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100

This variable is partially maintained in the extremities by countercurrent blood exchange. High progesterone after ovulation increases the basal value of this variable.

body temperature

100

Over 30 people in this country have been lynched by so-called "cow protection" groups.

India

100

The Temple of the Warriors built by this culture is a prime example of architecture from their Late Classic period.  Name this pre-Colombian civilization who built Chichen Itza.

Maya

100

The holder of what position unwillingly let the Israelites out of his country?


Pharaoh

100

Plato's Symposium is about what concept, which the Greeks divided into philia, agape, and eros?

Love

200

The high porosity of this rock produces an extremely vigorous reaction in the acid test. This rock is marginally harder than gypsum and thus produces less dust when rubbed on a surface.

Chalk

200

Name this punctuation mark used to terminate statements in C++. The winking emoticon is usually formed by a combination of this mark and a parenthesis

semi-colon

200

Name this language used for "First they came…" by Martin Niemöller ("NEE-murl-ur") and "Ode to Joy" by Friedrich Schiller ("shiller").

This language is one of the root languages of Yiddish


German
200

To cure morphine addiction, this popular drink company's founder experimented with an African nut and a South American plant wine to create a formula which was locked away in Atlanta's Truist Bank.

Coca-Cola

200

Corbis Images's most popular stock photograph depicts 11 men in this city having lunch while seated on a crossbeam 850 feet in the air.

NYC

300

The seesaw VSPER ("vesper") geometry has this many bonds, as does a geometry with roughly 109.5 degree bond angles. Name this number of bonds in molecules with tetrahedral and square planar geometries.

4

300

Soros was born György Schwartz in this modern-day country. This country's current Prime Minister, Viktor Orbán, was once a Soros Foundation beneficiary.


Hungary

300

A common commencement ritual involves breaking apart waribashi, the name for a disposable type of these objects. Long, metal examples of these objects used when deep frying often have bamboo tips to keep the cook from getting burned.

Chopsticks

300

UN Peacekeepers responding to a 2010 earthquake caused one of these events in Haiti that killed at least 10,000 people. Name these events that cause people to become sick with watery diarrhea.


Cholera outbreak

300

A massive one of these instruments named for John Wanamaker is played twice a day at a Macy's in Philadelphia.  The "theater" version of this instrument was frequently used to provide a live soundtrack for silent films.

Organ

400

This physicist's namesake constant over momentum gives the de Broglie ("BROY") wavelength. A photon's energy and frequency are related by what pioneering German quantum physicist's namesake constant, symbolized h?


Max Planck

400

The inactivation of transposons through methylation and the modification of histones is studied in this field that focuses on phenotype changes that occur without affecting DNA's sequence.

epigenetics

400

Many Chinese kites feature images of these mythical, flying, and fire-breathing creatures which were strongly associated with the Emperor.


Dragons

400

This idea says that Americans had a right to annex the entire continent and spread democracy.


Manifest Destiny

400

Name this H. G. Wells novel whose protagonist makes himself disappear.


The Invisible Man
500

Electroplating is often used to apply this metal to surfaces as a form of gilding. Other methods to apply this metal may first dissolve it in aqua regia.


Gold

500

Many of the last old-growth forests in the Pacific Northwest were saved to preserve the habitat of one of these birds. Bumper stickers reading "Kill [one of these creatures]--Save a Logger" were common in Northwest logging communities in the early 1990s.


Owls

500

A ruler the Moghul dynasty commissioned the construction of this monumental, octagonal tomb  which has a pointed white dome that resembles a crown.

Taj Mahal

500

This founder of the North Star newspaper described his rebellion against Edward Covey in his slave narrative.

Frederick Douglas

500

Name the author of the classic novel "The Great Gatsby"

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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