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1
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French poet of “Spleen” from The collection Les Fleur’s dub Mal

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Charles Baudelaire

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Queen of the fairies in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”

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Titania

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King of the fairies in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”

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Oberon

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Researcher who conducted the first experiment suggesting that bacteria are capable of transferring genetic material

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Frederick Griffith

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Hero of the Babylonian epic the Enuma Elish, Slayer of the dragon Tiamat

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Marduk

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Terrorist group that seized control of Afghanistan after withdrawal of US troops

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The Taliban

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Founder and final prophet of Islam

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Muhammad

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Holy text of Islam

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The Quran

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A story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, often moral or political

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Allegory

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The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words

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Alliteration

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Swiss mathematician, popularizer of pi, developer of a namesake number, formula, and identity, as well as the Seven Bridges of Konigsberg problem

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Leonhard Euler

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English 20th century poet of “Musée des Beaux Arte’s” and “Funeral Blues”

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W.H. Auden

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This kind of slope is just a vertical line

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Undefined

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Metrical foot consisting of a stressed syllable between two unstressed syllables

C.f. Thomas Hardy’s “The Ruined Maid”: “oh didn’t / you know I’d / been ruined / since she

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Amphibrach

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A metrical foot consisting of two unstressed syllables followed by one stressed syllable, i e, “understand,” “contradict”

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Anapest

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Repetition of vowel sounds, i.e. “son of a gun”

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Assonance

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English poetess, wife of Robert, whose Sonnets from the Portuguese includes sonnet number 43, which begins “How do I love the? Let me count the ways”

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Slope of a horizontal line

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Zero slope

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Slope formula

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X2 - X1

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Juxtaposition of contrasting or opposing ideas or images for emphasis

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Antithesis

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Addressing an absent or nonliving person, or inanimate object or abstract thing as though it were present in living

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Apostrophe

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19th century English poet who collaborated with Samuel Taylor Coleridge on lyrical ballads, author of “The World is too Much with Us,” “Strange Fits of Passion Have I Known,” and the Lucy poems

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William Wordsworth

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19th century Economist who describe the mechanism of an invisible hand guiding the economy in his master work, Wealth of Nations

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Adam Smith

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Quantum physicist who proposed an important theory of the hydrogen atom

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Niels Bohr

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His On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres is credited with popularizing the heliocentric model of the solar system

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Copernicus

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Italian philosopher who dropped a ball from the leaning Tower of Pisa prove his law of constant acceleration, and who was put under house arrest for his advocacy of the heliocentric model in his work Dialogues Concerning the Two Chief World Systems

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Galileo

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Danish astronomer and student of Tyco Brahe who devised three laws of planetary motion:
1. when period planetary orbits are elliptical with the Sun at a focus.
2. The radius vector from the Sun to a planet sweeps equal areas and equal time.
3. The ratio of the square of the period of revolution and the cube of the ellipse semi major axis is the same for all planets

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Johannes Kepler

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The basic repeating units of eukaryotic chromatin. In a human cell, about 6 ft of DNA must be packaged into a nucleus with a diameter less than a human hair in the form of chromosomes comprised of proteins wrapped around these DNA base pairs

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Nucleosome

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Four phases of mitosis

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Prophase, metaphase, anaphase, telophase

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Cylindrical organelle near the nucleus in animal cells, occurring in pairs and involved in the development of spindle fibers and cell division

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Centriole

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The collapsed core of a supermassive Giant star, comprised of incredibly dense neutrons as a result of gravitational forces

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Neutron star

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Influential Chinese philosopher whose student Mencius collected his teachings in the Analects

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Confucius

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Influential Chinese religious system propounded by Lao Tzu in the Tao te Ching emphasizing the flux of the universe

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Taoism

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Process of cytoplasmic division of a cell at the end of mitosis or meiosis, in which the cell separates into two daughter cells

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Cytokinesis

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Resting phase of cell reproduction in which the cell replicates its DNA and prepares for mitosis

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Interphase

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Opera great, composer of Tosca, Aida, and Rigoletto

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Giuseppe Verdi

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Italian opera great, composer of the William Tell overture, the Barbara of Seville, and Otello

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Giacchino Rossini

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Italian opera grade, composer of Madame Butterfly, La Boheme, and Turandot

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Giacomo Puccini

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German opera great, composer of the Ring cycle including Das Rheingold Die Valkyrie, Lohengrin, and Gotterdammerung, as well as Tannheuser, Parsifal, and the Master Singers of Nuremberg, whose work is performed annually at the Bayreuth music festival

