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Rosebery #3 Flashcards

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Located in the Mariana Trench, what is the the deepest known point in the Earth’s oceans?

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Challenger Deep

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What Spanish surrealist’s best-known work is The Persistence of Memory?

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Salvador Dali

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Under which name did Princess Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbst rule as Empress of All the Russias?

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Catherine (II or the Great)

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In which 1942 film does most of the action take place in and around the nightclub and gambling den, “Rick’s Café Américain?”

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Casablanca

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The Treaty of Waitangi is regarded as the founding document of the government of which country?

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New Zealand

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What treaty officially ended World War I between the Allies and Germany?

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Treaty of Versailles (1919)

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Which battle between British forces and the United States occurred after the signing of the Treaty of Ghent that ended the War of 1812?

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(Battle of) New Orleans

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What do chemists call molecular entities capable of donating a proton or, in the special case of aqueous solutions, forming the hydronium ion H3O+?

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(Bronsted) acids

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What is the IUPAC name for the muriatic acid available in hardware stores, often used for removing calcium carbonate build-up in pipes?

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hydrochloric (acid)

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Ascorbic acid is more commonly known by what name, especially when used as a food additive or preservative?

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vitamin C

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Methanoic acid is also called formic acid because it occurs naturally in which insects for whom the Latin is formicae?

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ants

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Identify the speaker of the following line and the play in which the line is spoken: “The quality of mercy is not strained.”

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Portia in The Merchant of Venice

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What country’s currency is renminbi (RMB), the basic unit of which is the yuan?

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China

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Until 1971, British prices were given in pounds, shillings, and pence. How many pennies were there in a shilling?

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12

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What was currency of the Netherlands from the 17th century until 2002, when it was replaced by the euro?

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(Dutch) guilder

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After the U.S. Dollar and the Euro, what is the world’s most traded currency, by value?

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(Japanese) yen

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What is the Roman name for the Greek god Zeus?

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Jupiter

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What is the Roman name for the Greek goddess Hestia?

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Vesta

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What is the Roman name for the Greek god Dionysus?

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Bacchus

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What is the Roman name for the Greek goddess Athena?

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Minerva

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What is the Roman name for the Greek god Ares?

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Mars

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What is the Roman name for the Greek goddess Hera?

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Juno

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What is the Roman name for the Greek god Hermes?

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Mercury

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What is the Roman name for the Greek goddess Demeter?

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Ceres

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What fictional character in The Railway Series books by the Reverend Wilbert Awdry was the title character in the accompanying television spin-off series?

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Thomas (the Tank Engine)

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What famous building is located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C.?

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White House

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What English mathematician published the first algorithm intended to be carried out by a machine such as Babbage’s Analytical Engine is therefore often regarded as the first computer programmer?

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(Ada, Countess of) Lovelace

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What sport’s professional leagues include Bundesliga, Serie A (“ah”), Ligue 1 (“un”), EPL, and MLS?

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Association football or soccer

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What term is used to describe any of the member states of the Swiss Confederation?

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canton

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Who is often known as the father of modern epidemiology, in part for his work in tracing the source of a cholera outbreak in London in 1854?

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John Snow

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In physics, what term is used to describe the rate of change in an object’s acceleration?

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jerk

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What language has historically also been known as Cambrian or Cymric (“kim-rick”)?

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Welsh

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What gemstone, an amorphous form of silica primarily found in Australia, is known for its “play-of-color?” Its types include white, black, and fire.

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opal

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On which scale of natural mineral hardness is a diamond always a 10, at the top of the scale?

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Mohs’ (Scale of Mineral Hardness)

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Which gemstone is a variety of the mineral corundum, or aluminum oxide, in which some aluminum atoms are replaced by chromium atoms?

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ruby

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The gemstone jet is a mineraloid with an organic origin, deriving from which natural substance?

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wood

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I am one of the most visited sites in the world, typically receiving more than 8 million visitors a year. I was originally built in the 12th century, although my current use dates to the 18th century. A glass pyramid stands over my current main entrance. The Mona Lisa and the Venus de Milo are two of the best-known works in my collection. What am I?

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Louvre (Museum)

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What punctuation marks do English speakers typically use where French speakers use guillemets, or sideways double chevrons?

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quotation marks

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French classifies nouns as masculine or feminine. German classifies nouns as masculine, feminine, or which third gender?

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neuter

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What do British speakers typically call the punctuation mark that North American speakers call the period?

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full stop (or full point)

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What type of verb requires one or more objects?

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transitive

42
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Oysters, squids, and snails are all members of which biological phylum?

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Mollusca (or mollusks)

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The family Ursidae comprises 8 species of which type of animal?

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bear(s)

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The order Cetartiodactyla includes hippos, giraffes, and surprisingly also cetaceans, which are better known as what?

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whales (and dolphins)

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What is the scientific (genus and species) name for the common house cat?

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Felis catus

46
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Who is the author of the following line of poetry: “Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold?”

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(W.B.) Yeats

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Who is the author of the following line of poetry: “To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield?”

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(Alfred, Lord) Tennyson

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Who is the author of the following line of poetry: “To err is human; to forgive, divine?”

