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| Ten raised to the power of 18 in the United Kingdom equals one trillion. In the United States, what power of ten equals one trillion? |
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| With what state should you associate the name Nathaniel Hawthorne, the early american writer? |
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| What Era makes up about 75% of the earth's history? |
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| What Revolutionary Period Speaker addressed the Virginia House of Burgesses in 1775, urging them to put on a "posture of defense?" |
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| A polygon with three angles is a trigon. GIve a more common term for trigon. |
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| Voltaire's friend and fellow philosopher Denis Diderot is most famous for what literary contribution? |
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| The human gene that controls insulin production has been introduced into a bacteria strain that is capable of producing insulin. Name this form of genetic manipulation. |
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| Kentucky, Delaware, Maryland, Missouri |
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| Plane triangles may be grouped into three classes according to the size of the largest interior angle of a triangle. For example, triangles having an obtuse angle are classified as obtuse triangles. Triangles having all angles less than 90 degrees are know as what type of triangles? |
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| Who is the author of Tigerlillies? |
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| By correctly spelling the term, identify the springs that shoot hot water and steam high into the air. |
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| When the Minutemen encountered the British troops at Lexington on April 19, 1775, someone fired a shot -- a shot that, in years to come, would be known as what? |
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| What relationships exists between the measures of two vertically opposite angles? |
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| According to German legend, the Pied Piper was hired to rid what town of rats? |
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| What is the term given to the image seen in a mirror? |
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| What Revolutionary War battle-- which occurred on June 17, 1775-- actually was fought on Breed's Hill? |
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| Find the sum of the first 32 odd natural numbers. |
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| What famous American author wrote the novel The Catcher in the Rye? |
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| What term refers to the non-sex chromosomes of the human? |
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| In what decade was Hawaii annexed by the United States? |
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| How many natural numbers have only one natural divisor? |
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| At least 10 worldwide epidemics of influenza have occurred at irregular intervals over the past 250 years. Give the word that means "worldwide epidemic." |
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| What part of the brain has unconscious control of muscles? |
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| In 1978 a 3B-year old Vietnam war veteran sued the University of California at Davis, charging that he had been denied admission to their medical school because of their "special admissions" programs aimed at increasing minority enrollment. His case went to the U.S. Supreme Court where it was decided in his favor. Who was he? |
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| If set U is the Universal set and set P is a subset of U, what name is given to the set composed of all elements of U that are not elements of P? |
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| What famous twentieth century American author wrote the short story "The snows of Kilimanjaro?" |
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| What does an anemometer measure? |
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| What U.S. president gained re-election on the slogan, "he kept us out of war?" |
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| Find the volume of a rectangular prism with length 2 cm, height 3cm, and width 4 cm. |
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| "Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight" and "Get up and Bar the Door" are both examples of what early English form of poetry? |
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| What process requiring expenditure of energy reverses the natural process of diffusion from areas of higher to lower concentration? |
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| In 1793 the cotton gin was invented for separating cotton from the seed. By whom was it invented? |
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| This opera was composed of Giuseppi Verdi to commemorate the opening of the Suez Canal. It was the first performed in Cairo on December 24, 1871. Name it. |
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| What is the common term for prothesis? |
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| In what year was Franklin Roosevelt elected to his third term? |
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| Line Graph (Broken line Graph) |
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| Data is sometimes pictured by using a graph known as a frequency polygon. Give the common name for a frequency polygon. |
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| Give the four cardinal points in French. |
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| Law of conservation of momentum |
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| What U.S. secretary of state won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973? |
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| What type of geometry may be defined as the study of geometric figures by algebraic methods? |
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| What was the name of the U.S town in Thornton Wilder's play Our Town? |
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| What do we call the region about the nucleus of an atom in which electrons move? |
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| It was formed by John D. Rockefeller in 1882. What was the name of the first large trust? |
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| Domain (or replacement set) |
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| When working with the function, f of x equals 3x, what name is given the set whose members are those with which the x may be substituted? |
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| The Friar, the Oxford Student, the Franklin, and the Lawyer are all characters in The Canterbury Tales. Who wrote The Canterbury Tales? |
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| What is the common name for the order Chiroptera? |
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| Texas, Arkansas, Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, New Mexico |
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| Name 3 of the 6 states that Oklahoma borders. |
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| What word means to cut into two parts such that the two parts are equal? |
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| Shadrach, Meshach, Abednego |
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| According to Daniel 3 in the Bible, who were the three me that were cast into the furnace? |
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| What is the most frequently broken human bone? |
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| Fort Harrod (or Harrodsburg) |
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| What was the first permanent, white settlement in kentucky? |
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| Tetrahedron (Triangular Pyramid) |
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| There are only five regular polyhedrons. GIve the name of the regular polyhedron having the fewest number of faces. |
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| What condition results when too much nitrogen is released from the body cells? |
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| Philippines, Guam, Puerto Rico |
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| What three territories did the U.S. gain as a result of the Spanish-American War? |
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| Name the three musketeers in Alexander Dumas' novel of the same name. |
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| What Norman Duke because king of England in 1066? |
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| According to Arthurian Legend, this woman was king Arthur's wife, as well as Sir Lancelot's lover. Who was she? |
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| What gland are attached to the thyroid gland? |
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| What three estates was medieval society divided into? |
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| If X and Y are two sets, what name is given to the set of elements that belong to the set X, and set Y, or to both X and Y? |
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| What famous American author wrote the poem "Four Men of God"? |
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| What principle ore of lead cleaves in perfect cubes? |
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