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Richard Wagner

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Virtuosic German composer of the operas the Marriage of Figaro, the Magic Flute, and Cosi fan Tutti, as well as Eine Kleine Knachtmusick, Rondo Alla Turca, and his 41st Jupiter Symphony

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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The name for a sung piece of music in an opera for a solo performer

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Aria

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42
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Basic structural unit of nucleic acids such as DNA

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Nucleotide

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Japanese poet of haiku collections including Narrow Road to the Deep North and Travels of a Well-Worn Satchel, whose name means banana tree

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Matsuo Basho

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This religion was founded by Siddhartha Gautama after his enlightenment under the bodhi tree and includes adherence to the four Noble truths

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Buddhism

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This movement was begun after Martin Luther attached his 95 Theses to the door of the Wittenberg Cathedral

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Protestant Reformation

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This council was called by Pope Paul III in 1545 and formally began the Counter-Reformation of the Catholic Church

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Council of Trent

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This logical fallacy is to do with an illogical comparison of unlike things

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Apples and oranges fallacy

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The psychologist is known for his dependency and isolation experiments on rhesus monkeys, including using terry cloth surrogate mothers, the pit of despair, and the rape rack

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Harry Harlow

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Spontaneous net movement or diffusion of solvent molecules through a selectively permeable membrane from a region of high potential to region of low potential

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Osmosis

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Intermingling of substances by the natural movement of their particles

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Diffusion

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This man conducted first experiments suggesting that bacteria are capable of transferring genetic material

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Frederick Griffith

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Researcher who helped ascertain that DNA is the substance responsible for heredity

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Oswald Avery

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Series of experiments conducted in 1952 by two researchers that helped confirm that DNA is the genetic material

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Hershey - Chase

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Nobel laureate researchers who discovered the double helix structure of DNA

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James Watson and Francis Crick

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English poet of “To an Athlete Dying Young” from his collection A Shropshire Lad

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AE Housman

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X-ray crystallographer whose work was Central to the understanding of the helical structure of the DNA molecule, as well as the structures of RNA, viruses, coal, and graphite

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Rosalind Franklin

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A bond between two atoms sharing an electron

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Covalent bond

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Any of the number of proteins associated with the cycle of cell division which are thought to initiate certain processes of mitosis

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Cyclins

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Programmed cell death

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Apoptosis

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A cell in which the genetic material is DNA in the form of chromosomes contained within a nucleus, contrasted with nucleus-lacking cells, prokaryotes

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Eukaryote

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Researcher who found that in DNA, the ratios of adenine to thymine and guanine to cytosine are equal, indicating that the nucleotides form ordered base pairs

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Erwin Chargaff

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A sequence in which each value increases by a fixed amount

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Arithmetic sequence

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A sequence in which each term is found by multiplying the previous term by a fixed non-zero number called the common ratio

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Geometric sequence

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An infinite sequence of numbers in which each number is equal to a linear combination of one or more of its immediate predecessors, and including arithmetic and geometric types

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Recursive sequence

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Emancipated slave and correspondent with Thomas Jefferson; astronomer, mathematician, agriculturalist, and clock designer

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Benjamin Banneker

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Beatnik poet of “A Supermarket in California” and “Howl”

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Allen Ginsberg

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Student of Sigmund Freud who described concepts of the archetype, The Shadow, the anima and animus, and the collective unconscious

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Carl Jung

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Term for the raised ridges on the brain’s cortex

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Gyrus, pl. Gyri

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Term for the creases or valleys on the brain’s cortex

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Sulcus, pl. Sulci

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School of psychology studying perception, and the way that the brains interpretation of sensory input is more or other than just the input

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Gestalt

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Gestalt psychologist, author of productive thinking, and formulator of phi phenomena

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Max Wertheimer

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Portion of the brain at the back of the head between the cerebrum and brain stem, responsible for controlling balance for walking and standing and other complex motor functions.