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(Alexander) Pope

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Who is the author of the following line of poetry: “Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose?”

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(Gertrude) Stein

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What machines, invented by the Germans, were the subject of much study by the Polish Cipher Bureau, who later passed their knowledge along to the British working at Bletchley Park?

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Enigma (Machines)

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A shift cipher, in which each letter is replaced by a letter some fixed number of positions down the alphabet, is also called what, after a person who used it in his private correspondence?

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Caesar (cipher)

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The Babington Plot to assassinate which monarch was foiled by cryptanalyst Thomas Phelippes, who cracked the substitution cipher the conspirators used?

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(Queen) Elizabeth I (prompt on “Elizabeth”)

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What innovation in computing threatens to render the public-key cryptography that underpins current Internet standards obsolete?

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quantum computing

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The two sets of three stumps and two bails at either end of the pitch in cricket are called what?

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wicket(s)

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During which phase of mitosis do replicated chromosomes split and daughter chromatids move to opposite poles of the cell?

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anaphase

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What American singer-songwriter rose to fame in the late 1990s as the lead singer of the R&B girl group Destiny’s Child?

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Beyonce or Giselle Knowles-Carter

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What religion’s most famous shrines include the Fushimi Inari Shrine and the Itsukushima Shrine on Miyajima Island?

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Shinto(ism)

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What fictional young reporter, often accompanied by his dog Snowy (or Milou in French) is the hero of an adventure series created by Belgian cartoonist Hergé?

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Tintin

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What Italian artist is credited with creating the Baroque style of sculpture and designed a number of fountains in Rome, including the Fountain of the Four Rivers in Piazza Navona?

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(Gian Lorenzo) Bernini

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By which two letters and number is the foreign intelligence service of the United Kingdom commonly known?

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MI6

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Which famous experiment, named for the Yale psychologist who conducted it, measured the willingness of study participants to obey an authority figure and produced unsettling results?

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Milgram (experiment)

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Which Canadian sports coach is credited with the invention of the game of basketball?

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(James) Naismith

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Which West African empire of the 13th through the 17th centuries was renowned for the wealth of its kings?

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Mali

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Which of Beethoven’s symphonies is also known as the Fate Symphony?

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Fifth (or C Minor)

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For which instrument is Polish composer Frédéric Chopin best known, both for playing and for composing solo works for?

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piano

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Which English composer is best known for his orchestral suite The Planets, which includes the movement Mars, the Bringer of War?

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(Gustav) Holst

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On which date in 1789 was the Bastille Saint-Antoine fortress and armory stormed by the Paris mob?

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14 July

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Which public square in Paris was the site of many notable public executions during the Revolution, during which it was named the Place de la Révolution?

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Place de la Concorde

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The 1794 arrest and execution of which Jacobin leader is considered have ended the Reign of Terror?

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(Maximilien) Robespierre

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Which novel by Charles Dickens is set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution?

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A Tale of Two Cities

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What particle, discovered in 1995, is the most massive of all observed elementary particles?

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top (or truth) quark

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A muon is an elementary particle similar to which lighter, more stable, and much more familiar particle?

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electron

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What is the only fundamental particle named after a person?

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Higgs (boson)

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I was born in 1936 and died very unexpectedly in 1990 at age 53 of toxic shock syndrome caused by a strep bacterial infection. I started my career in high school, working for a Saturday morning children’s show, and in university, I created the five-minute Sam and Friends television segments. Although I spent most of my career working in television, I also wrote and directed movies, including the dark fantasies The Dark Crystal and Labyrinth. I am best known as the creator of the Muppets and was the voice of Kermit the Frog until my death. Who am I?

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Jim Henson

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Which illuminated manuscript of the Gospels in Latin, created around 800 CE and kept in the Trinity College Library, is one of Ireland’s national treasures?

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Book of Kells

76
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What name was given to the nearly-complete Australopithecus afarensis skeleton discovered in Ethiopia in 1974?

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Lucy

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In which board game, one of the first German games to achieve world-wide popularity, do players roll dice to acquire brick, lumber, wool, grain, and ore?

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Settlers of Catan

78
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To 5 decimal places, what is the value of pi?

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3.14159

79
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Legally, a person who has died “intestate” is a person who has died without what?

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a will

80
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Some people carry a gene that makes which common herb taste like soap?

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coriander (or cilantro)

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By latitude, what is the southernmost team in the NHL?

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(Florida) Panthers

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The thylacine, a large carnivorous marsupial that went extinct in the 20th century, was more commonly known as what?

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Tasmanian tiger (or Tasmanian wolf)

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Demasduit, or Mary March, was one of the last of which culture of indigenous people from the island of Newfoundland?

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Beothuk

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“Parliament” may be used as a collective noun to describe a group of which type of animal?

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owl(s)

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What large near-Earth asteroid was named for the ancient Egyptian embodiment of chaos?

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(99942) Apophis

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What large biting flies are the biological vectors of trypanosomes, which cause sleeping sickness?

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tse tse (flies) (or tik-tik flies)

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In which ballet is it common for the same dancer to dance the parts of both Odette and Odile?

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Swan Lake

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What is 100 degrees Celsius in degrees Fahrenheit?

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212

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