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Rosebery #15 Flashcards

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What term is used to describe any genetic condition in which an extra copy of a chromosome is present in the cell nuclei, causing developmental abnormalities?

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trisomy

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In which team sport, administered by the Gaelic Athletic Association, do players use a wooden stick to hit a small ball between the opponents’ goalposts?

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hurling

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What American science fiction author’s Navy career influenced his writing, most notably the space marine classic “Starship Troopers?”

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Robert A. Heinlein

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What term was coined in the 1890s to characterize the sensational journalism of the circulation war between Pulitzer and Hearst?

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yellow journalism

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What poet’s best-known work is the untitled poem from “Spring and All” that is often referred to as “The Red Wheelbarrow?”

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William Carlos Williams

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What T.S. Eliot poem, the first of his to be professionally published, opens with a quotation from Dante’s Inferno, and “Let us go now, you and I?”

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The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

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What African-American poet is actually best known for her series of autobiographies, the first of which was I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings?

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Maya Angelou

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What king of the Franks was crowned Holy Roman Emperor on Christmas Day, 800?

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Charlesmagne

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What Gallic leader was defeated by Julius Caesar at the siege of Alésia?

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Vercingetorix

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What name was given to the French Protestants of the 16th and 17th centuries who followed the teachings of John Calvin and were persecuted by the Catholic government?

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Huguenots

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Who was the Premier of the Vichy regime during World War II, today widely regarded as a traitor and Nazi collaborator?

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Marshal Philippe Pétain

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If two six-sided dice are rolled together, identify both the most likely sum of the two dice and the probability that that sum occurs?

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7 and 1/6

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What Japanese word is used to describe a person who has a near-obsession with Japanese pop culture products and aesthetics?

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otaku

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What Japanese adjective can be translated as “cute” or “adorable” and is exemplified by characters like Hello Kitty?

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kawaii

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What type of manga, its name translating as “few years,” is aimed at boys and features action and adventure stories? Examples include Dragon Ball and Naruto.

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shonen

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What word, from the Japanese for “strange beast,” is used for the film genre that features giant monsters attacking major cities and engaging the military and other monsters in battle?

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kaiju

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On the periodic table, what element is below sodium and to the left of calcium?

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potassium

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On the periodic table, what element is above sulfur and to the right of nitrogen?

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oxygen

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On the periodic table, what element is below copper and above gold?

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silver

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On the periodic table, what element is to the right of iron and to the left of nickel?

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cobalt

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On the periodic table, what element is below beryllium and to the right of sodium?

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magnesium

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On the periodic table, what element is above chlorine and to the right of oxygen?

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fluorine

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On the periodic table, what element is below carbon and above germanium?

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silicon

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On the periodic table, what element is below tin and to the left of bismuth?

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lead

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What British animation studio is known for films made using stop-motion clay animation techniques, such as “Shaun the Sheep?”

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Aardman Animations

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What is the name given to a composite organism that arises from a mutualistic relationship between a fungus and a kind of algae?

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lichen

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The Cy Young Award is given annually to the best players who play which position in Major League Baseball?

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pitcher

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The “High Roller” in Las Vegas is currently the world’s tallest example of which type of amusement ride?

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Ferris wheel

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What two-word Latin phrase does A.D. stand for when used in dates?

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Anno Domini

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In which serious sleep disorder does a person stop breathing repeatedly during their sleep, which may mean that they may not get enough oxygen?

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(sleep) apnea

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Which Canadian province was the last to concede the right to vote to women, holding out until 1940?

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Quebec

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What process is characterized by changes including blebbing, cell shrinkage, and nuclear chromosomal DNA fragmentation?

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apoptosis

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Howard Shore won three Academy Awards for his work on which 2000s film trilogy? His award for the song “Into the West” was shared with Fran Walsh and Annie Lennox.

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The Lord of the Rings

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What pop music group was commissioned to write the music for Saturday Night Fever?

