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This NFL quarterback recently won his 7th NFL Super Bowl ring.
Who is Tom Brady?
This city plans to host the Olympics this summer.
What is Tokyo?
If a real-valued function can be drawn "without lifting the pen off a paper", that function can be described as carrying this property.
What is continuity?
This Former President had lost a governors race in California before running for the presidency and eventually becoming the first president to resign in office.
Who is Richard Nixon?
This Stowe novel was banned in parts of the slave-holding South & in serf-holding Russia.
What is "Uncle Tom's Cabin"?
This -ism is the belief that spirits inhabit natural objects & phenomena.
What is animism?
This NBA team lost the 2020 western conference finals 4-1 to the eventual finals winners.
Who are the Denver Nuggets?
This mountain, located on the Pakistan-China border, is the second largest mountain in the world.
What is K2?
This mathematical term, synonymous to "perpendicular" in the context of geometry, also refers to a certain type of distributions in the context of probability.
What is a normal?
This battle, located nearly 15 miles from MIT's campus, was the first battle of the American Revolutionary war.
What is the battle of Lexington and Concord?
Scout is a curious little girl still trying to figure out life in the American South in this classic novel.
What is "To Kill a Mockingbird"?
This ethnic group, divided into 8 more subgroups, were the last native people to arrive in North America.
Who are the Inuit?
This country is the ranked #1 in FIFA Internatonal rankings as of February, March 5th.
What is Belgium?
This Sandstone rock formation is one of the most popular natural landmarks in central Australia with about 250,000 annual visitors.
What is Uluru/Ayers Rock?
This is the name of the infamous p-series that diverges for value of p=1.
What is a harmonic series?
This Islamic Empire controlled land in current day India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, and Bangladesh and lasted more than 300 years.
What is the Mogul Empire?
This author, one of eight children, anonymously published her first four novels and is known as the mother of modern day romance novels.
Who is Jane Austen?
In medieval England, eating fruit this way was considered dangerous.
What is raw?
This country has historically been the most successful team at the ICC Cricket World Cup, with 5 championships to their name.
What is Australia?
This European nation has 3 official languages: French, German, and Italian
What is Switzerland?
This formula, named after an 18th century Swiss mathematician, is used to convert from a complex number's exponential form to the trigonometric form.
What is Euler's Formula?
This Arab nation was the first country in the world to recognize the United States in 1777.
What is Morocco?
The narrator of this Edgar Allan Poe story says, "The disease had sharpened my senses... Above all was the sense of hearing acute" at one point.
What is "The Tell-Tale Heart"?
Derived from the name of the ancient Greek city of Pergamum, this material was used as a durable writing surface in ancient and medieval times.
What is parchment?
In 2016, this MLB team reversed a 3-1 deficit to win their first World Series in 108 years.
Who are the Chicago Cubs?
This Francophone country is home to the largest statue on the African continent.
What is Senegal?
This is the number of digits when the number of elements of largest finite simple sporadic group is expressed in decimals.
What is 54?
This fortress/prison was stormed in July 1789, which is now celebrated as France's national day and known for being a turning point in the History of the French Revolution.
What is the Bastille?
A futuristic society revolves around science & efficiency in this 1932 novel by Aldous Huxley.
What is "Brave New World"?
From a single molar found in China in 1927, Davidson Black postulated on the existence of this early human.
Who is Peking Man?