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In 1492, this country funded Christopher Columbus' voyage to the Americas.
What is Spain?
This is the biological process of keeping internal conditions stable.
What is homeostasis?
This is what happens when you throw a piano down a mine shaft.
What is A flat minor? (It's a scale)
The main message or underlying idea that the author of a work wants you to think about, often about important topics such as human nature, life, or society.
What is the theme of a story?
These two US presidents have each served non-consecutive terms in office.
Who are Grover Cleveland and Donald Trump?
Using rules for naming covalent compounds, this is the proper chemical name of water (H2O).
What is dihydrogen monoxide?
This is how long you can keep a book from the NBHS library before you need to renew.
What is two weeks?
This punctuation mark can separate two independent clauses without the use of a conjunction in a sentence.
What is a semicolon?
This gland found in the brain regulates hormones throughout the entire body.
What is the pituitary gland?
These are the three secondary colors on a color wheel.
What are orange, green, and purple?
Often used to avoid ambiguity, this is the optional comma preceding the "and" in a list.
What is the Oxford comma?
This is the total sum of the EXTERIOR angles of any polygon, in degrees.
What is 360 degrees?
This person proposed the plan that would help to rebuild Europe post-WWII.
Who is US Secretary of State George C. Marshall?
This is the phase change where a gas turns directly into a solid.
What is sublimation?
This Louisiana governor and US senator didn't think FDR went far enough to meet the needs of Americans during the Great Depression. In 1935, he was assassinated while still a member of Congress.
Who is Huey Long?
This is the prevalence of autism spectrum disorder in US children.