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Rosebery #13 Flashcards

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Granite, when acted upon by high temperature and pressure metamorphic processes, becomes what?

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gneiss

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What dystopian novel is set in the Republic of Gilead, a theonomic military dictatorship formed within the borders of what was formerly the United States?

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The Handmaid’s Tale

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What measure of statistical dispersion intended to represent the wealth distribution of a nation’s residents is the most commonly used measure of inequality?

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Gini coefficient (or index or ratio)

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What American pop artist was strongly influenced by comic books, as seen in his works “Whaam!” and “Drowning Girl?”

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Roy Lichtenstein

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What type of steroids interact with androgen receptors to increase muscle and bone synthesis and are classed as performance-enhancing drugs when taken by athletes?

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anabolic (steroids)

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The thyroid hormones are partially composed of which element of which a deficiency leads to the disease known as goiter?

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iodine

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What is the more common name for somatotropin, a peptide hormone that stimulates cell reproduction and cell regeneration?

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(human) growth hormone (or HGH)

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Which Classical-era composer composed over 600 musical works before his untimely death at the age of 35?

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(Wolfgang Amadeus) Mozart

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Mozart died in Vienna, but in which Austrian city was he born?

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Salzburg

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What composer is often depicted as a jealous rival of Mozart’s, even though the two were reputedly friends and colleagues who supported each other’s work?

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Antonio Salieri

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Which of Mozart’s operas, a dramma giocoso in two acts, was originally titled, “A Rake Punished,” although it is generally known by its subtitle, the name of its main character?

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Don Giovanni

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It is well-known that Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy were assassinated. What are the names of the other two U.S. Presidents who were assassinated while in office?

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James A. Garfield and William McKinley

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What dam, constructed between 1960 and 1970, not only provided hydroelectricity but also allowed control over the annual flooding of the Nile River?

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Aswan (High Dam)

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The Hoover Dam, stretching between the states of Nevada and Arizona, dams which river?

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Colorado (River)

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What dam, spanning the Yangtze River, is the world’s largest power station as measured by installed capacity?

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Three Gorges (Dam)

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what country can you find the largest earth-filled dam in the world, the Tarbela Dam across the Indus river?

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Pakistan

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How many nanometers are there in a meter?

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1 billion

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To 2 significant digits, how many pounds are there in a kilogram?

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2.2

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How many pints are there in a gallon?

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8

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How many feet are there in a fathom?

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6

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How many milligrams are there in a kilogram?

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1 million

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To 2 significant digits, how many centimeters are there in an inch?

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2.5

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How many ounces are there in a pound?

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16

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What is the first sentence of Chapter 1 of Herman Melville’s novel, Moby Dick?

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Call me Ishmael.

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Who ruled the People’s Republic of China as the Chairman of the Communist Party of China from its establishment in 1949 until his death in 1976?

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Mao (Zedong)

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People who have normal mental health throughout most of the year but exhibit depressive symptoms at the same time each year, most commonly in the winter, are said to have what?

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Seasonal Affective Disorder

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What long-running often-political comic strip was the first daily strip to win a Pulitzer Prize?

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Doonesbury

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In chemistry, what substance is called the “universal solvent” because it dissolves more substances than any other liquid?

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water

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What is the English translation of the Latin statement, “Amor vincit omnia?”

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love conquers all

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What is the capital of the autonomous Danish territory of Greenland?

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Nuuk

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hat is the nickname given to the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament?

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March Madness

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William Shakespeare’s As You Like It is a pastoral comedy in which most of the action takes place in which forest?

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(Forest of) Arden

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Whose name was stripped from the promotional material for An Ideal Husband during its initial run after he was arrested for “gross indecency?”

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Oscar Wilde

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Which play by Molière, subtitled l’Imposteur, was an indictment of hypocrisy at the court of Louis XIV?

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Tartuffe

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What American playwright who died in 2018 received more combined Oscar and Tony nominations than any other writer, for works such as The Odd Couple?

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Neil Simon

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In 1943, the Partisan resistance declared me a democratic state while my king was living in exile. After my formation in 1918, I was commonly referred to as “the Versailles state.” I was ruled by Josip Broz, commonly known as Tito, from 1953 until his death in 1980. In the 1990s, I broke up, at first into five countries, leading to ethnic wars and genocide. What am I?

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Yugoslavia

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What property of a fluid describes the opposition to the relative motion between two surfaces of the fluid that are moving at different velocities, i.e., the friction between the molecules?

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viscosity

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Whose principle states that a pressure change occurring anywhere in an enclosed incompressible fluid is transmitted such that the same change occurs everywhere?

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Blaise Pascal(‘s)

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The SI unit of pressure is the Pascal. What is the traditional Imperial and U.S. customary unit of pressure?

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pound(-force) per square inch (or psi)

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What type of fluid motion is characterized by chaotic changes in pressure and flow velocity, often characterized by eddies or vortices?

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turbulence (or turbulent flow)

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What is the second line of the poem that begins, “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”

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Thou art more lovely and more temperate

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What is the second line of the poem that begins, “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways?”

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I love thee to the height and depth and breadth

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What is the second line of the poem that begins, “She walks in beauty like the night?”

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Of cloudless climes and starry skies

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What is the second line of the poem that begins, “If ever two were one, then surely we?”

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If ever man were loved by wife, then thee

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What type of programming language object, common in C, stores the memory address of another value located in computer memory?

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pointer

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What do the letters of SQL (pronounced “sequel”), which is used for managing databases, stand for?

