Everything Now Bc Im Lazy Flashcards
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What language was used to write the Spiritual Couplets
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Persian
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What term is used to represent the absence of a value
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Null
3
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What debt instruments are contrasted with stocks
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Bonds
4
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Who founded the 19th century Zulu kingdom
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Shaka
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What man won a battle over King Zaire in the valley of the White Mfolzi River
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Shaka
6
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Who wrote The Quiet American
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Henry Greene
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Who wrote Our Men in Havana
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Henry Greene
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What author wrote a novel where the CIA agent Aidan Pyle is killed after he aids a Vietnamese general
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Henry Grenee
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What is the speed of reaction progress
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Reaction Rates
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What country’s southern border runs through the Tibesti Mountains
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Libya
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What city did Ludovici Sforza commission Leonardo’s mural The Last Supper
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Milan
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What city’s residents drive out Joseph Radetzy in an event called the ‘five days of’ this city
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Milan
13
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What force per unit area’s application to a continuous model results in strain
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Stress
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In what play does a man claim that he went to prep school ‘during the Punic Wars’
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Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf
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In what play does a man tell an anecdote about a boy who committed matricide with a shotgun
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Who’s afraid of Virginia woolf
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What play opens ‘after two o clock in the morning’ when the main characters arrive for nightcaps at the home of George and Martha
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Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf
17
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What first name is derived from the Latin word for Great
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Magnus
18
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What Jewish philosopher wrote the Ethics
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Baruch Spinoza
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What philosopher equated being influence by ‘passive affects’ to a form of ‘human bondage’ in a book written in geometric order
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Baruch Spinoza
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What philosopher distinguished between inadequate knowledge and intuitive knowledge
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Baruch Spinoza
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What kind of celestial body did Voyager 2 discover which was eventually named Puck
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Moons of Uranus
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What events began after Joe Dacy Coleman’s jaw was broken
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Zoot Suit Riots
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What event did Earl Warren create the McGuken Committee to investigate which was headed by a local bishop
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Zoot Suit Riots
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What Ruth Benedict work analyzes Japanese culture
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The Chrysanthemum and the Sword
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What event was celebrated during the imperial period with an annual festival in which Shepards jumped through bonfires called Parilla
Founding of Rome
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What process is the first step of respiration and breaks down glucose
Glycolysis
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What compound do muscle cells convert pyruvate into during anaerobic respiration
Lactic Acid
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What materials have conductivity between that of insulators and conductors
Semiconductors
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What 1985 Japanese comedy was advertised as a ‘Ramen Western’
Tampopo
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What event is the Cricket on the Hearth set during
Christmas
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In what battle did a sniper kill Simon Fraser at Bemis Heights
Battle of Saratoga
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What group of senior military officers were critical of George Washington and lobbied for their namesake to be promoted to general
Conway Cabal
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What yellow animal is owned by Matt Bonner in one story
Mule
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In what novel is the protagonist forced to shoot her rabies infected husband
Their eyes were watching God
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What president toured Alaska during the ‘Voyage of Understanding’
Warren G Harding
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What presidents inner circle frequently met at The Little Green House on K Street
Warren G Harding
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What president had an inner circle known as the Ohio Gang
Warren G Harding
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What man is said to exemplify the banality of evil but claimed to just be following orders
Adolf Eichmann
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What people’s namesake empire centered on Kumasi and was founded by Osei Tutu
