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| Who wrote the Diary of Anne Frank? |
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Anne Frank
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| Who is the author of Illustrated Man? |
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| Who is the author of Hunger Games? |
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| Who wrote Where the Red Fern Grows? |
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| Who wrote the Red Badge of Courage? |
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| Who wrote Anne of Green Gables? |
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| Who wrote the novel Jurassic Park? |
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| Who wrote Huckleberry Finn? |
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| Who wrote A Christmas Carol? |
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| Who wrote the poem On the Vanity of Earthly Greatness? |
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| A famous and highly successful American investor. |
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Give all locations of US Mints. |
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| Philadelphia, Denver, San Francisco, West Point, Fort Knox |
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| An economic term meaning the original amount of an investment. |
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| An economic term meaning the business of selling things in large quantities to other businesses rather than customers |
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| An economic term meaning the rise in cost of common goods and services |
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| An economic term meaning a financial failure caused by not having money to pay debts |
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| An economic term meaning selling goods to other countries |
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| Define the economic term 'cafeteria plan'. |
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| A plan that allows you to pick and choose which parts of insurance or other benefits that you want, without being tied to a single company |
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| An economic term that means tangible assets, such as buildings or equipment |
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| One who gains or profits from something |
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| A legal method of minimizing or decreasing taxable income |
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| In what state is the Alamo? |
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| In what state is Pike's Peak located? |
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| To what mountain range does Pike's Peak belong? |
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| In what state is the Puget Sound located? |
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| State the name of the only Great Lake to be fully located inside the United States |
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| List the states or provinces that surround Lake Michigan. |
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| Michigan, Wisconson, Indiana, Illanois |
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| State the name of the lake that is the world's largest by surface area. |
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| Name the states or provinces that surround Lake Superior |
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| Minnesota,Wisconson,Michigan, Ontario |
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| List all states that border the Mississipi River |
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| Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Louisiana. |
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| State the name of the United States Commander and Chief, as of October 2016. |
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| State the name of the U.S. Vice President, as of October 2016 |
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| State the name of the U.S. Senate Majority Leader, as of October 2016 |
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| State the name of the Democratic Party nominee for U.S. President, as of October 2016. |
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| State the name of the runner-up, Democratic nominee for U.S. President in the 2016 Election race |
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| State the name of the Israeli Prime Minister, as of October 2016. |
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| State the name of the Canadian Prime Minister, as of October 2016. |
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| What is the meaning and language of origin of the root word 'chrono'? |
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Language of origin: Greek
Meaning: Time |
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| What is the meaning and language of origin of the root word 'graph'? |
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Language of origin: Greek
Meaning: to write |
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| What is the meaning of the abbreviation TBA? |
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| What is the meaning of the abbreviation ASAP? |
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| What is the meaning of the abbreviation Etc.? |
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| What is the abbreviation for Kilobyte? |
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| What is the abbreviation for Megabyte? |
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| What is the abbreviation for Gigabyte? |
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| What is the abbreviation for Terabyte? |
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| State the word used to describe a collective group of hummingbirds. |
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| State the word used to describe a collective group of wombats. |
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| What is the meaning of the suffix -ment? |
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| a suffix of nouns that denote an action or resulting state |
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| What is the meaning of the suffix -ing? |
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| a suffix of nouns formed from verbs, expressing the action of the verb or its result, product, material, etc. |
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| What is the meaning of the suffix -tion? |
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| forming nouns of action, condition, etc., such as completion, relation. |
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| List all of the instruments composing the string section of the orchestra, in order of lowest register to highest register. |
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1. Bass
2. Cello
3. Viola
4. Violin |
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| Say and spell the comparitive form of the word 'busy' |
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| Say and spell the comparitive form of the word 'easy' |
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| Say and spell the comparitive form of the word 'happy' |
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| Say and spell the past tense of the word 'arise' |
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| Say and spell the past tense of the word 'become' |
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| Say and spell the past tense of the word 'begin' |
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| Say and spell the plural form of the word 'wolf' |
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| Say and spell the plural form of the word 'radio' |
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| Say and spell the plural form of the word 'belief' |
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| Say and spell the plural form of the word 'waltz' |
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| Say and spell the plural form of the word 'lily' |
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| Say and spell the plural form of the word 'monkey' |
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| Say and spell the plural form of the word 'shelf' |
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| Say and spell the plural form of the word 'millenium' |
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| Say and spell the plural form of the word 'thief' |
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| Say and spell the plural form of the word 'analysis' |
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| Define the word 'onomatopoeia' |
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| A word that sounds like what it means |
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| List all U.S. states that border Arizona. |
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| List all confederate states in the United States civil war. |
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| South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, North Carolina (portions of Missouri and Kentucky) |
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| Describe the effect of the Dawes Act. |
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| The Dawes Act of 1887 (also known as the General Allotment Act or the Dawes Severalty Act of 1887), adopted by Congress in 1887, authorized the President of the United States to survey American Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians. |
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| What was the impact of the 2nd US Consitutional ammendement? |
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| Describe the effect of the 4th US Constitutional Ammendment |
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| The Fourth Amendment originally enforced the notion that “each man’s home is his castle”, secure from unreasonable searches and seizures of property by the government. It protects against arbitrary arrests, and is the basis of the law regarding search warrants, stop-and-frisk, safety inspections, wiretaps, and other forms of surveillance, as well as being central to many other criminal law topics and to privacy law. |
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| Describe the effect of the 5th US Constitutional Ammendment |
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| The Fifth Amendment creates a number of rights relevant to both criminal and civil legal proceedings. In criminal cases, the Fifth Amendment guarantees the right to a grand jury, forbids “double jeopardy,” and protects against self-incrimination. It also requires that “due process of law” be part of any proceeding that denies a citizen “life, liberty or property” and requires the government to compensate citizens when it takes private property for public use. |
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| Describe the effect of the 20th US Constitutional Amendment |
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| The Twentieth Amendment (Amendment XX) to the United States Constitution moved the beginning and ending of the terms of the president and vice president from March 4 to January 20, and of members of Congress from March 4 to January 3. It also has provisions that determine what is to be done when there is no president-elect. The Twentieth Amendment was ratified on January 23, 1933 (wikipedia) |
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| Describe the effect of the 22nd US Constitutional Amendment |
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| The Twenty-second Amendment (Amendment XXII) of the United States Constitution sets a term limit (2 terms) for election and overall time of service to the office of President of the United States. Congress passed the amendment on March 21, 1947. Ratification by the requisite 36 of the then-48 states was completed on February 27, 1951. |
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| Describe the effect of the 23rd Amendment to the US Constitution. |
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| The Twenty-third Amendment (Amendment XXIII) to the United States Constitution extends the right to vote in the presidential election to citizens residing in the District of Columbia by granting the District electors in the Electoral College, as if it were a state. The amendment was proposed by the 86th Congress on June 16, 1960, and ratified by the states on March 29, 1961. |
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| Describe the effect of the 25th Amendment to the US Constitution. |
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The Twenty-fifth Amendment (Amendment XXV) to the United States Constitution deals with succession to the Presidency and establishes procedures both for filling a vacancy in the office of the Vice President, as well as responding to Presidential disabilities
Section 1. In case of the removal of the President from office or of his death or resignation, the Vice President shall become President.
