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Question 1

53, heaviest of the stable halogens, purplish metal, aggressive gas

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Iodine

Question 2

Musical term that means to pluck the strings

Answer 2

Pizzacato

Question 3

Novel by Hemingway, British and American families go watch the running of the bulls

Answer 3

The Sun Also Rises

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Novel by Tom Hardy, man loses everything, gets his family back, then loses everything again

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Mayor of Casterbridge

Question 5

Poem named ___, authored by ____, uses personification to compare a plant to a woman

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Trees, Kilmore

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14th US state to join

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Vermont

Question 7

Darwin’s lesser known competitor

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Wallace

Question 8

Conquered the Incans

Answer 8

Pizzaro

Question 9

Wrote “Oh Captain my Captain” and “Song of Myself” and “Children of Adam”

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Walt Whitman

Question 10

Wrote Ode on a Grecian Urn

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Keats

Question 11

Wrote Civil Disobedience

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Henry David Thoreau

Question 12

Father of American rocketry

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Goddard

Question 13

Wrote Paradise Lost

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Milton

Question 14

Section at end of piece of music

Answer 14

Cadenza

Question 15

The first amateur detective story, written by Poe, the orangutan did it

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Murder in the Rue Morgue

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Wrote Wealth of Nations

Answer 16

Adam Smith

Question 17

Name of 3rd crusade

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King’s Crusade

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Authored by Huxley, boys are shown babies grown artificially, Class system used to separate intelligent from laborers

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Brave New World

Question 19

Has 20 faces

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Icosahedron

Question 20

Kind of volcano with gently sloping sides, hundreds of layers

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Shield volcano

Question 21

Meeting of altitudes

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Centroid

Question 22

Nymph who turned down Apollo, turned into a laurel tree

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Daphne

Question 23

Sum of terms and has whole number exponents

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Polynomial

Question 24

Statement vaguely warning Japan about atomic bomb

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Pottsdam Declaration

Question 25

Language used commonly between two countries for trade

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Lingua Franca

Question 26

Name for sex cell

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Gamete

Question 27

When plants grow to face or better reach light source

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Phototropism

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River that forms Grand Canyon

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Colorado River

Question 29

Liquid turning into a gel or solid

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Coogulation

Question 30

In this book a dude loves a rich girl but his poor girlfriend is pregnant

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An American Tragedy

Question 31

Lightest noble gas

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Helium

Question 32

Retold Arthurian legend in 4 parts: the ill maid knight, the sword and the stone, the queen of air and darkness, the candle in the wind

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The once and future king

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First female cabinet member

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Francis Perkins

Question 34

Discovered gaseous elements in air, won nobel peace prize

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Ramsey

Question 35

Sister of Moses, turned white

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Miriam

Question 36

Mixing of two alleles

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Partial dominance

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POW, spent 2 yrs in Russian prison, released in 1962, exchanged for Soviet spies

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Francis Gary Powers

Question 38

Said I think, therefore I am

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Descartes (pronounced DAY CART)