑
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| show | All Quiet on the Western Front
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| show | Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna
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| This character accidentally enters a grove sacred to the Furies and is given hospitality by King Theseus. This character is exposed at birth with a nail through his foot & gouges his eyes out when he learns that he killed his father & married his mother. | show 🗑
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| At the beginning of this novel, the protagonist is expelled from Pencey Prep. Name this 1951 novel in which the phoniness of the adult world is lamented by a confused and disillusioned sixteen-year-old named Holden Caulfield. | show 🗑
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| show | abstract expressionism
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| This city in County Glamorgan overlooks the Bristol Channel at the mouth of the River Taff. It is the capital, largest city, and economic center of Wales. | show 🗑
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| show | reduction
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| Salt bridges often contain this material, derived from algae or seaweed. It is a gelatinous material often used as a medium for bacterial growth. | show 🗑
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| show | semi conductors
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| show | glomerulus
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| show | the Louvre Museum
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| show | Buddhism
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| show | nirvana
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| Functions of this type are symmetric about the y-axis.Name this type of function in which f(x) (“f of x”) equals f(-x) (“f of negative x”). | show 🗑
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| A common example of an even function is this trigonometric function, which in a right triangle is defined as the adjacent side divided by the hypotenuse. | show 🗑
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| show | Battle of Shiloh
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| show | luminosity
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| A classic function that is defined recursively is this one, which is symbolized by an exclamation point. It is the product of all positive integers less than or equal to the input. | show 🗑
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| This youngest of Jacob’s sons was the second and last son of Rachel. Joseph tests his brothers by planting a silver cup in this young man’s bag and seeing how the brothers react when he threatens to enslave this sibling. | show 🗑
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| show | Book of Genesis
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| show | Theodore Roosevelt
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| Teddy Roosevelt's domestic policy was centered on this series of programs and legislations that included trust busting and consumer protection acts like the Pure Food and Drug Act. | show 🗑
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| show | Peter and the Wolf
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| Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa calling for this man's death after an unflattering depiction of Muhammad in this man's book The Satanic Verses. Name this author who won the Booker Prize for a novel called Midnight's Children. | show 🗑
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| show | Battle of Verdun
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| His solo piano works include a sonata with a “Rondo Alla Turca” third movement. His divertimenti include A Musical Joke, while his serenades include Eine Kleine Nachtmusik. Name this Austrian composer of 41 symphonies. | show 🗑
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| The red sky in the background of this painting is thought to be a result of the eruption of Krakatoa. Name this painting which a distorted man standing on a bridge clutches his face while performing the title action, presumably to express his agony. | show 🗑
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| This physicist's observation of Newton's rings formed by a glass sphere upon a lens formed the basis for contact mechanics. Identify this German discoverer of the photoelectric effect who is best known as the namesake of the SI unit for frequency. | show 🗑
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| This park is adjacent to its city's Art Institute and Lake Michigan.Name this park in the Loop that contains interactive water feature called Crown Fountain and the bean-like Cloud Gate designed by Anish Kapoor. | show 🗑
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| DNA replication begins with the unwinding of this structure. Watson and Crick, with the help of Rosalind Franklin, determined in 1953 that DNA has this structure. | show 🗑
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| Experiences in World War I led the French to later build this extensive and ultimately unsuccessful defensive barrier between themselves and Germany. | show 🗑
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| show | First Law of Thermodynamics
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| This video game series features the hidden character Noob Saibot. Name this series of fighting games featuring such characters as Johnny Cage and Raiden. It became infamous for featuring the bloody finishing move called a “fatality.” | show 🗑
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| show | Cyrano de Bergerac
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| show | Mjollnir
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| Name this military dictator of feudal Japan. Members of the Ashikaga clan held this title during the Muromachi bakufu before Oda Nobunaga took power in the 1500s. | show 🗑
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| show | Thomas Nast
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| show | George Gershwin
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| show | impulse
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| show | tariffs
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| Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture" was inspired by Napoleon's retreat from what city? | show 🗑
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| show | omniscient
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| show | silicon carbide
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| He said, "The people of Nebraska are for free silver. Therefore I am for free silver. I'll look up the reasons later." Name this congressman known as the Great Commoner. | show 🗑
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| He was the son of the slain Sir Pellinore and was reared in the forest by his mother. He had unmannerly conduct and physical grace. The Holy Grail appeared before him in a vision. Name this knight. | show 🗑
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| show | cuneiform
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| show | bile
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| show | ergonomics
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| show | Franz Liszt
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| Most volcanoes in South America have formed in the vicinity of the juncture of the South American plate and what other plate? | show 🗑
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| show | carbohydrates
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| show | iron
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| These words are from a song about what battle? In 1814 we took a little trip along with Colonel Jackson down the mighty Mississip. | show 🗑
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| Humans have between 16 and 20 C-shaped rings of cartilage in what tube between the lungs and larynx? | show 🗑
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| Name the Greek geometrician who determined the value of pi to the third decimal place. | show 🗑
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| show | Watts
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| show | South Pacific
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| show | Zionism
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| This quote is from what work by Plato? The races of man will have no end of evil until rightly judging men rule. | show 🗑
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| In the 1904, Supreme Court ruling on the "Gonzales v. Williams" case, it was affirmed that citizens of what island nation were not aliens and that admission to the continental United States could not be denied? | show 🗑
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| show | amperes
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| show | Lyndon Johnson
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| show | Crazy Horse
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| show | Ethan Allen
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| show | South China Sea
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| What amendment reads as follows? All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. | show 🗑
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| show | Stone Mountain
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| To whom does the pronoun in this refer? In 1869, he discovered a system by which characters are transmitted from adult to offspring. He had, in short, discovered what Darwin only suspected, namely, the mechanism of heritable variation. | show 🗑
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| show | Sikhism
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| The hippopotamus's day Is passed in sleep. At night he hunts. God works in a mysterious way - The Church can sleep and feed at once. | show 🗑
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| What pungent condiment popular in India is made from a blend of cumin, coriander, fenugreek, pepper, turmeric, and other spices? | show 🗑
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| This is from what poem by Oliver Wendell Holmes? Oh better that her shattered hulk Should sink beneath the wave; Her thunders shook the mighty deep, And there should be her grave. | show 🗑
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| show | John Philip Sousa
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| A woman who robbed travelers was turned into a dangerous whirlpool on the coast of Sicily opposite a six-headed monster called Scylla. Who was the woman? | show 🗑
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| show | Romeo & Juliet
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| show | Nathaniel Hawthorne
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| show | Joseph Stalin
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| show | Joseph McCarthy
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| In a battle from this campaign, the winning side used pikes to drive war elephants amok among their own forces, leading to the defeat of King Porus. Name this offensive into an Asian subcontinent by a Macedonian king. | show 🗑
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| show | neutron
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| Lagoon Nebula makes this constellation’s namesake “triplet.” One feature in this constellation is a radio source at the center of the galaxy, a supermassive black hole; that feature is near its border with Scorpius. Name this constellation, an archer | show 🗑
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| show | pi
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| This composer dedicated six concertos to the margrave Christian Ludwig, and he wrote two books of preludes and fugues in every key. name this German Baroque composer who wrote the The Art of the Fugue, Brandenburg Concertos, and The Well-Tempered Clavier. | show 🗑
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| show | Rastafarianism
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| show | Book of Revelation
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| show | Isis
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| show | Friedrich Nietzsche
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| This country is located on the boundary of two tectonic plates, leading to volcanic activity in the Taupo Volcanic Zone and frequent earthquakes, such as the one that struck Christchurch in February 2011. Name this country with the capital Wellington. | show 🗑
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| This country is home to the world’s largest port, Rotterdam, which lies on the mouth of the Rhine. This country lies mostly below sea level and is home to the Europol and the International Court of Justice, both of which are located in The Hague. | show 🗑
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| In 2005, “the” was dropped from its domain name and it now has over 750 million active users.Name this website that uses the timeline feature to display users’ profiles, a social networking website created by Mark Zuckerberg. | show 🗑
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| show | Lord of the Flies
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| This type of cell uses axons and dendrites to relay signals across gaps called synapses. They comprise the brain and other nervous tissue | show 🗑
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| show | Wealth of Nations
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| show | Mt. Whitney
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| show | Breakfast at Tiffany's
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| Another drowned baby in American literature is Antanas, the son of Jurgis Rudkis, the protagonist of this author's muckraking expose of Chicago meatpacking plants, The Jungle. | show 🗑
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| In 490 BCE, an invasion through Greece was thwarted at this battle, where a band of hoplites under Miltiades defeated a larger force of infantry & archers & where Philippides did not actually run roughly 25 miles to tell Athens of the victory | show 🗑
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| She earned her nickname during the War of 1812 in combat with the HMS Guerriere. Nicknamed "Old Ironsides,” name this oldest floating commissioned ship in the US Navy. | show 🗑
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| show | Auguste Rodin
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| This disease's namesake trait causes blockages in and damage to blood vessels. Particularly common in populations of African descent, identify this disease named for the abnormal shape of its sufferers' red blood cells. | show 🗑
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| show | English Channel
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| show | Raid on Harper's Ferry
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| The sum of two consecutive numbers in this sequence is always a perfect square. Name this sequence of numbers, which begins 1, 3, 6, 10, 15, 21, and so on. The nth term is represented by the quantity n squared plus n, quantity over 2. | show 🗑
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| He's in charge of hanging one lantern by land, two if by sea. For Name this literary midnight messenger who gave a "cry of defiance, not of fear" to alert every Middlesex Village about the coming British threat. | show 🗑
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| show | James Watson and Francis Crick
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| Zacharias, the father of this "forerunner" of Christ, was made mute for not believing Elizabeth would bear him. This man did much of his preaching and works at the River Jordan. | show 🗑
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| show | Pontius Pilate
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| The lead singer of this band despised his initial popularity from "Creep" in 1993. Name this English alternative rock band responsible for the albums Pablo Honey, OK Computer, & In Rainbows, | show 🗑
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| Oedipus became King of Thebes after solving the riddle posed by this part-lion, part-woman creature. Even though she possessed eagle wings, she threw herself off a cliff to her death after he solved her riddle. | show 🗑
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| In one poem, a horse finds it odd that its rider would hesitate from his "promises to keep, and miles to go" before he sleeps, in another, "good fences make good neighbors." Name this poet of "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" and "Mending Wall,” | show 🗑
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| Set in the time of the Salem Witch Trials, this play pointed out the foolishness of the Second Red Scare and McCarthyism. John Proctor has a relationship with Abigail Williams, who orders Tituba to bewitch Elizabeth, in this American play. | show 🗑
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| show | Plum Pudding Model
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| show | The Arabian Nights (or The Book of the One Thousand and One Nights
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| show | Sparta
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| This American painted several "symphonies" and "nocturnes" in different colors, as well as "Arrangement in Gray and Black,” a portrait of this artist's mother | show 🗑
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| He proposed the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen to the French National Assembly. Name this French nobleman, who also greatly assisted American troops during the American Revolution. He was wounded at the Battle of Brandywine | show 🗑
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| "The Tabu Tale" in some versions of this work, offers an explanation for the first letters & alphabet being written by a family of cave-people. Name this collection of tales "For Little Children,” which also includes "How the Leopard Got His Spots.” | show 🗑
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| The Just So Stories were written by this British author, who also wrote of Mowgli in The Jungle Book. His non-children's works include poems such as the anti-imperialist "The White Man's Burden.” | show 🗑
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| show | The Coyote
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| In it, one resident of Catfish Row sings "It ain't necessarily so,” and another sings "Summertime...where the livin' is easy.” Name this jazzy folk opera in which Sportin' Life takes a woman to New York. | show 🗑
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| show | Townshend Acts
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| show | Watergate Scandal
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| show | rice
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| show | Rip van Winkle
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| The Zippe type of these devices is regulated by international treaties because it's used to enrich uranium. The basket type of this device is used to process cane sugar &can separate liquids from solids. These devices are named after a fictitious force. | show 🗑
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| . A note at the end of this novel states that two characters had a son who was born on the anniversary of Quincey Morris’s death. As Morris died, he noticed that the scar on Mina’s forehead had gone away. Name this novel by Bram Stoker | show 🗑
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| This senator overturned part of the Missouri Compromise by writing & sponsoring the Kansas–Nebraska Act. This person finished 4th in electoral votes in the election of 1860. Name this politician who, took part in a series of debates against Abe Lincoln. | show 🗑
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| In this opera, a man enters a marriage under the assumption he will be able to get a divorce, and the man is surprised to learn much later that the marriage produced a son. That man is U.S. Navy Lieutenant Pinkerton. Name this Puccini opera set in Japan | show 🗑
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| The number of these figures is maximized in a convex shape, in which they number 1/2 n times the quantity n minus 3. One of these segments is the perpendicular bisector of the other one in a kite, and these segments bisect each other in a parallelogram | show 🗑
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| show | Odin
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| The geography of this planet includes Tharsis Bulge, which is near both its equators.It is also the location of our Solar System’s largest volcano, Olympus Mons. This planet's surface is covered with iron oxide, which give its color | show 🗑
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| The Spanish-American War was sparked when the U.S.S. Maine was blown up while it was in what is now this country. In 1961, President Kennedy was heavily criticized for a botched invasion of this country at the Bay of Pigs. | show 🗑
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| This formula can be verified by using the sum and product of its solutions, and it is often derived by completing the square. This formula has a discriminant that is negative when this formula gives complex solutions. name this mathematical formula | show 🗑
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| show | fuse
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| show | fog
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| show | Carl Sandburg
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| When Jesus said “I have come into the world to bear witness to the truth”, this person replied by asking “What is truth? Name this governor of Judea | show 🗑
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| show | D-Day
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| show | Omaha Beach
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| This quantity equals force per unit area. Name this quantity that can be measured in pascals or atmospheres. | show 🗑
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| show | Archimedes
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| The court supported Shawne Alston over this organization, so student athletes can now receive non-cash compensation for academic-related purposes | show 🗑
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| show | Remain-in-Mexico policy
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| show | mantle
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| Chamber music is written for a small number of instruments that each play their own part. ] This composer’s chamber music includes at least 68 string quartets, making him the “Father of the String Quartet”. He also wrote over 100 symphonies. | show 🗑
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| These two wars were fought from 1839 to 1842 and from 1856 to 1860. ] Name these wars between China and the United Kingdom that were fought over China’s attempt to reduce trade in the namesake drug | show 🗑
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| show | : Daoism or Taoism
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| Czech, Slovak, and Polish are part of the Western branch of this group of Indo-European languages that also includes Russian, Serbo-Croatian, and Bulgarian | show 🗑
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| show | transitive property or transitivity
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| Matrix columns sometimes represent these mathematical things] Name these things that have magnitude and direction. | show 🗑
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| This poem ends “And then my heart with pleasure fills, and dances with the daffodils.” Name this poem that is sometimes just called “Daffodils”. | show 🗑
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| This poet wrote “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” and several poems about a girl named Lucy | show 🗑
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| show | Oprah Winfrey
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| The olfactory nerves are usually designated number one out of the 12 pairs of these nerves that connect directly to the brain rather than via the spinal cord | show 🗑
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| show | glomerulus
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| This play opens with a discussion between the sentinels Bernardo and Francisco, who welcome Horatio and Marcellus. Name this play by Shakespeare that is set in Denmark and includes the line “to be or not to be.” | show 🗑
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| In Hamlet, this counselor of Claudius is the father of Laertes and Ophelia. He gives a lot of advice, including “To thine own self be true.” | show 🗑
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| Hamlet argues with Ophelia after the “to be or not to be” soliloquy. What are the first five words that Hamlet says in response to Ophelia stating “I was the more deceived”? | show 🗑
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| This rule traditionally explained the lack of reactivity of noble gases. It states that elements tend to bond so that there are eight electrons in their valence shells. | show 🗑
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| This international organization lasted from 1920 to 1946.Name this organization that Woodrow Wilson called for in his Fourteen Points and which at one point had 58 members, though the United States never joined | show 🗑
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| This character “longed to travel or to go back to her convent. She wished at the same time to die and to live in Paris. Name this title character who marries a doctor and has several affairs | show 🗑
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| This word means “center-seeking”. Name this adjective used to describe the force or acceleration on an object in circular motion | show 🗑
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| show | integers
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| show | abacus
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| show | Aristotle
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| Name a former Atlanta Falcon, who grew up in Newport News and attended Virginia Tech. He won the NFL Comeback Player of the Year award in 2010 after a stint in jail for dogfighting. | show 🗑
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| show | USS Constitution or Old Ironsides
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| show | progressive (income) taxation
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| show | Frankenstein
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| In 1872, the Equal Rights Party nominated Victoria Woodhull for president and this man for vice president. ] Name this abolitionist and orator who wrote three autobiographies, including My Bondage and My Freedom, that described his escape from slavery | show 🗑
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| According to this poem, “The falcon cannot hear the falconer.” Name this poem that ends “And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?”. | show 🗑
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| show | Frank Lloyd Wright [or Frank Lincoln Wright]
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| show | Bathsheba
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| This enlarged lymphatic tissue is sometimes called the pharyngeal tonsil. It is higher and further back than what is normally called the tonsils | show 🗑
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| show | esophagus
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| This country gained control of the West Bank shortly after fighting Israel in 1948. Name this country whose capital is Amman. | show 🗑
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| ] The Beatles' 1969 album starting with "Come Together" is named for this location of EMI's London studio, where most of the band's material was recorded | show 🗑
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| All four members of the Beatles were born and raised in this English city. Brian Epstein became the band's manager after seeing them perform in this city's Cavern Club | show 🗑
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| A poem by this writer begins “I felt a Funeral, in my Brain. Name this poet who lived in Amherst, Massachusetts. | show 🗑
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| show | rodentia
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| The song “Flamenco Sketches” appears on an album by this musician that features the saxophonists “Cannonball” Adderley and John Coltrane . Name this jazz trumpeter who recorded the albums In a Silent Way and Kind of Blue. | show 🗑
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| show | viola
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| show | Speaker of the (United States) House of Representatives [or House Speaker
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| This person’s practices are described in the sunna [SOON-uh], and his words are given in hadith. Name this 6th- and 7th-century leader who was visited by the angel Gabriel and wrote down the Koran | show 🗑
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| show | Alexander the Great
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| show | Moby-Dick
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| show | : Erik Erikson
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| show | Mississippi
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| At the beginning of this book, the author writes about forgetting her lines during an Easter church service. Name this 1969 autobiography set mostly in Stamps, Arkansas | show 🗑
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| ] This poet wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. She read “On the Pulse of Morning” at Bill Clinton’s inauguration | show 🗑
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| show | Venezuela
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| Name the creatures that lured sailors with beautiful songs. Odysseus was tied to his mast so that he could listen to them. | show 🗑
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| show | Georges Suerat
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| Name both of the ships that were sunk at Pearl Harbor and never completely raised. The Oklahoma was raised but never rebuilt. | show 🗑
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| show | seas
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|
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| . In 2021, Phoenix-based basketball teams established a trend of coming up just short in championship series. The Suns lost the 2021 NBA finals in six games to this Wisconsin-based team led by Jrue Holiday and Giannis Antetokounmpo | show 🗑
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| show | trombone
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||||
| show | Arches National Park
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|
||||
| Chaos theory and the butterfly effect are based on the work of this mathematician and meteorologist, whose namesake system has a solution called his namesake “attractor”. | show 🗑
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| Tay-Sachs and Gaucher disease are caused by problems with this organelle. Name this organelle that contains enzymes | show 🗑
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| After the National Industrial Recovery Act was declared unconstitutional, Francis Perkins oversaw the implementation of this 1938 law that established a federal minimum wage. | show 🗑
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| show | conditional probability
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||||
| show | plutonium
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|
||||
| show | Blaise Pascal
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|
||||
| show | A Midsummer Night’s Dream
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|
||||
| show | Michael Faraday
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|
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| Lipids are a principal component of cell membranes. . These lipids, which are the main constituents of body fat, contain fatty acids. | show 🗑
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| This concept is very similar to that of residual and error. A. Name this quantity found by subtracting an observed value minus the expected value, where the expected value is often the mean. Give a one-word answer | show 🗑
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| show | variance
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| This violinist, born in what is now Israel, suffered through polio as a child. He was the soloist on the Schindler’s List soundtrack and has performed many times with Pinchas Zukerman | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Chisholm Trail
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|
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| This novel’s narrator tells the mother that Franz died instantly from a shot to the heart, which is a lie. Many of the characters in this novel are students of Kantorek who encourages them to fight in World War I. Name this novel by Erich Remarque | show 🗑
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| Justice Earl Warren wrote that this constitutional amendment should be applied with “evolving standards of decency”. This amendment has been the basis of prohibits excessive bail, excessive fines, and cruel and unusual punishment. | show 🗑
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| A painting by this artist depicts a man in a white shirt with his hands up before he is killed by a firing squad. The painting portrays the horrors of war, glorifies Spanish resistance to Napoleon. Name this painter of The Third of May, 1808. | show 🗑