Ashanti
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What African kingdom lost the Golden Stool War
Ashanti kingdom
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Who founded the Boy Scouts
Robert Baden-Powell
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What molecule coordinates to hemoglobin 200 times stronger than oxygen due to a greater binding affinity
Carbon monoxide
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What molecules disproportionantion is more strongly favored at low temperatures in the Boudouard equation
Carbon Monoxide
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What quality names a phot where a woman sits while holding her knee and tucking her head was subtitled Charis Santa Monica
Nudity
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What compounds are linked through peptide bonds in order to form proteins
Amino acids
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What action can be undone through Ruju
Divorce
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What action can be performed in Sunni islam by saying the word talaq three times
Divorce
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What phase of the cell cycle follows mitosis and results in the formation of two separate daughter cells
Cytokinesis
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What formula describes the relationship between angles of incident light and refracted light
Snells law
50
Wheat equation describes the quantum state of a system of one or more particles
Wave functions
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What eponymous equation describes how a systems wave function evolves over time
Schrödinger equation
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What systems potential energy is a constant
Free particle
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What scientist discovered sex-linked characteristics while studying the eye color of a model organism
Thomas Hunt Morgan
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In what process does the SICER enzyme facilitate the activation of RISC
RNA interference
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What wife of Elkanah prayed to the Lord for a son and vowed to dedicate him to priesthood
Hannah
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What man does Hannah give birth to
Samuel
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What process in solids is caused by the transfer of kinetic energy from vibrating atoms
Conduction
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What characters ‘great advantage’ is that she does not ‘drink among hard-drinking people’
Daisy Buchanna
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What painters only signed canvas includes a Greek inscription above twelve angels who dance above a stable
Botticelli
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What distance is denoted with a lowercase f
Focal length
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What author wrote of the butler Stevens in The Remains of the Day
Kazuo Ishiguro
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What is the second most populous city in Cuba
Santiago de Cuba
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What quantity names a type of transfer bands that cause the color of Prussian Blue
Charge
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What European country exterminated the Nama and Herero in ‘south west Africa’ which is now Namibia
Germany
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In What location is a celebration held that is named for the ten sins it is said to rid pilgrims of
Ganges River
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What artist painted the birth of Christ in The Mystical Nativity
Botticelli
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In what battle was a general nearly killed the night before when a black wagon driver named Ben led assassins to his tent
Tippiecanoe
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What planet’s gravity creates Kirkwood gaps in the asteroid belt
Jupiter
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What author created a character who is assaulted by Wick Cutter before she marries Anton Cuzak
Will Cather
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What movement was Duchamp a part of
Dadaism
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What man resigned as Benjamin Harrison’s Consul General to Haiti in protest of imperialism
Frederick Douglass
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What work of Protestant theology was first published in 1536 in an attempt to dissuade Francis I from conflating Huguenots with Anabaptists
Institution de la Religion Chretienne
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Who wrote Institution de la Religion Chreitienne
John Calvin
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Who was the father of Solomon
David
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Who was British prime minister during the American revolution
Lord North
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In what short story does the title figure who is a representation of the plague appear at Prince Prospero’s Ball
The Masque of the Read Death (Poe)
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What particles produce gamma rays that are detected in a namesake form of emission tomography
Positrons
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What is the antiparticle of the electron
Positrons
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What process occurs when any particle-antiparticle pair collide
Annihilation
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What diagram are annihilating electrons and positrons depicted as solid lines with arrowheads
Feynman diagrams
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What astronomical phenomena were often treated as portents of major events
Comets
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What Albrecht Durer engraving does a female angel ponder while surrounded by scientific instruments
Melancholia I
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What battle were the Nazis repulsed by the Soviet 62nd Army in a city on the Volga
Battle of Stalingrad
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What artist depicted four horse mounted cowboys with raised pistols in his sculpture Comjng Through The Rye
Frederic Rimington
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What thinker considered a basket of possibly rotten apples to explain why he rejected all of his beliefs
Descartes
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Who wrote Principia Mathematica
Bertrand Ruseell