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Cerebellum

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Located beneath the temporal lobe of the cerebrum on either side of the thalamus, the emotional center, also in charge of behavior and long-term memory

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Limbic system

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Brain region responsible for controlling body temperature, emotions, hunger, thirst, appetite, digestion, and sleep. Composed of several different areas located at the base of the brain, only about the size of a pea

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Hypothalamus

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3x4

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3x6

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3x13

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3x14

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3x15

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3x16

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4x9

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4x13

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4x14

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4x15

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68

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72

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4x19

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76

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6x3

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6x13

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78

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6x14

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84

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6x15

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90

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96

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6x17

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102

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108

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6x20

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120

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115
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___ can be evaluated for a given input when represented in table, symbolic, or graphic form. It can be used to determine the unknown input values that correspond to a given output value

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Functions

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116
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Canadian explorer who founded Quebec was a settlement for fur traders, the Coureurs Des bois, namesake of a lake on the US Canadian border, Samuel de ___

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Champlain

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Biome defined by permafrost, few trees, low biodiversity, and harsh conditions. Occupying area between polar ice caps and boreal forests

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Tundra

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118
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Tudor queen during the time of Shakespeare, Henry the VIII’s daughter, and the monarch who defeated the Spanish Armada

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Elizabeth I

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System of classification, especially that used for classifying organisms into eight different tiers

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Taxonomy

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120
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Article I of the Constitution pertains to the ___ branch of government

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Legislative, or congress

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Article 1 section 2 of The Constitution pertains to which of the two houses of congress?

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The House of Representatives

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The House of Representatives currently has how many members?

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435

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Article 1 section 3 of The Constitution pertains to which of the houses of Congress, which is in charge of impeachment?

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The Senate

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Members of the House of Representatives serve for terms of ___ years

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2

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Members of the Senate serve for overlapping terms of ___ years

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6

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Article II of the Constitution pertains to which branch of government?

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The executive, or presidential

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127
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Article III of the Constitution pertains to the ___ branch of government

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Judicial, or Court

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128
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Article V of the Constitution pertains to

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Constitutional amendments

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129
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Article VI of the Constitution pertains to

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National debt, oaths to support the Constitution, and the forbidding of religious tests to attain public office

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130
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Article VII of the Constitution pertains to

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The ratification of the Constitution

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131
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The Bill of Rights is comprised of..

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The first 10 amendments to the Constitution

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132
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The first amendment protects the rights of freedom of..

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Religion, speech, the press, and free assembly

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The second amendment to the Constitution guarantees the right of

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The maintenance of a well-regulated militia, and the right to keep and bear arms

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Amendment III of the Constitution pertains to..

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Protection from the quartering of soldiers at home

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135
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Amendment IV pertains to

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Protection from unwarranted searches and seizures

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Amendment V of the Constitution pertains to..

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Protection from double jeopardy, self incrimination, and guarantee of due process of law

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137
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Amendment VI of the Constitution pertains to

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Right to a speedy in public trial

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138
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Amendment VI of the Constitution pertains to

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Right to a speedy and public trial

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Amendment VII to the Constitution pertains to

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Right to a trial by jury

140
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Amendment VII of the Constitution pertains to

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Protection from cruel and unusual punishments

141
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Amendment IX of the Constitution pertains to

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Protection of Rights not specifically enumerated and the Constitution or its amendments

142
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Amendment x of the Constitution pertains to

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Powers not delegated to the federal United States by the Constitution are reserved to the states respectively and to the people

143
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Amendment XI of the Constitution pertains to

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Limiting powers of the judicial branch to not extend to other states or nations

144
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Amendment XII of the Constitution pertains to

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Procedures and quorum for presidential elections

145
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Amendment XIII of the Constitution pertains to

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The abolition of slavery

146
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Amendment XIV of the Constitution pertains to

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Guaranteeing rights to naturalized citizens, including freed people

147
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Amendment XV of the Constitution pertains to

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Guaranty of the right to vote regardless of race color or previous condition of servitude

148
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Amendment XVI of the Constitution pertains to

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Rights of congress to collect income tax

149
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Amendment xvii of the Constitution pertains to

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Filling vacancies in the Senate

150
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Amendment XVIII of the Constitution pertains to

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Prohibition of liquor. Whuh oh!

151
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Amendment XIX of the Constitution pertains to

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Extending the right to vote to women

152
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Amendment XX of the Constitution pertains to

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Replacing the president in the event of death or incapacitation

153
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Amendment xxi pertains to

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Repeal of the 18th amendment. Booze is back

154
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Amendment XXII of the Constitution pertains to

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Limiting number of terms to the presidency to two

155
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Amendment XXII of the Constitution pertains to

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Determining number of electors in the district of Columbia ( Washington DC)

156
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Amendment XXIV of the Constitution pertains to

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Outlawing of poll taxes

157
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Amendment XXV of the Constitution pertains to

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Full line of succession to the president

158
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Amendment XXVI of the Constitution pertains to

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Lowering voting age from 21 to 18

159
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Amendment XXVII pertains to

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Delaying congress’ self-appointed raises until the next term

