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Rosebery #21 Flashcards

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In politics, what verb is used to mean “to discontinue a session of parliament without dissolving it” and thus prompting an election?

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prorogue (or proroguing)

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In the Winnie the Pooh stories by A. A. Milne, what elephant-like character did Pooh imagine was after his honey?

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heffalump

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Damage to Broca’s or Wernicke’s areas of the brain could result in what condition, characterized by difficulties interpreting or formulating language?

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aphasia

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By what brand name is C7H5BiO4, or bismuth subsalicylate, more commonly known? It is used to treat temporary discomforts of the stomach and gastrointestinal tract.

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Pepto-Bismol

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Arancini, stuffed rice balls coated with bread crumbs and then deep fried, are said to have originated on what island, the largest in the Mediterranean sea?

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Sicily

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What variety of pizza, topped with tomato, mozzarella, and basil, representing the colors of the Italian flag, was named in honour of the Queen of Italy?

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(pizza) margherita

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Complete the following movie quote from The Godfather: “Leave the gun. Take the BLANK.”

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cannoli

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What language was originally a German dialect with words taken from Hebrew and other languages?
A. YIDDISH

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Yiddish

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What Yiddish loanword is defined as “A clumsy or awkward person?”

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klutz

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What Yiddish loanword is defined as “A sudden, usually temporary, malfunction or irregularity of equipment?”

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glitch

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What Yiddish loanword is defined as “A fast speech that someone has often said before and that is usually intended to persuade.”

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spiel

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Rio de Janeiro is the third-largest city by population in South America. What are the first two?

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Sao Paulo(, Brazil) and Buenos Aires(, Argentina)

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What 23-time NHL All-Star who played with the Detroit Red Wings was nicknamed “Mr. Hockey?”

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(Gordie) Howe

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“The Flying Tomato” refers to what red-headed many-time-gold-medalist snowboarder?

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(Shaun) White

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What was the first name of the NBA player known as “Magic” Johnson?

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Earvin

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What U.S. professional golfer, the first superstar of the sport’s television age, was “The King?”

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(Arnold) Palmer

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What three-dimensional shape is defined as the set of points that are the same distance from a given point?

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sphere

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What polygon is used for stop signs in English-speaking and most European countries?

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octagon

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Sections of which three-dimensional shape form parabolic, elliptical, and hyperbolic curves?

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cone

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The area of what shape is given as the average of the lengths of the parallel sides times the height?

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trapezoid (or trapezium)

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What is the more common name of the regular Platonic solid, the hexahedron?

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cube

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Honeycombs contain prisms of which type of polygon?

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hexagon

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What type of quadrilateral is also called a diamond, after the suit in playing cards?

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rhombus

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What adjective is used to describe a triangle that has two sides of equal length?

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isosceles

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What Nobel-Prize-winning Irish playwright wrote Arms and the Man, Man and Superman, and Pygmalion?

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(George Bernard) Shaw

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In 2019, who acceded to the Chrysanthemum Throne upon the abdication of his father, Akihito?

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(Emperor) Naruhito

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What unit is defined as the amount of energy necessary to increase the temperature of 1 gram of water by 1 degree Celsius?

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calorie

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Victoria Adams, Geri Halliwell, Emma Bunton, Melanie Brown and Melanie Chisholm formed which 1990s U.K. pop group?

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Spice Girls

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In what cooperative board game do players play as the dispatcher, medic, scientist, researcher, operations expert, or quarantine specialist?

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Pandemic

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What major key’s key signature has one sharp, F-sharp?

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G (major)

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The cognitive bias in which people place a disproportionately high value on products they partially created derives its name from the name of what Swedish manufacturer and furniture retailer?

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IKEA

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The phrase “crème brûlée” contains three different diacritical marks when written down. What mark appears over the “u”?

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circumflex

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Which Animal phylum was the first to branch off the evolutionary tree from the common ancestor of all animals?

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porifera (or sponges)

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To which Mammalian order do the families Ursidae, Felidae, and Canidae belong?

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carnivora (or carnivores)

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Which is the largest of the Mammalian orders, accounting for about 40% of all mammalian species?

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rodentia (or rodents)

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What type of animals are in the order Lepidoptera, the second-largest order of the class Insecta?

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butterflies (and moths)

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I was part of the French colonial empire from 1897 to 1960. My flag has two horizontal bands of red and green and a white vertical band. I am the world’s second-largest island country. Over 90% of my wildlife is found nowhere else on Earth. My best-known native species are lemurs. What am I?

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Madagascar

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What movie is the source of the quote, “Are you not entertained?”

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Gladiator

39
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What movie is the source of the quote, “Just keep swimming?”

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Finding Nemo

40
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What movie is the source of the quote, “I wish I knew how to quit you?”

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Brokeback Mountain

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What movie is the source of the quote, “Boy, that escalated quickly?”

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Anchorman(: The Legend of Ron Burgundy)

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The wavelength of what type of electromagnetic radiation is between 10 to 400 nanometers, shorter than that of visible light but longer than that of x-rays?

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ultraviolet (or UV)

43
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What type of optical instrument may be used when some obstacle or condition prevents direct line-of-sight observation from an observer’s current position?

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periscope

44
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What does the acronym “laser” stand for?

