Science
This is the largest bone in the human body.
What is the femur?
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This is the speaker of the famous "I have a Dream" speech.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr?
This musical instrument has the name and shape of a plane figure.
What is the triangle?
This is the value of x in the following:
-7x=105
What is x= -15?
This is the amount of weeks in Advent.
What are 4?
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This is the globally-dreaded disease the World Health Organization declared eradicated in 1980.
What is Smallpox?
This is the country that the United States purchased the Louisiana Territory from.
What is France?
Of the following choices, this is an example of a "subsurface" activity:
harvesting wheat or drilling for oil
What is drilling for oil?
This is the amount of yards in a mile.
What is 1,760?
Located between Israel and Jordan, this body of water is known for its high salt content, making it uninhabitable for most life forms.
What is the Dead Sea?
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This is the term for chemicals that are used to transmit impulses from one neuron to another.
What are neurotransmitters?
Dubbed the "Black Death," this plague swept through Europe in the 1300s.
What is the Bubonic Plague?
The classic 1877 novel, Black Beauty, is about this kind of animal.
What is a horse?
Of the following choices, this is the decimal representation of 1/4:
0.01, 0.25, 0.5
What is 0.25?
This is what a person is called who gives his/her life for his/her faith.
What is a martyr?
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This blood type is a universal donor.
What is O negative?
This European explorer discovered a passage that connects the Pacific and Atlantic oceans.
Who is Magellan?
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This is the figurative language used in the following sentence:
The leaf danced across the cloud to get away from the tree.
What is personification?
This math theorem states that in a right triangle,
A2 + B2 = C2
What is the Pythagorean Theorem?
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This is what we call a personal sacrifice of going without food.
What is fasting?
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This is the name of the process when a caterpillar turns into a butterfly.
What is metamorphosis?
The "Treaty of Paris" ended this war.
What is the Revolutionary War?
"Well, Prince, so Genoa and Lucca are now just family estates of the Buonapartes," is the first line in this famous Leo Tolstoy book.
What is War and Peace?
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This is the algebraic expression for 77 more than the product of 2 and u.
What is 2u + 77 or 77 + 2u?
This is the name of a special prayer of praise that Mary said. It begins, "My soul magnifies the Lord..."
What is the Magnificat?
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