160
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This Italian who dropped a ball from the leaning Tower of Pisa to demonstrate his law of constant acceleration also wrote Dialogues Concerning the Two Chief World Systems for which she was put under house arrest for his advocacy of heliocentrism

A

Galileo Galilei

161
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This Danish student of Tyco Brahe’s three laws of planetary motion include
1: planetary orbits are elliptical with the senator focus
2: the radius vector from the Sun to a planet sweeps equal areas and equal time
3: the ratio of the square of the period of revolution and the cube of the ellipse semi major axis is the same for all planets

A

Johannes Kepler

162
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Basic repeating units of eukaryotic chromatin. In a human cell about 6 ft of DNA must be packaged into a nucleus with a diameter less than a human hair, in the form of chromosomes comprised of these units

A

Nucleosome

163
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A minute cylindrical organelle near the nucleus and animal cells, occurring in pairs and involved in the development of spindle fibers in cell division

A

Centriole

164
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Ancient Chinese philosopher, founder of an influential school of thought whose student Mencius collected his sayings in the Analects

A

Confucius

165
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Ancient Chinese philosopher, founder of taoism, author of The Tao Te Ching

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Lao Tzu or Laotzi

166
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Greatest of the Italian opera composers, known for the operas Rigoletto, Il Trovatore, La Traviata, Tosca, Aida, and Nabucco

A

Giuseppe Verdi

167
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One of the Italian opera grades, known for his adaptation of the Beaumarchais play The Barber of Seville for the William Tell overture

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Gioachino Rossini

168
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Among the Italian opera grades, known for his Madame Butterfly, La Boheme and Turandot

A

Giacomo Puccini

169
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Among the two greatest German Opera composers, known for his four-part ring cycle including The Rheingold, the Valkyries, Lohengrin, and Twilight of the Gods. Also the Master Singers of Nuremberg, Parsifal, and Tannheuser. Annual festival of his works held at Bayreuth

A

Richard Wagner

170
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Basic structural unit of nucleic acids such as DNA, consisting of a sugar molecule attached to a phosphate group and a nitrogen containing base. The bases in DNA are adenine, cytosine, guanine, and thymine

A

Nucleotide

171
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Fallacy asserting that if we allow A to happen then Z will consequently happen too, therefore a should not happen. Stated another way, that one event will inevitably lead to a long series of others.

A

Slippery slope fallacy

172
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Presuming that because a claim has been poorly argued, or a fallacy has been made, that it is necessarily wrong

A

The fallacy fallacy

173
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Manipulating an emotional response in place of a valid or compelling argument

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Appeal to emotion fallacy

174
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Misrepresenting an opponent’s argument to make it easier to attack

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Straw man fallacy

175
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Presuming that a real or perceived relationship between things means that one is the cause of the other

A

False cause fallacy

176
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Saying that because one finds something difficult to understand, that it’s therefore not true

A

Personal incredulity fallacy

177
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Attacking an opponent’s character or personal traits in an attempt to undermine their argument

A

Ad hominem fallacy

178
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Avoiding having to engage with criticism by turning it back in the accuser. Answering criticism with criticism

A

Tu quoque fallacy

179
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Stating the burden of proof lies not with the person making the claim, but with someone else to disprove

A

Burden of proof fallacy

180
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Moving the goal posts to create exceptions when a claim is shown to be false

A

Special pleading policy

181
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Scale of mineral hardness with indicator minerals for different levels, incl. talc for 1, quartz for 7, diamond for 10

A

Mohs scale of hardness

182
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19th century English poet of “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” and “Elegy on a Favourite Cate Drowned in a Tub of Goldfish”

A

Thomas Gray

183
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20th century Modern Imagist poet of “The Waste Land,” “The Hollow Men,” and “The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock”

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T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

184
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In a function, the change in dependent values with respect to the change in independent values.

A

Rate of change

185
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Forms and stores memories, and is involved in learning. People with Alzheimer’s disease loose the functioning in this brain structure, located in the inner (medial) region of the temporal lobe.

A

Hippocampus

186
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Brain section controlling breathing, reflexes, and your swallowing reflexes. Includes the Thalamus, Hippocampus, and Amygdala

A

Mid-Brain

187
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Indigenous inhabitants of the Australian continent prior to English settlement

A

Aborigines

188
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Order of strings on a guitar

A

EADGBE

189
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Term for the lowest note in a chord, whose letter value gives the chord its name

A

Root

190
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19th century English poet of “Dover Beach”

A

Matthew Arnold

191
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Ancient Greek playwright of the Theban Trilogy, including Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonnus, and Antigone [an-TIG-on-ee]

A

Sophocles

192
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Very bizarre looking virus that infects and replicates within bacteria and archaea, basically only a threat to its host micro-organisims

A

Bacteriophage

193
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A major proponent of Behaviorism, this author of Walden II created a namesake box to study operant conditioning.

