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100

A figure of speech that compares two things, but what's said it not actually happening.

What is a metaphor?

100

This figure's assassination triggered a series of revolutionary movements, including the Black Arts Movement.

Who is Malcolm X?

100

This is the limit of this function as x approaches 0. 

What is “does not exist”?

100

It detects how close you are to an object.

What is an ultrasonic [sensor]?

100

They're the UB staff member who lost a Kahoot to the scholars in a course they were assisting this summer.

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Who is Chen-Chen?!

200

It's what "zine" is short for.

What is "magazine?"

200

It's when a prime minister is removed from office by a vote in Parliament.

What is a vote of no confidence?

200

These are the three types of discontinuity.

What are removable, jump, and infinite discontinuities?

200

It's one of the six simple machines.

What are pulleys (1), levers (2), wheels and axles (3), screws (4), inclined planes (5), and/or wedges (6)?!

200

It's the month that both of the Ms. Gs of sophomore ELA journalism were born in!

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What is January?!

300

It's what goes into the byline of a news article.

What is the author's name?

300
It's an alliance between multiple political parties.

What is a coalition?

300

These are the coordinates of this point when reflected across the y-axis. 

What is (-3, -4)?

300

They're two of the differences between mass and custom productions.

What are human intervention (1), speed (2), scale (3), target (4), audience (5), and/or repeatability (6)?

300

They're the UB staff member whose middle name is based on the names of two historical figures!

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Who is Zu Rian Samonte?!

400

It's the name of the type of news article that is specifically about one person.

What is a featured article?
400

This historical figure won the Siege of Pensacola and sent the Patriots supplies.

Who was General Bernardo de Gálvez?

400

These are the coordinates of this figure when rotated 270 degrees counter-clockwise about the origin.

What is X’ (5,-4) Y’(3,-5) Z’(3,-1)?

400

It's a way to give a set of instructions to the robot easily.

What is a function?

400

He's the former U.S. president Ms. Tangney dressed up as for decades’ day her senior year of high school, to express her disdain for his administration.

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Who is Ronald Reagan?

500

They're the slam poet juniors listened to on the third day of Docupoetry.

Who is Andi Writes?

500

It's the name that Amiri Baraka, who was inspired by revolutionary movements and Marxist thinkers, was born with.

Who is LeRoi Jones?

500

It's another way of representing how many blocks are in this pattern at each step.

What is f(x)=4x+1?

500

It refers to the set of all possible input values for a function.

What is a domain?

500

They're the UB staff member who almost bit their tongue off and had to have it sewn back on when they were four years old!

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Who is Mr. Dlugos?!

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