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| In his role as NAACP chief counsel, this person represented the winning side in Brown v. Board of Education. Name this person who in 1967 was appointed to the Supreme Court by President LBJ, making him the first African-American Supreme Court justice | show 🗑
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| show | The Handmaid’s Tale
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| This phenomenon occurs when cohesion is stronger than adhesion because liquid molecules have a stronger attraction to each other than they do to nearby air molecules. Name this phenomenon that explains why some insects are able to walk on water. | show 🗑
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| show | William Wallace
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| show | William Tecumseh Sherman
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||||
| show | Polaris
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|
||||
| show | A Clockwork Orange
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|
||||
| This quantity can be called amount concentration or substance concentration. A. Name this measure of concentration equal to moles per liter | show 🗑
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||||
| show | 1st amendment
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|
||||
| show | To Kill a Mockingbird
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|
||||
| show | Sheriff of Whitcomb County Alabama
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| show | George C Patton
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|
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| A measurement in this unit tells the number of joules required to move a coulomb of charge from one point to another. From that definition, it can be derived that this unit times amperes equals watts, which is a common formula for Joule heating. | show 🗑
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| The best places for power plants that collect this energy are along the Ring of Fire & where the Earth’s crust is thin. The primary source of this energy is the natural radioactive decay of and that energy is often collected by heating water | show 🗑
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| A couple in this Shakesperan play does get married, but the man shows up late wearing inappropriate clothes. During the ceremony he knocks over the priest. At end of this play, the husband wins a bet by demonstrating that he has the most obedient wife. | show 🗑
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| show | : (Alfred,) Lord Tennyson
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| show | Nero
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|
||||
| show | Huckleberry “Huck” Finn
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|
||||
| show | angiosperms
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|
||||
| show | fractals
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|
||||
| This person described the psyche as being broken into the id, ego, and super-ego. Name this Austrian thinker considered the founder of psychoanalysis. | show 🗑
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| When this musical became a movie, Frankie Valli recorded a song saying “is the time, is the place, is the motion” & “is the way were feeling”. Name this musical about the class of 1959 at Rydell High School, with the T-Birds & the Pink Ladies. | show 🗑
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| At the beginning of this book, the author writes about forgetting her lines during an Easter church service. Name this 1969 autobiography set mostly in Stamps, Arkansas | show 🗑
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| These segments meet at the centroid of a triangle. Name these segments from the vertex of a triangle to the midpoint of the opposite side | show 🗑
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| The weight of an object equals this quantity times the gravitational field strength. Momentum is calculated by multiplying this quantity times velocity. Name this quantity that is measured in kilograms. | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Frederic Chopin
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| A king of this name was accused of having "learned nothing and forgotten nothing". Give this regnal name of the monarch restored to the French throne after the downfall of Napoleon I. Another king of this name was executed in 1793. | show 🗑
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| At the behest of Venus, this woman completes a series of arduous tasks, such as descending to the underworld to obtain some of Proserpine's beauty. Name this beautiful princess who aroused Venus's jealousy. | show 🗑
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| show | fresco painting
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| show | : bursitis
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| show | elbow joint
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| show | Woodstock Rock Festival
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|
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| To cure morphine addiction, this company's founder experimented with an African nut and a South American plant wine to create a formula which was locked away in Atlanta's Trust Bank. John Pemberton created the secret formula of what soda company | show 🗑
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| show | HCFCs [or hydrochlorofluorocarbons
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|
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| show | Go Tell It on the Mountain
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|
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| show | J. R. R. Tolkien
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|
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| This instrument, descended from the viol da gamba and is thus tuned in fourths, uniquely replaces the second violin in Franz Schubert's Trout Quintet. The cello is often doubled in a lower octave by what lowest-pitched string instrument in the orchestra | show 🗑
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| A figure from this sculpture appears directly below The Three Shades in a large sculpture that also features Ugolino and His Children and The Kiss. name this sculpture adapted from The Gates of Hell of a man holding his fist to his chin, by Auguste Rodin | show 🗑
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| In the late 1960s, Colonel Tom Parker signed a contract with this city's International Hotel that locked Elvis Presley into regularly performing here. name this city where musicians often play on a boulevard nicknamed "The Strip." | show 🗑
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| show | Simon Biles
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|
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| Angela Davis was a prominent figure associated with this party, which developed into a Marxist revolutionary group that advocated for the arming of all African Americans. It was founded after the assassination of Malcom X. | show 🗑
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| Contemporary composer Katherine Hoover played and primarily composed for this high-pitched, silver, transverse woodwind instrument, which she taught at the Manhattan School of Music | show 🗑
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| Marie Curie discovered radium along with this other element which she named after her home country. This element’s 210 isotope decays into lead in the decay chain of uranium-238 and radium-226. | show 🗑
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| show | Queen Liliʻuokalani
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|
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| This era was defined by groups like the Anti-Saloon League that lobbied for restrictions on a certain beverage. The Volstead Act was enacted to enforce the 18th Amendment, the law that formally started this era | show 🗑
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| show | : Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
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|
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| In 2019,she became the first African-American woman to deliver the Democratic response to the State of the Union. Name this Georgian who refused to concede to Brian Kemp in the 2018 gubernatorial elections amid accusations that Kemp had suppressed votes | show 🗑
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||||
| show | the Joy Luck Club
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|
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| Margaret Williams appeared as that character, Arya Stark, in 59 episodes of this 8 season TV series, where she wields a sword called “The Needle,” gifted by Jon Snow. This show is adapted from a book series by George R.R. Martin | show 🗑
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| Residents of this facility worked in the city’s first public playground in exchange for lessons in technical skills and English. Name this Chicago facility, a settlement house for immigrants founded by Ellen Gates Starr and Jane Addams | show 🗑
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| show | Like Water for Chocolate
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|
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| show | Harriet Tubman
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|
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| ] Clara Barton founded the American chapter of this humanitarian medical organization during the Civil War. This organization provides help during emergencies and natural disasters and is named for its distinctive symbol | show 🗑
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| Name this singer, the Queen of Jazz, who collaborated with Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong on songs such as “It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing)” and “Dream a Little Dream of Me.” | show 🗑
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| show | Marilyn Monroe
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|
||||
| Janie Crawford shoots Tea Cake Woods after he contracts rabies at the end of this novel by Zora Neale Hurston. This Harlem Renaissance classic details Janie’s spiritual growth as a woman during the Jim Crow South | show 🗑
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| In 2014, this German chancellor became the longest-serving incumbent head of state in the European Union, although she announced in 2018 that she would not seek a fifth term as leader of the Christian Democratic Union. | show 🗑
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| The characters and stands in Jojo’s Bizarre Adventures are known for having music-themed names. Jolyne is named after the Dolly Parton song and her stand “Stone Free” is named after this artist’s song of the same name. | show 🗑
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| show | Disgrace
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|
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| The S.I. unit of capacitance is a shortened version of this person’s name. Name this scientist whose law of induction states that electromotive force equals the opposite of the derivative of magnetic flux with respect to time | show 🗑
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||||
| show | A Midsummer Night’s Dream
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|
||||
| show | ferromagnetism
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|
||||
| show | Frances Perkins
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|
||||
| Tay-Sachs and Gaucher disease are caused by problems with this organelle. Name this organelle that contains enzymes | show 🗑
|
||||
| The Houses of Lancaster and York were both branches of this royal house, which came from the house of Anjou. Name this royal house that ruled England from 1154 to 1485 | show 🗑
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| This diagram is a plot of luminosity versus temperature. Name this diagram used to classify stars. | show 🗑
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| This Confederate general died soon after being a pallbearer at Sherman’s funeral. Along with P. G. T. Beauregard and Stonewall Jackson, this person led the Confederate Army at the First Battle of Bull Run. | show 🗑
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| show | )Claude Monet
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|
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| This element can be turned into a super·fluid. One of its isotopes has two different superfluid states, and another isotope has only one superfluid state | show 🗑
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| This 15-minute musical piece has been described as a “continuous crescendo”. . Name this 1928 composition that begins with snare drums and flutes playing parts that get passed around to the rest of the orchestra | show 🗑
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| This star, sometimes called “Alpha Ursa Minor”, has been used for navigation for hundreds of years. It can be located by following a line made by the end of the bowl in the Big Dipper | show 🗑
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||||
| show | A Clockwork Orange
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| show | molarity or molar concentration
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| show | : To Kill a Mockingbird
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| show | fractals
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| Near the end of this play, Emily asks “Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it?—every, every minute?”. Name this play that begins with the Stage Manager announcing that it is set in Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire | show 🗑
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| For the last few years, this company has been the leading producer of smart watches, including the Series 6 that came out in 2020 and can monitor blood oxygen saturation. Name this company started by Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs that makes iPads. | show 🗑
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| show | progressive (income) taxation
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| show | biopsy
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| show | hematocrit
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| In 1872, the Equal Rights Party nominated Victoria Woodhull for president and this man for vice president. Name this abolitionist and orator who wrote three autobiographies, including My Bondage and My Freedom, that described his escape from slavery. | show 🗑
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| According to this poem, “The falcon cannot hear the falconer.” . Name this poem that ends “And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?” | show 🗑
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| show | Bathsheba
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| show | Ecclesiastes
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| A famous picture of this president shows him holding up a mistaken Chicago Tribune claiming he had lost to Thomas Dewey. A sign on this president’s desk said “The buck stops here” on one side and “I’m from Missouri” on the other. | show 🗑
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| Greek gods often sent messages using a goddess named Iris who traveled along these things. In Norse mythology, a burning bridge between Midgard & Asgard is one of these things called Bifrost | show 🗑
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| The beginning, middle, and end of this novel have scaffold scenes, in the last of which Arthur Dimmesdale publicly confesses that he is Pearl’s father. The title of this novel refers to a punishment used to shame Hester Prynne | show 🗑
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| In a novella by this author, the manager’s boy announces that one of the characters is dead shortly after that character says “The horror! The horror!”. Mr. Kurz is an ivory trader by the Congo River, Who wrote “The Secret Sharer” and Heart of Darkness | show 🗑
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| The restoration of this town was funded by John Rockefeller Jr. Thomas Jefferson went to college in this town. It used to be a state capital. Name this location of the College of William & Mary that now contains a living museum of colonial history. | show 🗑
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| show | War and Peace
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| show | Geronimo
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| show | Mojave Desert
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| show | e
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| show | (acoustic) guitar
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| ”. This battle took place one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea and was much more decisive, and it was two months before the Battle of Guadal·canal. Name this U.S victory during World War II at an atoll in the center of the Pacific Ocean | show 🗑
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| show | F(rancis) Scott (Key) Fitzgerald
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| In one of these places, Ebenezer Scrooge asks “Why show me this, if I am past all hope? It is the last place Scrooge is taken to by the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come in A Christmas Carol. In another one of these places, Hamlet says “Alas, poor Yorick!” | show 🗑
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| This comedian from Saturday Night Live behind stand-up specials such as “New in Town” and “Kid Gorgeous” announced in September 2021 that he and girlfriend Olivia Munn were expecting a child | show 🗑
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| This robber baron opposed annexation so strongly that he personally offered 20 million dollars for the Philippines to buy their independence. This Scottish-American steel magnate wrote the Gospel of Wealth. | show 🗑
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| In a flame test, a solution coating a nichrome wire is heated over this gas-burning laboratory device, producing a colored flame | show 🗑
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| show | caterpillar
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| show | Corduroy
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| show | Ford v. Ferrari
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| show | Sitting Bull
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| These buildings traditionally have an odd number of levels, as even numbers were thought to be unlucky. Name these Buddhist tiered towers which frequently feature numerous eaves on their curved roofs projecting out of their sides. | show 🗑
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| This element’s “black” allotrope is made of layered 2D sheets and acts as a semiconductor similar to graphite. Name this element whose other allotropes are used in flame retardants and incendiary bombs | show 🗑
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| This state’s eastern border along the Snake River includes Hells Canyon, the deepest canyon in North America. ] Name this state in the Pacific Northwest whose largest city is Portland | show 🗑
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| After processing, silver was shipped to the Spanish Philippines on these square-sailed vessels. These vessels made up the ships used by the Spanish Armada, and some of them were named for the city of Manila | show 🗑
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| This eight-minute-long Led Zeppelin song about a lady who's sure “all that glitters is gold” features a recorder theme along with its lengthy guitar solo played by Jimmy Page. | show 🗑
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| Joe Walsh and Don Felder played the guitar solo at the end of this 1976 song, which states, “some dance to remember. Some dance to forget.” This song is set by a “dark desert highway | show 🗑
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| show | Guns N’ Roses
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| Hydrophobic collapse theory describes how proteins acquire their three-dimensional structure in polar examples of these substances. Water is often called the “universal” one of these substances | show 🗑
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| show | nobody
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| show | Kanye West
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| show | impressionism
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| show | Beowulf
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| Time travel features prominently in Skyward Sword and Ocarina of Time, two games from this series, which also includes Breath of the Wild | show 🗑
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| show | Hawai’i
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| show | F. Scott Fitzgerald
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| show | Kerplunk experiment
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| Robert Scott was beaten to the South Pole by Roald Amundsen, an explorer from this Scandinavian country. An explorer from here, Thor Heyerdahl, sailed on the Kon-Tiki, which is now stored at a museum in Oslo. | show 🗑
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| Two statues of this man were vandalized by the Patriot Front in June 2021. A namesake “square” was dedicated to this man in Minneapolis. What man has been memorialized in statues after his murder by Derek Chauvin? | show 🗑
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| The light-dependent reactions of this process consist of an electron transport chain on the thylakoid membrane. Name this process that plants use to produce sugars from sunlight. | show 🗑
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| This Manchester United forward won the inaugural Puskás Award in 2009 for his long range strike against FC Porto. Only Lionel Messi has won more Ballon D’or awards than this Portuguese striker | show 🗑
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| show | chariot racing
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| This man criticized the reach of the federal government, claiming that the presidency “squint[ed] toward monarchy.” On the eve of revolution, this man proclaimed, “give me liberty or give me death!” | show 🗑
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| show | Franz Liszt
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| Hyacinthus, a lover of this Greek god of the sun, was turned into a namesake flower after he was hit in the head by a discus. Other domains of this twin god of Artemis include archery, medicine, and prophecy | show 🗑
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| ] This nymph was turned into a laurel tree when trying to get away from Apollo, who promptly took her leaves to create a wreath. | show 🗑
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| At the end of this black-and-white film, an accountant gives the protagonist a gold ring on behalf of 1100 Polish factory workers. Name this Steven Spielberg film about a German who saved Jews from the Holocaust. | show 🗑
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| show | Henry's LAW
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| The end of this symphony’s 2nd movement in 12/8 time features a cadenza of 4 woodwinds representing a nightingale, cuckoo, & quail. That movement features a “flowing water” motif and is named “Scene by the Brook.” A 4th movement is called "Thunderstorm" | show 🗑
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| show | Yom Kippur
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| show | chlorophyll
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| This philosopher stated that “out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made. Name this German philosopher who described a concept as “man’s emergence from his self immaturity”. | show 🗑
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| show | Madonna
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| This American author wrote “Hills Like White Elephants”. His time as an ambulance driver in World War I formed the basis for his novel A Farewell to Arms. | show 🗑
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| show | Tesla
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| These people attributed their knowledge of farming to the moon deity Coniraya. Name these people whose mythical founding father was Manco Capac | show 🗑
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| This man claimed to have discovered Moroni’s buried golden plates and translated them into the Book of he Nephites, and the Lamanites. | show 🗑
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| To unite with this god, a woman sorts a pile of grain and retrieves a golden fleece. In a story from The Golden Ass, this god saves his future wife from an infernal sleep in the underworld, after which the two are made immortal by Jupiter. | show 🗑
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| show | Mayflower Compact
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| This planet is the only one in our solar system with essentially no atmosphere. Some of the evidence supporting general relativity theory was that general relativity explains the precession of this planet. Name this planet that orbits the Sun In 88 days | show 🗑
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| show | Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5
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| show | London
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| This French general convinced France to send ships to Yorktown, where they, with the Continental army, defeated the British and won the war | show 🗑
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| The Sea of Azov flows into this sea. Cities that lie on this body of water include Sochi and Istanbul | show 🗑
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| Along with Stratocaster and Telecaster from Fender, this electric guitar designed by Gibson is one of the most well known models in the music industry. It was inspired by a prototype called “the Log'' that was created by its namesake. | show 🗑
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| Jimi Hendrix was known for preferring the Fender Stratocaster, a double cutaway version of this instrument. Name this musical instrument which is featured in most rock bands along with a bass and drums | show 🗑
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| show | Life of Pi
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| In 2009, a group of Somali pirates hijacked Maersk Alabama and took this captain hostage. This captain was played by Tom Hanks in a 2013 movie about the event | show 🗑
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| . This man is credited with the discovery of the concept of buoyancy. Name this man who supposedly leapt out of his bath and shouted “Eureka!” after submerging a crown in water | show 🗑
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| . In a colloid, light undergoes this process through the Tyndall Effect.] Name this general process in which a moving particle is forced off of a straight path | show 🗑
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| The origin of this dance is credited to Perez Prado, who introduced it at a nightclub in Havana in 1943. Name this Cuban dance with rock steps and side steps that shares its name with a type of voodoo priest. | show 🗑
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| show | ambrosia
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| Tchaikovsky’s music for Sleeping Beauty & Dvorak’s Slavonik Dance No. 2 are works in this genre. Name this music written for a couples dance in triple time. Contrary to its name, Chopin’s “Minute” version of this style of music was intended to take 2 min. | show 🗑
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| show | : Schenck v. United States
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| show | : melting point
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| show | trombone
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| show | arsenic
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| The Native American Church is known for its use of this hallucinogenic plant for healing and rituals | show 🗑
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| show | The Red Baron
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| This French painter is the namesake of a National Society for birds. He depicted a four volume set of paintings of birds in The Birds of America | show 🗑
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| show | Battle of Bosworth Field
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| This group was brutally defeated by the Duke of Cumberland in the last ever pitched battle on British soil at Culloden, after which Bonnie Prince Charlie went into exile. name this group which sought to restore the throne to the descendents of James II. | show 🗑
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| Robert Sherwood received three Pulitzer Prizes for Drama, including one for a play about this person “in Illinois.” This person was also the subject of several Walt Whitman poems, including “O Captain! My Captain!” | show 🗑
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| show | the Suicide Squad
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| Religious responsibilities of these people include healing and communication with various spirits. Name these people who may enter an altered state of consciousness to perform their duties. Many traditional societies in Siberia utilized this role | show 🗑
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| show | : Little House on the Prairie
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| This Native American tribe’s last defeat took place at Palo Duro Canyon in 1874. Name these “Lords of the Southern Plains” based out of Texas and Oklahoma. Quanah Parker was the last chief of these people | show 🗑
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| The Apache Wars ended when this leader surrendered to General Nelson Miles. U.S. paratroopers are known for yelling his name while jumping | show 🗑
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| show | The Sound of Music
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| show | Joseph Priestley
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| show | Sistine Chaptel
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| Hazel, Fiver, and Bigwig are some of the major characters in Watership Down, a novel by Richard Adams. Most of the characters in Watership Down are this kind of animal | show 🗑
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| show | Of Mice and Men
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| show | Joel Chandler Harris
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| One of Joe Biden’s first acts as president was rejoining this climate agreement signed in 2016 | show 🗑
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| show | thalamus
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| This structure in the lower part of the brainstem is mostly responsible for regulating involuntary actions. It connects to the spinal cord and contains the cardiovascular centers | show 🗑
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| The most populous city in this archipelago is Avalon on Santa Catalina Island. Identify these eight islands off the coast of the U.S., the largest of which is Santa Cruz. | show 🗑
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| This musical ends with the quote “It’s over now, the music of the night” after Christine Name this musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber.nks off a mask, revealing the title character’s deformity. | show 🗑
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| This character’s ghost is the subject of a 1995 song by Bruce Springsteen. Name this character released from prison at the beginning of The Grapes of Wrath after killing a man in a bar fight. | show 🗑
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| show | Alfred the Great
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| show | Nick Carraway
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| This iconic folk song has been covered dozens of times by artists ranging from Elvis Presley to the Rezidudes. Name this song, whose title is given as a response to questions like “How many roads must a man walk down before you can call him a man?” | show 🗑
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| show | Nicolaus Copernicus
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| show | Malcolm X
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| show | blank verse
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| Members of this religious movement are divided into sects called “mansions.”] Name this Jamaican religion, which reveres a single god, Jah | show 🗑
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| This painting depicts two dark boats drifting in the Le Havre harbor while a bright reddish sun is reflected in the water. Name this painting by Claude Monet which provides the name for a French art movement. | show 🗑
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| . This phrase was used to argue for laissez-faire economics by its coiner, an English polymath. Name this phrase first used by Herbert Spencer and later adopted by the author of On the Origin of Species as a replacement for natural selection. | show 🗑
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| Herbert Spencer’s views on the survival of the fittest and laissez-faire economics led to the development of this theory. It focuses on applying evolutionary ideas to various social sciences. | show 🗑
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| Three species of these animals are in the order Sirenia, which also contains dugongs, the only other herbivorous marine mammal. These animals use whiskers on their upper lip to help sense their surroundings. They are known as sea cows. | show 🗑
