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100

This Texas city is where Dealey Plaza is located and the site of John F. Kennedy’s assassination.

Dallas, Texas

100

This Black literary movement, centered in a New York City neighborhood, included writers like Langston Hughes and Countee Cullen and explored themes of racial identity and culture.

The Harlem Renaissance 

100

These three-sided geometric figures have areas equal to one-half base times height and include types such as equilateral and isosceles.

Triangles

100

This country largest city contains the ancient port of Jaffa and contains cities such as Tel Aviv, Haifa, and Jerusalem.

Israel 

100

This element makes up most of Earth’s atmosphere and is essential in fertilizers and ammonia.

Nitrogen

200

This U.S. president, nicknamed “Old Hickory,” opposed the Second Bank of the United States and issued the Specie Circular.

Andrew Jackson

200

This English playwright, often called “the Bard,” wrote plays such as The Winter’s Tale and The Merchant of Venice, which features a demand for a “pound of flesh.”

William Shakespeare 

200

This statistical measure represents the middle value in an ordered data set and is shown as the line inside a box plot.

Median

200

This Scandinavian country, whose capital is Stockholm, is connected to Denmark by the Øresund Bridge.

Sweden

200

These exothermic redox reactions, commonly seen in fires, can produce carbon monoxide when incomplete.

Combustion

300

This dynasty, known for Zheng He’s voyages and the construction of the Forbidden City in Beijing, ruled China before being succeeded by the Qing.

Ming Dynasty

300

This Creole author wrote The Awakening and the short story “The Story of an Hour,” in which Mrs. Mallard dies of the “joy that kills.”

Kate Chopin

300

This set of numbers, represented by a bold capital “Z,” includes the natural numbers and their negatives.

Integers

300

This Balkan country, home to Dubrovnik and Plitvice Lakes National Park, has its capital at Zagreb.

Croatia

300

This elementary particle, the quantum of light, carries the electromagnetic force and has zero mass.

Photons

400

This first Khan of the Mongol Empire unified the Mongol tribes and began a vast empire that later influenced the creation of Yuan China.

Genghis Khan

400

This “King of Kings” is referenced in a poem describing a ruined statue inscribed with “Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!”

Ozymandias

400

This continuous probability distribution, also known as the “bell curve,” is defined by its mean and variance and often arises from the central limit theorem.

Normal Distribution 

400

This South American capital city, meaning “good air,” lies along the Río de la Plata and is the largest city in Argentina.

Buenos Aires

400

This large organ filters blood, produces bile, and is capable of regeneration; it can develop cirrhosis from chronic alcohol use.

Liver

500

Proposed by Woodrow Wilson in the Fourteen Points, this international organization governed mandates like Togoland and was dissolved in 1946.

League of Nations

500

Poets such as Pablo Neruda and César Vallejo wrote in this language, used in works like Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair.

Spanish

500

This statistical value represents the probability of obtaining observed results assuming the null hypothesis is true and is considered significant when below 0.05.

p-value

500

This Uyghur Autonomous Region in China contains the Tarim Basin and the city of Kashgar.

Xinjiang

500

This group on the periodic table includes calcium, whose ions play roles in muscle contraction and bone storage.

Alkaline Earth Metals

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