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What man did God plan to kill until his wife Zippotah cut off his son’s foreskin
Moses
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What writer noted that ‘tyranny,like hell, is not easily conquered’
Thomas Paine
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What man threw a piece of wood into an oasis at Marah and struck a rock to create a spring at Rephidin
Moses
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What Bahai holiday does the nineteen day fast end on
Nowruz(new year)
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What movement did Delacroix and David use
Neoclassicism
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What artist used the fugitive pigment lithos red for a series on display in the Tate Modern
Mark Rothko
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What artists visit to a library inspired a set of paintings designed to make the viewer feel trapped in a room
Mark Rothko
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What work by Laozi was the foundation for Taoism
Tao Te Ching
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What composer was sued for sending an offensive postcard to a critic
Erik Satie
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What country is home to an art museum who’s entrance is lined with palm trees and contains a stainless steel oculus dome
Qatar
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What type of piece did Alexander Scriabin write for only the left hand after an injury
Nocturnes
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What composition borrows heavily from the song ‘Scarlet Tanager’
New world symphony
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What holiday’s observers in Afghanistan take an onion and whip the person next to them
Passover
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What artists mimicked the style of Paul Klee in his Self-Portrait with Skeleton Arm
Edvard Munch
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What person did Fernando Botero depict holding a magnifying glass and sitting at a table with a silver bell
Pope
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What place did Bob Dylan take a piece of art from and use as a dart board
The factory
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What country was home to a composer who instructed for a butterfly to be released in the fifth piece of a 1960 musical collection
USA
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What symphony uses 2 harps to open the second movement waltz and depict the title event
Symphonie fantastique
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In what work does a ‘ranz des vaches’ depict a conversation between two Shepard which is played by and English Horn and offstage Oboe
Symphonie Fantastique
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What symphony opens with a flute and a clarinet playing slow and repeated triplet Gs
Symphonie Fantastique
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What composition was inspired by the composers rejection by Irish actress Harriet Smithson
Symphonie Fantastique
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What composer used a fugue to represent his vision of hell
Hector Berlioz
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What composer created a variation titled CAE
Edward Elgar
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What composer gave his friends initials to title his Enigma Variations
Edward Elgar
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What composer featured viola student Isabel Fitton in a variation which the viola crosses directly from the fourth to the second string
Elgar (Enigma variations)
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What composer portrayed his editor Augustus Jaeger as the title hunter in the nimrod movement of the Enigma Variations
Elgar
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What sonata inspired the nimrod movement of the Enigma Variations
Pathetique Sonata (Beethoven)
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What composer subtitled his 13th piece Romanza which was thought to be for Helen Weaver
Edward Elgar
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What queen of the Iceni led an army that sacked the city of Camulodunum
Boudica
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What jazz musician was taught to play jazz organ by Fats Waller
Count Basie
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What was the effort called to grow food in So key Kazakhstan on previously undeveloped land
Virgin Lands Campaign
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In what address to the Congress of the Communist Party did Khrushchev denounce Stalin
The secret speech
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What type of particle usually contains three quarks and has an isospin of 3/2
Baryon
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What substance is the most common form of baryonic matter in the universe
Plasma
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What conservatory will students dual-enroll in along with Columbia University
Julliard School
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What captain was deposed on the HMS bounty and during the Rum Rebellion
William Bligh
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What grand prince of Kiev was nicknamed ‘the wise’
Yaroslav
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What politician assembled a rainbow coalition to challenge for the democratic nomination
Jesse Jackson
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What quality does a Turing Test test
Artificial Intelligence
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What city is Il paradiso in
Venice
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What artist painted The Miracle of the Slave and Il Paradiso
Tintoretto
128
How many electrons are Transition Metals most stable at
18 electrobs
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What species can be produced by the breakdown of CFCs and are unstable
Free radical
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What photographer pictured a boy in a straw hat holding a grenade
Diane Arbus
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What monarch had her marriage to Louis VII annulled and married Henry II
Eleanor of Aquitaine
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What biologist proposed Selfish Herd Theory
WD Hamilton
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What behavior is displayed in Kin selection directed towards family
Altruism
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What founding father wrote the Olive Branch Petition