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| show | : Luciano Pavarotti
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| Quakers believe in this force, which compels a person to do good in the name of Christ. It is revealed during quiet prayer and reflection in group meetings | show 🗑
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| This author and her husband Melvyn Leventhal became the first legally married interracial couple in Mississippi in 1967. Name this author and civil rights activist best known for her epistolary novel The Color Purple | show 🗑
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| Some versions of Microsoft’s MS-DOS used a version of this language named “Quick. Name this programming language which was designed to be easy for those new to programming | show 🗑
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| show | Louis Armstrong
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| show | : mad cow disease
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| show | Erik Erikson
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| show | Aaron Rodgers
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| This term describes the books of the Bible that outline the life and teachings of Jesus. Name this term which is Greek for “good news.” | show 🗑
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| Eric the Red spent three years in this territory in 982 before eventually establishing a settlement here over ten years later. Name this autonomous territory of Denmark, the world’s largest island | show 🗑
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| show | Calliope
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| show | capitalism
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| This founding father wrote Poor Richard’s Almanack under the pseudonym Richard Saunders | show 🗑
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| show | : Robert the Bruce
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| This sculpture has been criticized for the youthful appearance of a figure who is a generation older than the other person in it, It is housed in St. Peter’s Basilica. Name this Michelangelo work in which Mary holds the body of Jesus in her lap. | show 🗑
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| show | Yankee Doodle Dandy
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| This Civil War-era tune written by Julia Ward Howe exclaims “glory, glory, hallelujah!” and that “his truth is marching on.” | show 🗑
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| Name this Austrian physicist who also names a thought experiment in which a cat in a box can be interpreted as being both alive and dead until observed | show 🗑
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| show | black holes
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| show | Geiger counter
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| show | : Ecclesiastes
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| In 2005, scientists photographing Pluto in preparation for the New Horizons mission discovered two tiny moons of Pluto. They are about 2 to 3 times farther away from Pluto than its better known moon Charon, but are larger than Styx & Kerberos. Name one | show 🗑
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| The cowboy outlaws at the O.K. Corral were cattle ranchers, a profession which fell off after Joseph Glidden's 1874 invention of this technology | show 🗑
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| show | : synagogues
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| Identify this 1896 case in which the Supreme Court upheld the doctrine of “separate but equal.” Its plaintiff protested being forced to sit in the non-white section of a train car. | show 🗑
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| show | pirates
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| In this novel, Waverly Jong becomes a national chess champion at the age of nine. A group of four women play mahjong in this novel’s title group | show 🗑
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| In a semi-autobiographical play by this author, a Jewish intellectual from New York contemplates marrying a German woman named Helga. Name this author who created the characters Quentin and Maggie in his play After the Fall | show 🗑
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| The song Crocodile Rock topped this artist’s album Don’t Shoot Me I’m Only the Piano Player, his second straight No. 1 album in the US. Name this British artist of Your Song, Tiny Dancer, & Rocketman. Bernie Taupin wrote most of this artist’s lyrics. | show 🗑
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| show | thermosphere
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| Name this concept measured by the Stanford-Binet Scales. 100 is the average score on a test that produces a namesake “quotient” that purports to measure this concept | show 🗑
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| Arguably the biggest factor was the disappearance of this disease, which had periodically struck Europe since the 14th century. This disease killed up to one third of Europe’s entire population | show 🗑
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| An exchange of food, ideas, and diseases between Eurasia and the New World is named after this explorer. Ferdinand and Isabella funded this explorer’s best known voyage, on which he brought the Niña, Pinta, and Santa María | show 🗑
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| Thomas More described this policy as a stream of government income “to every person, rich or poor” in his book Utopia. Name this economic policy, which economists like Milton Friedman have advocated for in the form of a “negative income tax.” | show 🗑
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| A former salt mine on this state’s Avery Island is where Tabasco sauce is manufactured. Lake Pontchartrain is in this state, which is divided into 64 parishes. A dish from this state contains meat or shellfish mixed with vegetables in a thick soup-gumbo | show 🗑
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| Name this kind of animal, one of which lived in Nemea. Heracles strangled that one of these animals with his bare hands, thus completing his first labor | show 🗑
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| The name of this Swedish pop supergroup is an acronym for the first names of its two couples. This group broke records with the 1976 worldwide hit Dancing Queen | show 🗑
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| show | elf
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| Name this molecule, which unlike RNA uses thymine alongside adenine, cytosine and guanine. This molecule encodes an organism’s genetics. | show 🗑
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| This author of Still I Rise wrote the semi-autobiographical novel I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. She read her poem On the Pulse of Morning at Bill Clinton’s inauguration. | show 🗑
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| show | : Ludwig van Beethoven
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| show | Norway
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| show | Sutters
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| The Grand Banks is known as the foggiest place on Earth. The reason is that in this region, the cold waters of the Labrador Current meet the warm waters of what other current? | show 🗑
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| Roger Williams purchased land from the Narragansett Indians that became what state? | show 🗑
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| show | John Wilkes Booth
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| show | swastika
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| The cities of Pyongyang and Pusan are on what peninsula? | show 🗑
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| show | molting
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| show | Komodo dragon
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| show | Sirius
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| show | wringer
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| show | The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
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| What literary technique is illustrated here? Jill wished she could rid herself of the sick feeling in her stomach that told her something terrible was just around the corner. | show 🗑
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| In the Battle of Crecy in 1346, what weapon enabled 20,000 English archers to defeat some 60,000 French soldiers? | show 🗑
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| How is this proverb usually stated? A feathered biped in the phalanges is equal to two of the same in the shrubbery. | show 🗑
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| What tactic was illustrated when Huey Long spoke before the Senate for 15 hours and 30 minutes, urging continued Senate confirmation for senior employees of the National Recovery Administration and describing his favorite recipes? | show 🗑
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| show | The Erie Canal
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| Gutzon Borglum worked on the massive sculpture at Stone Mountain in Georgia and on what other similar project in the Black Hills of South Dakota? | show 🗑
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| show | Aztec
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| What character in "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" framed Sirius Black for the murder of thirteen people, including Harry's parents? | show 🗑
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| The shortest route between the North Atlantic and the Indian Ocean is through what artificial waterway? | show 🗑
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| This is from what story by O. Henry? "Dell," said he, "let's put our Christmas presents away and keep 'em a while. They're too nice to use just at present. I sold the watch to get the money to buy your combs. And now suppose you put the chops on. | show 🗑
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| Composed by John Philip Sousa, "Semper Fidelis" is the official march of what branch of the U.S. military? | show 🗑
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| show | Puerto Rico
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| What is the common name for the condition described by athletes as a pain in the front of the lower leg between the knee and ankle? | show 🗑
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| show | James Monroe
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| show | yourself
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| show | cryogenics (cryogeny)
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| What is the name for the scientific study of insects? | show 🗑
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| These are lyrics from a song in what musical? You are sixteen going on seventeen Waiting for life to start Somebody kind who touches your mind Will suddenly touch your heart | show 🗑
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| show | Mars, Jupiter
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| show | trumpets (shofars)
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| show | past perfect
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| What part of the body includes these muscles? vastus lateralis tibialis anterior sartorius gastrocnemius biceps femoris soleus | show 🗑
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| show | (Terence) Tao
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| show | (arithmetic) mean
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| Sometimes there are two of these, this value is the middle number in a set arranged in ascending or descending order. | show 🗑
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| Another famous bug happens in this video game where the screen is split into two halves at level 256. Instead of the usual visuals, the code covers the right side in dozens of characters, which it thinks are collected fruit. | show 🗑
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| One of the earliest fractals, based on the Koch curve, is named after these things, which are said to all be unique | show 🗑
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| In The Elements by this mathematician, a set of appealing axioms are set forth to prove numerous geometric propositions. This man was the first to write a complete, coherent account of all geometry theory | show 🗑
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| This mathematician struggled with mental health issues like schizophrenia, but still managed to make great contributions to game theory. This American mathematician is the main character in A Beautiful Mind | show 🗑
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| show | reciprocal
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| show | circle
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| A cube is an example of one of these, but a cylinder is not. These shapes are 3d extrusions of 2d polygons | show 🗑
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| show | Joseph Stalin
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| Kruschev and Stalin were both members of the Soviet party espousing this ideology. This ideology is structured around common ownership of the means of production, and was named after a manifesto written by Karl Marx | show 🗑
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| Name this title character of the second book in a series by Jeff Kinney. This character owns a white van that sports his garage band’s name, Löded Diper, on its side, and spends most of his time tormenting his brother Greg. | show 🗑
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| show | Macbeth
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| ] This artificial lake between Nevada and Arizona was formed by the accumulation of the Colorado River behind Hoover Dam. This lake and Lake Powell are the two largest artificial water reservoirs in the United States | show 🗑
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| This Russian chemist used the Law of Octaves to predict the properties of germanium, gallium, and scandium and in the process invented the periodic table | show 🗑
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| ] Frank Lloyd Wright designed this building in southwestern Pennsylvania for the Kaufmann family. This building uses cantilevered floors to extend over a waterfall | show 🗑
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| show | Operation Desert Storm
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| show | caldera
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| Prohibition-era lawlessness was symbolized by these guns, which could be carried in violin cases. These specific guns were used both by bootleggers and law enforcement, most notably in the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre. | show 🗑
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| This man, who was named “Public Enemy Number One'' in 1930, ordered the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre. This notorious gangster also known as “Scarface” was later arrested and sent to Alcatraz prison | show 🗑
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| show | Mauna Kea
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| A common symbol of Kwanzaa, the kinara, features seven of these objects to represent the seven principles of Kwanzaa. In Judaism, nine of these objects are placed on the menorah during Hanukkah. | show 🗑
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| Name this holiday celebrated from December 26 to January 1 every year, ending with a feast of faith called Karamu Ya Imani. This holiday was developed as an annual celebration of African-American culture | show 🗑
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| Name this 12-sign classification system based on the lunar calendar. This cycle starts with the symbol of the rat since, according to myth, he won a race held by the Jade Emperor by riding on the ox | show 🗑
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| show | Frederick Douglass
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| show | Rainier cherries
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| This app is known in China as “Douyin.” Name this social media app that consists of short videos, often of people doing dances dubbed with music or other audio recordings | show 🗑
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| Name this hero who crawled into the body of the Goddess of the Night in an attempt to make mankind immortal. This figure sings “You’re Welcome” and is voiced by Dwayne The Rock Johnson in Moana. | show 🗑
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| show | quarks
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| When this leader crossed the (*) Rubicon, he sparked a civil war with an ex-member of the First Triumvirate, Pompey. What Roman dictator died on the Ides of March after he was stabbed by his friend Brutus? | show 🗑
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| The Italian-American Mafia can trace its roots to this Italian island, where original members extorted lemon farmers to pay “protection money” for help against potential thieves. | show 🗑
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| Name this organized criminal enterprise based in cities like New York and Chicago, often referred to as “La Cosa Nostra” by its members. It was represented in films like The Godfather movies. | show 🗑
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| Name this rapper who said “The Hate U Gave Little Infants” screws over everybody. This rapper was shot in a drive-by in Las Vegas, six months before his rival The Notorious B.I.G., or Biggie, met the same fate. | show 🗑
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| Name this character who, after being expelled from Pencey Prep, wanders around New York and eventually meets up with his sister Phoebe, despite dropping the Little Shirley Beans record he’d bought for her. | show 🗑
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| Though many authors have written that this structure is large enough to be seen from the moon, it is sometimes not even visible from low Earth orbits. Name this defensive fortification. | show 🗑
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| show | Gulf of Mexico
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| show | Lazarus of Bethany
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| show | benzene
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| This man was the US Minister to Sweden and France simultaneously. This man used the pseudonym “Silence Dogood” in a series of letters to The New England Courant before becoming the first US Postmaster General. He was the author of Poor Richard’s Almanac | show 🗑
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| Umlauts and other accents are most commonly applied to these letters. These letters, which have sounds produced with an open vocal tract, are contrasted with consonants. | show 🗑
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| After this battle in the War of 1812, Oliver Hazard Perry sent the message “we have met the enemy and they are ours.” This naval battle allowed the Americans to re-capture Detroit | show 🗑
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| show | Tecumseh
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| Name this character whom a sorcerer persuades into retrieving a magic oil lamp from a trapped cave. This character summons a lesser genie from a magic ring when he rubs his hands together. | show 🗑
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| show | Kobe Bean Bryant
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| Name this country, now a constituent country of the United Kingdom. This country had monarchs that included William the Lion and Robert the Bruce. | show 🗑
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| show | wall
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| Scotland was conquered in the early 1300s by Edward I of England, the Hammer of the Scots. This man was appointed as the Guardian of Scotland to lead the rebellion against Edward I, though he resigned after losing at the Battle of Falkirk | show 🗑
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| show | diffusion
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| The “vorpal blade” goes “snicker-snack” in “Jabberwocky,” a poem in Through the Looking Glass by this author. This English author wrote of a bottle labeled “DRINK ME” & a cake labeled “EAT ME” in a novel that begins with “Down the Rabbit Hole. | show 🗑
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| show | Anubis
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| Anubis is a key deity in the mythology of this country. Rulers from this country were buried in pyramids to ensure their safe passage to the afterlife. | show 🗑
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| Television personality James May built a two-story house entirely out of this material, but got no buyers. This material, was invented by Ole Kirk Christiansen .A movie about these things features master builders sing “Everything Is Awesome.” | show 🗑
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| . During this holiday, unleavened bread known as (*) matzah is eaten during the two traditional seder meals. Name this eight-day Jewish holiday that commemorates the Jews’ exodus from Egypt | show 🗑
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| show | : Christopher Paolini
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| show | Frida Kahlo
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| show | Equator
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| show | diameter
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| show | Aida
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| show | saffron
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| show | Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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| show | aurora borealis or auroras
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| show | ionosphere
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| show | Brasília
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| show | Tammany Hall
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| show | Muhammad Ali
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| Members of this ethnic group were targeted in the Anfal genocide.. Name this ethnic group that was victimized in gas attacks organized by Saddam Hussein's cousin, “Chemical Ali | show 🗑
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| show | Spanish American War
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| show | (U.S.) Declaration of Independence
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| show | 3
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| show | epistolary
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| In the Odyssey, Penelope waits with her son Telemachus on this island for the return of her husband, its ruler | show 🗑
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| show | Colorado River
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| show | Beloved
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| Beloved was written by this author of The Bluest Eye and Song of Solomon. | show 🗑
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| show | Queen Victoria
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| show | Slaughterhouse-Five
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| show | Dallas
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| Among the most visited attractions in Dallas is a museum in the building from which John F. Kennedy was shot; at the time of the shooting, it was this type of building | show 🗑
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| show | Saint Mark
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| show | : Muhammad Ali (or Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr
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| show | raising their fists in the air (accept reasonable equivalents; accept black power salute
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| What does a funambulist walk on? | show 🗑
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| show | symbiosis
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| show | sugars
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| This word means the uppermost point. It was the name of the company from which Wile E. Coyote ordered his equipment from. What is it? | show 🗑
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| show | Abba
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| show | balance of trade
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| The growing of a plants roots toward a water source is an example of what biological response? | show 🗑
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| show | stem cells
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| Martin Luther King, Jr. and the SCLC led a protest in this city using nonviolent methods such as sit-ins. King was jailed for 8 days in this city because of his demonstrations | show 🗑
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| This mayor of Birmingham was known for his violent treatment of protesters. He ordered the police to break up the Civil Rights demonstrations by using fire hoses and other violent means | show 🗑
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| He formulated the concepts of the id, ego, and superego in his Beyond the Pleasure Principle. Name this Austrian psychologist and founder of psychoanalysis, who also wrote The Interpretation of Dreams | show 🗑
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| show | Indonesia
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| This strike pitted the Amalgated Association of Iron and Steel Workers against the Carnegie Steel Company. Henry Clay Frick enlisted Pinkertons to break it up | show 🗑
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| ] Photosynthesis takes place in the stroma of these organelles. They contain chlorophyll and are theorized to have evolved from cyanobacteria | show 🗑
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| show | The Crisis [accept The American Crisis]
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| The Crisis was written by this American revolutionary, who declared that it is absurd for a continent to be governed by an island in his pamphlet, Common Sense | show 🗑
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| show | Sanskrit
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| He becomes deaf while working as a bell ringer at a cathedral.] Name this character who murders Claude Frollo and dies of starvation while embracing Esmeralda. | show 🗑
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| This leader was assassinated by Nathuram Godse, and he led a march to the sea protesting the British salt monopoly. name this champion of satyagraha, an advocate of Indian independence who was given the title Mahatma. | show 🗑
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| show | Xylem
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| show | Dr. Sheldon Cooper
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| show | Kent State
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| show | San Andreas Fault
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| show | Confucianism
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| The strength of a tornado is measured on this scale, whose highest value is 5. | show 🗑
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| Zeus asked this goddess to help Perseus in killing Medusa. She supplied Perseus with magical items such as the winged sandals and the invisibility helmet. | show 🗑
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| Damage to this structure can cause anterograde amnesia. Name this seahorse-shaped structure associated with the long-term memory and spatial navigation functions | show 🗑
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| show | “The Pit and the Pendulum"
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| show | Otto von Bismarck
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| After the explosion of the USS Maine, the United States entered this war whose battlefields included Cuba and which was ended by the Treaty of Paris | show 🗑
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| show | Frequency
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| show | Crimean War
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| Developed by Namco, fruits such as strawberries & cherries appear in the middle of the screen offering bonuses. Its developer said he was inspired by a pizza missing a slice when creating this game, & its enemies are named Clyde, Blinky, Pinky, & Inky | show 🗑
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| He dealt with the Fronde during his reign, and this participant in the War of Spanish Succession repealed the Edict of Nantes.name this French monarch who built a palace in Versailles and was known as the “Sun King.” | show 🗑
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| show | Medici
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| This avatar of Vishnu serves as Arjuna’s charioteer, and the speech he gives to Arjuna before the outbreak of the Kurukshetra War is recorded as the Bhagavad Gita. | show 🗑
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| This science advocate of induction and author of The New Atlantis first developed the scientific method | show 🗑
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| This imperial palace in Beijing was built during the Ming dynasty. It was the center of Chinese government until the end of the Qing dynasty | show 🗑
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| Name this court case in which the Supreme Court overturned the Missouri Compromise as unconstitutional and declared that slaves were not U.S. citizens. | show 🗑
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| This Pillar of Islam dictates prayer five times a day | show 🗑
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| This author of Elementary Treatise on Chemistry also named the element hydrogen. Name this French scientist who developed the law of conservation of mass, often considered the father of modern chemistry | show 🗑
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| The victims in this opera include Zerlina and Donna Elvira, and the title figure escapes with his servant Leporello after a murder. The statue of the Commendatore drags the title figure to hell in its final scene. Name this opera by Mozart | show 🗑
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| show | Robert E Lee
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| show | Orion
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| Although it is the constellation’s alpha star, this red supergiant is actually the second brightest star in Orion by magnitude. It forms one of Orion’s shoulders | show 🗑
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| show | Black Sea
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| show | Work
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| show | Power
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| show | The Noble Eightfold Path
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| show | Nirvana
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| This country borders the Skagerrak Strait and has cities including Trondheim and Oslo. It is well known for its fjords | show 🗑
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| After disguising as a cherub to get past Uriel,he transforms into a cormorant & perches upon the Tree of Life, & he claims it is “better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven. identify this epic poem in which Satan succeeds in tempting Adam and Eve to sin | show 🗑
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| This river empties into the English Channel at Le Havre, and it flows through Roen. Name this river that is bridged by the Pont Neuf in Paris, which it flows through | show 🗑
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| Identify this ballet in which Siegfried is tricked into declaring his love for Odile instead of Odette, who is turned into the title creature during the day | show 🗑
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| This man’s 1971 album Ram was recently reissued to much fanfare. “Band on the Run”, “Silly Love Songs”, and “My Love” are a few notable solo hits by this bassist and ex-Beatle who composed “Yesterday | show 🗑
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| This figure’s best known act was a kiss that identified Jesus. Identify this Apostle who, according to the gospels, betrayed Jesus to the soldiers of the high priests for 30 pieces of silver | show 🗑
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| show | : Polyphemus
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| According to Ovid, Circe poisoned this woman and turned her into a monster, whom Odysseus sailed quickly past while trying to avoid Charybdis | show 🗑
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| The narrator of this poem, filled with “sorrow for the lost Lenore”, is visited by the title figure, who speaks only the word “nevermore”. | show 🗑
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| Name this type of rock, which, along with metamorphic, makes up 95% of the Earth’s crust. It is formed from the cooling of magma | show 🗑
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| show | The Garden of Earthly Delights
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| Name this quantity. Gauss’ Law for it states its flux is proportional to the integral of the enclosed mass | show 🗑
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| show | Silver
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| This deposit of silver was located around Virginia City. Adolph Sutro built a tunnel to drain it, and it was home to namesake “kings” such as William S. O’Brien | show 🗑