Section 2. Whenever there is a vacancy in the office of the Vice President, the President shall nominate a Vice President who shall take office upon confirmation by a majority vote of both Houses of Congress.
Section 3. Whenever the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that he is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, and until he transmits to them a written declaration to the contrary, such powers and duties shall be discharged by the Vice President as Acting President.
Section 4. Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.
Thereafter, when the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that no inability exists, he shall resume the powers and duties of his office unless the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive department or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit within four days to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office. Thereupon Congress shall decide the issue, assembling within forty-eight hours for that purpose if not in session. If the Congress, within twenty-one days after receipt of the latter written declaration, or, if Congress is not in session, within twenty-one days after Congress is required to assemble, determines by two-thirds vote of both Houses that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall continue to discharge the same as Acting President; otherwise, the President shall resume the powers and duties of his office.[3]
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| Which US Political party uses the donkey as its symbol? |
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| Which US political party uses the elephant as its symbol? |
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| Which US political party is sometimes referred to as the 'Grand Old Party'? |
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| Republican (sometimes Grand Old Party is shortened to GOP) |
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| Who was the first human to walk on the moon? |
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| State the word that describes a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives. |
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| Describe the location and significance of the international date line. |
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| The International Date Line (IDL) is an imaginary line of navigation on the surface of the Earth that runs from the North Pole to the South Pole and demarcates the change of one calendar day to the next. It passes through the middle of the Pacific Ocean, roughly following the 180° line of longitude but deviating to pass around some territories and island groups. |
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| Where is the Black Forest located? |
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| Name the countries that make up the Greater Antilles. |
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| The Greater Antilles is a grouping of the larger islands in the Caribbean Sea: Cuba, Hispaniola (containing Haiti and the Dominican Republic), Puerto Rico, Jamaica, and the Cayman Islands. |
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| In what country is the Palace of Versailles located? |
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| Name the monarch who built and resided in the Palace of Versailles. |
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| What is the Taj Mahal and in what country is it located? |
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| The Taj Mahal (, more often ;[3] meaning Crown of the Palace[4]) is an ivory-white marble mausoleum on the south bank of the Yamuna river in the Indian city of Agra. |
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| Where is the Empire State Building located? |
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| Where is the Pantheon located? |
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| Where is the Parthenon located? |
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| Easter Island (Rapa Nui: Rapa Nui, Spanish: Isla de Pascua) is a Chilean island in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, at the southeasternmost point of the Polynesian Triangle. |
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| Give the name of the series of fortifications made of stone, brick, tamped earth, wood, and other materials, generally built along an east-to-west line across the historical northern borders of China to protect the Chinese states and empires against the raids and invasions of the various nomadic groups of the Eurasian Steppe. |
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| Give the name and location of earth's highest mountain. |
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Name: Mount Everest
Location: Nepal |
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| Give the name and location of the highest mountain peak in North America. |
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Name: Denali (formerly known as Mount McKinley)
Location: Alaska |
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| Where is the Ganges river located? |
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India and Bangladesh
(it is a sacrad river to the Hindus) |
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| What is the largest enclosed inland body of water on Earth by area? |
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| Where is the Caspian Sea located? |
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| The Caspian Sea lies between Europe and Asia.[4] It is bounded to the northeast by Kazakhstan, to the northwest by Russia, to the west by Azerbaijan, to the south by Iran, and to the southeast by Turkmenistan. |
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| What is the nickname for the Great Bell of the clock at the north end of the Palace of Westminster in London |
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| Explain the significance of the phrase "Beware the Ides of March". When is the Ides of March? |
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| In the play Julius Ceasar, by William Shakespeare, this phrase/prophecy was said to Julius Ceasar, who was later murdered on the Ides of March (March 15). |
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| What are the four layers of the earth? |
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Inner core
Outer Core
Mantel
Crust |
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| Give the scientific term to describe a body of permeable rock that can contain or transmit groundwater. |
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| State the word used to describe clouds that appear to be thin, white wisps. |
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| State the term that is used to describe rain producing clouds |
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| What type of simple machine is a shovel? |
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Lever/Wedge
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