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This app by ByteDance was banned from federal government devices in 2022
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As she was doing errands, an overseer tried to stop a runaway slave by throwing a two-pound weight at him. He hit Tubman instead, who was standing nearby the runaway resulting to severe injury to this body part causing seizures for the rest of her life
What is her head?
Daylight saving time doesn’t begin at the stroke of midnight like you might expect it to. Rather, the time change is delayed until most people (hopefully) aren’t awake to notice it, by waiting until this time
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The country of St. Patrick's birth
What is Britain?
96.5% of the water on Earth comes from this
What is the ocean?
In 2004, this social media site was the first to reach a million monthly active users
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After escaping slavery, Harriet Tubman returned to the state of her birth, beginning the Underground Railroad, it was during this time that she acquired this nickname for bringing slaves to the 'promised land'
What is Moses?
This man was half joking in 1784, when he published a satirical article arguing for the adoption of Daylight Saving time. He also suggested taxing shutters, rationing candles, banning non-emergency coach travel after dark, and firing cannons at sunrise to rouse late-sleepers
St. Patrick's Day celebrations often serve this traditional Irish dinner
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A proposal for World Water Day to become an official observance was first introduced in Agenda 21 of this international organization's Conference on Environment and Development
What is the United Nations?
The first portable cell phone was invented in 1973 by this company
What is Motorola?
Harriet Tubman was born sometime between 1820 and 1821 in this state
What is Maryland?
This state does not observe DST, leaving residents in the Navajo Nation out of sorts, suspended one hour in the future then the rest of the state for half of the year
What is Arizona?
While trying to convert the Irish into Christians, St. Patrick used this to explain the Holy Trinity
What is a Sharmock?
Only 1 percent of all freshwater is easily accessible in rivers, lakes and streams. The rest of it is stuck in this
What glaciers and/or snowfields?
This man developed the alternating-current power system that provides electricity for homes and buildings
Who is Nikola Tesla?
At one point after the war, her financial situation became so dire, she fell prey to smuggling this valuable commodity
What is gold?
This country implemented daylight saving time in 1916 to save fuel during World War I
What is Germany?
This Celtic language is native to Ireland and has been called one of “the oldest and most historic written languages in the world”
What is Gaelic?
This country has the least access to clean water, with 5.9% of its population having no access to a safe drinking water source
What is India?
The first electronic computer was created in 1950 in this country
What is Japan?
Tubman would often employ disguises in her quest to free slaves. One notable disguise she used was pretending to read a newspaper to allay suspicion, as she was known to be this
What is illiterate?
Until recently, losing an hour of daylight in the fall presented a problem for this industry. That’s because daylight saving time traditionally ended on the last Sunday in October
What is the candy industry?
St. Patrick's is said to have sent these out of Ireland
What are snakes?
Poor drinking water and sanitation causes over 80% of this in developing countries
What is disease?