A

B.F. Skinner

194
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This organelle has its own distinct DNA and may have evolutionarily been a separate organism. It is regarded as the powerhouse of the cell.

A

Mitochondria

195
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This is the smallest unit of matter that still has characteristics of a distinct element.

A

Atom

196
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This portion of an atom is comprised of the positively charged proton and the neutrally charged neutron

A

Nucleus

197
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This subatomic particle is in a cloud around the nucleus and carries a negative charge

A

Electron

198
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This is the taxonomic order which comprises butterflies

A

Lepidoptera

199
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This female conceptual artist associated with the Pictures Generation is known for laying bold text over black and white photos.

A

Barbara Kruger

200
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This English king defeated Harold II to claim the throne, commissioning the Bayeux Tapestry and the Domesday Book, the first comprehensive census.

A

William I, the Conqueror

201
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After Harold II defeated his brother Tostig at the Battle of Stamford Bridge, he was defeated at this 1066 battle, dying from an arrow to the eye

A

The Battle of Hastings

202
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This Grandson of Stephen of Blois, husband of Eleanor of Aquitane, and father of Richard I and King John, marred his otherwise peaceful reign by ordering the assassination of Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas a Becket.

A

Henry II (1519-1559)

203
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This part of speech modifies nouns and pronouns

A

Adjectives

204
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This part of speech modifies verbs, adjectives, other adverbs, phrases, and clauses. Its kind “of manner” usually ends in -ly

A

Adverbs

205
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This part of speech joins and shows relationships between all other parts of speech, as well as between phrases and clauses

A

Conjunction

206
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This part of a speech takes a noun or pronoun as its objects, relating it to the rest of the sentence. The phrase this part of speech and its object form act as a modifier, like adjectives and adverbs.

A

Prepositions

207
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This is a noun or pronoun that receives the action of the verb from the subject.

A

Direct object

208
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This type of verb takes a direct object

A

Transitive verb

209
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This type of verb doesn’t actually do the “verbing” in a sentence, and includes infinitives (the “to ___” form), and participles and gerunds (-ing and -ed)

A

Non-finite

210
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This kind of phrase can serve almost any function in a sentence (adjective/adverb, subject, object, etc.) and begins with its namesake non-finite verb form. The present form of its namesake verb has the -ing suffix.

A

Participial phrase

211
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This kind of verb tense indicates that an action is already complete. It has a past, present, and future form and is constructed with a form of the auxiliary verb “to have”

A

Perfect tense

212
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Capital of Afghanistan

A

Kabul

213
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King Zog led this former communist nation during WWII, with capital at Tirana

A

Albania

214
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Capital of Algeria

A

Algiers

215
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Capital of Angola

A

Luanda

216
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Capital of Argentina

A

Buenos Aires

217
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Residents of this country, with capital at Yerevan, were victims of a genocide carried out by the Ottoman Turks

A

Armenia

218
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Capital of Australia

A

Canberra

219
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Capital of Austria

A

Vienna

220
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Capital of Azerbaijan

A

Baku

221
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Capital of Azerbaijan

A

Baku

222
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Capital of the Bahamas

A

Nassau

223
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Capital of Bangladesh

A

Dhaka

224
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Capital of Belarus

A

Minsk

225
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Capital of Belize

A

Belmopan

226
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Capital of Benin

A

Porto-Novo

227
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Liberator of South America who freed the continent from European colonial powers, namesake of a South American Country

A

Simon Bolivar

228
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Ancient Greek leader who defeated the Persian Empire at battles like Gaugamela and Issus

A

Alexander the Great

229
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Persian emperor who opposed Alexander the Great

A

Darius III

230
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Ancient Greek mathematician who practiced vegetarianism, founded a cult that worshiped numbers, and devised a theorem for finding lengths of sides of a triangle

A

Pythagoras

231
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Student of Plato, founder of the Lyceum, and tutor to Alexander the Great whose poetics influenced the course of literature until Shakespeare’s day

A

Aristotle

232
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Elizabethan playwright of “Doctor Faustus,” a Catholic spy killed in a barfight

A

Christopher Marlowe

233
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Ancient empire found in the Andes mountains of Peru, overthrown by the conquistador Francisco Pizarro

