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IN BIOLOGY?
Amoebas most commonly reproduce using these means.
What is asexual reproduction?
The USA made the Louisiana Purchase from France
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
In 1682, following numerous expansions throughout the century, King Louis XIV decided to move the seat of the government of France to this palace.
What is Versailles?
Most of John Steinbeck's works were set in and around the Salinas Valley located in this West coast state.
What is California?
This country is estimated to have the most inhabited Mediterranean islands.
What is Greece?
Members of this class of ectothermic tetrapods usually start off life in the larval tadpole stage, before metamorphosing into air-breathing adults.
What is Amphibia?
The signing of the 1898 Treaty of Paris marked the end of the Spanish-American War
Who is William McKinley?
Born in Eisenach in 1685, this composer of the late Baroque period wrote the Toccata and Fugue in D minor as well as the Goldberg Variations.
Who is Johann Sebastian Bach?
F. Scott Fitzgerald, author of The Great Gatsby, set his novel The Beautiful and Damned in this state.
What is New York?
This city straddles the Bosphorus Strait, which despite being less than a mile narrow at parts, is designated as international waters due to importance as the only waterway connecting the Black Sea to the Mediterranean Sea.
What is Istanbul?
Characterized by a low amount of red blood cells, this sickness can be caused by blood loss, vitamin B12 deficiency, and some cancers. It's commonly known, however, as a result of iron deficiency.
What is anemia?
The War on Drugs began
Who is Richard Nixon?
Founded in 1636 and renamed posthumously after a Puritan minister, this Massachusetts university is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States.
What is Harvard University?
The 1935 children's novel Little House on the Prairie is based on Laura Ingalls Wilder's childhood experiences in this state.
What is Kansas?
Napoleon was born in Ajaccio on this French island, the fourth largest in the Mediterranean by land area.
What is Corsica?
What is apoptosis?
Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier flying a Bell X-1
Who is Harry Truman?
Established in 1602 in the Hague, this company designed for trade with the Mogul Empire turned into one of the biggest companies in recorded history.
What is the Dutch East India Company?
This state is where greasers Ponyboy, Dally, and Sodapop live. It's also the state the Joads are forced to abandon.
What is Oklahoma?
Founded by the Phoenicians and sieged by Rome at the end of the Punic Wars, the ancient city of Carthage is now located in this modern-day country.
What is Tunisia?
These small air sacs facilitate gas exchange in mammals' lungs.
What are alveoli?
Uncle Tom's Cabin was published
Who is Millard Fillmore?
Born in 1627, this Anglo-Irish chemist is best known for discovering and exploring the inversely proportional relationship between pressure and volume, a gas law which now bears his name.
Who is Robert Boyle?
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Sinclair Lewis's Nobel Prize-winning novel Babbitt was set in a generic, vaguely Midwestern town, but his 1920 breakthrough success Main Street was explicitly set in this home state of his.
What is Minnesota?
Popularized in the title of a Mike Posner tune due to its extravagant reputation, this Spanish isle is the third largest of the Balearic Islands.
What is Ibiza?