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light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation

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What term is used to describe the emission of light from a hot object as a result of its temperature?

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incandescence

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What brownish-orange tint of red hair is named for an Italian painter who would often depict women with hair of this colour?

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titian

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Sandro Botticelli is best known for his paintings Primavera and one depicting of the birth of which Roman goddess?

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Venus

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Who invented the technique of sfumato, for softening the transition between colours, which he used such works as the Virgin of the Rocks and the Mona Lisa?

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(Leonardo) da Vinci

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In what city is the Uffizi Gallery, known for its Italian Renaissance art collection, located?

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Florence (or Firenze)

50
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In chemistry, what term is used to describe an element that readily forms cations, or positive ions?

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metal

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What is the lightest of the “coinage metals” of Group 11 on the Periodic Table?

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copper

52
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What metal’s name derives from the Spanish for “little silver?”

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platinum

53
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The Washington Monument, when constructed, was topped with a pyramid of what metal, which was then more valuable than gold?

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aluminum

54
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In what series of books, written by Diana Gabaldon, does the 20th-century British nurse Claire time travel to 18th-century Scotland?

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Outlander

55
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What former revolutionary governed for 37 years as Prime Minister and then President of Zimbabwe?

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(Robert) Mugabe

56
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In cricket, how many runs are scored if the ball does not bounce before passing over the boundary?

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six

57
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The Uncertainty Principle in quantum mechanics was named for which German physicist?

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(Werner) Heisenberg

58
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In what TV show does the Mind Flayer, served by the demogorgons, rule the Upside Down?

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Stranger Things

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What adjective is used to describe the eleventh and twelfth pairs of ribs, which are not attached to the sternum?

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floating

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What date in 1941 was “a date which will live in infamy,” marked by the attack on Pearl Harbour?

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7 December (1941)

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Edward Nygma is the given name of which comic book villain and enemy of Batman?

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(the) Riddler

62
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Fiordland National Park is located in which Southern Hemisphere country, on its South Island?

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New Zealand

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Twenty new moons of what planet were discovered in 2019, bringing its total number of moons to 82?

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Saturn

64
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What did Marcel Ravidat and three of his friends discover in a cave in Montignac, France in 1940?

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(Lascaux prehistoric cave) paintings

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In 1974, when local farmers decided to dig a well on their communal farm in Yang village, they found the first figure of what?

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(Xian) Terracotta Army

66
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What was accidentally discovered in 1947 in Qumran, Israel by a young Bedouin shepherd searching for a stray goat?

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Dead Sea Scrolls

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What children’s novel tells the story of a pig and his friendship with a barn spider?

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Charlotte’s Web

68
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Who was the author of Charlotte’s Web?

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(E.B.) White

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Charlotte was the name of the spider. What was the name of the pig?

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Wilbur

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What is the first message Charlotte writes in her web?

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“Some Pig”

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Who led the First Kamchatka Expedition, to confirm the presence of the strait between Asia and America?

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(Vitus) Bering

72
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Who led the first expedition to traverse the Northwest Passage and the first expedition to reach the South Pole?

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(Roald) Amundsen

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What was the world’s first operational nuclear-powered submarine and the first to complete a submerged transit of the North Pole?

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(USS) Nautilus

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I was born in Bonn in the Holy Roman Empire in 1770. My “conversation books,” which I used in the last ten years of my life, give valuable insights into my thinking and my works. I studied composition with Haydn in Vienna and was a virtuoso pianist. My compositions include nine symphonies. The ninth is known as the ‘Choral’ Symphony. Who am I?

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(Ludwig van) Beethoven

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The W and Z bosons are the force carriers of which fundamental interaction of nature?

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weak (nuclear force or interaction)

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In economics, what term is used to describe a market structure in which the market is dominated by a small number of firms?

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oligopoly

77
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Who is the princess of the Mushroom Kingdom, which is constantly under attack by Bowser?

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(Princess) Peach

78
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Isabela, Ferdinand, San Cristobal, Santiago, and Santa Cruz are all islands in which Pacific archipelago?

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Galapagos (Islands)

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In what century were the Wars of the Roses fought between the Lancasters and the Yorks?

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15th century (or 1400s)

80
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Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them was written by J.K. Rowling under what pen name?

A

Newt Scamander

81
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How many inches are in a yard?

A

36

82
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Who was the Roman goddess of youth, particularly of young men? She now shares her name with the professional soccer team based in Turin, Italy.

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Juventus

83
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What is Tim Berners-Lee credited with inventing in 1989 while working at CERN?

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(World Wide) Web

84
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What is the informal alimentary nickname of 30 St Mary Axe, a commercial skyscraper in London’s financial district?

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(the) Gherkin

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What classic toy features a thick, flat gray screen in a red plastic frame with two white knobs on the front of the frame that can be twisted to move a stylus behind the screen?

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Etch-a-Sketch

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What classic toy features a thick, flat gray screen in a red plastic frame with two white knobs on the front of the frame that can be twisted to move a stylus behind the screen?

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endothermic

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In the Star Wars universe, what term is used to refer to a Jedi apprentice?

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padawan

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Who was Prime Minister of Canada at the time of the Red River Rebellion, the North-West Rebillion, and the hanging of Louis Riel?

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(Sir John A.) Macdonald

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