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Is Pluto a planet?

What is absolutely not?

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3+(4-2*5)=

What is -3?

100

This is the day that we never forget

What is 9/11

100

This is the number of potentially habitable exoplanets that have been discovered.

What is 30?

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PARI was originally built by this government organization to study satellite communication.

What is NASA?

200

This is the largest body in the Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter.

What is Ceres?

200

These are the x and y values for the following system of equations.

5x-10y=5

-x-2y=15

What are x=-7 and y=-4?

200

Germany sank this ship during their unrestricted submarine warfare campaign in the Atlantic, leading to the United States joining the First World War in 1917.

What is the Lusitania?

200

This is the chemical composition of the interstellar medium.

What is 90% hydrogen, 9% helium, and 1% heavy elements?

200

This dish was painted in an attempt to taunt Soviet spy satellites.

Who is Smiley?

300

These are the three requirements for being named a full planet.

What are orbiting the sun, has enough gravity to be round, and has cleared its orbit of large debris?

300

This is the derivative of cos(x2).

What is -2x(sin(x2))?

300

The Plessy v. Ferguson decision of 1896 was overruled by this 1954 Supreme Court case.

What is Brown v. Board of Education?

300

This is what SETI stands for.

What is the Search for Extraterrestrial Individuals?

300

Under the guise of the Rosman Research Station, this government organization had control over PARI between 1981 and 1995.

What is the NSA?

400

This is what 90% of Saturn's rings are made of.

What is water?

400

This is the integral of (x3+4)/(x2).

What is (x2/4)-(4/x)+C?

400

This is the year that the US census began.

What is 1790?

400

What is the frequency emitted by neutral hydrogen?

What is 1420.40575 MHz?

400

NASA used 26 West and this satellite constellation to transmit the first ever instance of satellite television.

What is ATS?

500

This material is likely found at the core of large gas giants such as Jupiter and Saturn?

What is metallic hydrogen?

500

The partial derivative with respect to Z of F(x,y,z)=4x3y2-ezy4+(z3/x2)+4y-x16 is this.

What is -ezy4+(3z2/x2)?

500

This is the only president to have won two nonconsecutive terms.

Who is Grover Cleveland?

500

These are the factors in the Drake Equation.

What is the number of stars made in the Milky Way galaxy in one year, the fraction of stars that have planets, the fraction of those planets where life can exist, the fraction of those planets where life does exist, the fraction of those planets where intelligent life exists, the fraction of those intelligent aliens who develop technology that is able to communicate outside of their own planet, number of years an intelligent, communicating civilization lasts.

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The HVAC system in this PARI building is capable of nearly instantly removing all the air in case of a fire.

What is Building 4?

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