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Rosebery #1 Flashcards

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What North American mammal is known by the scientific name Canis latrans?

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coyote

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What French village is best known as the location of Claude Monet’s home and garden?

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Giverny

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Which country’s national union rugby team, called the All Blacks, is known for performing a haka before each match?

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New Zealand(‘s)

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What Swedish pop group won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1974 and wrote the music that was adapted into the stage show Mamma Mia!?

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ABBA

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How many sides does a heptagon have?

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7

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What term is used to describe a “pie slice”of a circle, enclosed by two radii and an arc?

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sector

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The five regular or Platonic solids are the tetrahedron, octahedron, dodecahedron, icosahedron, and which other shape?

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cube (or hexahedron)

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Which public television show that premiered in 1969 was originally produced by the Children’s Television Workshop and featured Muppet characters created by Jim Henson?

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Sesame Street

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What question is the title for Sesame Street’s theme song, sometimes also called, “Sunny Days?”

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Can You Tell Me How to Get to Sesame Street?

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Which Muppet character was originally developed for a training video and television ads, including commercials for Munchos potato chips?

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Cookie Monster

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As part of a five-year development deal in the wake of public television cutbacks, which television service now owns the first-run rights to Sesame Street?

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HBO

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Identify the title and author of the novel that begins, “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”

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Pride and Prejudice by (Jane) Austen

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The world’s busiest airport, as measured by passenger traffic, is located in which U.S. city?

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Atlanta

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What is the busiest airport in Europe, identified by the International Air Transport Association code LHR?

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London Heathrow (prompt on London)

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What is the three-letter International Air Transport Association code for Toronto Pearson International Airport?

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YYZ

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Rome’s largest international airport is named for which Renaissance designer of flying machines?

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(Leonardo) da Vinci

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What is the medical name for the shinbone?

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tibia

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What is the medical name for the breastbone?

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sternum

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What is the medical name for the shoulder blade?

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scapula

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What is the medical name for the kneecap?

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patella

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What is the medical name for the thighbone?

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femur

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What is the medical name for the lower jaw?

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mandible

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What is the medical name for the collarbone?

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clavicle

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What is the medical name for the tailbone?

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coccyx

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What sculpture, housed in St. Peter’s Basilica, is unique in that it is the only piece Michelangelo ever signed?

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(The or La) Pieta

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In which year was the first modern Olympics held, in the city of Athens?

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1896

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What punctuation mark is a series of dots, used to indicate the intentional omission of words from a text without altering its original meaning?

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ellipsis

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What famous toy brand name comes from the Danish for “play well?”

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Lego

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What term, derived from the name from the Roman god of wealth, is used to describe a society that is ruled or controlled by the wealthy?

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plutocracy (or plutarchy)

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What secondary colour is produced by the combination of red light and green light?

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yellow

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What Broadway musical, based on the book of the same name, tells the story of Elphaba and Galinda and has as its signature song, “Defying Gravity?”

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Wicked

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Swords, wands, cups, and coins are the four suits of what type of deck of cards?

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Tarot

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What is the most expensive property on the U.S. version of the board game Monopoly?

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Boardwalk

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Which children’s board game contains the shortcuts “Rainbow Trail” and “Gumdrop Pass”?

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Candyland

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How many points is a “Q” worth in Scrabble?

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10

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Which board game was originally released as La Conquête du Monde?

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Risk

37
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I am an 11th century castle, originally constructed by a conqueror. One of my entrances, a water gate entrance from the river, is infamously known as the Traitor’s Gate. I have been a royal residence, an armoury, a treasury, the home of the Royal Mint and the Royal Menagerie. I am perhaps best known as a prison, particularly under Tudor monarchs, and was the site of Anne Boleyn’s imprisonment and execution. What am I?

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Tower of London

38
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Deuterium is an isotope of which chemical element?

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hydrogen

39
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What is the heaviest element to have stable isotopes?

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lead

40
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“Enriched” uranium contains an increased percent composition of which isotope?

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(uranium-)235

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Which isotope of carbon is referred to as “radiocarbon,” as in radiocarbon dating?

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(carbon-)14

42
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Which Canadian political party is colloquially known as the Grits?

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Liberal(s)

43
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Who founded the National Fascist Party, or Partito Nazionale Fascista, in 1921?

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(Benito) Mussolini

44
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What left-wing Irish republican political party was associated with the Provisional Irish Republican Army, or IRA?

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Sinn Fein

45
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What now-defunct American political party was the party o

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Whig(s)

46
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Which author’s Three Laws of Robotics were the unifying theme of his robot-based novels, including I, Robot?

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(Isaac) Asimov

47
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In which H.G. Wells novel has humanity divided into two groups, the decadent Eloi and the subterranean Morlocks?

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The Time Machine

48
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Who is the author of what is often considered the first science-fiction novel, the story of a scientist who creates a sentient humanoid from cadaver parts in an unorthodox experiment?

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(Mary) Shelley

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What question is the title of the Philip K. Dick novel that inspired the film Blade Runner?

