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History Quiz
Silent Letter Words
Big & Lil' Pop Culture
Physics & Energy
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An advocate for an end to slavery
An Abolitionist
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In 1880 this inventor was granted a patent for the first practical light bulb
Edison
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It's just a pterm for a ptremendous pterosaur
Pterodactyl
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On "Parks & Rec" this 4-legged phenom was Pawnee's biggest star; Andy sang "5,000 Candles In The Wind" at his memorial
Lil' Sebastian
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This 1895 discovery with medical implications led to the first Nobel Prize for physics
X-ray
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The arranger of the dances in a ballet
A Choreographer
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Now a kids' swimming pool game, he was originally an Italian who traveled to China in the 13th century
Marco Polo
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The OED's first citation for this surfing slang for a challenging wave goes back to 1977
gnarly
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Ryan Gosling & Christian Bale see bad times ahead in this 2015 movie about mortgage banking & more
The Big Short
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In nuclear physics, this 6-letter word is the opposite of radioactive
Stable
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A store specializing in men's clothing & accessories like ties & hats
A Haberdashery
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"Black Tuesday", October 29 of this year, was part of the stock market crash that helped set off the Great Depression
1929
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Lambeth or Staten Island, for example
Borough
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This rapper released Old Town Road in 2018
Lil Nas X
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Don't move! I'm pointing a stretched rubber band at you & until I release it, it has this type of stored energy
Potential Energy
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The legally mandated process of dividing up voters into new legislative regions within a state
Redistricting
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Nobody expected the Spanish this notorious institution to be abolished in 1834, but everybody was glad it was
Inquisition
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Kim Kardashian's 4th kid, or a sacred song
Psalm
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This 1998 crime comedy features a dream sequence with Saddam Hussein, and eventually became a cult classic
The Big Lebowski
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These most common units of sound energy can be deceiving because higher-pitched noises are perceived as louder
Decibels
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Internal supporting structure of vertebrates
An Endoskeleton
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A Paris airport is named for this general who led the Free French forces during WWII & later served as France's president
Charles de Gaulle
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This word with a rare silent "Q" can mean a resinous varnish
Lacquer
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Before "Everything Everywhere All at Once", Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert directed "Turn Down for What" by DJ Snake & this rapper
Lil' John
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Menlo Park, California has a 2-mile-long linac, short for this structure, to crack the secrets of matter
Linear Accelerator