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| This man wrote The Grapes of Wrath, as well as a novella in which the migrant farm hands George and Lennie dream of “living of the fatta’ the lan” before the latter is shot | show 🗑
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| show | Hinduism
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| show | Vishnu
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| show | : Pietà
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| show | : wu wei
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| This Alabama city, the site of the 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing, was also the site of Project C, an early SCLC protest against Jim Crow laws | show 🗑
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| show | Boyle’s Law
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| show | Alfred Hitchcock
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| show | Autism
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| Several of this group’s most successful songs were featured in the 1968 film The Graduate, including “Scarborough Fair” & “The Sound of Silence. Name this American soft rock duo behind “Mrs. Robinson”. | show 🗑
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| show | friction
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| show | polymers
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| One character in this novel is hit by a speeding car, after the protagonist questioned his own happiness following a conversation with his neighbor, Clarisse In this novel Captain Beatty is incinerated by the ex-fireman & book-burner Guy Montag | show 🗑
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| The composer of “Salt Peanuts” & “Night in Tunisia” played one of these, while one player of this instrument popularized scat-singing with “Heebie Jeebies.” With a bent one played by Dizzy Gillespie, name this instrument played by Louis Armstrong. | show 🗑
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| show | Margaret Thatcher
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| This transparent outer tissue with no blood vessels covers the iris and pupil, and accounts for about 2/3 of the eye’s refractive power | show 🗑
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| Name this group on the far right of the periodic table whose members are generally very unreactive because they have full valence shells | show 🗑
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| show | : John Calvin
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| show | The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
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| The artist's sister and his dentist were the models for the people in this painting. A (*) pitchfork is held by the right figure of, for 10 points, what painting by Grant Wood? | show 🗑
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| On Saturday night, the title character of this work has a stomachache after eating foods such as chocolate cake & ice cream. At the end of this story, that creature stays in a cocoon for 2 weeks before becoming a butterfly, Name this book by Eric Carle. | show 🗑
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| A woman in this play sleepwalks through a castle while guiltily trying to wash invisible blood off her hands, declaring "Out, damned spot!" The title character of this play kills (*) Banquo to defend his throne after earlier killing Duncan | show 🗑
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| In the Harry Potter series, Hagrid owns a multi-headed one of these animals named Fluffy which guards the Sorcerer’s Stone. Kate DiCamillo wrote a book about one of these animals, named after and found in the supermarket (*) Winn Dixie | show 🗑
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| The only primary producers in the deepest parts of the ocean are bacteria who can metabolize hydrogen and this gas. This simplest alkane has formula CH4 and is the primary component of natural gas | show 🗑
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| In Norse mythology, the first giant Ymir emerges from the Ginnungagap, which is surrounded by Niflheim and Muspelheim, worlds which contain these two substances. | show 🗑
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| show | designated survivor
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| show | phenotypes
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| What sports beverage was originally developed for the University of Florida football team? | show 🗑
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| What oath taken by medical students upon becoming doctors is named after an ancient Greek physician? | show 🗑
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| show | queue
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| Constructed over 5,000 years ago, it is unknown how this structure located in Salisbury was made, but it is thought that Druids built it for astronomical purposes. Name this ring of rocks located in England. | show 🗑
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| show | Aramaic
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| Name this form of poetry consisting of a total of 17 syllables | show 🗑
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| This poem follows six hundred men who journey “half a league” “in the valley of Death. Identify this poem about a disastrous expedition in the Crimean War | show 🗑
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| show | Code Talkers
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| Name this economic curve which plots quantity of a product against price. It helps find the equilibrium price when it intersects with the supply curve | show 🗑
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| show | hydrogen bonds
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| He never finished his Adoration of The Magi and he painted a woman in a black dress rocking a baby in front of some cliffs in Madonna of the Rocks. Name this designer of an early helicopter and creator of a sketch called the Vitruvian Man. | show 🗑
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| show | Barack Hussein Obama
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| This author wrote a work in which the title animal discovers that he has matured into a swan. In another the emperor has no clothes. Name this author of stories such as “The Ugly Duckling”. | show 🗑
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| Thomas Malory wrote about the life of this ruler, whose ultimate downfall was at the Battle of Camlann by his illegitimate son Mordred. This king, who wields the sword he pulled out of stone, Excalibur, heads Camelot with his wife Guinevere. | show 🗑
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| show | Antartica
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| In one of this man’s works, a flower rises over a broken sword, while a light bulb shines above a horse. Paintings such as The Old Guitarist were works during this man’s Blue Period. Name this Spanish-born Cubist painter of Guernica | show 🗑
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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. These animals possess hollow bones to lower their weight. | show 🗑
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| In this play, the title character rewrites a letter to send Rosencrantz & Guildenstern to their deaths, and later accidentally stabs Polonius. The title character of this play duels using poisoned tipped swords & he kills King Claudius as revenge | show 🗑
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| show | nervous system
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| This chef’s exact kitchen, which was the setting for a cooking show this chef hosted with Jacques Pépin , is now preserved in the Smithsonian. Name this Cordon Bleu-trained American chef, who popularized French cuisine to American audiences through | show 🗑
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| When drawing with a pencil, this technique of overlapping lines can be used to suggest shading and depth. Where lines intersect more closely, figures appear darker under this technique | show 🗑
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| Louis IV's first chief minister was Cardinal Mazarin, who continued the policies of this other powerful French cardinal. This man led France during the Thirty Years’ War and was called the “Red Eminence.” | show 🗑
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| The cyclical nature of time in Jainism is used to explain why this process continually occurs. Samsara is the cycle of death and this concept, which in Hinduism involves the transfer of the soul to another body. | show 🗑
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| In a novel, this author described “men without skin” who push the woman with my face into the sea in a stream-of-consciousness description of the Middle Passage. Another novel begins with a passage from “Dick & Jane” which is repeated w/out punctuation | show 🗑
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| General Sherman, the largest tree by volume in the world, is in this national park & is of the species that this park is named for. Name this national park immediately south of Kings Canyon in the Sierra Nevada mountains in California. | show 🗑
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||||
| show | melatonin
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|
||||
| Deficiencies in serotonin, another tryptophan derivative, have been linked to this mood disorder characterized by extended feelings of sadness and emptiness | show 🗑
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| This technique is linked to earthquakes in seismically-inactive places like Oklahoma. This technique exploits unconventional reserves by injecting high-pressure fluid into shale beds. Name this controversial method of oil and gas extraction. | show 🗑
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| The parents of this animal are believed to be Orthrus and the Chimera, making it the grandson of Typhon and Echidna. Name this animal. The killer of this animal uses its own claws to skin it and return home with its thick fur | show 🗑
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| ] Heracles completes the twelve labors after being commanded to do so by this cousin of his. After Hera causes Heracles to kill his family, the Oracle at Delphi tells him to serve this king of Mycenae and Tiryns. | show 🗑
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| Many geysers are also in this country’s Taupo Volcanic Zone, which is near its Bay of Plenty. In 2019, twenty-two people died in a volcanic eruption after tour groups failed to evacuate this country’s White Island. | show 🗑
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| A Civil War marching song states that this person’s body “lies a-mouldering in the grave” but “his soul is marching on. Name this militant abolitionist who led anti-slavery forces in Bleeding Kansa s & raided the Harper’s Ferry arsenal, seeking weapons | show 🗑
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| This ethnic group claims descent from the Israelites who rejected Eli as High Priest and instead followed Uzzi to Mount Gerizim. In one of Jesus’ parables, a traveller is helped by a “good” member of this ethnic group | show 🗑
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| show | Robinson Crusoe
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| This artist depicted a Thanksgiving dinner in the (*) “from Want” section of one work. Name this American artist who created the Four Freedoms series for the Saturday Evening Post. | show 🗑
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| show | Daphne
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| show | Hyacinthus
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| One theoretical success of string theory is its ability to replicate predictions of the thermodynamics of these things. These astronomical bodies are so dense that even light cannot escape. | show 🗑
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| Name this conflict fought by the Narragansett and Wampanoag tribes against the New England Confederation. Over 600 Narragansett warriors were killed in the Great Swamp Fight during this conflict | show 🗑
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| The main character of this novel learns about the Soul of the World, described as “‘the principle that governs all thing. In this novel, Santiago attempts to fulfill his Personal Legend by travelling to the Egyptian pyramids in search of treasure | show 🗑
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| ] In The Alchemist, Santiago learns that the Master Work of alchemy is creating the Elixir of Life and this object, which can turn lead into gold. Nicolas Flamel owns this object in the first Harry Potter novel. | show 🗑
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| A red-haired woman curls up into a ball while she is showered by golden rain in this artist’s painting Danae. Name this artist who painted 2 portraits of Adele Bloch-Bauer. He used gold leaf on a painting of 2 lovers embracing on a flower-covered cliff. | show 🗑
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| This work’s protagonist dies in a fight against a dragon while accompanied by Wiglaf. In this work, the protagonist rips off the arm of a monster who attacks the mead-hall Heorot, which is ruled by Hrothgar | show 🗑
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| show | lemurs
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|
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| This man is credited with the discovery of the concept of buoyancy.Name this man who supposedly leapt out of his bath and shouted “Eureka!” after submerging a crown in water. | show 🗑
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| This man cosigned the warrant ordering the beheading of Charles I, after which he was named Lord Protector. Name this man who won the English Civil War and created the Commonwealth of England. | show 🗑
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| The United Kingdom faced a crisis in 1936 when this king abdicated. Name this king, who abdicated when Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin refused to approve his marriage | show 🗑
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| show | George V
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| show | Coulomb’s law
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| He returned from (*) Midian to Egypt after a directive from a burning bush, and this leader used his staff to bring a series of plagues onto the people of Pharaoh. Name this Abrahamic prophet who parted the Red Sea during the Exodus | show 🗑
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| The “celestial bureaucracy” of Chinese mythology is headed by an emperor named for this substance. This usually-green mineral was used for a variety of ceremonial and decorative purposes in China. | show 🗑
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| A major road in the Appalachian Mountains is this subrange’s namesake Parkway. This subrange contains the highest point in the Eastern United States, Mount Mitchell. | show 🗑
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| It is necessary for Muslims to perform this action after Umrah or Hajj, In 2011, eight members of a breakaway Amish group were imprisoned for forcibly performing this action on others. Name this action which caused Samson to lose his strength | show 🗑
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| show | Gold Coast
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| Ghana was central to Trans-Saharan trade, which was largely based on gold and this substance. | show 🗑
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| show | lithium
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| show | kryptonite
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| show | Abu Bakr
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| show | Janus
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| show | Eliza Doolittle
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| Frank Sinatra headlined this unofficial group of actors and musicians who often appeared together in Vegas performances and feature films. Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr. were other notable members of this group. | show 🗑
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| This colorfully-named sea lies west of the Korean Peninsula and north of the East China Sea. | show 🗑
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| Members of this religion expose their dead atop of towers of silence and its main text contains the Gathas. Angra Mainyu is the ultimate evil of this religion, adherents of which worship in fire temples. Name this Persian religion | show 🗑
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| Two atoms of this element are connected via a triple bond in the most abundant gas in Earth’s atmosphere. Name this element which names a “fixation” used to create ammonia. | show 🗑
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| Some critics of this sect described its founder Mother Ann Lee of being a “sexual sorceress” due to the use of dance in their services. This celibate group got their name because of the twitching and jerking motions they made during worship. | show 🗑
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| Teddy Roosevelt’s foreign policy is usually named after this specific object. Roosevelt said to “speak softly and carry” this object | show 🗑
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| show | Dollar Diplomacy
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| The Brancacci Chapel is located in this Italian city, which is also home to the Palazzo Vecchio and the Uffizi Gallery. | show 🗑
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| ] Both The Expulsion from the Garden of Eden and The Tribute Money are works in this style, in which paint is applied to wet plaster. This technique was also used for the Sistine Chapel ceiling. | show 🗑
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| show | singularity
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| show | turtles
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| show | Ben Franklin
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| show | capitalism
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| show | Tom Brady
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| show | Carpathian Mountains
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| After the death of Edward I, this king won his country's independence, signing the Treaty of Northampton fourteen years after defeating Edward II. Name this man who won the Battle of Bannockburn before becoming King of Scotland. | show 🗑
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| Norse deities would eat apples from this goddess’s garden to sustain their immortality. Name this goddess who is rescued from a giant by Loki, who transforms her into a nut and flies her back to Asgard. | show 🗑
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| show | Johnny Appleseed
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| ] Name this song, which ultimately became a popular patriotic anthem for the colonists during the American Revolution. The Americans played this song after their victory at Yorktown. | show 🗑
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| This Civil War-era tune written by Julia Ward Howe exclaims “glory, glory, hallelujah!” and that “his truth is marching on.” | show 🗑
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| The change in this quantity is equal to the work done on a system. Name this “energy of motion” equal to one-half mass times velocity-squared. | show 🗑
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| show | Aaron Rodgers
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| show | Antoni Gaudí
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| The traditional definition of this concept as justified true belief is often attributed to Plato. Name this concept studied by epistemologists | show 🗑
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| show | free radicals
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| show | Greenland
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| This American explorer “proved” that Greenland was an island on his second expedition to the Arctic in 1891. He claimed to have been the first to have reached the North Pole, but later research suggests he fell short by several miles. | show 🗑
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| The refraining of accepting gifts of money is the 10th precept of the dasa-sila in this faith, but it is not included in its Eightfold Path. Members may choose to stay in the cycle of samsara. Name this religion, whose branches are Theravada & Mahayana | show 🗑
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| This term describes the books of the Bible that outline the life and teachings of Jesus. Name this term which is Greek for “good news.” | show 🗑
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| This gospel of the Bible is considered non-synoptic because it includes several stories that are not in the other three. It also leaves out other stories, including the Sermon on the Mount | show 🗑
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| This physician is believed to have written his namesake gospel of the Bible as well as the Book of Acts. | show 🗑
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| show | Charlemagne
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| The British loss in this Revolutionary War battle forced Cornwallis to pull his troops out of South Carolina. Name this battle fought in a field used locally for grazing cattle. | show 🗑
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| In Greek mythology, this group of goddesses once judged a music contest between Apollo and the satyr Marsyas. Identify this group of nine goddesses whose domains included literature and the arts | show 🗑
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| show | Mobius strip
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| . Zachary Taylor earned his nickname “Old Rough and Ready” while fighting these people. Identify this Native American tribe that fought three namesake wars with the US, the first of which was ended by the Treaty of Payne’s Landing. | show 🗑
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| The Seminole Wars were mostly fought in this state, where the Seminole were able to use the swamps to their advantage. | show 🗑
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| show | glaciers
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| show | : resurrection
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| . Some versions of Microsoft’s MS-DOS used a version of this language named “Quick.” Name this programming language which was designed to be easy for those new to programming. | show 🗑
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| These policies contained a grandfather clause which allowed some whites to bypass them, as they were intended to disenfranchise various minorities. Identify this type of tax required for voter registration before being outlawed by the 24th Amendment. | show 🗑
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| Name the process, which occurs in the core of stars, that combines atomic nuclei to release energy | show 🗑
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| Stars can use the proton-proton chain to perform fusion, releasing this element | show 🗑
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| Sandro Botticelli may have participated in this event by destroying his own works. Name this 1497 event in which various paintings, books, and cosmetics were deemed immoral and burned | show 🗑
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| show | geodesic dome
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| show | Joe Manchin
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| Richard Drew captured “The Falling Man” during this event. Another photograph taken during this event by Lyle Owerko showed the moment in which a plane hit one of the Twin Towers | show 🗑
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| This robber baron opposed annexation so strongly that he personally offered 20 million dollars for the Philippines to buy their independence. This Scottish-American steel magnate wrote the Gospel of Wealth | show 🗑
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| show | Anglo Saxons
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| L Ron Hubbard is believed to have “dropped his body” to continue working in another plane of existence by followers of this religion that he founded. | show 🗑
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| In a flame test, a solution coating a nichrome wire is heated over this gas-burning laboratory device, producing a colored flame. | show 🗑
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| show | cystic fibrosis
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| show | Martin Luther
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| This eight-minute-long Led Zeppelin song about a lady who's sure “all that glitters is gold” features a recorder theme along with its lengthy guitar solo played by Jimmy Page. | show 🗑
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| This band’s lead guitarist Slash’s guitar riffs on a song that repeatedly asks, “where do we go?” are widely considered one of the best of all time. That song appears on this band’s album Appetite for Destruction | show 🗑
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| show | “Hotel California”
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| After being betrayed by Thomas Marvel, a character of a novel by this author describes his “Reign of Terror” to Dr. Kemp.Name this author of The Invisible Man who wrote about Martians dying from bacteria they have no resistance to in The War of the Worlds | show 🗑
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| In this H.G. Wells novel, the protagonist builds the title device to travel through four dimensions, where he encounters the Eloi and ape-like troglodytes called Morlocks | show 🗑
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| show | Odysseus
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| The album Three Ragas, which introduced Hindustani music to the west in the 1950s, was composed by a player of this instrument named Ravi Shankar. Shankar later taught George Harrison to play this instrument. | show 🗑
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| show | galleons
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| show | Ming Dynasty
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| The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency operates under this cabinet department. Name this most-recently created cabinet department, currently headed by Alejandro Mayorkas | show 🗑
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| show | 221B Baker Street
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| show | special relativity
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| The general in this battle divided his forces to fight Joseph Hooker’s army, leading it to become known as Robert E. Lee’s “perfect battle.” Stonewall Jackson was mistakenly shot by his own men during, what 1863 Confederate victory in Virginia? | show 🗑
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| This musical is based on a series of Yiddish stories by Sholem Aleichem. A milkman in this musical imagines a lavish life for him and his wife Golde in the song “If I Were a Rich Man.” Tevye appears in what musical about Jews in Imperial Russia | show 🗑
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| show | Thor
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| In an overture by this composer, trombones triumphantly play “God Save the Tsar” to commemorate a military victory. Name this Russian composer who composed the Pathetique symphony and the 1812 Overture | show 🗑
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| This band’s lead singer repeats the word “hello” and screams, “here we are now, entertain us” on a song from their album Nevermind. Kurt Cobain headed, what Seattle grunge band behind “Heart-Shaped Box” and “Smells Like Teen Spirit?” | show 🗑
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| show | The School of Rock
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| show | Alfred Hitchcock
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| One member of this group, Melba Beals, published the book Warriors Don’t Cry about her experiences attending Central High School. Name this group of African American students who transfered to an all-white high school in 1957 accompanied by the army. | show 🗑
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| The desegregation of schools, such as Little Rock Central High School, was urged to proceed “with all deliberate speed” by this 1954 Supreme Court case, which overturned Plessy v. Ferguson. | show 🗑
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| ] The Chamber of Secrets can only be opened by the heir of this Hogwarts founder. He names the house to which Voldemort and Severus Snape belonged | show 🗑
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| show | George Floyd
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| show | baby formula
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| Give the common name for the Migrant Protection Protocols policy. The court forced the Biden Administration to try to follow the policy by rejecting a stay in Biden v. Texas | show 🗑
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| show | The Starry Night
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| show | : Superman [or Clark Kent
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| show | The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tran
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| show | Sarah
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| This man created an Academical Village and the Rotunda at a university campus. What Virginia governor and U.S. president helped to design the Virginia State Capitol, the University of Virginia, and his Monticello residence | show 🗑
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| show | Doctor Zhivago
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| The existence of these organisms on lettuce processed in Yuma, Arizona in 2018 led to food recalls. Name this species of rod-shaped bacteria that often lives in digestive tracts, though some strains are often responsible for food poisoning. | show 🗑
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| show | Haymarket Square affair
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| This object was the first object, other than planets, that was shown to orbit the Sun. Identify this comet named after the person who, in 1705, correctly predicted that it would next be sighted in 1758 | show 🗑
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| This star of Pulp Fiction and Grease produced and played Terl in 2000's Battlefield Earth, a widely panned adaptation of an L. Ron Hubbard novel | show 🗑
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| A nickname for this region and period is “the Dirty Thirties”, and one of the days in 1935 became known as Black Sunday. Give this two-word phrase for areas affected by drought and storms in the 1930s that hurt agricultural output mainly in OK and KS. | show 🗑
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| This steroid hormone is released by the adrenal gland during stress, and it makes glucagon and adrenaline more effective. | show 🗑
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| This Greek god of blacksmiths was often portrayed as misshapen, which might explain why his beautiful wife Aphrodite often cheated on him | show 🗑
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| These mythological creatures were part woman and part bird. They are beautiful in early depictions, but over time their portrayals made them uglier and uglier | show 🗑
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| show | triglycerides
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| Robert Redford, who played this person in a movie, convinced him to focus on himself and his colleagues when co-writing All the President’s Men. Name this person who worked with Carl Bernstein to investigate Watergate | show 🗑
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| show | Alton Lemon (Lemon Test)
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| The Tabard Inn is the setting of this collection in which the Wife of Bath and many pilgrims travel to (*) Thomas Becket’s shrine. Name this collection of tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. | show 🗑
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| This novel’s protagonist converts to socialism after his father's death & moves to Packingtown from Lithuania yet can only find work in unkempt factories. Name this novel that exposed Chicago’s meatpacking industry by Upton Sinclair. | show 🗑
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| Photons have a value of 0 for this quantity, and a device used to measure this quantity is the triple-beam balance. Density is this quantity divided by volume | show 🗑
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| The NKVD secret police carried out the “Great Purge” under this man. This man’s country was invaded in Operation Barbarossa by Nazi Germany. This leader sent an assassin to kill his enemy Leon Trotsky. Who was this man who led the Soviet Union in WWII | show 🗑
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| Paolo and Francesca appear in this work whose narrator encounters a gate stating “Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.” (*) Virgil (VUR-jil) guides the narrator of this work through the circles of Hell. Name this first part of Dante’s Divine Comedy. | show 🗑
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| show | Rocky Mountains
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| This organelle’s matrix is home to a process called the electron transport chain in which ATP is created, which takes place after the Krebs cycle. Name this organelle commonly called the “powerhouse of the cell.” | show 🗑
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| show | Martin Luther King Jr.