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The Bee Gees

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What singer-songwriter has scored eight Disney-Pixar films and won his first Academy Award for “If I Didn’t Have You” from Monsters, Inc.?

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Randy Newman

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What 1992 soundtrack holds the record for the best-selling movie soundtrack of all time? Its best-known song is “I Will Always Love You,” sung by star Whitney Houston.

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The Bodyguard(: Original Soundtrack Album)

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I am a megacity with a population of over 9 million and with over 9 million more inhabitants living in close proximity. I lie on a river just south of where that river branches into a delta. My Tahrir Square was the focal point of a 2011 revolution. In the modern era, I was founded by the Fatimid dynasty and my official name means “the Conqueror” in Arabic. What am I?

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Cairo

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The Dow Jones Industrial Average is a stock market index tied to the value of just how many large, publicly owned companies based in the U.S.?

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30

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In 1945, in an effort to replicate the success of Victory Bonds, the Government of Canada offered the first what?

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Canada Savings Bonds

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By market capitalization, what is the largest stock exchange not located in North America?

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London (Stock Exchange)

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What type of digital asset, first released in 2009, is generally considered the first decentralized cryptocurrency?

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Bitcoin

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During the colonial years, what was the Haudenosaunee Confederacy (or the Five and then the Six Nations) known as?

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Iroquois League

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What phrase is used to describe the forced relocation of many southeastern U.S. indigenous tribes, including the infamous Cherokee Nation relocation in 1838?

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Trail of Tears

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Although the term originally applied to to French-speaking mixed-race families, what people were recognized as a distinct aboriginal people under the Constitution Act of 1982?

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Metis

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What term is associated with Navajo speakers recruited during WWII by the Marines to serve in their communications units, although Cherokee and Choctaw peoples served during WWI?

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Code Talkers

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What type of paint is also called opaque watercolor? It was used by Henri Matisse to create his series of Blue Nudes.

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gouache

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Historically, what water-soluble binding material has been mixed with coloured pigments to create the fast-drying painting medium known as tempera?

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egg

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What art medium, sticks of powdered pigment with a binder, was popular with 19th-century French artists, especially portraitists and also Degas, who later used it as his primary medium?

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pastel(s)

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What is the name of the sticks of compressed powdered graphite or charcoal mixed with a wax or clay base that are used in quick drawings and underdrawings on paintings?

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conte (sticks or crayons)

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Sadi Carnot was a French military engineer, often described as the father of which field of physics, in part for his work on the efficiency of heat engines?

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thermodynamics

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In what famous thought experiment is entropy decreased by an entity controlling a small door between two chambers of gas?

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Maxwell’s Demon

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Which law of thermodynamics, expressed by Maxwell as, “All heat is of the same kind,” states that if two systems are each in thermal equilibrium with a third, they are also in thermal equilibrium with each other?

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Zeroth

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What property of a thermodynamic system is equal to the system’s internal energy plus the product of its pressure and volume?

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enthalpy

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Rosenborg, Amalienborg, and Christiansborg Castles are all found in what European capital city?

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Copenhagen(, Denmark)

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What TVO children’s show character would only ever appear to one of the hosts? The other host would always just miss him.

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Polkaroo

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What is the other name given to the citric or tricarboxylic acid cycle that releases stored energy and produces ATP and carbon dioxide?

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Krebs (cycle)

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By what name did Medieval and Early Modern Europeans refer to the North African Berbers and Muslim Europeans in the Iberian Peninsula and the Mediterranean?

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Moor(s)

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The special relativistic linear transformations from one coordinate frame in space time to another frame that moves at a constant velocity are named after which Dutch physicist?

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Hendrik Lorentz

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What National Park is bordered by the Ikorongo, Grumeti, Maswa, and Maasai Mara Reserves as well as the Ngorongoro Conservation Area and the Loliondo Game Control Area?