John Dickinson
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What process is a method of ice crystal growth to form precipitation and can occur through a fast diabetic updraft condition for ice
Cold rain process
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What book by Eduardo Galeano recounts five centuries of the pillage of a continent
Open Veins of Latin America
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What people settled through out the lower savannahs and eventually split into tribes including the Zulu and Sukuma
Bantu people
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What large stone palace was constructed without mortar by the Katanga
Great Zimbabwee
139
What Novemeber 1938 program did the Nazis destroy synagogues and Jewish businesses
Kristallnacht
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What king of Denmark during WW2 rode his horse through Copenhagen every day
Christian X
141
What process occurs in the core of stars combines atomic nuclei to release energy
Fusion
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What element do stars release after performing fusion
Helium
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What psychologist coined the phrase Identity crisis and laid out eight stages of psychological development
Erik Erickson
144
What German mathematician names the normal distribution or bell curve
Carl Gauss
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What shape names the analogue of spin in massless particles in particle physics
Helix
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What ruler created a secret service know as oprichniki
Ivan the terrible
147
What element is excreted as sweat
Sodium
148
What element’s 48 isotope is formed during type 1a supernovae in the r-process
Calcium
149
What scientists findings were used by Archibald Garrod to study alkaptonuria
Mendel
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What artist made a painting where a nun plays a lute while a man attempts to cut meat from a roasted bird
Aken
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What intermediate species form at the point of a reactions highest energy
Transition states
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What composer created Dido and Aeneas
Henry Purcell
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What phenomenon causing red shift was observed by the Pound-Rebka experiment
Gravity
154
In what play does a fight break out after one character accuses a red haired singer who owns a brothel
Hedda Gabler
155
What entities may cluster together to form metabolon complexes in order to facilitate channeling
Enzymes
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What diagram can be used to find the eugenic point
Phase diagarams
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What English author wrote the short story rain and Of Human Bondage
William Maugham
158
What technique separates molecules like DNA by applying an electric field to a gel
Gel electrophoresis
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What poet created the collection The Book of Hours
Rilke
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What leader waged a campaign from the Sierra maestro mountains
Fidel Castro
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What state was ruled under the bayonet constitution
Hawaii
162
What tissue uses transpirational pull to move water and minerals upwards from the roots
Xylem
163
What elements chloride is used to couple ketone or aldehyde groups to form an alkene in the McMurtry reaction
Titanium
164
What ruler condemned the Three Chapters at his Second council of Constantinople
Justinian the great
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What character visits the funeral of a blind poet known as the shaper
Grendel
166
What planet’s equator do two specific spots do the sun appears to reverse direction twice a day
Mercury
167
What phenomenon is characterized by the product of a parameter F and the maximal angle squared being much less than four
Diffraction
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Who painted Stag at Sharkeys
George Bellows
169
What conductor commissioned Igor Stravinsky to compose the symphony of Psalms
Serge Koussevitzky
170
What animals sings ‘memory’ in an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical
Cats
171
Who wrote the Phenomenology of Spirit
George Hegel
172
Look up die fliedermaus or something
173
What piece opens with a solo flute playing a chromatic descent from C-sharp to G
Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
174
What piano suite by Debussy includes Clair De Lune
Suite Bergamasque
175
What Hindu god used a column of foam to slay the dragon Vritra
Indra
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What Supreme Court case granted first amendment rights to corporations and unions
Citizens United
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What chief justice oversaw citizens united
John Roberts
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What Supreme Court case dealt with a banner saying bong hits 4 Jesus
Morse v Frederick
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What is the oldest national park in Canada
Banff National park
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Who wrote Agnes Grey and used the pen name Acton Bell
Anne Bronte
181
What magazines mascot is Eustace Tilly
The New Yorker
182
What sculptor created a bust of Cardinal Richelieu which was replaced by Jean Warin
Bernini
183
What artist portrayed a fleeing nymph in the process of becoming a tree in Apollo and Daphne
Bernini
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What man created a sculpture of a Carmelite nun being pierced by an angels arrow
Bernini
185
What country’s government was rocked by a 1986 corruption scandal over bribes from the Swedish arms manufacturer Bofors
India
186
What thinker argued that each society had its own regime of truth
Michel Foucault
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What thinker wrote a book that analyzes Jeremy Bentham’s Panopticon prison
Michel Foucault
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What thinker wrote Discipline and Punish
Michel Foucault
189
What region of western China do Uyghurs live
Xinjiang
190
Who was the eldest son of William the conqueror
Robert Curthose
191
What general was the first emperor after Nero’s death
Galba
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What emperor was advised by a trio known as the Three Pedagogues
Galba
193
Who was the first prime minister of India and in power during the Sino-Indian War
Nehru
194
Estonian composer
Ari Part
195
What Canadian pianist was known for his humming and foot tapping during the Goldberg Variations
Glenn Gould
