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Rosebery #8 Flashcards

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Which chemist was assisted in his research by his wife, who took over the publication of his Elementary Treatise on Chemistry after he was guillotined in the French Revolution?

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(Antoine) Lavoisier

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The cult of which major Egyptian goddess – a mother, protector, and cosmic deity – spread across the Roman Empire and influenced early Christianity?

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Isis

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What American e-commerce and cloud computing company was founded by Jeff Bezos in 1994 in Seattle, Washington?

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Amazon(.com, Inc.)

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In Canada, what term is used to describe an electoral district within a municipality, used in local government elections?

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ward

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What character speaks the line, “If we shadows have offended,/Think but this, and all is mended,/That you have but slumber’d here/While these visions did appear?”

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Puck

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What character speaks the line, “Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,/Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,/
To the last syllable of recorded time?”

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Macbeth

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What character speaks the line, “Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears./I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him?”

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Mark Antony

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What is induced to contract by the the movement of actin microfilament proteins against myosin, often in response to electrical impulses transmitted by motor nerves?

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muscle(s)

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What term is used to describe the fibrous connective tissue, made of collagen, that usually connects skeletal muscle to bone?

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tendon(s)

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What term describes any circular muscle that normally maintains constriction of a body passage or orifice and which relaxes as required?

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sphincter

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In which part of your body are your gastrocnemius and soleus muscles located?

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calf (accept lower leg, prompt on leg)

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The biathlon is an Olympic sport that combines which two sports? At the Winter Olympics in 1924, it was called military patrol.

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cross-country skiing and (rifle) shooting

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In which Ancient Roman military formation would the legionaries align themselves and their shields to form a packed formation covered with shields on the front and top?

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testudo (or tortoise)

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Henry V’s victory at Agincourt against a much larger French force can largely be attributed to his soldiers’ use of which weapon, which decimated the French calvary?

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(English) longbow

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What Australian bushranger gang leader and folk hero constructed his own suit of bulletproof armour to wear in shoot-outs with the police?

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Ned Kelly

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What type of weapon was Warwolf, believed to have been the largest of its kind, created in Scotland by order of King Edward I of England during the siege of Stirling Castle?

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trebuchet

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What is the most populous city in New South Wales?

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Sydney

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What is the most populous city in Illinois?

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Chicago

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What is the most populous city in New Brunswick?

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Moncton

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What is the most populous city in Bavaria?

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Munich

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What is the most populous city in Texas?

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Houston

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What is the most populous city in the Yukon?

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Whitehorse

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What is the most populous city in Catalonia?

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Barcelona

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What is the most populous city in Tibet?

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Lhasa

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What word, from the Latin for “twilight,” is used to describe animals like deer and rabbits that are active primarily during dawn and dusk?

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crepuscular

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Often used as an example as a MacGuffin, what small statuette provided both the title and the motive for intrigue in Dashiell Hammett’s 1929 detective novel?

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Maltese Falcon

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Who painted Salvator Mundi, which holds the record for the highest price of any work of art sold at auction?

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(Leonardo) da Vinci

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What mathematical curve is described as the locus of points that are equidistant from a line called the directrix and a point called the focus?

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parabola

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When referring to an electroluminescent light source, what does LED stand for?

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light-emitting diode

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What popular card game contains Skip, Reverse, Draw, and Wild cards?

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Uno

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What Canadian-born architect designed the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto but is perhaps best known for designing the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain?

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(Frank) Gehry

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The earliest definitive fossil evidence of angiosperms, or flowering plants, dates to which geologic period?

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Cretaceous

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Whose works were, for many years, mainly known in versions revised or completed by other composers, such as Ravel’s arrangement of his Pictures at an Exhibition?

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(Modest) Mussorgsky(‘s)

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Which composer was also a virtuoso pianist and is best known for his piano concertos and his Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini?

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(Sergei) Rachimaninoff

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Which Romantic composer was a medical doctor and made important contributions to the field of organic chemistry? One of his best known compositions is the opera Prince Igor.

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(Alexander) Borodin

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Which 20th century composer composed the ballets The Firebird and The Rite of Spring?

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(Igor) Stravinsky

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I am a fruit that is produced by a variety of different species of plants, many of them hybrids. I am produced primarily in India and Mexico. My varieties include kaffir, Persian, and Key. I was part of the daily ration of British sailors, who were nicknamed for me. What am I?

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lime

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In which of the three major types of rock are fossils most commonly found?

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sedimentary

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What type of metamorphic rock is composed of recrystallized carbonate minerals, most commonly calcite or dolomite, and commonly used as a building material?

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marble

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What type of volcanic rock consists of rough-textured volcanic glass that is porous enough to initially float on water?

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pumice

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What is iron pyrite, or iron (II) sulfide, commonly nicknamed because of its metallic luster and yellow colour?

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fool’s gold

42
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What brand name is associated with the slogan, “I’m Lovin’ It?”

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McDonald’s

43
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What brand name is associated with the slogan, “It Keeps Going, and Going, and Going. . . ?”

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Energizer

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What brand name is associated with the slogan, “All the News That’s Fit to Print?”

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The New York Times

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What brand name is associated with the slogan, “A Diamond Is Forever?”

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De Beers

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Which American novel concludes, “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past?”

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The Great Gatsby

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Which classic novel of adolescent angst and alienation was, for twenty years, the most censored book in high schools and libraries in the United States?

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The Catcher in the Rye

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Which novel was the only novel published by its author until Go Set a Watchman, believed to be an earlier draft of the novel, was published in 2015?