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| In a novel by this author, the title character joins the Artful Dodger and Fagin after impertinently pleading, “Please sir, I want some more.” Name this author of Great Expectations and Oliver Twist. | show 🗑
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| A stratospheric “hole” in Earth’s polar regions has been depleted of this molecule. Name this molecule with formula O3 whose “layer” in the atmosphere absorbs harmful radiation. | show 🗑
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| This president used his “big stick” diplomacy to begin building the Panama Canal. This “trustbusting” president founded the Bull Moose Party. William McKinley was succeded by what president depicted on Mount Rushmore | show 🗑
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| Tiresias was blinded after seeing this goddess naked. One of this goddess’ symbols is an olive branch, and she was born from her father’s head. After insulting this daughter of Metis, Ariadne was turned into a spider | show 🗑
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| These Group 18 elements have a full valence shell of electrons and occupy the far right column of the periodic table. Name these gaseous elements like helium and argon that are named for being unreactive | show 🗑
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| The capital of this civilization was founded after an eagle was on top of a cactus and was called Tenochtitlan. Name this empire in modern-day Mexico that was conquered by Hern´an Cortes | show 🗑
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| show | Thomas Lanier “Tennessee” Williams III
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| show | Romeo Montague
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| show | the 1812 Overture
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| show | Olmec
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| show | rabbis
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|
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| At the 2020 VMA’s, this artist of (*) “Mother’s Daughter” performed her single “Midnight Sky” while swinging from a giant disco ball in reference to a 2013 music video in which this artist swung naked a wrecking ball | show 🗑
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| show | menta asylum
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| Room 4 in the British Museum contains this artifact detailing an expedition of Ptolemy V on the Nile. Jean Francois Champollion studied Greek translations of Egyptian hieroglyphic writing on this artifact | show 🗑
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| show | Wisconsin
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| This story was published in The New York Sunday World in 1905 & later in The Four Million. Name this O. Henry story about Della selling her hair to buy her husband Jim a chain for his watch, only to find out Jim sold his watch to buy her a set of combs | show 🗑
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| Survivors of the largest Jewish ghetto uprising in this country were sent to Treblinka, and other concentration camps in this country included Birkenau and Auschwitz. The beginning of World War II is marked by the 1939 German Invasion of, what country? | show 🗑
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| This entity will collide with the Milky Way galaxy in roughly 3 billion years. This largest member of the Local Group is number 31 in the Messier catalogue. Name this closest major spiral galaxy to the Milky Way | show 🗑
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| One story by this author opens with Montresor telling the story of the day he took revenge on Fortunato. Name this author of “The Cask of Amontillado” whose other horror short stories include “The Black Cat” and “The Fall of the House of Usher | show 🗑
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| show | “The Pit and the Pendulum”
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| show | cerebellum
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|
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| show | La Traviata
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|
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| show | Ragnarök
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| This long event precedes Ragnarök and kills most of humanity with three brutal winters. Lif and Lifthrasir are the only humans to survive this event | show 🗑
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| show | Ivanhoe
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| Saul Goodman appears on this AMC TV show and its spinoff, Better Call Saul. This series follows the cancer-diagnosed chemistry teacher Walter White as he works with Jessie Pinkman to cook meth. | show 🗑
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| show | bagpipes
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| show | didgeridoo
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| This Chinese-American cellist performed “Air and Simple Gifts” at President Obama’s inauguration and has won 18 Grammy’s, but perhaps might be more famous for appearing on Arthur | show 🗑
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| Passages from this religious text and the Coffin Text were inscribed in hieroglyphics and painted on Pyramid walls. This text describes a ritual in which a soul’s heart is weighed against a feather. | show 🗑
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| show | bonsai
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| show | Trump Family
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| show | Battle of the Alamo
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| Under pressure from the Soviet government, this author declined the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1958. The CIA played a part in the smuggling of this author’s novel Doctor Zhivago into the Soviet Union for propagandistic purposes. | show 🗑
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| show | Derek Chauvin
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| This Emperor signed the Perpetual Peace. His rulership with his wife Theodora nearly fell during the Nika Riots, sparked by a feud between chariot-racing fans of opposing teams | show 🗑
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| show | Vikings
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| show | Gilgamesh
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| Due to its lack of zero-point energy, this element has no melting point. ] Name this element with atomic number two, the only in its group with two valence electrons. The most common nucleus of this element is an alpha particle | show 🗑
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| show | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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| This poet stated that “Beauty is truth, truth beauty” in his “Ode on a Grecian Urn.” He opened his “Ode to a Nightingale” by describing a “drowsy numbness” that “pains [his] sense | show 🗑
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| show | : harpsichord
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| This thinker listed monarchy, democracy, and aristocracy as the three types of commonwealth. This thinker described how a sovereign is created to end a war of all against all, in which life is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, & short. He wrote Leviathan. | show 🗑
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| show | relics
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| A relic known as the Shroud of Turin supposedly shows an image of this man’s body. Believers claim that the image on the Shroud appeared after touching it when he came down from the cross | show 🗑
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| show | : Mordred
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| Following the battle of Camlann, Arthur asks the knight Bedivere to return this object to the Lady of the Lake. After throwing this object into the water, a hand rises up to catch it. | show 🗑
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| This is the largest religious complex in the world. Name this structure built to resemble Mount Meru, a temple to Vishnu made by Suryavarman II. This structure was later converted to a Buddhist temple after the capital city it was part of fell to the Cham | show 🗑
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| show | Cambodia
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| show | Morgan Freeman
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|
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| show | Dead Sea
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| The largest saltwater lake in the Western hemisphere, the Great Salt Lake, is located in this state | show 🗑
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| show | Peloponnesian War
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| show | F. Scott Fitzgerald
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|
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| In this technique, a normal sinus rhythm contains a P wave, the QRS complex, and the T wave. Name this technique in which electrodes are stuck to the chest & the electrical signals from the cardiac cycle are recorded. It is used to diagnose arrhythmias | show 🗑
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| show | honey
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|
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| show | Kublai Khan
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|
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| show | Dust Bowl
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| show | : petroleum
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| show | Asgard
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| This thinker developed the practice of active imagination to help get in touch with his unconscious. Name this founder of analytic psychology who theorized that archetypes such as the anima and animus exist within the collective unconscious. | show 🗑
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| Carl Jung’s view of dreams as an expression of the unconscious contrasted with the analysis of this Austrian founder of psychoanalysis, who described dreams as repressed sexual desires in The Interpretation of Dreams. | show 🗑
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| show | synchronicity
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|
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| Luciano Pavarotti’s last public performance was singing this aria at the 2006 Olympics Opening Ceremony. Name this aria that is sung by Calaf, echoing the Princess’s command to let no one sleep until his name is discovered. | show 🗑
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| “Nessun dorma” is an aria from this opera set in China. In it, the title character asks her suitors to solve three riddles for her love | show 🗑
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| This Coolio song is from the Dangerous Minds movie. Its lyrics state “tell me why are we, so blind to see / that the ones we hurt, are you and me.” The chorus describes people who have “been spending most their lives living in the [title location].” | show 🗑
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| show | Black Panther
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|
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| show | Detroit
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|
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| show | Cherokee
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|
||||
| show | osteoporosis
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|
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| Captain Nemo is the captain of this submarine, whose ram is used to destroy the Abraham Lincoln during the kidnapping of Pierre Aronnax and his companions in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea | show 🗑
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| This French creator of Captain Nemo also wrote Journey to the Center of the Earth and Around the World in 80 Days. | show 🗑
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| Gregorian Chant was developed for use in these institutions.] Name these institutions, where such chants were sung at events such as Mass | show 🗑
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| Clouds of hot gas in space have this name. The Crab and Horsehead ones are picturesque examples of them, and they are often areas of star formation. | show 🗑
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| show | Cupid
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|
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| show | Chapel Hill
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|
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| ] MIT and Harvard University, while associated with Boston, are actually both located in Cambridge, on the other side of this river named for an English monarch | show 🗑
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| show | atomic number
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|
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| This scientist developed the theory of general relativity. Mass-energy equivalence is a principle in this scientist’s theory of special relativity, described by the equation “E equals m c squared.” | show 🗑
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| After his namesake “ring” of corrupt politicians was discovered by Smauel Tilden, he escaped to Spain. Name this man who embezzled over $3 million in funds for New York City’s courthouse. He was portrayed by Thomas Nast as having a money bag for a head | show 🗑
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| show | The Crucible
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|
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| show | Ivan IV [accept Ivan the Terrible;
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|
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| show | trumpet
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|
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| show | Yellowstone National Park
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|
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| show | Stephen Douglas
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|
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| The Venus of Urbino was painted by this Venetian artist, whose other paintings include Sacred and Profane Love. He succeeded Giorgione as the most prominent artist of the Venetian school | show 🗑
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| show | witchraft
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|
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| show | India
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|
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| This member of the Apache led a long guerilla war of resistance, surrendering to Nelson Miles in 1886. His name is shouted by parachutists and was controversially used as a code word for the killing of Osama bin Laden | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Boeing
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|
||||
| Superconductivity arises as this quantity is lowered below the critical point. Gibbs free energy is equal to enthalpy minus entropy times this quantity. Name this quantity, a measure of the average kinetic energy of a system, measured in Celsius. | show 🗑
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| show | Confucianism
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| Name this sporting event that is played annually at the All-England Club, the only Grand Slam event that is still held on grass courts | show 🗑
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| This author of Death on the Nile wrote of island guests slowly being killed off one by one in the novel And Then There Were None. One of this author’s famous recurring characters is Miss Marple | show 🗑
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| show | Voodoo
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| This king’s conquests spread the worship of (*) Marduk and ended the Sumerian revival in Mesopotamia. Name this Babylonian king who included examples of lex talionis, exemplified in “an eye for an eye,” in his namesake law code | show 🗑
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| show | igneous
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| show | Our Town
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| Officially, these events are defined as two or more consecutive quarters of declining real GDP. Name these economic downturns. A “Great” one of these events from late 2007 to 2009 occurred after the housing bubble burst. | show 🗑
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| show | Amedeo Avogadro
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| show | Holes
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| show | Louis Sachar
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| Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman starred in this movie about the Watergate scandal. It shares its name with the Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein book on which it is based | show 🗑
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| This character is unable to participate in many activities because of his “ass-mar.” Name this boy whose glasses are often used to create fires in a 1954 novel. Along with a symbolic conch shell, he is crushed by a boulder pushed by Roger | show 🗑
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| This event impacted almost 500 million people worldwide and killed anywhere from 17 to 50 million. Name this early 20th century event that was first reported by its namesake country due to lack of wartime press restrictions. | show 🗑
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| Glycolysis and the Krebs Cycle are two steps in the “aerobic” form of this cellular process by which living organisms take in oxygen, generate ATP, and release carbon dioxide | show 🗑
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| show | Socrates
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| The title thane and his wife imagine blood on their hands after conspiring to kill King Duncan in this Shakespeare tragedy, which is sometimes called “The Scottish Play.” | show 🗑
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| ] Before murdering Duncan, Macbeth delivers a speech to one of these objects, which is covered in “dudgeon gouts of blood.” That speech begins, “Is this” one of these objects “which I see before me?” | show 🗑
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| This philosopher challenged Thales’ assertion that the Earth floats on water in his cosmological treatise De Caelo. This philosopher asserted that all beings have material, formal, efficient, and final causes governing their existence. | show 🗑
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| The FBI ordered the assassination of a leader of this organization who founded the Rainbow Coalition, Fred Hampton. Name the radical African American political organization that formed during the Black Power movement | show 🗑
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| Boogie woogie music arose out of this broad style of music, which was sung by Mamie Smith and Bessie Smith. This style makes use of namesake “worried” notes that typically occur on the third, fifth, or seventh. | show 🗑
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| Boogie woogie and blues are both precursors of this popular genre, which is exemplified by Elvis Presley’s “Blue Suede Shoes” and “Jailhouse [this genre].” | show 🗑
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| Name the 1823 doctrine which opposed European intervention in North or South America. Although its namesake was a president who oversaw the “Era of Good Feelings,” it was actually written by his Secretary of State, John Quincy Adam | show 🗑
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| This movement in painting presents objects analytically, typically in fragmented planes, as the mind, not the eye, perceives them, founded by Georges Bragne originating in Paris in 1907 | show 🗑
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| show | : Saint Thomas A Becket
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| show | spleen
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| show | Shintoism
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| show | J. Robert Oppenheimer
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| What French explorer, searching for the Northwest Passage, sailed up the St. Lawrence River in the 1530s, claiming parts of Canada for France? | show 🗑
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| It is tDe best selling children's book of all time. What is this story with the characters Mr. McGregor. and the title character's 3 siblings: Flopsy, Mopsy. and Cottontail that was written by Beatrix Potter? | show 🗑
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| What river, flowing out of the Bodensee, flows through such cities as Basel, Strasbourg, and Bonn, and empties into the North Sea at Rotterdam? | show 🗑
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| show | Justinian
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| Viruses, bacteria, and the cells of transplanted organs can all function as these. What are these substances foreign to the body that cause the production of antibodies? | show 🗑
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| show | Juan Ponce de Leon
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| show | Plessy vs. Ferguson
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| Projects of this architect include Mile High Center in Denver. the Rock and Roll Hall amed pyramid entrance at the Louvre. Name this Chinese-American architect. | show 🗑
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| When ships carrying supplies returned in 159 I. all they found was the word "Croatoan" scratched into the bark of a tree. That was all that was left of what Walter Raleigh-founded missing colony, the first British colony in the New World? | show 🗑
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| Some believe that this man was a scapegoat for the French reign of terror when he was guillotined in 1794, for he only ordered 72 executions personally. Who was this leader of the lacobins and the Committee of Public Safety? | show 🗑
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| Although he is usually known for comedy roles, he played Larry Darrell in a 1984 movie The Razor's Edge. Who is this former Saturday Night Live cast member who's starred in such films as Scrooged. What About Bob. and Groundhog Day? | show 🗑
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| show | Salman Rushdie
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| show | Blaise Pascal
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| show | A Midsummer's Night's Dream
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| show | Richard Simmons
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| March 5, 1770 event where British troops fired ----------into a mob, killing 5 as a result of a thrown snowball. | show 🗑
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| 8th century Irish copy of the Gospels that is ---------probably the most famous illuminated manuscript | show 🗑
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| Beating Robert Scott's expedition by one month. what Norwegian on December 14, 191 I, was the first man to reach the South Pole? | show 🗑
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| show | John Rolfe
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| 'Which British Prime Minister proclaimed "peace in our time" after signing the Munich pact with Hitler in 1938? | show 🗑
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| show | Ben Hur
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| show | True Grit
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| show | The Great Fire of London
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| This happens when normal liver cells are replaced by connective tissue cells. resulting in heavy scarring. What is this disease usually associated with alcoholism? | show 🗑
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| What name is given to the period of the Roman Empire from the reign of Augustus in 27 B.C. to the death of Marcus Aurelius in A.D. 180. which was marked by orderly government and few conflicts? | show 🗑
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| Although he is sometimes known as the son of Poseidon. he is usually referred to as the son of Aegeus. Who is this slayer of Sciron and Procrustes on the way to Athens and then in Crete, the Minotaur? | show 🗑
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| show | Josepb Goebbels
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| show | Uranus
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| show | The Flight of the Bumble Bee
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| During his reign many Christians were executed. including St. Peter. who was crucified upside-down in A.D. 64. He suspected Christians of starting the Great Fire of Rome. Who was this mad emperor who murdered his family & fiddled while Rome burned? | show 🗑
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| These people have inhabited the North African coast since prehistoric times. Most now live in Morocco and Algeria and are no longer nomadic. What is this group of nonSemitic, Caucasoid people famous for their rugs? | show 🗑
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| show | The Bhagavadgita
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| show | Sydney Opera House
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| show | Wild Bill Hickock
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| This city was founded in the 8th century on an ancient pilgrimage and trade route between India and China and Tibet. It has a royal palace and many Buddhist shrines and monuments. What is this city, the capital of the Himalayan nation of Nepal? | show 🗑
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| Named because of its triangular shape, it is involved in the movements of the head and shoulder. Name this muscle running from the back of the neck, across the back of the shoulder, and down the upper spine | show 🗑
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| show | Waiting for Godot
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| show | Lyceum
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| show | Leonidis
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| show | Lost Generation
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| This Frenchman who designed the layout of Washington D.C | show 🗑
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| show | Ode on a Grecian Urn
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| show | The Pendleton Act
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| show | The Last Supper
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| show | Charles Darwin
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| show | Scblieffen Plan
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| show | Rene Descartes
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| What ancient, pre-Celtic people of Northern Scotland established a kingdom that flourished in the 8th century before unifying with the Celtic Scots under the rule of KeMeth MacAlpin in 844? | show 🗑
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| 2. Edward VI's cousin and chosen successor, who in 1533 was Queen of England for nine days until she was sentenced for treason and put to death by Mary I? | show 🗑
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| ~at Italian master of Baroque painting known for his use of chiaroscuro painted "The Calling of St. Matthew" and "The Conversion of St. Paul?" | show 🗑
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| show | Cobalt
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| show | Avatar
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| His drowning in 1886 raised suspicions since he was known to be an excellent swimmer. Who was this "mad" king of Bavaria known for building 3 opulent palaces and castles, including the fairy tale castle of Neuschwanstein? | show 🗑
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| show | Battle of Horseshoe Bend
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| This short story opens with the murder of an old woman and her daughter. C. Auguste Dupin later solves the case and identifies the murderer as an escaped orangutan. Name this Poe short story, the world's first detective story | show 🗑
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| show | Ulricb (Huldrycb) Zwingli
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| show | Petra
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| show | The Swiss Guards
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| The islands of Ibiza, Menorca, and Mallorca form the major part of what Spanish island chain in the Mediterranean? | show 🗑
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| show | Sons of Liberty
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| Although it's smaller, it's better preserved than its neighbor. What is this city near Pompeii that was also destroyed in the A.D. 79 eruption of Mt. Vesuvius? | show 🗑
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| First discovered in 1967, they are objects that emit radio waves in preferred directions and periodic bursts. They are thought to be rapidly spinning neutron stars. | show 🗑
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| show | Alan Shephard
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| show | McCullough v. Maryland
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| Cronus wounded him with a sickle and made him unable to father any more children.. He was the earliest god of the sky in Greek and Roman mythology, and he was the son and husband of Gaea and parents of the Titans | show 🗑
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| Justice Oliver W. Holmes said that a person who encourages draft resistance during a war is a "clear and present danger". In this landmark decision dealing with free speech, the court upheld the WWI Espionage Act in 1919. | show 🗑
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| show | For Whom the Bell Tolls
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| This process can be described as one of stimulus substitution. In the traditional Pavlovian technique, a dog is placed in a soundproof room and trained to expect food when a bell rings. Identify this form of learning | show 🗑
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| show | Warren Gamaliel Harding
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| show | Alfred or Alfred the Great
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| show | Phineas Taylor Barnum
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| show | The Who
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| show | The Volga
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| In this novel by Mark Twain, a man named Hank Morgan travels back in time more than a thousand years | show 🗑
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| show | War of the Roses
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| This author was the first American to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, Name this author of Main Street. | show 🗑
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| Like male pattern baldness, this disease is notably X-linked or inherited from the mother. Alexei Romanov had this disease in which blood doesn't clot properly. | show 🗑
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| show | Atlas Shrugged
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| show | Douglas Macarthur
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| show | Victoria Falls
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| This man never actually wrote the line “Elementary, my dear Watson. This British writer is best known for creating the detective Sherlock Holmes | show 🗑
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| This amendment outlines the procedure for filling vacancies in Executive positions. This amendment also discusses scenarios where the President is unfit to serve | show 🗑
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| show | Mesopotamia
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| Name these devices which only allow current to flow in one direction | show 🗑
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| This American show is hosted by the Chairman. It centers around chefs competing to make the best meal from one secret ingredient, which is revealed by the Chairman saying “Allez Cuisine. | show 🗑
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| show | Alton Brown
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| show | Ian Fleming
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| George Fox founded this group which believes in God’s existence in all people. William Penn established a colony for these pacifists who do not have official ministers | show 🗑
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| show | skyhook
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| show | waltz
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| This muckraking novelist wrote The Jungle. His other work includes The Brass Check and King Coal | show 🗑
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| show | : Pewdiepie or Felix Kjellberg
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| This American physicist once said “Now I am become death, destroyer of worlds”. Name this American scientist who led the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos and is known as the “father of the atomic bomb”. | show 🗑
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| show | Wuthering Heights
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| show | Midas
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| show | exocytosis
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| show | colloid
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| show | energy
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| show | moraines
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| These proteins are encoded in variable, diversity, & joining segments, & they can undergo class switching or somatic hypermutation. Coming in “monoclonal” varieties & having 2 heavy and 2 light chains ,are Y-shaped proteins that neutralize pathogens | show 🗑
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| show | Mexico
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| After serving the entrails of a Molossian hostage to Zeus, a King of Arcadia was turned into one of these people. These people are able to transform on the night of the full moon. Lycaon was one of, what humans with the ability to shapeshift into wolves? | show 🗑
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| show | personality
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| This compound is metabolized to 5-HIAA in the liver and it is a derivative of tryptophan. Fluoxetine and citalopram are among the SSRI antidepressants that block the reabsorption of, for what neurotransmitter that regulates mood and sleep? | show 🗑
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| This can be used with cryolite to smelt aluminum during the Hall-Héroult process. This process is used to drive non-spontaneous chemical reactions. Name this process by which a direct electric current is used to “decompose” water into hydrogen & oxygen | show 🗑
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||||
| show | John Locke
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|
||||
| Franklin Pierce’s Secretary of War was this man, whose Vice President was Alexander H. Stephens. This man employed Robert E. Lee as Commander-in-Chief during an 1861-1865 conflict in another role. Name this first and last President of the Confederacy | show 🗑
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| The title thane and his wife imagine blood on their hands after conspiring to kill King Duncan in this Shakespeare tragedy, which is sometimes called “The Scottish Play | show 🗑
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||||
| Before murdering Duncan, Macbeth delivers a speech to one of these objects, which is covered in “dudgeon gouts of blood.” That speech begins, “Is this” one of these objects “which I see before me?” | show 🗑