A

Inca

234
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Last Inca king who was murdered by Francisco Pizarro in 1553 even after his ransom was paid

A

Atahualpa

235
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English conflict between the houses of York and Lancaster (1455-1487) culminating in the reign of Henry VII after the defeat of Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth field

A

Wars of the Roses

236
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Current speaker of the House

A

Kevin McCarthy

237
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Schizophrenic mathematician, founder of game theory, famous for his Prisoner’s Dilemma thought experiment

A

John Nash

238
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Fat English king who founded the Anglican Church and had six wives

A

Henry VIII

239
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Daughter of Henry VIII who defeated her cousin, Mary Queen of Scots, as well as the Spanish Armada, while patronizing privateers like Sir Frances Drake and Sir Walter Ralleigh, and playwrights like my boy Billy Shakes

A

Elizabeth I

240
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Mary Queen of Scots’ son and Catholic successor of Elizabeth I, responsible for new English translation of Bible

A

James I

241
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Son of and successor to James I who was executed, ushering in the era of the English Commonwealth or Protectorate under Oliver Cromwell

A

Charles I

242
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King after the Protectorate, restoring the monarchy, though he still sucked as king

A

Charles II

243
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term for a number created by adding a real and an imaginary number

A

complex number

244
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imaginary number expressed √(−1)

A

i

245
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Capital of Bolivia

A

Sucre

246
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name for australopthecine specimen found by Donald Jonhanson in Ethiopia

A

Lucy

247
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Term for distinct difference in size or appearance between the sexes of an animal in addition to difference between the sexual organs themselves.

A

Sexual dimorphism

248
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Father of Zeus who devoured his children before being defeated with his siblings by the gods in the Titanomachy

A

Cronus

249
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Incan king for whom the Andean site Machu Picchu was likely built

A

Pachacuti

250
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Indian religion revering ten gurus, the final of which is the holy book Adi Granth, and whose adherents follow the Five Ks

A

Sikhism

251
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Term for an atom’s propensity to draw electrons to itself

A

electronegativity

252
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Energy required to remove an electron from an atom

A

Activation energy

253
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Archbishop of Canterbury, murdered by knights in Canterbury Cathedral at the behest of King Henry II

A

Thomas a Becket

254
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term for an atom missing an electron, and thus possessing a positive charge

A

cation

255
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Term for specific atomic clouds in which electrons are likely found in, divided into groups S, P, D, F, and G, as well as into successively larger shells

A

orbital

256
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Term for an atom with more or fewer neutrons than predicted for that element in the periodic table

A

isotope

257
Q

Group 17 elements of periodic table, one electron away from the stable configuration of the noble gases

A

Halogens

258
Q

Term for 6.02214076×10²³, the number of particles in a gram of an element, or one mole of that element

A

Avogadro’s number

259
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This English War between the houses of York and Lancaster lasted from 1455 - 1487 and ended with the reign of Henry VII

A

Wars of the Roses

260
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This English monarch during the Wars of the Roses also led the English against the French in the Battle of Agincourt during the Hundred Years’ War

A

Henry V

261
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This Hanoverian King of England led England against the French under Napoleon and lost the American Revolution. He likely suffered from Porphyria and his mental health deteriorated as he aged.

A

George III

262
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This Argentine author included “The Garden of Forking Paths” in his “Ficciones” about the work of Tsui Pen

A

Jorge Luis Borges

263
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This short story by Edgar Allan Poe tells of Roderick Usher’s mental decline after the premature burial of his sister

A

The Fall of the House of Usher

264
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This short story by Edgar Allan Poe tells of the narrator’s mental deterioration leading up to and hollowing his murder of the old man

A

The Tell-Tale Heart

265
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This poem by Christina Rossetti tells the story of an encounter between two young girls and a travelling band of supernatural fruit merchants

A

Goblin Market

266
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This ancient Greek war was primarily waged between a League led by Athens and another led by Sparta

A

The Peloponnesian War

267
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This Florentine nobleman wrote “The Prince” to curry the favor of Niccolo de Medici. His name has become a by-word for cunning and treachery

A

Machiavelli

268
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The Ideal Gas Law

A

PV=nRT (pressure x volume = number of moles x rate constant x temperature

269
Q

This is a concept used to describe the full value of a nation’s economy

A

GDP (Gross Domestic Product)

270
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This ill-fated niece of Henry VIII reigned for nine days before being executed by Bloody Mary Tudor

A

Lady Jane Grey

271
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This southern African country with capital at Gaborone was inhabited by the San people