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Go Set a Watchman

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Which dystopian novel introduced the terms thoughtcrime, doublethink, Newspeak, and Big Brother?

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1984

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Often considered to be the beginning of Australia’s and New Zealand’s national identity, which campaign was a failure for the Allies and the only major Ottoman victory of World War I?

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Gallipoli (accept Dardanelles)

51
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In July 1914, in response to the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Austria-Hungary issued an ultimatum to which nation?

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Serbia

52
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What was the nickname given to the German M-Gerät siege howitzer, one of the largest artillery pieces ever fielded?

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Big Bertha

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Which Canadian army doctor wrote the poem “In Flanders Fields,” published in Punch in December 1915 and still recited on Remembrance Day today?

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(John) McCrae

54
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In fluid dynamics, whose principle states that an increase in the speed of a fluid occurs simultaneously with a decrease in pressure?

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(Daniel) Bernoulli(‘s)

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What 70s and 80s television show, one of the highest-rated in U.S. television history, followed a team of doctors and support staff stationed in South Korea?

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MASH

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Which city, one of the oldest continuously inhabited sites in Europe with a history dating back almost 3000 years, is nicknamed, “The Eternal City?”

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Rome

57
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What Russian physiologist, the first Russian Nobel Laureate, is known primarily for his work in classical conditioning, especially with dogs?

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(Ivan) Pavlov

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To the nearest gram, what is the mass of one mole of water, or H2O?

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18 (grams)

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In which sport do two teams, each with four players, take turns sliding rocks across the sheet towards the house?

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curling

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Which French artist, when his ill health prevented him from painting, created cut paper collages, or decoupage, with the help of assistants?

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(Henri) Matisse

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Which kingdom of eukaryotic organisms does a mycologist study? It includes yeasts and molds.

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fungi

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What fictional character has been portrayed onscreen by Basil Rathbone, Jeremy Brett, Robert Downey Jr., and Benedict Cumberbatch, among many others?

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Sherlock Holmes

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In which historic building, restored after reunification, does the Bundestag, Germany’s federal parliament, meet?

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Reichstag

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What is the simplest alkane, the main constituent of natural gas, with a chemical formula of CH4?

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methane (or carbon tetrahydride)

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What term describes any organic compound in which a hydroxyl functional group is bound to a carbon? Examples include ethanol and methanol.

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alcohol

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What do chemists call a molecule has the same number of atoms of each element, but has a different arrangement of the atoms?

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isomer

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Which London street is famous simply for its pedestrian crossing that featured on the cover of a Beatles album that shares its name with the street?

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Abbey Road

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Who was the Beatles’ first drummer, playing with the group from 1960 to 1962?

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(Pete) Best

69
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In which 1964 film, directed by Richard Lester, did The Beatles play themselves in a mock-documentary?

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A Hard Day’s Night

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What is the actual title of the Beatles’ 1968 album known as the “White Album?”

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The Beatles

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In which year did Nunavut officially enter Confederation?

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1999

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Which company was the de facto government of Rupert’s Land and the North-Western Territory until it relinquished its claims in 1870?

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Hudson’s Bay Company

73
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All together, the three Canadian Territories comprise how many House of Commons electoral districts?

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3

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I was born and raised in the Austrian Empire and emigrated to the United States in 1884. Despite some successes that earned me a considerable amount of money, I died in poverty and relative obscurity. I worked for a short time at the Edison Machine Works in New York City before striking out on my own. I am best known for my contributions to the design of the modern alternating current electricity system. Who am I?

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(Nikola) Tesla

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Which part of the limbic system in the brain is involved in the processing of memory and emotional responses, including fear, anxiety, and aggression?

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amygdala

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What was the capital city of Clovis, the first king of the Merovingian dynasty and the first king to unite the Franks?

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Paris

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Which pair of shoes, permanently on display at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of American History, were supposedly worn by Judy Garland while filming The Wizard of Oz?

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(Dorothy’s) ruby slippers

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What type of race consists of a 3.86 km swim, a 180.25 km bicycle ride and a marathon 42.20 km run, raced in that order and without a break?

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Ironman (triathlon)

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Which Old Indo-Aryan language, related to Greek and Latin, is the primary liturgical language of Hinduism?

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Sanskrit

80
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The Tiffany lamp is considered one of the icons of which art and decorative arts movement of the late 19th and early 20th century?

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Art Nouveau

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Deriving its name from an Icelandic word meaning erupt, what term is given to a natural hot spring that intermittently ejects a column of water and steam into the air?

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geyser

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What American writer achieved some success as a mystery author before deciding to write young adult fantasy-mythological fiction, starting with The Lightning Thief?

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Rick Riordan

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What distant region of the Solar System consists mainly of small bodies but also includes the dwarf planets Pluto, Haumea and Makemake?

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Kuiper Belt

84
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What is the least common multiple of 15 and 42?

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210

85
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What common household pet is a member of the relatively rare taxonomic order Lagomorpha?

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rabbit

86
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Johnny Weissmüller, the star of the Tarzan films of the 30s and 40s, was previously well known as a five-time Olympic gold medalist in which sport?

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swimming

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What is the only city with a population of greater than 1 million to be 12 hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time?

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Auckland(, New Zealand)

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What Sesame Street character, originally introduced as Big Bird’s imaginary friend, was revealed to the rest of the cast as real in Season 17?

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(Mr.) Snuffleupagus (or Snuffy)

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