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||||
| show | love
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|
||||
| The Khmer people who lived in the Khmer empire make up much of this modern-day country. This country’s much later Khmer Rouge regime was led by Pol Pot. | show 🗑
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| After travelling to the underworld, a character in this epic uses milk, honey, wine, water, & barley meal to summon the spirits of the dead. Name this epic poem by Homer that follows the title character’s 10-year-return to his home from the Trojan War. | show 🗑
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| show | angle of repose
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| Justice Byron White argued against this case since interrogation is not coercive, the 5th Amendment does not protect against self incrimination in cases of police questioning. Name this Supreme Court case that ruled suspects have the right to a lawyer. | show 🗑
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| After Franklin Roosevelt declared a bank holiday, the Emergency Banking Act gave this system the power to supply unlimited paper currency. Name this central banking system of the United States that was created by a namesake act in 1913 | show 🗑
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| The Santa Fe bridge connects Ciudad Juárez with the city of El Paso in this U.S. state | show 🗑
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| show | volume
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| show | symmetry
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| show | Stephen Crane
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| The companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were accused of offering these assets with too little restriction. Name these assets. Lehman Brothers was forced to declare bankruptcy after their securities backed by these assets rapidly lost their value | show 🗑
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| Death of a Salesman is a play by this American playwright of The Crucible | show 🗑
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| The government of the Paris commune provided this political theorist with an example of a “dictatorship of the proletariat,” an idea he elaborated on in The Communist Manifesto, which he wrote with Frederick Engels | show 🗑
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| show | Erwin Schrödinger
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|
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| During this film, two characters inadvertently recite lines from the nursery rhyme “The Muffin Man.” Lord Farquad is the antagonist of what animated film in which donkey rescues Fiona. | show 🗑
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| show | hypotheses
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|
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| This author used his interviews with Malcolm X as the basis for his The Autobiography of Malcolm X. He described his ancestor Kunta Kinte coming to the Americas in the book Roots | show 🗑
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| show | Malcolm X
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|
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| Pernicious anemia occurs when this organ contains low levels of a glycoprotein that binds to vitamin B12 called intrinsic factor. The pyloric sphincter regulates transport out of this organ into the duodenum & this organ secretes hydrochloric acid. | show 🗑
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| show | Transylvania
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| It’s not the mitochondria, but this organelle has its own DNA and ribosomes located in the stroma. Stacks of thylakoid known as grana can be found in this organelle that is only present in plants and certain protists | show 🗑
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| show | Assassination of President Abraham Lincoln
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| This man who envisioned a ladder, wrestled an angel and received the name Israel. One of his sons was accused of stealing a silver cup and another one of his sons received a multi-colored coat. Name this patriarch to the twelve tribes, the son of Isaac | show 🗑
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| Dutch independence and upheld the principle that a country’s religion is determined by its ruler which was first established in the Peace of Augsburg. Name this 1624 series of agreements that ended the Thirty Years War | show 🗑
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| show | Symphony No. 5 in C minor by Beethoven or Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony
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| show | Downtown Abbey
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| This instrument, which represents the bird in Peter and the Wolf, is in used by Tamino to survive Sarastro’s challenges, so he can marry Pamina. In that opera named for this instrument, the aria “Der Holle Rache” is sung by the Queen of the Night. | show 🗑
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| Economies of scale and high barriers to entry lead to the “natural” form of what economic scenario countered by antitrust laws, where only one entity provides a particular good or service? | show 🗑
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| show | Lady Macbeth
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| show | leaves
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| show | Mexico
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| show | Alan Turing
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| show | Good Friday
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| In this country, participants celebrate a festival in Bunol, (*) La Tomatina, by throwing tomatoes at each other. The rice dish paella is from the Valencia region of this country, while its city of Pamplona is home to the Running of the Bulls | show 🗑
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| show | faults
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| Mobile Star was sued after it sold counterfeit Apple products through this company, which owns Twitch. It cut the price of many groceries after it purchased Whole Foods, while its virtual assistant Alexa became available on the Echo in 2015 | show 🗑
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| show | Walt Whitman
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| show | friction
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| show | War of 1812
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| show | Hedda Gabler
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| Hedda Gabler is a play by this Norwegian playwright, who also wrote a work in which Nora Helmer slams the door on her husband Torvald after leaving him, A Doll’s House. | show 🗑
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| show | colloids
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| show | Tyndall Effect
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| show | homogeneous mixtures
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| An animated Netflix original is a series featuring these two characters. In a 2014 film, this talking dog and his adopted son travel through time and cause a rip in the space-time continuum | show 🗑
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| After being trapped in an underground bunker for 15 years, the title character of this Netflix show moves to New York City and works for Jane Krakowski’s character Jacqueline | show 🗑
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| The white king will normally castle queenside in the “dragon” variation of this chess opening that begins with a white pawn on e4 [E-4] and a black pawn on c5 [C-5]. | show 🗑
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| Kesh is one of the “Five Ks” of Sikhism, which signifies that devotees must leave this part of their body uncut. It is often tied up in a dastar, or turban | show 🗑
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| show | Alexander the Great
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| Air shafts were included in the “dumbbell” form of these buildings, generally subdivided into 3-room units. Name these buildings home to poor urban families. An 1879 act required these buildings to have fire escapes & for every room to have windows | show 🗑
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| Jacob Riis, who documented tenement life in How the Other Half Lives, was part of this movement to expose corrupt American institutions. Ida Tarbell, who wrote The Rise of the Standard Oil Company, also belonged to this movement | show 🗑
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| show | mollusks
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| show | golden apples
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| show | Argo
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| Name this largest island in the Philippines. It contains Taal Lake, which contains a volcanic island, which contains a crater lake, which contains the small island of Vulcan Point, previously thought to be the largest third-order island | show 🗑
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| This man pioneered “underway fuel replenishment” for the US Navy as Chief Engineer of the USS Maumee during World War I. Name this fleet admiral who commanded the Pacific Fleet during World War II. He names a class of nuclear-powered US aircraft carriers | show 🗑
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| This book’s prophet buys a field in Anathoth, breaks a clay jug in front of the priests, and wears an oxen yoke which the false prophet Hananiah breaks. The king Zedekiah throws the prophet of this book into a cistern | show 🗑
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| show | Invictus
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| Sandro Botticelli painted this scene, in which the title love goddess stands on a floating seashell. It can be found in the Uffizi Gallery. | show 🗑
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| show | Pompeii
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| show | Washington Irving
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| This metal is responsible for the oxidation of superoxide to oxygen. Zinc powder mixed with this metal is commonly used in a cyclopropanation reaction of alkenes. Sulfate of this metal is responsible for the blue color in a solution. | show 🗑
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| show | Candide
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| show | Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints [or Mormons]
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| show | Caspian Sea
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|
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| Aside from authoring the Elementary Treatise on Chemistry, he built upon the work of Joseph Priestley to finally disprove the phlogiston theory. Nme this French scientist, often called the “Father of Modern Chemistry.” | show 🗑
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| A figure holds a knife behind him in one hand while whispering to John and another can be seen clutching a bag of coins. Name this painting, housed in the Santa Maria Delle Grazie’s refectory in Milan, a work by Leonardo da Vinci | show 🗑
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| show | Montgomery Bus Boycott
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| This philosopher advocated for the separation of church & state. He claimed that God exists with the 2nd highest degree of certainty” He believed that men must secure “life, liberty, & estate” & that revolution is justified when the government is corrupt | show 🗑
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| show | Puck
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| show | Queen
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|
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| During this conflict the 8 Nation Alliance relieved the Siege of the Legations. This conflict ended in a namesake protocol & granted Austria-Hungary a concession in Tianjin. Name this rebellion of the Righteous Harmonious Fists in late 19th century China. | show 🗑
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| This artist made a short film which was just eight minutes and five seconds of the Empire State Building. Name this artist who, besides filming Empire, painted fifty portraits of Marilyn Monroe using silkscreen in his Marilyn Diptych | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Campbell’s soup cans
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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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| 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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||||
| Hawaii, Yellowstone, and Iceland are all examples of these regions where volcanoes are formed away from tectonic plate boundaries. These areas are thought to occur because of mantle plumes. | show 🗑
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| show | Mauna Loa
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| show | Great Expectations
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| The Wealth of Nations was written by this Scottish economist. He also wrote Theory of Moral Sentiments | show 🗑
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| show | onomatopoeia
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| show | Jamestown
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|
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| show | Bacon’s Rebellion
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|
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| show | Moroni
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| show | Brigham Young
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| show | dragons
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| His most famous work invokes the muse Urania and describes the founding of Pandemonium. This author famously penned the line “tis better to reign in hell than to serve in heaven,” and also wrote L’Allegro, Areopagitica, and Paradise Lost. | show 🗑
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| In a poem in this collection the narrator describes the title figure as having “fallen cold & dead.” Other poems include “Where Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d” and “I Sing the Body electric.” Name this collection of poems by Walt Whitman | show 🗑
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| One woman accidentally leaves an infant stranded at a train station and Dr. Chasuble is asked by Jack Worthing to christen him using a fake dead brother’s name. Name this play about Jack using the titular name to woo Gwendolen, a work by Oscar Wilde. | show 🗑
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| show | Sigmund Freud
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| show | Dungeons & Dragons
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| In a 2003 national referendum, Sweden rejected the use of this entity. Many countries in this entity's namesake zone experienced debt crisis in 2009. Name the world’s second largest reserve currency, that is used by 19 out of 28 European Union nations | show 🗑
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| The New Departure strategy agitated for this amendment after court decisions would not enable its goal; that strategy was led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. Name this constitutional amendment that guaranteed American women’s right to vote | show 🗑
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| show | black holes
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| show | Arab Spring
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| Moles and grams are units often used in this subfield of chemistry that deals with the quantitative connections between products and reactants | show 🗑
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| show | Gobi desert
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| show | Arabian Desert
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| “One dollar and eighty-seven cents. That was all. And sixty cents of it was in pennies”.That was the the opening line to this famous short story about a husband and a wife who sell their own most prized possessions to buy Christmas presents for the other. | show 🗑
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| “The Gift of the Magi” is published under the name O. Henry, the nom de plume for this American author who specialized in situational irony. | show 🗑
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| 11. This system contains the organ that is responsible for releasing hormones like FSH and LH. Name this organ system that contains the pituitary gland, as well as the brain and spinal cord | show 🗑
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| show | glial cells
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| This part of the brain contains the visual cortex and is the most posterior lobe, lying just behind the temporal lobe. | show 🗑
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| 12. The grandmasters of this sect are known as mawla and many practitioners seek to perfect their worship of Allah by achieving ihsan. Name this mystic branch of Islam, often characterized by ascetic lifestyles and a form of meditation based on “whirling | show 🗑
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| The right to a trial by Jury in criminal cases is guaranteed in this constitutional amendment. | show 🗑
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| While criminal cases use a beyond a reasonable doubt evidence standard to determine guilt, civil cases use this lower evidence standard to determine whether or not the defendant is liable | show 🗑
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| Name this mineral, used as an aspirant in baby powder and as a lubricant for pharmaceutical and industrial uses. It is one of the softest minerals and can be scratched with a fingernail | show 🗑
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| show | In the Hall of the Mountain King”
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| show | September 11th attacks or 9/11 (Nine-Eleven)
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| show | George W. Bush
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| show | The Count of Monte Cristo; Le Comte de Monte-Cristo
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| show | Michael Jordan
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| show | 1984
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| show | Citizen Kane
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| Kristallnacht was an example of these kinds of riots which were particularly aimed at the Jewish population that mostly took place in Russia. Two of these events were carried out in Lviv, Ukraine, in 1941 which killed about 5,000 people. | show 🗑
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| show | John Philip Souza
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| show | Scott Joplin
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| This infuriatingly catchy song by Pharrell came from the Despicable Me 2 soundtrack. It asks you to let him “know if you feel like a room without a roof.” | show 🗑
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| This public park, located in the Loop area of Chicago, was opened in 2004. It contains the Pritzker Pavilion and Cloud Gate | show 🗑
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| The British forces under John Burgoyne were defeated by Horatio Gates and Benedict Arnold at, what 1777 battle in New York which began the Franco-American alliance and is often called the turning point of the American Revolution? | show 🗑
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| show | Battle of Iwo Jima
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| show | String Quartet
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| This couple provided information regarding nuclear weapon designs, sonar, and jet propulsion systems to the KGB until their 1953 arrest. They were later executed in the gas chamber for treason against the United States | show 🗑
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| show | Zambezi River
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| show | meiosis
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| show | Louisiana Purchase
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| The purchase of Alaska from Russia was conducted by this Secretary of State who served under Abraham Lincoln | show 🗑
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| show | Gadsden Purchase
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| Name this island divided between Chile and Argentina that was named for what appeared to be a collection of fires to European explorers | show 🗑
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| show | Strait of Magellan
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| show | Shiva
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| show | Suez Canal
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| show | Hadrian's Wall
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| show | Nirvana
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| Soundgarden and other rock bands like Pearl Jam and Alice in Chains were all formed in this American city. | show 🗑
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| show | Quetzalcoatl
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| Name this Norse god, the son of Odin and Frigg, who was killed by a spear made out of mistletoe due to the scheming of Loki | show 🗑
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| Name this 1911 fire, which saw 146 people die at a clothes factory in New York. Many of the casualties were due to the fact that the doors on the eighth floor were locked. | show 🗑
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| Quartz can be found in this type of plant fossil formed by calcite and silica replacing the initial form of the xylem | show 🗑
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| show | Java
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| show | Marilyn Monroe
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| Name this United States President who delivered the Checkers speech. After his resignation, he was pardoned by his successor, Gerald Ford, who was his Vice president after Spiro Agnew | show 🗑
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| Name this type of line which locally touches a given function at a single point of intersection. For circles, these lines are perpendicular to radii. | show 🗑
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| This character had to kill nine sea monsters, causing him to lose a swimming contest, and later becomes king of the Geats. Identify this hero, friend of Hrothgar and owner of Hrunting, who died killing a dragon. | show 🗑
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| show | Grendel
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| show | Ross Perot
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| show | Groucho Marx
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| show | Multiple Sclerosis (or MS)
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| This era ended with the outcome of the election of 1876, where Rutherford B. Hayes compromised to end this era. Name this era which characterized the rebuilding of the south after the Civil War | show 🗑
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| This general was replaced by Matthew Ridgeway On the USS Missouri, this man accepted the surrender of Japan. He stated “I shall return”. Name this 5 star general who was dismissed by President Truman | show 🗑
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| This most famous work of artist of the Massacre at Chios and The Death of Sardanapalus includes a corpse wearing a blue sock as a bare-breasted woman proudly flies the tricolor flag. Name this French artist of Liberty Leading the People | show 🗑
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| show | Railroad(s) Industry
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| show | alchemy
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| The fourth one of these events established the Nicaean and Latin Empires, and the first established the Kingdom of Jerusalem. Name these catholic holy wars with intent to remove heresy from a particular region. | show 🗑
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| This rapper stated that “Can’t nobody feel your pain, The world’s changin’ everyday, time’s movin’ fast” He was shot on Sept. 7, 1996 after attending his business partner birthday party in Las Vegas. Name this rapper of “Hit ‘Em Up” and “Dear Mama”. | show 🗑
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| show | Battle of Thermopylae
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| show | War of the Roses
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| An attack at this battle originated from Cemetery Ridge, Pickett's charge. George Meade won this battle against Robert E. Lee, which made him retreat from his campaign on Washington DC. Name this bloodiest battle in the civil war. | show 🗑
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| This contained the battles of Chapultepec Castle and the Siege of Veracruz. This war, which was ended by the Treaty of (*) Guadalupe Hidalgo, began after conflicts on the Rio Grande. Name this war of the United States and its southern neighbor. | show 🗑
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| The resignation of UK PM Anthony Eden occurred after a crisis at this location. That crisis empowered President(*) Nasser, and resulted in the nationalization of this waterway. Name this canal connecting the Red Sea to the Mediterranean in Egypt. | show 🗑
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| This man was embroiled in a scandal where he supplied arms to (*) rebels in Nicaragua. This president told Mikhail Gorbachev to “Tear down this wall” and faced the Iran - Contra scandal. Name this actor and 40th US president. | show 🗑
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| show | Napoleon Bonaparte
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| show | California
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| show | Mao Zedong
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| The first intentional attempt of this feat was done by Thomas Cavendish. It was first done in the 17th century by Juan Sebastián Elcano, part of Ferdinand Magellan’s crew; although, Magellan himself could not make it as he was killed by Philippine natives | show 🗑
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| show | Assassination of John F. Kennedy
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| show | Missouri Compromise
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| This man used his “Companion Cavalry” & his father’s hammer and anvil strategy to beat the enemy at the Battle of Hydaspes, and this man was famous for solving the Gordian Knot. Name this Macedonian king that defeated Darius the Great and united Greece. | show 🗑
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| show | Mali
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| show | Salem Witch Trials
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| This deity got his sinews stolen by the monster Typhon, which he only got back with the help of Hermes and Aegipan. This deity kidnapped the cup-bearer Ganymede in the form of an eagle,& fathered Perseus with Danaë. He's the brother of Poseidon and Hades | show 🗑
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| His military reforms included the usage of a short(*) stabbing spear, rather than a long, throwing one. This king formulated the Bull’s Horn formation with a chest, loins, and head. Name this founder of the Zulu Empire in South Africa and Swaziland. | show 🗑
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| show | Ramses II [Accept Ramses “the Great)
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| show | photography
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| In a song, this band included the bridge “And you give yourself away.” Harsh guitar is used to depict the horrors of The Troubles in this band’s single “Sunday Bloody Sunday.” Name this Irish rock band fronted by Bono & the song “With or Without You” | show 🗑
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| show | Spike Lee
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| show | Gold
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| Dutch farmers were the first Europeans to colonize this country, where they were known as Boers or Afrikaners. The Second Boer War was fought primarily in what is now this African country. It's policy of Apartheid led it to be criticized by the world. | show 🗑
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| show | Torah
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| ] Frasier Crane first appeared on this earlier show as a patron of the title Boston bar. This show starred Ted Danson as former Red Sox pitcher Sam Malone | show 🗑
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| This god, whom Parvati fashioned from clay, had his head cut off by Shiva in a rage. It was then replaced with the head of an elephant, giving this Hindu god of wisdom his most distinctive feature | show 🗑
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| The voltage across a resistor is equal to the product of current and resistance by this law. This law’s German namesake also names the SI unit for resistance | show 🗑
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| This process is described in Article V [5] of the Constitution and can involve state conventions. Name this process that can be carried out by two-thirds of both houses of Congress and legislatures of two-thirds of the states | show 🗑
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| Though this crop is widely used throughout the world for food, people with celiac disease must avoid foods made with it because they react adversely to gluten. Name this crop whose seeds are commonly crushed to make ordinary flour. | show 🗑
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| show | inscribed
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| This person ran a traveling Congress of Rough Riders of the World, and he employed Frank Butler, Sitting Bull, Calamity Jane, and Annie Oakley. A town in Wyoming is named for this entertainer. Name this man who hosted a Wild West show | show 🗑
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| show | Leif Ericson
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| show | Romance Languages
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| A congressional caucus named for this movement was headed by Michele Bachmann . One of the groups part of this movement was 9/12 started by Glenn Beck when he had a show on Fox News. Identify this conservative political movement, opposed to Obama | show 🗑
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| show | Ariana Grande
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| Most of this writer’s main characters are animals, including a grasshopper, a tortoise, and a hare. Name this ancient Greek writer who included morals at the end of his fables. | show 🗑
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| show | New Brunswick
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| show | Québec
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| show | North Dakota
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| Because of its rash, the disease named for this virus was nicknamed “three-day measles”. Vaccines now prevent this disease, which used to be a common cause of miscarriage and of babies being born deaf or with heart disease. | show 🗑
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| In this play, the protagonist says “There was respect, & comradeship, & gratitude in it. Today, it’s all cut & dried and there’s no chance for bringing friendship to bear or personality.” It ends at a poorly attended funeral with Linda Loman crying. | show 🗑
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| show | A Raisin in the Sun
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| show | Gone with the Wind
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|
||||
| Name this imaging technique used to observe metabolic activity in humans. It involves the consumption of radioactive tracer to image the body | show 🗑
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| This technique uses magnetic fields to image soft tissue. The “functional” type of this technique measures blood flow in the brain to pinpoint brain activity. | show 🗑
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| The image of a dog chasing its tail inspired this composer’s “Minute Waltz”Name this Romantic era composer who wrote primarily for solo piano. His other works include a set of etudes and a “Funeral March | show 🗑
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| Name this event that occurs when the Moon passes between the Sun and Earth. A “total” one of these events occurred on August 21, 2017 | show 🗑
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| show | photosphere
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| Augusto Pinochet became the military leader of this country, after the presidential palace, La Moneda, was shelled in its capital city of Santiago. | show 🗑
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| show | Lake Victoria
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| show | Polyphemus
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| show | Poseidon
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| show | Cardi B
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| This artist collaborated with Yo Gotti on “Rake it Up” in 2017, and remixed Lil Uzi Vert’s “The Way Life Goes.” She is the best selling female rapper of all time, with her highest charting single to date being “Anaconda” | show 🗑
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| The “Cross of Gold” speech was delivered by this man, which led to him securing the Democratic Party nomination for President in 1896. | show 🗑
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| In the Great Race, this animal finished 5th because he stopped to help out villagers. Name this only imaginary creature in the Chinese zodiac. A holiday on the 5th day of the 5th month celebrates Qu Yuan by racing boats that look like one of these | show 🗑
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| show | : Paulo Coelho
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| show | Terracotta Army
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| show | Iraq War
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|
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| This negatively sloped curve is often drawn with its counterpart, the supply curve, and shows the relationship between the price of a good and the quantity people are willing to buy | show 🗑
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| show | : Excalibur
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| show | Avalon
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| show | : Saffir or Simpson
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| show | : Joseph Priestley
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| show | Jackie Chan
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| show | Chester A(lan) Arthur
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| The protagonist of this novel is saved from drowning by her husband, who she is eventually forced to shoot after he is bitten by a rabid dog. Name this novel in whose protagonist stays in two unhappy marriages before marrying Tea Cake | show 🗑
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| Their Eyes Were Watching God was written by this African American author who wrote about her experiences in moving from the all black town of Eatonville to Jacksonville in her essay How it Feels to be Colored Me. | show 🗑
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| This action painter of the Abstract Expressionism movement often painted by simply dripping paint onto a canvas. His famous works include No. 5, 1948 and No. 17A. | show 🗑
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| Name this post World War II art movement which emphasized the use of spontaneity and gestural brushes and strokes to display feelings and emotions in paintings. | show 🗑