A

Botswana

272
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This Russian novelist and philosopher renounced worldly pleasures, fought the state, and wrote Anna Karenina

A

Leo Tolstoy

273
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This long Tolstoy novel tells the love story between Pierre and Natasha during the French invasion of Russia under Napoleon

A

War and Peace

274
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This Empire, which began as the Eastern Roman Empire, was led from Constantinople before falling to the Ottomans

A

Byzantine Empire

275
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This Empire was founded by Genghis Khan and mostly ended when Tamurlane wiped out their Golden Horde

A

Mongol Empire

276
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This man assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in Sarajevo, inciting the first World War

A

Gavrilo Princip

277
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This New England author of gothic novels like “The Scarlet Letter” and “The House of the Seven Gables” also wrote short stories like “Young Goodman Brown,” critical of religious fanaticism

A

Nathaniel Hawthorne

278
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The Dayton Accords ended a civil war in this former-Yugoslav country, where Slobedan Milosevic carried out a Serbian genocide

A

Bosnia and Herzegovina

279
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This Muslim conqueror defeated the Khans, the Ottomans, and others to build his pyramids of skulls

A

Tamurlane

280
Q

The heat required to raise the temperature of the unit mass of a given substance by a given amount (usually one degree).

A

Specific Heat

281
Q

This Cynical Greek philosopher “searched for an honest man” while peeing in the street and throwing shade at Aristotle and Alexander

A

Diogenes

282
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This relatively bloodless event ended the rule of James II in favor of his daughter Mary and her husband William of Orange

A

The Glorious Revolution

283
Q

This Keats poem addresses a “still unravished bride of time” and states “Beauty is truth, truth beauty. That is all ye know on earth and all ye need to know”

A

John Keats’ “Ode on a Grecian Urn”

284
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This Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. poem says “Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul.” Onwards and upward, amirite?

A

“The Chambered Nautilus”

285
Q

a2 + b2 = c2

A

Pythagorean theorem

286
Q

What is the Pythagorean theorem used to find?

A

The missing length of a side or the hypotenuse of a right triangle

287
Q

This is the term for when a material moves between states of matter, including evaporation and condensation

A

Phase Change

288
Q

This Muslim Indian dynasty was founded by Babur, reaching its greatest height under Akbar the Great

A

Mughal

289
Q

This Mughal grandson of Akbar the Great commissioned the building of the Taj Majal to honor his wife Mumtaz

A

Shah Jahan

290
Q

This testy Mughal son of Shah Jahan reinstated the Jizyah tax on non-Muslims

A

Aurangzeb

291
Q

This Ancient Indian empire (322-185BCE) was founded by Chandragupta

A

Mauryan

292
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This greatest Mauryan ruler converted to Buddhism after the Battle of Kalinga, issuing the Rock Edicts

A

Ashoka

293
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This late Victorian English novelist critiqued notions of morality in novels like Jude the Obscure and Tess of the D’Urbervilles. He composed the poems “The Darkling Thrush,” and “The Convergence of the Twain” about the sinking of the Titanic

A

Thomas Hardy

294
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This American poet composed poems including “The Mending Wall” and “The Road not Taken”

A

Robert Frost

295
Q

This term denotes the conditions at which a substance can exist as either a gas or a liquid

A

Critical point

296
Q

This term describes weak, distance-dependent intermolecular forces and includes hydrogen bonding, dispersion forces, and dipole-dipole interactions

A

Van der Waals forces

297
Q

These two battles began the Revolutionary War

A

Lexington and Concord

298
Q

This longtime Muslim empire was founded by Uthman, overthrew Constantinople under Mehmet II, and reached its greatest height under Suleiman the Magnificent before collapsing after World War I

A

Ottoman

299
Q

These alleged sons of Mars were suckled by a she-wolf and grew to found Rome before one murdered the other and perpetrated the Rape of the Sabine Women

A

Romulus and Remus

300
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This last of the Seven Legendary Kings of Rome was overthrown for his cruelty after Lucretia murdered herself after being raped by his son

A

Tarquinius Superbus

301
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This English philosopher (1561-1626) built on Aristotle in his Novum Organum to describe the scientific method

A

Sir Francis Bacon

302
Q

This 20th century British painter of often violent images used Velazquez’ portrait of Pope Innocent X as inspiration for his Screaming Pope

A

France Bacon

303
Q

Ian’s phone number

A

(352) 422-1343

304
Q

Suffix in biology and chemistry indicating a substance that breaks something down

A

-ase

305
Q

Suffix in biology and anatomy indicating an inflammation, or swelling in response to harm