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structured query language

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What interpreted object-orientated language, developed in the mid-1990s in Japan, is used in the server-side web application framework Rails?

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Ruby

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What is four bits, or half a byte, called?

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nibble

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Which of Aristotle’s works, taking its title from the Greek for “character,” opens, “Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good?”

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(Nicomachean) Ethics

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Which ethical theory, associated with Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill, argues the proper course of action is one that maximizes a positive effect such as happiness?

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Utilitarianism

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hich philosopher believed that there was a supreme principle of morality that he referred to as The Categorical Imperative, introduced in his Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals?

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(Immanuel) Kant

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What famous thought experiment in ethics has taken on new relevance with the development of autonomous vehicles and the programming of their AI?

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The Trolley Problem

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What Hans Christian Anderson fairy tale heroine falls in love with a flower-fairy prince just her size?

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Thumbelina

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Playing its first season in 2017-2018, which NHL team is based in the Las Vegas metropolitan area?

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(Vegas) Golden Knights

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What is the more common name for botanical stolons, stems that grow at the soil surface and that form roots at the nodes and new plants from the buds, as in strawberry plants?

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runner(s)

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In psychology, what term is used to describe the mental discomfort experienced by a person who simultaneously holds two or more contradictory beliefs, ideas, or values?

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cognitive dissonance

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What painting by American artist Edward Hopper is his best-known work, in part because of numerous visual references to it in popular culture?

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Nighthawks

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The name for which elementary particle is taken from a line from James Joyce’s “Finnegans Wake?”

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quark

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In which 1917 battle did Canadian troops overcome both a raging snowstorm and the German forces, allowing French forces to take the nearby town of Aisne?

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(Battle of) Vimy Ridge

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What is the more common name for the asana adho mukha shvanasana, a yoga pose in which the body forms the shape of an inverted V?

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downward(-facing) dog

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In what museum in Madrid could you find “The 3rd of May” by Goya and “The Garden of Earthly Delights” by Hieronymous Bosch?

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The Prado

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What was the birth name of the American professional boxer and activist Muhammad Ali?

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Cassius (Marcellus) Clay (Jr.)

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In Greek mythology, which of the Nereids was the wife and consort of Poseidon and the goddess of the sea?

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Amphitrite

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In Norse mythology, which goddess, the wife of the sea god Ægir, pulled seafarers to the bottom of the sea with her net?

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Ran

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In Babylonian mythology, who was the primordial goddess of the sea, mother of the younger gods and the symbol of the chaos of creation?

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Tiamat

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What Hollywood director became a household name after the release of his 1975 summer blockbuster Jaws?

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Steven Spielberg

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What 1977 science-fiction movie earned Steven Spielberg his first Academy Award nomination?

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Close Encounters of the Third Kind

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Which 1993 historical period drama won Steven Spielberg his first Academy Award for Best Director?

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Schindler’s List

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What 1993 Steven Spielberg movie earned over $900 million worldwide and launched a movie franchise, the most recent of which was released in 2018?

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Jurassic Park

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The British Crown Colony of Southern Rhodesia was the predecessor state of what modern nation?

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Zimbabwe

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The Congo Free State was, from 1885 to 1908, ruled personally by Leopold II, who was also king of which European country?

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Belgium

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What country was, along with Liberia, one of only two African nations to resist colonization, although it was briefly occupied by the Italian Empire prior to World War II?

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Ethiopia

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I owned the Bofors company, which under my direction went from being an iron and steel producer to an arms manufacturer. Although I did not attend secondary school or university, in 1893 I was awarded an honorary doctorate from Uppsala University. The first of the 355 patents I filed was an English patent for a gas meter. After reading a premature obituary which declared, “The merchant of death is dead,” I decided to bequeath my fortune to fund prizes in the sciences and “Peace.” Who am I?

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Alfred Nobel

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What English rock band is known for, among other songs, “Sympathy for the Devil,” “Jumpin’ Jack Flash,” and “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction?”

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The Rolling Stones

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What language, created in the 19th century, is the most widely spoken constructed international language?

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Esperanto

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The 20 numbered municipal administrative districts of Paris are referred to by which French term?

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Arrondissement(s)

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What HBO crime drama TV series revolved around a New Jersey-based Italian-American mob leader and his family?

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The Sopranos

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What cartoonist, the first British Children’s Laureate, is best known for illustrating the works of Roald Dahl?

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Quentin Blake

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In what year did Terry Fox run 5733 km – roughly a marathon a day for 143 days – in his Marathon of Hope?

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1980

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What legal writ allows a person to petition a court to determine whether a detention is lawful? The term, from Medieval Latin, translates as, “that you have the body.”

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habeas corpus

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What name is given to the hypothesized ancient planet of the early Solar System that collided with Gaia (the early Earth) to form the Moon?

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Theia

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What is the second-largest stock exchange in the world by market capitalization, behind only the New York Stock Exchange?

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NASDAQ (Stock Market)

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From 1969 to 2018, Caroll Spinney played Big Bird and which other Sesame Street Muppet, who lived in a trash can?

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Oscar (the Grouch)

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How many valence electrons do each of the elements in Group 14 have?

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4

85
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In which Broadway musical does the milkman Tevye sing, “If I Were a Rich Man?”

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Fiddler on the Roof

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Down syndrome is a genetic disorder caused by the presence of all or part of a third copy of which chromosome?

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21

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hat word, from the Sanskrit for “action” or “deed,” refers to the spiritual principle that a person’s actions in this and previous states of existence will decide their fate in future existences?

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karma

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