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| This projectile used in badminton consists of a roughly conical shape, and contains features embedded in cork, leading to high drag | show 🗑
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| show | amoebas (or amoeboids)
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| show | The Barbary Wars
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| On top of his English Muffins, Jamie Oliver adds vegetables which have undergone this chemical reaction in which the sugars oxidize and turn brown. It occurs at higher temperatures than maillard reactions | show 🗑
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| One notable archaeologist was this man who famously excavated the pristine tomb of King Tut. He also served as Chief Inspector for the Egyptian Antiquities Service | show 🗑
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| The Peer Gynt Suite, whose famous piece “In the Hall of the Mountain King” begins with a low, quiet theme that gradually accelerates and crescendos, was written by this Norwegian composer. | show 🗑
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| show | Perestroika
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| show | Boris Yeltsin
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| Following his victory over Barry Goldwater in the 1964 election, this man implemented several important reforms. ] Name this president who created Medicare and Medicaid through his Great Society program as part of his war on poverty | show 🗑
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| Another part of Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society program was this act, meant to enforce the fifteenth amendment and prevent racial discrimination such as literacy tests | show 🗑
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| show | The Crocodile Hunter
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| show | Steven Irwin
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|
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| Thor takes nine steps before dying after being poisoned by this creature during Ragnarok. This creature is often named for the region that it encircles | show 🗑
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| show | Thoth
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| In North America, this biome is mainly dominated by spruce forests, & its inhabitants include lynxes, foxes & caribou. Deformed vegetation in the northern sections characterize the “tree line,” at which it meets the tundra. Name this biome | show 🗑
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| Jewel Cave, the third-longest cave in the world, is located near the town of Custer in the Black Hills of this U.S. state. This state’s highest point was recently renamed Black Elk Peak. | show 🗑
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| Russell’s Cave, which once served as a winter shelter for prehistoric Native Americans, lies near Guntersville Lake in the far northeast of this U.S. state. The iron-rich Red Mountain is in this state’s second-largest city. | show 🗑
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| Wessex was ruled by this Anglo-Saxon king who gained fame for defeating the Vikings at the Battle of Edington. This king is the only monarch in English history to be given the epithet “the Great.” | show 🗑
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| This work also introduces the “five relationships” and the concept of filial piety. This work was published by Zhu Xi after being written during the Warring States Period. Name this collection that outlines the philosophy of Confucius | show 🗑
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| Judas Iscariot, Brutus, & Cassius are being eaten by Satan in this work .The narrator of this work passes a gate reading “Abandon hope, all ye who enter” while being led by his guide, Virgil. Name this first of 3 sections of Dante’s Divine Comedy | show 🗑
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| Poutine, a dish consisting of french fries and cheese curds topped with gravy, is a delicacy originating from this French-speaking province. The Saint Lawrence and Ottawa Rivers converge at this province’s city of Montreal | show 🗑
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| The Nanaimo bar, which contains a wafer, custard icing, and a chocolate ganache, is named for a city on this island. It is partially separated from the Canadian mainland by the Strait of Georgia. | show 🗑
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| show | dopamine
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|
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| show | Bifrost
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| This politician’s 1972 presidential primary run ended after he was nearly assassinated by Arthur Bremer. Name this Alabama governor who had earlier won large portions of the south & finished behind Richard Nixon & Hubert Humphrey in the election of 1968 | show 🗑
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| show | Sir Galahad
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|
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| When a solvent cannot dissolve anymore of a solute, it is described by this adjective. In organic chemistry, these kind of compounds don’t have double or triple bonds | show 🗑
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| show | Louis XIV
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|
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| show | Ying and yang
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|
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| show | Mein Kampf
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|
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| show | Beer Hall Putsch
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| show | Joseph McCarthy
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|
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| Osiris engaged in a power struggle with this jealous god, his brother. This god eventually killed Osiris by chopping him into pieces and throwing his remains into the Nile | show 🗑
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| . Frédéric Chopin stated that this key is the hardest to play. Name this major key which has no flats or sharps. Franz Schubert’s “Great” symphony and Mozart’s “Jupiter” symphony were composed in this key. | show 🗑
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| show | the Hanging Gardens of Babylon
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| show | : Lighthouse of Alexandria
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|
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| . These devices can be thought of as the least complicated mechanisms. Name these objects, examples of which include the pulley and the lever. There are six of them, and combining two or more can create a compound machine | show 🗑
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| show | Archimedes
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|
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| Lois Lowry won her first Newbery for this novel about the rescue of Annemarie Johansen and her Jewish family from Nazi occupied Denmark. | show 🗑
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| Caesar was killed as a result of a conspiracy amongst Roman senators led by this man along with Cassius. In Latin, Caesar is quoted as saying “Et tu?” to this man. | show 🗑
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| This character in To Kill a Mockingbird leaves Scout and her brother Jem small gifts in a tree and saves the Finch children from an attack by Bob Ewell. | show 🗑
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| In this novel, the title family visits Grandma Sands. Name this novel that sees Kenny and his siblings exposed to racism at its worst when their grandmother’s church is bombed in the title city. | show 🗑
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| In May 2015,journalist Seymour Hersh claimed that the U.S. account of Operation Neptune Spear was a lie. Name this May 2011 event, the goal of Operation Neptune Spear, in which members of the U.S. Special Forces found and killed the leader of alQaeda | show 🗑
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| This American children’s novel sees the piglet Wilbur’s life spared after Fern convinces her father not to kill him. Name this novel whose title spider leaves messages, such as the phrase “Some Pig,” to save a more mature Wilbur from slaughter | show 🗑
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| When a falling object’s drag force is equal to gravity, it is said to be falling at this rate at which there is no acceleration | show 🗑
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| show | Antartica
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| show | Copper
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| It is revealed to Stingo that the title character of this work had to decide which of her children would die in the gas chambers. This title character eventually commits suicide with her lover Nathan. Meryl Streep won an Oscar for the film version. . | show 🗑
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| Felix Yusupov organized a plot to kill this man, whose body was eventually found in the Nevka River. This man’s advice & prayers were said to have stopped the bleeding of the hemophiliac Alexei. Name this advisor to the Romanov family, a Russian mystic | show 🗑
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| Bile is stored in this small organ beneath the liver. About half a million Americans have this organ removed each year because of the formation of cholesterol stones. | show 🗑
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| show | bile
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| show | Hans Solo
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| show | Ankara
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| show | Nirvana
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| This god visits the underworld sort-of unwillingly after being murdered by his brother Set, though his subsequent resurrection by his wife Isis makes the story another example of catabasis | show 🗑
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| This American scientist was effectively the father of rocket science. Despite often outright mocking from the public, he became the first to invent a liquid-fuel rocket | show 🗑
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| Inhibition of PCSK9 has been shown to reduce levels of this lipid molecule. Name this steroid molecule that maintains the fluidity of animal cell membranes. HDL is its “good” kind, while LDL is its “bad” kind. | show 🗑
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| This Midwestern city is home to both O’Hare International Airport and Midway International Airport. If you’re lucky, you can get a good view of this city’s Willis Tower on the approach to Midway | show 🗑
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| ] As king, Louis IX expanded the power of this institution that ferreted out anti-Catholic heretics. Its Spanish iteration was led by Tomás de Torquemada and used devices like the rack. | show 🗑
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| ] In macroautophagy, autophagosomes enclose damaged cell components and fuse with this organelle. These digestive organelles break down old cell waste | show 🗑
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| Spanish Florida, the destination of the Stono slaves, became U.S. territory due to a treaty named for this secretary of state and Luis de Onis. This man also argued the Amistad case before the Supreme Court | show 🗑
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| In its final act, dead residents of the title location gather in a cemetery, George and Emily Webb are married in this play, which is narrated by the Stage Manager. Name this play set in Grover’s Corners, written by Thornton Wilder. | show 🗑
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| show | Aphrodite
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| This character leads a parade in a dance to “Twist and Shout,” and his name is repeatedly called during a lecture. His friend Cameron destroys his father’s prized Ferrari while playing hooky in Chicago. Name character who takes a “day off. | show 🗑
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| show | Taoism (or Daoism
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| show | Australian Aborigine
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| show | : guillotine
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| The Lady of the Lake handed King Arthur this sword, which Bedivere was tasked with returning upon Arthur’s death. However, as Merlin pointed out, its sheath was much more valuable as it prevented blood-loss. | show 🗑
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| Times reviewer Pete Wells infamously savaged this celebrity chef’s restaurant American Kitchen & Bar, giving it zero stars and a “poor” rating. This chef hosts the show Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives on the Food Network | show 🗑
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| Most restaurant reviews that come with ratings use a system of granting these items. Michelin’s most notable award gives from one to three of these decorations, and the New York Times gives from zero to four. | show 🗑
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| At most fine dining restaurants with more than one course, you’ll receive one of these appetizers chosen by the chef and not specifically ordered by you. It’s name is French for “mouth amuser.” | show 🗑
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| show | Judas Iscariot
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| This group of rebels were part of “the Forty-Five” in an attempt to restore Bonnie Prince Charlie of the House of Stuart to the English throne. Unfortunately, this rising fails and you are killed at the Battle of Prestonpans | show 🗑
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| show | solvents
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| show | writ of habeas corpus
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| This Founding Father appears at the center of five diplomats in an unfinished Benjamin West portrait of the signers of the Treaty of Paris. Another West painting fancifully recounts an experiment in which he flew a kite in a thunderstorm. | show 🗑
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| Real-life Republican Fred Thompson played fictional Republican Arthur Branch on this show. This police procedural was created by Dick Wolf, and led to various spinoffs like SVU and Criminal Intent. | show 🗑
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| show | Family Ties
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| show | Samson
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| show | limbic system
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| show | standard deviation
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| show | Narcissus
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| Following a competition over him by Persephone and Aphrodite, this beautiful youth was gored by a boar. Aphrodite responded by creating his namesake flower, a blood-red anemone. | show 🗑
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| show | Clytie
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| show | Warren G Harding
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| show | pendulums
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| This law can be derived by making a quadratic approximation to potential energy at stable equilibria.Name this law applicable to simple harmonic oscillators. It states that the restoring force is proportional to and opposes the displacement force, | show 🗑
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| show | : Maya Angelou
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| Maya Angelou is best known for this autobiography, which takes its title from a Paul Laurence Dunbar poem. It describes Angelou’s upbringing in Stamps, Arkansas | show 🗑
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| show | Mortal Kombat
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| This German philosopher wrote Das Kapital. He exhorted, “Workers of the world, unite!” in a book he again coauthored with Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto. | show 🗑
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| show | chariot racing
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| show | Henri(-Émile-Benoît) Matisse
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| show | lyre
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| Icons are treated much more respectfully in this Christian church largely based in Greece. It split from the Catholic Church following the Great Schism | show 🗑
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| show | shirk
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| Performing the banzai charge effectively equated to doing this, and the “divine wind” that repelled Mongol invasions names a formof this action used to sink American ships, the kamikaze. Name this action often done to preserve one’s honor in Japan, | show 🗑
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| This Marvel superhero built his most famous weapon after being near-fatally wounded & captured by a warlord, That weapon allows him to fly and fire repulsor beams. Name this superhero whose identity is Tony Stark, a playboy billionaire. | show 🗑
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| show | Hollywood
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| Name this cause. In Great Britain, many supporters of this cause went on hunger strikes in prison. Meanwhile, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony fought for this right in the United States | show 🗑
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| To rescue another deity from entrapment in a golden throne, this god was brought from Lemnos after being inebriated with sweet wine by Dionysus. He was thrown out of Olympus by his mother Hera, and the ensuing nine-day fall crippled him. | show 🗑
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| The curse that a man will “lose a son of his own loins” comes true when Haemon kills himself in this play. Its title character hangs herself rather than suffer being buried alive. Name this last play in the Theban cycle, | show 🗑
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| Paul Gauguin spent nine weeks with this artist of Bedroom in Arles before moving to Tahiti. During those nine weeks, this artist of The Potato Eaters cut off his ear. | show 🗑
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| show | : Balfour Declaration
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| The Zoot Suit Riots primarily targeted young men of this ethnicity, who were accused of belonging to pachuco gangs | show 🗑
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| show | Colin Kaepernick
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| show | : Kansas
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| show | Battus
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| . Tonja Carter discovered the manuscript for this novel in a safe deposit box in 2011 .Name this novel about Jean Louise’s return to Maycomb, Alabama written by Harper Lee. | show 🗑
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| In this short story, Old Man Warner claims that if the title event is held “in June, corn be heavy soon. Name this short story by Shirley Jackson, which ends with Tessie Hutchinson being stoned to death after Mr. Summers draws her name out of a box. | show 🗑
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| Lupus is this kind of disease, in which part of a body is mistaken for a foreign pathogen and attacked. Examples include multiple sclerosis and Type I diabetes | show 🗑
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| In celiac disease, exposure to this substance causes an autoimmune reaction in the small intestine, leading to malabsorption. As a result, patients are advised to avoid this substance that is usually found in wheats and breads | show 🗑
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| This case arose after a Latino man was not informed of his 5th Amendment rights before confessing to kidnapping and raping a woman. Name this 1966 Supreme Court case which ruled that police officers must inform arrestees of their right to remain silent. | show 🗑
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| show | photoelectric effect
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| Emily Webb dies in childbirth in this play, after her marriage to George Gibbs. Name this play that is narrated by the Stage Manager and set in Grover’s Corners, written by Thornton Wilder | show 🗑
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| show | : Flagellants movement
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| show | : kosher
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| show | Thomas Aquinas
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| What US naval officer served as a midshipman in the War of 1812, had the U.S.S. Hartford as his flagship, damned some torpedoes, and won the Battle of Mobile Bay? | show 🗑
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| . Some neurologists favor cutting the corpus callosum, the body bridging the right and left hemispheres of the brain as a treatment for what inherited disease which causes seizures and comes in grand mal and petit mal forms? | show 🗑
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| Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin descended to the moon's surface in the Eagle, of course, becoming the first men on the moon. What third astronaut waited over head in the Apollo XI command module | show 🗑
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| show | Woody Allen
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| After the fall of South Vietnam in 1975, Saigon was renamedfor what communist leader who also had a famous trail named for him. | show 🗑
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| show | alma mater
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| As secretary to Lord Ashley, he wrote the Constitution for the Carolina colony .An empiricist philosopher, & he promulgated the theory that the mind of a newborn was a "tabula rasa". He also wrote "Essay Concerning Human Understanding" | show 🗑
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| This Scottish physicist of the 19th century wrote four equations containing the basic laws governing electricity and magnetism. Name this man whose equations formed the inspiration for Einstein’s theory of relativity. | show 🗑
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| Shushuan is the setting for the story of what Jewish holiday which celebrates religious freedom, and is marked by both the use of groggers to drown out the name of the villain and the baking of triangle shaped pastries? | show 🗑
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| show | Claude Debussy
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| Chlorine and Fluorine form diatomic molecules. However, they also form, along which Astatine, Iodine, and Bromine, what family, the seventh column of the Periodic Table? | show 🗑
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| show | Aaron Burr
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| In 1921 they were found guilty, and 6 years later, when all appeals failed, they were executed. Name these two men whose conviction was highly controversial and thought to be based on the Red scare | show 🗑
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| show | Mitochondria
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| show | Triple Entente
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| show | James Fenimore Cooper
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| What French Philosopher of the seventeenth century is known for his statement "Cogito ergo sum", the final result of his search for an indubitable thing, and an important rationalist statement? | show 🗑
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| show | HG Wells
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| "The Time Warp" is a prominent feature of what weird cult film, which features Janet, Brad, & many crazy teenagers yelling obscene things and throwing toilet paper & lunch meats at the screen at 12 o'clock every weekend at a theatre near you?! | show 🗑
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| show | friction
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| show | John Hancock
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| show | 18th
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| show | Ireland
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| Which Elizabethan playwright wrote about the scheming Barabas in The Jew of Malta? | show 🗑
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| “Itʹs raw!” is a catchphrase of what Scottish‐born celebrity who hosts the reality shows Hellʹs Kitchen and MasterChef? | show 🗑
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| show | Jason Statham
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| show | electronegativity
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| What former Portuguese colony on the Pearl River Delta west of Hong Kong was returned to China in 1999? | show 🗑
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| What British scientist, who stated a version of the second law of thermodynamics also named for Max Planck , is the namesake of an SI temperature unit? | show 🗑
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| show | WPA or Works Progress Administration
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| What German composer, who paired his Tragic Overture with his Academic Festival Overture and wrote the Hungarian Dances, is best known for a lullaby? | show 🗑
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| The relationship between antiderivatives and definite integrals is given by the second part of the “fundamental theorem of” which branch of mathematics? | show 🗑
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| show | The Sound and the Fury
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| show | Orion
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| What woman delays revealing the fate of a condemned merchant as she tells her husband the story of a vengeful genie in the Thousand and One Nights? | show 🗑
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| show | legato
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| show | time
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| show | phalanx
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||||
| Which physicist proclaimed ”God does not play dice with the universe,” explained Brownian motion, developed relativity, and stated ”E = mc2” | show 🗑
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||||
| What South American city is generally called the worldʹs highest capital city, even though it is only a de facto capital? | show 🗑
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| What theologian included a chapter on “The Doctrine of Election” in his The Institutes of the Christian Religion, which he revised in Geneva? | show 🗑
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| In July 2015 Cecil the lion was killed by a hunter in what country whose capital is Harare | show 🗑
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| What lake fed by the Chari River has shrunk drastically as the Sahara Desert has expanded and is near NʹDjamena in its namesake African country? | show 🗑
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| By what colorful nickname is Manfred von Richthofen, a World War I German ace, better known? | show 🗑
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| What novelist wrote about Onaʹs marriage to the immigrant Jurgis Rudkus in a 1906 exposé of the Chicago meatpacking industry titled The Jungle? | show 🗑
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| What monarch, who built the Rococo palace of Sanssouci began the War of the Austrian Succession by invading Silesia and was a “great” ruler of Prussia? | show 🗑
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| Cups, swords, wands, and pentacles are the traditional suits of cards one would find in what type of ostensibly prophetic deck? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Adam Smith
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||||
| show | Jack Kerouac
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|
||||
| show | Le Châtelierʹs principle
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||||
| show | ideal gas law
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|
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| show | Bangladesh
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|
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| show | Henry Hudson
🗑
|
||||
| . What author described Flemish youths who try to kill Death in a story told by a “Pardoner” to other traveling pilgrims in The Canterbury Tales? | show 🗑
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| show | 4
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| show | (Republic of) Azerbaijan
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| show | Friedrich (Wilhelm) Nietzsche
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| show | Seven Cities of Cíbola
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|
||||
| What medication is a beta‐lactam that is used to treat syphilis and ”strep throat” and was discovered in a moldy Petri dish by Alexander Fleming | show 🗑
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| show | (Ahmed) Salman Rushdie
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|
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| What poet described his AD 8 exile to the town of Tomis in Letters from the Black Sea and depicted mythological transformations in the Metamorphoses | show 🗑
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| show | Ukraine
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|
||||
| What Titan—who gave his name to one of the worldʹs oceans—helped Heracles by fetching the golden apples while on break from holding up the heavens? | show 🗑
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| Which British prime minister claimed “Peace for our time” after signing the 1938 Munich Agreement with Adolf Hitler? | show 🗑
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| The rapid growth of tulips makes them useful in studying what tendency of a plant to grow in the direction of sunlight? | show 🗑
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| What country conducted Operation Wrath of God and was led by Golda Meir when it was invaded by Syria and Egypt in the 1973 Yom Kippur War? | show 🗑
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| show | Jean Craighead George
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|
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| What mountain range includes Mount Assiniboine, Mount Robson , and Mount Alberta in its Canadian portion, and extends south into Wyoming and Colorado? | show 🗑
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| show | Westboro Baptist Church
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|
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| show | Beastie Boys
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|
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| show | John Jay
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|
||||
| In which 1759 satire does Dr. Pangloss repeatedly declare this to be “the best of all possible worlds” despite the ridiculous tragedies he suffers? | show 🗑
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| What Catalan [KAT-uh-lun] creator of Swans Reflecting Elephants and The Hallucinogenic Toreador painted melting timepieces in The Persistence of Memory? | show 🗑
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| What squire and lover of Achilles borrowed Achillesʹ armor and was subsequently killed by Hector in the Trojan War? | show 🗑
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| During what battle, in which the Japanese were commanded by Tadamichi Kuribayashi were U.S. Marines photographed on Mount Suribachi raising a flag? | show 🗑
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| What physical quantity—equal to two‐thirds times mass times radius squared for a hollow sphere—is considered the rotational analogue of mass? | show 🗑
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| show | chitin
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|
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| show | Hail to the Chief
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|
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| What Video game company created World of Warcraft? | show 🗑
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| show | Australia
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|
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| show | King George III
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|
||||
| All emperors are supposedly related to this Shinto goddess. Name this sun goddess, who was freaked out by her brother Susano’o throwing a flayed horse into her hall, causing her to hide in a cave | show 🗑
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| The Scarlet Letter is a book by this American author, who wrote about the Pynchon family in The House of the Seven Gables and collected his short stories in Twice-Told Tales and Mosses from an Old Manse | show 🗑
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||||
| show | natural selection
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|
||||
| This founder of Egypt’s first dynasty had united upper and lower Egypt and was considered by some to be the first pharaoh of a singular Egypt | show 🗑
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| show | Pop Art
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|
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| show | Andy Warhol
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|
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| show | : Count Alfred von Schlieffen
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|
||||
| . This man pushed his nephew Perdix off a cliff, who Athena turned into a bird. Name this man whose most famous creation housed the offspring of Pasiphae and a bull | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Icarus
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|
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| show | My Lai Massacre
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|
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| The only soldier convicted for actions at Mỹ Lai Massacre, this platoon leader tried to claim at his murder trial that the victims were killed by an accidental airstrike. He served just three and a half years in house arrest for his crimes. | show 🗑
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| The US’s involvement in the Vietnam War essentially came to a close after the fall of this capital city of South Vietnam, which was then renamed in honor of a Vietnamese communist leader. Either name is acceptable | show 🗑
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| The title character of this work stabs police chief Baron Scarpia, and commits suicide by jumping from a castle tower, Name this opera in which the title singer discovers that her lover, Mario Cavaradossi, has been killed due to the treachery of Scarpia | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Giacomo Puccini
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|
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| This epic by Edmund Spenser sees the Redcrosse Knight sent on a mission by the titular ruler to slay the dragon for Una. | show 🗑
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| show | platlets
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|
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| show | Calcium ions
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|
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| Songs on this man’s most famous album include “Freddie Freeloader” and “So What.” Name this jazz trumpeter whose namesake sextet recorded Kind of Blue. | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Faraday
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|
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| show | : Elizabeth I
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|