A

-itis

306
Q

This is the term for body systems and glands that secrete hormones and other substances into the bloodstream

A

Endocrine

307
Q

Term for glands and systems secreting fluids outside the endothelium (outside the body)

A

Exocrine

308
Q

Term for a ball of chewed food, saliva, and enzymes

A

Bolus

309
Q

Term for a sugar molecule, named for the elements that comprise it

A

Carbohydrate

310
Q

The enzyme in saliva that begins the breakdown of carbohydrates

A

Amylase

311
Q

The enzyme in saliva that begins the breakdown of fats

A

lipase

312
Q

American painter, student of Robert Henri, most famous for works of urban loneliness including “Automat,” “Sunday Morning,” and “Nighthawks”

A

Edward Hopper

313
Q

Biology term for fatty, water-insoluble substances

A

lipids

314
Q

Tube connecting the mouth to the stomach

A

Esophagus

315
Q

Term for a biological catalyst to bring about chemical reactions

A

Enzyme

316
Q

Term for the ratio in a solution of total moles of solute in a kilogram of solvent

A

Molality

317
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Term for the ratio in a solution of total moles of solute in a kilogram of solvent

A

Molality

318
Q

Term for the equilibrium constant, calculated by multiplying the concentration of each product, and then dividing it by the concentration of each reactant

A

Keq

319
Q

One of the two first consuls of the Roman Republic, he passed laws forbidding future kings from ruling and was an ancestor of Julius Caesar’s assassin

A

Lucius Junius Brutus

320
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This land Supreme Court case resolved by Chief Justice John Marshall, in which a federal employee sued Jefferson’s Secretary of State for not delivering his commission, established the principle of judicial review, such that the courts can strike down unconstitutional laws

A

Marbury v Madison

321
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French for first person singular pronouns I/me

A

Je/me/moi

322
Q

French “What”

A

Quoi

323
Q

French “He is my brother”

A

Il est mon frère

324
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“Quelle est la date?” in English

A

What is the date?

325
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“It is 3:10” in French

A

Il est trois heures dix

326
Q

“Nous faison un jou” in English

A

Let’s play a game

327
Q

This nephew of Julius Caesar defeated Marc Antony to become the first Roman Emperor

A

Octavian or Caesar Augustus

328
Q

This is the term for the lower class of free Roman Citizens, now often used for ignorant or common people

A

Plebians

329
Q

These are the two main classes of dinosaurs, distinguished by their hip-type

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Saurischian and ornithischian

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Birds evolved from a branch of this class of saurischian, which includes the T. rex

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Theropods

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Ten-member councils called the decemviri were selected to compose this first codification of Roman law

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The Twelve Tables

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These four eons are the largest groups of geologic time

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The Hadean, Archean, Proterozoic, and Phanerozoic eras

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These are the three macronutrients, comprising the largest part of the nutritional content of our food

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Fats, carbohydrates, proteins

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These biological building blocks are comprised of chains of amino acids linked by peptide bonds

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proteins

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Einstein won the Nobel Prize for solving this physics puzzle, in which very small particles in water move as a result of collisions with atoms and molecules

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Brownian motion

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This is the term for electrons in an atom’s outermost shell which determines the bonds can form, determined by counting the number of spaces an atom lies from the left of the periodic table

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valence electrons

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This Meso-American civilization, whose mythological text the Popul Vuh describes its underworld Zibalba, built large pyramidal temples like those in Chichen Itza

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Mayan

338
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Walter Gropius founded this Weimar-era German school of art and architecture that was closed by the Nazis

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Bauhaus

339
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this flap of cartilage at the base of the pharynx keeps food from going down the larynx

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Epiglottis

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The breakdown of red blood cells in the spleen produces this compound used by the liver in bile

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Bilirubin

341
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This essential amino acid is used in allergic response and to produce stomach acid

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Histidine

342
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Diabetics lack enough of this hormone, produced by the beta cells of the islets of Langerhans in the pancreas, that moves glucose from the blood into the cells

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Insulin

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This amino acid is the start codon that begins protein synthesis in the ribosomes of the cell

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Methionine

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Q

Mechanical stress to certain crystals like quartz generates an electric charge that powers devices like digital watches in this effect

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Piezoelectric Effect

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This weakest molecular bond lasts only an instant as the movement of electrons creates temporary dipoles between particles

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London Dispersion Forces

346
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This 7th president, nicknamed Old Hickory, was the first nominated by national convention, called his advisors the Kitchen Cabinet, and passed the Indian Removal Act

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Andrew Jackson

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