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100
This literary device gives human characteristics to non-human things.
What is personification?
100
It’s the war that Indigenous artist T.C cannon fought in.
What is the Vietnam War?
100
This is a type of relationship between two sets that ensures each input has an output, and each input has only one output.
What is a function?
100
This condiment is a classic kitchen emulsion made by slowly whisking oil into egg yolks.
What is mayonnaise?
100
This UB staff member can regulate their body temperature and force chills.
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Who is Brian?!
200
This Spanish poetic form uses a borrowed quatrain, called the “cabeza”, at the head of the poem. It repeats these borrowed lines at the end of each stanza.
What is a glosa?
200
This is the name of the island in the Caribbean where Columbus first landed, which is home to modern-day Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
What is Hispaniola?
200
It is the difference between a local maximum and an absolute maximum.
What is the local maximum, being the highest point compared to those around it, and the absolute maximum being the highest point on the whole graph?
200
It’s the process of species changing over time.
What is evolution?
200
They're the UB staff member who coined the term “Baja Blast Fish” with the Junior class.
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Who is Ms. Brown?!
300
This is the “B” in the BEAM model of finding sources.
What is “background”?
300
You should do this if you are in line to vote when the polls close.
What is Stay in Line?
300
We can represent the strength of two variables that have NO correlation with each other by using this number.
What is 0?
300
It's the mechanism that causes populations to adapt and evolve through 5 main processes.
What is Natural Selection?
300
This UB staff member's middle name is based on the names of two historical figures.
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Who is Zu Rian Samonte?!
400
This writing tool breaks down bigger concepts into smaller, supporting details.
What is an alphanumerical outline?
400
It’s the park in Worcester where a World War I memorial can be found.
What is Green Park?
400
It’s the limit as x approaches 0 of the following graph.
What is “undefined” or “does not exist?”
400
These are the differences between assembly line/mass manufacturing and custom manufacturing.
What are:
-Amount of human intervention (Assembly less human)
-Time to produce the items (Assembly more)
-Cost to produce an item (Assembly less)
-customization (Assembly less)?
400
They're the UB staff member who has a collection of over 3,000 Magic: The Gathering cards.
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Who is Ms. Glennon?!
500
They are the 5 kinds of folktales.
What are myths, legends, fables, fairytales, and tall tales?
500
This type of election lets people vote for who a party’s candidate should be even if they aren’t registered to that party.
What is an open primary?
500
It’s the approximate, optimal volume of a box created from a rectangle with dimension 20 by 15.
What is “a cut of 3 gives you 378 (or 2.82781, to be exact)?”
500
It’s the activity that the prefrontal cortical regions do to normally influence amygdala output.
What is downregulation? (Or, what is, “The prefrontal cortex down-regulates amygdala?”)
500
They're the UB staff member who's been skydiving.
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Who is Mr. Kapiloff?!