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100

This punctuation symbol, which may be confused with half an organ, connects two related but independent clauses.

What is a semicolon?

100

The United States government is split into these three main branches.

What are the executive, judicial, and legislative?

100

This word translates to "to swim" in English, which is not recommended to do this time of year in the lake because the lake monster might eat you.

¿Qué es 'nadar'?

200

These words have the same spelling and/or pronunciation, but vary in meaning.

What are homonyms?

200

The great war started in 1914 after the assasination of archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir of this country.

What is Austria-Hungary?

200

This mathematical quantity represents the instantaneous rate of change of a function with respect to its variable.

What is a derivative?

300

This type of gramatical error is often the result of fusing two intependent clauses with a comma, this sentence is an example.

What is a comma splice?

300

The second president of the United States was this man, who is not featured on any common US currency.

Who is John Adams?

300

This organelle is used to modify, pack and fold proteins before transporting, and even has it's own Phish song.

What is the golgi apparatus?

400

The Ministry of Truth rewrites history in this dystopian work whose title is a the same year David Bowie's Tonight was released. 

What is 1984?

400
This act, enacted in 1930 was a protectionist trade act that introduced tarrifs on foreign goods and contributed to the great depression.

What is the Smoot-Hawley Tarrif Act?

400

A square matrix is invertible if and only if this quantity is nonzero.

What is the determinant?

500

Persistent people proudly pronounce perfectly paired phrases, producing pleasing patterns prized by poets.

What is alliteration?

500
The last soldier of WWII stopped fighting in this year.

What is 1974?

500

Grignard reagents function by alterning the normally positive partial charge on an α-carbon, allowing the molecule to function as this in organic reactions.

What is a nucleophile?

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