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Serengeti (National Park)

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Whose first published short story was “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County?”

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Mark Twain (or Samuel Clemens)

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What comic book character was first portrayed in movie serials by Kirk Alyn, in feature films by George Reeves, and in big-budget films by Christopher Reeves?

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Superman

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In what Olympic sport did both Princess Anne and her daughter, Zara Phillips, compete?

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Equestrian

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What Austrian composer, the son of another composer of the same name, was known as “The Waltz King?”

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Johann Strauss (II)

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What is the tallest and most common of the species of camel? It has one hump on its back.

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dromedary

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What type of electrical component has low resistance in one direction and high resistance in the other?

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diode

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What inflammatory disease of the intestine was the cause of death of King John, King Edward I, King Henry V, and Sir Francis Drake, among others?

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dysentery

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What fictional character, played by Angelina Jolie and Alicia Vikander in film adaptations, is the main protagonist of the video game franchise Tomb Raider?

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Lara Croft

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What character is the main antagonist of Nintendo’s Mario franchise, first appearing in the 1985 video game Super Mario Bros.?

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Bowser (or King Koopa)

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Ezio Auditore da Firenze is a character in which video game series, appearing as the main character in the second, third, and fourth of the series?

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Assassin’s Creed

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What Street Fighter icon, the “strongest woman in the world,” is notable for being the first playable female character in a fighting game?

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Chun-Li

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What lunar mare was the landing site for the Eagle Apollo 11 Lunar Module?

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(Sea of) Tranquility (or Mare Tranquilitatis)

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On which planet are the continents of Ishtar Terra and Aphrodite Terra located?

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Venus

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The names of the surface features of which moon are typically derived from the names of mythological figures associated with the Sun, fire, or volcanoes?

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Io

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I was born in Wisconsin in 1867 but spent much of my life in South Dakota and Missouri. I was the second of four daughters; my only brother died in infancy. After losing everything in the Stock Market Crash of 1929, I started writing autobiographical novels of my life as a pioneer. The 1970s and 80s TV series “Little House on the Prairie” was loosely based on my novels. Who am I?

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Laura Ingalls Wilder

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What spice. derived from the stigmas and styles of the Crocus sativus and used to season and colour food, has historically been among the world’s most costly spices by weight?

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saffron

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What is the Latinized name of the Mandarin Chinese “Master Kong,” the philosopher who is a traditional deity in Daoism?

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Confucius

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What U.S. television channel was launched on August 1, 1981 with the words, “Ladies and gentlemen, rock and roll?”

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MTV

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What small tropical and subtropical tree that grows in coastal saline or brackish water is characteristic of the mangal biome?

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mangrove

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What car company took its name from the “god of harmony, intelligence and wisdom from the earliest civilization in West Asia?”

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Mazda

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What character, created by Baroness Orczy, was an English aristrocratic and apparently dimwitted fop who secretly disguised himself and rescued French aristocrats from the guillotine?

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The Scarlet Pimpernel

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In Marxist theory, what term is used to describe the social class that does not have ownership of the means of production and therefore must sell their labor power for a wage or salary?

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proletariat

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What type of domestic rabbit is bred for the long fibers of its coat that are gathered by shearing, combing, or plucking and used in wool production?

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angora

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In which country did the sport of ski jumping begin, in the late 18th and early 19th centuries?

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Norway

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What composer and lyricist’s stage musicals include A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd, and Into the Woods?

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Stephen Sondheim

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What federal agency has as its motto, “Maintiens le droit?”

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Royal Canadian Mounted Police (or RCMP)

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What is the title of the Disney animated feature film that is an adaptation of the story of Rapunzel?

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Tangled

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Which acid cannot be stored in glass bottles because it will eat through the glass?

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hydrofluoric (acid)

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What were the NHL’s Atlanta Thrashers renamed when team was sold and relocated to Winnipeg?

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(Winnipeg) Jets

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