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| Pencil and paper ready. What is the area of a trapezoid with a height of 8 inches and bases of 5 and 13 inches, respectively? |
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| What part of a sentence modifies the subject and contains all the verbs and the phrases and objects governed by the verb? |
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| What is the length of an Olympic-sized swimming pool? |
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| Give the name for the type of white whale that has small teeth and eyes and that has no dorsal fin? |
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| What is the last name of the famous Dutch painter Rembrant? |
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| in the early 1980"s this country was led by the Sandinistas, but a resistance group called the Contras battled them for control. Identify this Central American country which is now led by Daniel Ortega. |
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| Pencil and paper ready. Find the exact value of the sine of theta if theta is in the third quadrant and the secant of the theta is negative 7 over the square root of 40. |
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| What major river in northern Italy passes through Turin and south Milan and Venice before it empties into the Adriatic Sea? |
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| What was the name of the female villian in the movie 101 Dalmations? |
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| One of the seven wonders of the ancient world was a giant statue of the Greeek god Helios and was called the Colossus of this Greek city. Identify this city which belongs to an island by the same name. |
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| Pencil and paper ready. What is the exact value of the log base 7 of the quantity 1 over 49? |
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| There are very few words that can seve as 5 different parts of speech, but one such word is a noun because it refers to fine bird feathers located underneath the tougher exterior feathers Identify this word which can also serve as a verb,adjective adverb and preposition. |
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| Identify the science of earthquakes and the movement of vibrations through layers of the earth. |
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| among the works of this Scottish author are a mystery novel titled "Better Dead", a melodramtic novel titled "The Little Minister", and the plays "The Admirable Crichton" and "Quality Street". Identify this author, who is perhaps best known for his book "Peter Pan". |
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| What major sport awards the Commissioner's Trophy to the winner of it's playoff contest for the best team in it's professional league? |
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| Who was the first leader of the trade union federation initially set up at the shipyards of Gdansk, Poland, in the early 1980's and called "Solidarity"? |
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| What 1896 Supreme Court case established the principle of "separate but equal"? |
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| In Leviticus, Chapter 11, Verses 7 and 8, what animal is forbidden for the Jews to eat? |
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| Pencil and paper ready. there are two supplementary angles, one of which is 8 times the measure of the other angle. What is the measure of the smaller angle? |
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| Which article of the U.S. Constitution describes the admendment process? |
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