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Even though James Bond and Liz Taylor got it wrong when they said it’s forever, which substance is still the hardest to naturally occur on Earth?
DIAMOND
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Although the exact origin is unknown, this piece of technology and calculating tool used beans or stones moved in grooves of sand to perform calculations. Although computers have mostly replaced it, this tool is still in use for teaching arithmetic to children in many parts of the world. What is it?
Abacus
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According to the musical based on his adventures, which Nickelodeon cartoon is not just any kind of absorbent, multicellular, deep-sea organism, but specifically, Aplysina fistularis?
SpongeBob Squarepants
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Which two organs are connected by the only veins that carry oxygenated blood in the body?
Lungs and Heart
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What is the acronym for the correct sequence of steps to follow when using the order of operations for a math expression?
PEMDAS
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Which appealing yellow fruit is slightly radioactive due to its high potassium content?
BANANA
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The Mobius strip was the inspiration for a universal symbol first created in 1970 and composed of 3 arrows in a roughly triangular shape. This symbol stands for what action?
RECYCLING
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There was a boom in sales of frill-necked lizards as domesticated pets after the release of what 1993 film featuring a similar, very extinct critter?
JURASSIC PARK
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The total amount of greenhouse gas emissions created by human activity is better known by what two-word term which originated from a concept conceived by environmentalists William E. Rees and Dr. Mathis Wackernagel during the 1990s?
CARBON FOOTPRINT
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The quadriceps is, as the name suggests, a group of four prevailing mus les including the rectus femoris. This group of muscles covers the front and sides of what leg bone?
FEMUR
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What is the only number that has the same number of letters as its meaning?
FOUR
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What zodiac constellation found in the northern celestial hemisphere has a name which means "twins" in Latin? It is associated with the twins Castor and Pollux from Greek mythology.
GEMINI
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Which organ in the human body is the only one that can float in water (not that it would help if you’re drowning)?
LUNGS
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Silver iodide is a favorite "seeding agent" that is used in meteorological professions largely because it has a crystalline structure very similar to a natural ice crystal. What are the everyday objects that silver iodide is used to "seed"?
CLOUDS
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Also part of cow farts, what simple hydrocarbon, chemical formula CH4, is the primary component of natural gas?
METHANE
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What “P” simple machine is a wheel that carries a flexible rope, cord, or cable on its rim? It can be used to transmit energy and motion, often for lifting weights.
Pulley
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Obelus is the name for the mathematical symbol that has a horizontal line with a dot above and a dot below it. Which arithmetic operation is the sign used for?
DIVISION
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One novel way to retain thermal energy collected by a solar tower is through a mixture of sodium nitrate, potassium nitrate, and calcium nitrate. This method is often referred to as "molten ______." What dinner table-sounding word fills in the blank?
SALT
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Earth is the densest planet in the solar system. Which of the giant planets of the solar system is its least dense planet?
SATURN
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Mycologists often spend a lot of time digging through dirt as they study what type of natural organism?
FUNGI
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On Earth, the recipe for them is water and light. If you were on another planet with a different atmosphere, what colorful post-precipitation meteorological phenomenon would you be less likely to see?
Rainbow
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Titan is one of the few moons in the solar system known to have an atmosphere of any substance. Around which second-largest planet does Titan revolve?
SATURN
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What science word technically means the amount of matter? Near the surface of Earth it's basically equivalent with weight.
MASS
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Gustatory cells are primarily found on what sensory organ of the body?
TONGUE
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According to a famous theorem, one of the first to be proven by computation, no more than how many colors are needed to color the regions of any map so that no two adjacent regions share the same color?
FOUR