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| This novella ends with the death of Miles in the arms of the governess. ] Name this ghost story featuring the ghosts Peter Quint and Miss Jessel, the former governess of the house of Bly. | show 🗑
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| show | Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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|
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| In its German nickname, this symphony is referred to as the one "with the kettledrum stroke," & it's the 2nd of the composer's 12 London symphonies. Name this symphony nicknamed for the appearance of a sudden fortissimo chord at the end of the opening | show 🗑
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| show | Langston Hughes
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|
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| show | Jacob
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|
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| show | Winslow Homer
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|
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| show | Thoth
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|
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| Sigmund Freud practiced this branch of psychology which sought to help people by making them understand the unconscious drives underlying their behavior | show 🗑
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| show | Robert F. Kennedy
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|
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| Name this German sociologist who studied the rise of disenchantment with modern society and who is often cited with Karl Marx and Emile Durkheim as the principal architect of modern social science. | show 🗑
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| Alfred Wegener described what motion of large landmasses that is built on by the theory of plate tectonics? | show 🗑
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| show | Ebenezer Scrooge
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|
||||
| show | Pittsburgh
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|
||||
| Patrick Swayze, Brooke Shields,& Lucy Lawless have all appeared in stage versions. Songs include "Mooning", "Alone at a Drive-In Movie", "Look at Me, I'm Sandra Dee" You're the One That I Want. Name this musical set at Rydell High School | show 🗑
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| He was the leader of the United States Marine Band and wrote "Stars and Stripes Forever". Who is this "March King" who has a circular bass tuba named for him? | show 🗑
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| Wanda Li, Ralphie Tennelli, Phoebe Terese, Keesha Franklin, Dorothy Ann, Carlos Ramone, Arnold Perlstein, and Ms. Frizzle are characters in what series of books in which a third grade class takes a yellow mode of transportation through space? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | George Jetson
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|
||||
| What term describes the paintings of Max Ernst, Rene Magritte, and Salvador Dali, which feature bizarre and surprise elements that seems fantastic, dreamlike, and not real? | show 🗑
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| First he is owned by Fern Arable, and later when he gets big, by Homer Zuckerman. But Zuckerman is going to have him slaughtered, so a friend writes "some pig" to save him. Who is this swine helped by Charlotte in E.B. White's work? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | New England
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|
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| show | Echo
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|
||||
| This disease is the result of muscular constriction of the bronchi and swelling of the bronchial mucosa. Name this chronic disease characterized by sporadic attacks of shortness of breath, wheezing, and coughing | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Barack Obama
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|
||||
| show | Mount Everest
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|
||||
| show | ultraviolet
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|
||||
| show | Pandora
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|
||||
| The multi-story, apartment-like dwellings inhabited by the Anasazi peoples of the American Southwest were constructed of what traditional building material, after which the software company responsible for Flash and Acrobat is named? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Georgia
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|
||||
| show | Mount St. Helens
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|
||||
| Juan Ponce de León called these “The Martyrs.” The Dry Tortugas National Park is the closest national park to this archipelago. What are these islands, which stretch about 105 miles into the sea from mainland Florida? | show 🗑
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||||
| This phenomenon is transmitted through all materials by molecular collisions. The speed named for this phenomenon is equal to Mach 1. What is this phenomenon, measured in decibels? | show 🗑
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||||
| . Jorge Luis Borges is a native of this country, which borders Paraguay, Bolivia, Brazil, Uruguay, and Chile. One famous president was Juan Perón, married to Eva. What is this country, whose capitol is Buenos Aires? | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Napoleon Bonaparte
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|
||||
| show | Iran
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|
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| show | pygmy
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|
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| This cosmonaut was the first human in space as part of the Vostok 1 mission. He missed the planned landing site and was found by farmers. | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | Bennett Family
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|
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| This man, who was named “Public Enemy Number One'' in 1930, ordered the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre. This notorious gangster also known as “Scarface” was later arrested and sent to Alcatraz prison | show 🗑
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| When their magma chambers are emptied, which often occurs during explosive eruptions, volcanoes can collapse into these structures. Crater Lake is found in one of these depressions at the top of volcanoes | show 🗑
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| A character in this story rides past a tree haunted by Major Andre on his horse Gunpowder after having his marriage proposal rejected. Katrina van Tassel marries Brom Bones over a local school teacher & Ichabod Crane disappears in this story. | show 🗑
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| After invading a neighboring nation, this man threatened to launch the “mother of all battles.” Name this dictator who was captured in a “spider hole” during the 2003 invasion of Iraq. The toppling of his statue symbolically ended his government. | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Operation Desert Storm
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|
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| After a trip to Havana, this composer wrote a tone poem inspired by rumba music featuring bongos and maracas. Name this American composer of the Cuban Overture. Other works by this composer include Lady, be Good and Rhapsody in Blue | show 🗑
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| Edward the Black Prince fought in this war before dying of dysentery, and he won the battles of Poitiers and Crecy against King John II of France in this war. It was fought between England & France and lasted 16 years longer than its namesake war. | show 🗑
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||||
| show | banshees
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|
||||
| These circuit components allow current to flow in only one direction. Name these circuit components that can convert AC into DC and are common in modern lightbulbs in their “light emitting” type. | show 🗑
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||||
| show | capacitors
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|
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| show | chromium
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|
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| show | William Shakespeare
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|
||||
| A fictional couple with this last name were members of the VFD & were parents of a girl who ties her hair back in a ribbon to think. What is last name of the children in Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events | show 🗑
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||||
| show | : The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain
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|
||||
| Wordsworth’s poem “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” is often titled for one type of these objects & describes a “host, of golden” ones “fluttering and dancing in the breeze.” The narrator’s “heart with pleasure fills & dances with [these objects] | show 🗑
|
||||
| This author received a large amount of criticism from the readers of The New Yorker in response to her story “The Lottery.” This author also wrote the supernatural horror novel The Haunting of Hill House | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Abraham Lincoln
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|
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| Former secretary of state John Kerry claimed that this country was a “narco-kleptocracy.” Name this Central American country once led by Manuel Noriega that separated from Colombia in 1903. It was invaded by the US in Operation Just Cause in 1989 | show 🗑
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| This man ordered the invasion of Panama during his presidency. This man also negotiated NAFTA and presided over the First Gulf War. This Republican’s son also became president in 2001. | show 🗑
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||||
| show | canals
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| During a failed coup d'état, this man attempted to put Erich Ludendorff in power. Name this man, who, after his arrest for his leadership in that Beer Hall Putsch, composed Mein Kampf from his prison cell. | show 🗑
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||||
| Adolf Hitler was the leader of this far-right German political party, whose paramilitary branches included the SS and SA. This party also conducted the Holocaust during World War II | show 🗑
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||||
| show | Joseph Goebbels
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|
||||
| Name this president, whose victory in the election of 1884 was largely due to support from the Mugwumps. The Panic of 1893 began this president’s second term, the only nonconsecutive term of any president | show 🗑
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| During his second term, Grover Cleveland sent in troops to put down this 1894 strike based on his constitutional responsibility to have mail delivered. This railroad strike was led by Eugene V. Debs. | show 🗑
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| In 2012, this man travelled to the Mariana Trench in the Deepsea Challenger submersible. He directed such films as The Abyss, Aliens, & The Terminator. He directed a movie depicting the Heart of the Ocean, a big diamond, found after a famous shipwreck. | show 🗑
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| In this James Cameron-directed film, humans are colonizing the moon Pandora to mine unobtanium. To explore Pandora, scientists use the title blue-skinned alien-human hybrids. | show 🗑
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| show | Magic: The Gathering
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| show | Wizards of the Coast
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| show | red
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| show | Rene Descartes
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| show | Seattle
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| This inlet connects Seattle and Tacoma to the Pacific Ocean via the Strait of Juan de Fuca, and as such defines the Olympic Peninsula of northwest Washington | show 🗑
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| show | reflection
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| A piece by this composer begins with a descending and ascending chromatic flute solo. This author of Children’s Corner & Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun is most famous for a movement from his Clair de Lune. Name this French impressionist composer | show 🗑
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| show | Republic of Texas
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| show | Davy Crockett
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| This man secured Texan independence by capturing Santa Anna at the Battle of San Jacinto. This first president of Texas is the namesake of the state’s largest city | show 🗑
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| This phrase is uttered during the so-called “nunnery scene” of the Shakespeare play in which it appear. Give this phrase contrasting life & death that is said by a prince in a soliloquy just before Ophelia returns his love letters. | show 🗑
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| The phrase “to be, or not to be” appears in this play about a Prince of Denmark. The title character seeks revenge on his uncle Claudius, who killed his father to claim the throne, in this tragedy by Shakespeare | show 🗑
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| The courtier Osric delivers an invitation to one of these events to Hamlet. An event of this type between Laertes and Hamlet involving a poisoned sword ends with every character besides Horatio dying | show 🗑
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| This event was known to its perpetrators as Plan Z, and the code phrase "Climb Mount Niitaka" was used to initiate it. Isoroku Yamamoto led this event, which resulted in the sinking of the battleship USS Arizona. Name this “day which will live in infamy” | show 🗑
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| show | shields
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| show | : Mediterranean Sea
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| In this state, future Congressman John Lewis was injured in clashes with police on the Edmund Pettus Bridge. Martin Luther King, Jr. composed a famous letter from a jail. Ku Klux Klan members bombed the 16th Street Baptist Church in this state | show 🗑
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| show | Berlin
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| The holiday of Eid al-Fitr marks the end of this month-long holiday. Name this ninth month in the Islamic calendar during which Muslims commemorate Muhammad’s first revelation. This holiday is observed by Muslims as a period of reflection and prayer | show 🗑
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| show | fasting
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| show | Leo Tolstoy
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| These bears possess a hump between their shoulders, which is actually a muscle that powers their forelimbs while they dig for roots and plant bulbs. This type of bear is also known as the North American brown bear. | show 🗑
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| Detective Mark Fuhrman’s alleged racism was highlighted by lawyers representing this man. His struggle to put on a glove inspired the phrase “if it doesn’t fit, you must acquit.”. Name this ex-NFL player found not guilty for the murder of his wife. | show 🗑
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| ”Double consciousness” is examined in a W. E. B. Du Bois book named for these things “of Black Folk.” The poem “Invictus” declares “I am the captain of” what incorporeal entity contrasted with mind and body? | show 🗑
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| John Snow proved that a water pump on London's Broad Street was the source of an 1854 epidemic of what disease that leads to diarrhea, and is caused by a germ in genus Vibri | show 🗑
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| At the end of this story, Mathilde [mat-TEELD] learns the title object was only worth 500 francs. What Guy de Maupassant story is named for a piece of jewelry? | show 🗑
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| In the aftermath of this incident, Daniel Webster devised a legal standard for judging claims of self-defense. Name this 1837 “affair” in which a ship was seized by British troops, set on fire, and sent over Niagara Falls. Falls. | show 🗑
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| This was the 1st protein to have its structure determined by X-ray crystallography. John Kendrew & Max Perutz won a Nobel Prize. Name this protein found in high levels in aquatic mammals and only in humans after injury following a muscle injury | show 🗑
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| show | Ab Urbe Condita
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| An “Avenue” lined by over 20 of these trees is one of the most iconic tourist attractions of Madagascar. What type of African tree from genus Adansonia is recognizable by its extremely wide trunk? | show 🗑
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| The hollowed-out trunks of dead baobabs were once used as tombs for these storytellers, who passed on the oral and musical traditions of West Africa. | show 🗑
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| show | Ruby Ridge
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| show | Timothy (James) McVeigh
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| In 1780 his forces defeated Horatio Gates' army at Camden, though he was unable to destroy Nathanael Greene's army at Guilford Court House the following year. Name this British general who surrendered at Yorktown in 1781. | show 🗑
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| show | lightning bolt
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| In 1956 a student at this university was expelled when she tried to integrate it. 7 years after her expulsion, the National Guard escorted Viviane Jones & James Hood through the Auditorium past a man who promised “segregation now & segregation forever.” | show 🗑
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| Its founder, Sundiata, established its capital at Niani . This empire constructed the Sidi Yahya and Sankore Mosque. It's ruler devalued gold during a hajj. Mansa Musa ruled what African empire with a major city at Timbuktu? | show 🗑
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| show | John (Herbert) Dillinger
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| This event was outlined at the Wannsee Conference. It is the subject of the Yad Vashem museum, and its major sites include Chelmno, Majdanek, & Treblinka, The euphemism the “Final Solution” is applied to what genocide of 6 million Jews in Nazi Germany? | show 🗑
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| In its last victory, it kills an entire crew except one, who clings to a (*) coffin-turned-lifebuoy to survive. The complete destruction of the Pequod and its crew, save Ishmael, is accomplished by what Herman Melville title character, a whale? | show 🗑
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| In 1964 this man was convicted of fraud, conspiracy, & jury tampering. Richard Nixon commuted the remainder of his 13-year sentence in 1971, but forbade him from engaging in official union activities. In 1975 he mysteriously disappeared in Detroit | show 🗑
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| A patent was negotiated among manufacturers of this type this device to reduce the number of infringement lawsuits,such as Elias Howe in 1854. This type of device, a foot-operated pedal, was created in the 1840s by Isaac Singer | show 🗑
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| show | Maximilian I of Mexico (or Ferdinand Maximilian Joseph Habsburg
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| It ended the first invasion of the North and provided an excuse for Abraham Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation. Name this September 17, 1862 battle in Maryland, the bloodiest single day in American history. | show 🗑
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| show | Caligula or Gaius Caesar
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| In a work, he listed competition, diffidence, & glory as the reasons for the war of all against all. Name this English philosopher who wrote about the “matter, form, & power” of a commonwealth & described life as “nasty, brutish, and short” in Leviathan | show 🗑
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| This man reused his “Sanctus” in D major for 6 voices in his Mass in B minor. The oldest known harpsichord solo appears in the fifth of a set of six works he composed. The Brandenburg Concertos were written by what German Baroque composer? | show 🗑
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| In the 19th century, this island was circumnavigated by Matthew Flinders. Its southernmost part, Wilsonʹs Promontory, juts into the Bass Strait; The sandstone monolith Uluru is in what nation whose capital is Canberra? | show 🗑
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| After this battle, the inhabitants of its namesake town refused to celebrate the 4th of July until after WWII. Ulysses S. Grantʹs victory at this battle effectively cut the Confederacy in half. Name this 1863 siege of a city on the Mississippi River | show 🗑
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| show | King John of England
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| This man dropped Mola Ram to his death by cutting a rope bridge Henry III, who went by “Mutt.” Name this heroic archaeologist who often relies on a whip | show 🗑
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| The Morse equation says this quantity= the product of molarity, gas, temperature & the vanʹt Hoff factor. An uppercase pi symbolizes this colligative property. Name this pressure needed to stop the namesake flow of water across a semipermeable membrane | show 🗑
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| This man examine in The Road to Wigan Pier. Syme works on a dictionary of Newspeak in a book by this man depicting Winston Smithʹs resistance to Big Brother. Name this author of 1984 | show 🗑
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| show | John Locke
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| In a work by this author, a philosopher is compared to a gadfly who stings a lazy horse. This man wrote about the nature of piety in Euthyphro & about the immortality of the soul in Phaedo Name this student of Socrateswho wrote the Apology &Republic | show 🗑
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| show | : Jeannette (Pickering) Rankin
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| show | frescos
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| To create paint in the ultramarine shade of this color, many artists ground up lapis lazuli and mixed it with their paint | show 🗑
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| There are approximately 63,240 of these units in one light year. This unit is almost exactly the average distance from the Earth to the Sun. | show 🗑
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| There are approximately 3.25 light years in one of these units, which are defined as the distance at which one astronomical unit subtends an angle of one arcsecond | show 🗑
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| show | Turkey
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| show | RMS Lusitania
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| This element is used in incandescent light bulb filaments. Name this metal with atomic symbol W | show 🗑
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| show | transition metals
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| Tungsten compounds are often used as catalysts, which speed up reactions by lowering this energy for the reaction | show 🗑
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| show | Ivan the Terrible
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| show | mimicry
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| This Supreme Court case was decided alongside the companion case Doe v. Bolto. Name this 1973 Supreme Court decision holding that, prior to a fetusʹs viability, a woman has the right to an abortion | show 🗑
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| Yann Martelʹs novel Life of Pi depicts a boy who is stranded at sea with an animal of this type named Richard Parker. Clemsonʹs sports teams are known by this name. | show 🗑
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| show | phenotype
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| According to standard chemical nomenclature and indicating the proper charge, what is the formula for hydrogen sulfide? | show 🗑
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| show | CYTOSINE; THYMINE
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| show | Big Bang
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| What is the MOST common term for the inwardly directed force exerted on an object to keep the object moving in a circle? | show 🗑
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| What is the MOST common term for the type of energy that is most directly related to the energy of atoms, molecules and other small particles that are in random motion within a system? | show 🗑
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| show | Cathode
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| show | CYTOKINESIS
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| What is the proper name for the closest spiral galaxy to the Milky Way? | show 🗑
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| The Lewis dot structure for the N+2 ion would show how many dots? | show 🗑
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| show | LENTICEL
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| In the early part of the 20th century, the German geologist and meteorologist Alfred Wegener introduced what theory? | show 🗑
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| show | John Watson
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| Major Rudolf Anderson was the only casualty of this event. Name this crisis that saw the Soviet Union attempt to place nuclear warheads on a certain island. It was resolved when the U.S. promised to remove its Jupiter missiles from Turkey. | show 🗑
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| show | Paul Bunyan
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| show | Pecos Bill
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| show | ovoviviparity [or live birth;
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| show | House of the Seven Gables
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| This artist of The Luncheon on the Grass and A Bar at the Folies-Bergere also painted a reclining nude woman wearing a black choker in his controversial work Olympia. | show 🗑
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| The first man to hold this position had earlier transported artillery captured at Fort Ticonderoga to Boston to help get the British out of that city. Name this cabinet position held in the Washington administration by James McHenry & Henry Knox | show 🗑
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| show | Battle of Bannockburn
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| The Battle of Bannockburn was won by this Scottish king, who killed John III Comyn at Dumfries several years earlier. In the Treaty of Corbeil, he revived Scotland's alliance with France. | show 🗑
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| show | William Wallace
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| One novel by this author includes Dr. Govinda Lal, a scientist from whom Shula steals a manuscript.Identify this author who wrote about a Holocaust survivor in Mr. Sammler's Planet, in addition to writing Humboldt's Gift and The Adventures of Augie March. | show 🗑
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| show | prophase
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| show | glycolysis
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| show | ammonia
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| show | Russo-Japanese War
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| His best known work states a “foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." On a visit to discuss his essay “Nature,” this author delivered the speech “The American Scholar.” Identify this American transcendentalist who wrote “Self-Reliance” | show 🗑
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| show | Archbishop of Canterbury
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| In this poem, a "traveller from an antique land” tells the narrator of a broken statue of the title figure. Name this poem, whose title figure’s statue has a plaque stating he is the “king of kings” & commands, “Look upon my works, ye mighty & despair" | show 🗑
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| show | Percy Bysshe Shelley
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| show | "Adonais
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| show | dopamine
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| show | Hooke's Law
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| This god was the consort of Hathor, and he rode a ship across the sky. Name this Egyptian sun god worshipped at Heliopolis. | show 🗑
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| show | Apep
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| Andalusia is home to this palace in Granada that was built by the Moors in the thirteenth century. It contains the Court of the Lions and has a name that translates as “the red fortress”. | show 🗑
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| Giorgio Vasari designed the Uffizi Gallery for Cosimo di Medici in this city. Name this Italian city, found in Tuscany, whose cathedral, the Santa Maria del Fiore, features an octagonal brick dome with no buttresses | show 🗑
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| Name the fierce-looking Berkshire boar who leads the rebellion against Mr. Jones in George Orwell's "Animal Farm." | show 🗑
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| show | obsidian
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| In Tchaikovsky's "War of 1812," what family of musical instruments did he use to portray the sounds of cannon fire and bombs bursting? | show 🗑
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| show | Billy the Kid
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| show | mesas
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| show | otter
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| show | Valley Forge
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| show | malleable
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| show | packages (freight)
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| In 1950, the day after the United Nations Security Council recommended that U.N. forces in Korea be placed under U.S. military command, whom did Harry Truman appoint as head of that command? | show 🗑
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| show | state legislatures
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| In 1876, warriors led by the Hunkpapa chief Gall surged across the river while Sioux warriors led by Crazy Horse attacked from the north. Within an hour, what leader of the 7th Cavalry and his men were dead? | show 🗑
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| The major breakthrough of the Connecticut Compromise, otherwise known as the Great Compromise, was the agreement for what kind of legislature comprised of two bodies? | show 🗑
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| What is the term for the distribution of the number of members of the House of Representatives on the basis of the population of each state? | show 🗑
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| In what Pennsylvania city would you find Cocoa Avenue and Chocolate Lane? | show 🗑
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| show | executive
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| show | Groundhog Day
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| The "SpongeBob SquarePants" theme song uses a similar melody as that in what old sea chantey? | show 🗑
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| show | the Phaeacians
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| Not knowing Odysseus is in his presence, this bard sings the song of the Trojan Horse and the sack of Troy. Since this bard is described as blind, many believe that Homer inserted himself into the Odyssey as this character | show 🗑
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| show | Penelope
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| show | brain
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| show | Golden Horde
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| show | Dolores Huerta
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| Name this structure that mankind builds with the goal of reaching the heavens. God stops its construction by confounding the speech of the builders and scattering them across the world | show 🗑
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| show | Henry VIII
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| This process may be described as holometabolous or or hemimetabolous, depending on whether it is complete or not. Name this process through which animals undergo major physical changes after birth such as transformation of a caterpillar into a moth | show 🗑
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| The textual history of the Book of Mormon has frequently been called into question. This founder of Mormonism claims to have compiled the Book of Mormon after discovering Golden Plates buried in a hill in Wayne County, New York | show 🗑
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| One amateur poet wrote “Spare me your tired, your poor” in a riff on this poet whose line “Give me your tired, your poor” begins her sonnet “The New Colossus.” | show 🗑
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| show | Nadia Comaneci
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| show | Claude Monet
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| show | Lost Generation
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| show | igneous rock
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| show | chess
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| This American chess prodigy defeated Boris Spassky in the World Chess Championships of 1972, ending an era of Soviet dominance. He was the first FIDE world number one player, and wrote My 60 Memorable Games | show 🗑
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| Although this wife of Isaac plotted for Jacob to receive his father’s blessing in place of his brother Esau, she did so in order to fulfill the wishes of God. | show 🗑
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| And while this handmaid of Abraham was cast out into the desert after Sarah believed her to be acting too haughty with her son Ishmael, their emotional tension is arguably non-reductive. | show 🗑
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| show | Gibbons v. Ogden
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| Cohens v. Virginia and Gibbons v. Ogden were presided over by this longest serving chief justice who also presided over Marbury v Madison. | show 🗑
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| show | limbo
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| Walt Whitman’s poems “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d” and “O Captain! My Captain” eulogize what 16th President of the United States? | show 🗑
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| show | Pentagon Papers
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| show | : Cuzco
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