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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

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What does the International Astronomical Union recognize 88 of, described as areas of the night sky, grouped around patterns formed by prominent, relatively bright stars?

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constellations

51
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What term is used to describe a prominent pattern or group of stars within a larger constellation such as the Big Dipper within Ursa Major?

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asterism

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Forty-eight of the 88 constellations were recorded in the Almagest of which ancient astronomer?

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(Claudius) Ptolemy

53
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Which is the largest of the 88 modern constellations, often represented as a water snake or sea serpent?

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Hydra

54
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Which boxing weight category has a maximum weight limit of 9 stone, or 126 pounds?

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featherweight

55
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What modernist architect from Catalonia designed many distinctive buildings in and around Barcelona, including the church of the Sagrada Família?

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(Antoni) Gaudi

56
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What is fossilized coniferous tree resin from the Middle Tertiary period better known as?

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amber

57
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What mystery religion practiced in the Roman Empire from the 1st to the 4th century was inspired by a Persian religion?

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Mithraism

58
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Name the sailor man who, along with the Jazz Age flapper Betty Boop, was one of the stars of the cartoons produced by the long-defunct Fleischer Studios.

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Popeye

59
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From 794 to 1868, what city was home to the Emperor and considered to be the capital of Japan?

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Kyoto (or Heian-Kyo)

60
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What Canadian poet, the “Bard of the Yukon,” is best known for his poems “The Shooting of Dan McGrew” and “The Cremation of Sam McGee?”

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(Robert) Service

61
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What “test” of delayed gratification in children, from the studies of Stanford psychology professor Walter Mischel, was named for the reward typically offered?

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(The) Marshmallow (Test)

62
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Whose x-ray diffraction photographs contributed to the discovery of the structure of DNA?

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(Rosalind) Franklin(‘s)

63
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In West African and Caribbean folklore, who is the trickster who often takes the shape of a spider?

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Anansi

64
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What word is an anagram of “senator” and means, “the crime of betraying one’s country?”

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treason

65
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What word is an anagram of “roasting” and means, “a person who plays a musical instrument with a keyboard and pipes?”

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organist

66
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What word is an anagram of “teacher” and means, “an area of 10,000 square metres?”

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hectare

67
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What Mediterranean island nation, one of the world’s smallest and most densely populated countries, became independent of the United Kingdom in 1964?

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Malta

68
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The Knights Hospitalier retreated to Malta and became known as the Knights of Malta after which Greek island over which they were sovereign fell to the Ottomans?

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Rhodes

69
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Constructed by the Knights and named for the Grand Master who was victorious defending Malta against the Ottomans, what is the capital of Malta?

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Valetta

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English is one of the official languages of Malta. What is the other, the only Semitic language officially recognized by the E.U.?

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Maltese

71
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What instrument is used to represent the character of the duck in Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf?

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oboe

72
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For which instrument is the jazz musician Louis Armstrong, or “Satchmo,” best known?

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trumpet

73
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What wind instrument was developed by Aboriginal Australians and is sometimes described as a “drone pipe?”

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digeridoo

74
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I was born in 1867 in Warsaw, where I attended university. In 1891, I moved to Paris to continue my studies and met and married someone who worked in my field. In 1934, I died from health issues caused by extended exposure to the materials in my lab. I am the only person to have won Nobel Prizes in both Physics and Chemistry. Who am I?

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Marie Curie

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Which English author created the characters Mr. Micawber, Miss Havisham, Uriah Heep, the Artful Dodger, and Ebenezer Scrooge?

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(Charles) Dickens

76
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By which name is the retired Brazilian soccer player Edson Arantes do Nascimento more commonly known?

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Pele

77
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What green leafy vegetable is an essential ingredient in Tomato Florentine soup?

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spinach

78
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Who was the first and most prominent signatory to the United States Declaration of Independence, whose name became a synonym for one’s signature in the U.S.?

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John Hancock

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What Latin phrase means “friend of the court” and describes a person who is not party to a case but assists a court by offering information or expertise?

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amicus curiae

80
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During the First World War, the city of Berlin, Ontario, voted to change its name to what, after a senior British Army officer?

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Kitchener

81
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What runic letter representing the phoneme “th” was common in Germanic and Scandinavian languages, including Old English, and still survives in modern Icelandic?

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thorn

82
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What Princess of Power was the sister to He-Man and the star of a 2018 Netflix reboot of the original 1980s cartoon?

A

She-Ra

83
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What northeastern African country was annexed by Ethiopia after World War II and only won its independence in 1993 after a 30-year war?

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Eritrea

84
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What American illustrator is most famous for the cover illustrations of everyday life he created for The Saturday Evening Post magazine?

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(Norman) Rockwell

85
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Cinnabar is a mineral ore that is the most common source of which toxic metal?

A

Mercury

86
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Who is the jackal-headed god associated with funeral rites in Egyptian mythology?

A

Anubis

87
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The film score, by the composer John Williams, of which 1977 movie was selected by the American Film Institute’s as the greatest American film score of all time?

A

Star Wars

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Which province became the tenth province to enter the Canadian Confederation on March 31, 1949?

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Newfoundland (and Labrador)

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