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The neighborhood of East Village and the Riverdale neighborhood of the Bronx are both found in what City?
New York City.
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What is positive if it is greater than zero, and negative if it is less than zero and is sometimes called a modulus?
Integer.
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Artin and Schreier asserted that these are all possibilities for finite absolute what groups that In mathematics, field arithmetic is a subject that studies the interrelations between arithmetic properties of a field and its absolute of the same group?
Galois
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What type of music is played in Polka or Waltz and has three variants called romance, revolutionary and modern?
Corridos.
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Humboldt and Sierra Nevada are both names of what?
Mountain ranges
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Transcription errors which are typographical mistakes commonly made by human operators are often confused with what kind of error where a typists switches characters?
Transposition errors
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Swords have been made of different materials over the centuries with early swords being made from what native metal with the symbol Cu and atomic number 29?
Early swords were made of copper.
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Andrews' beaked whale, sometimes known as the deep-crest beaked whale or splay-toothed whale, was first described by who?
It was first described in 1908 by the American scientist Roy Chapman Andrews.
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Who presented the theory that says that learning occurs when an individual takes the observed behavior and incorporates it into their own knowledge?
Albert Bandura
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GABAA and glycine are both types of what?
receptors
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What type of diving that has a form where you can dive with a helmet, is restricted to maximum depths of about 40 metres?
Recreational scuba diving.
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Phú Mỹ and Ba are both names of what?
Bridges
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The NSA and TSA have tasks that are largely centered around what?
Protection
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What business allows customers to trade currency which uses digital files as money?
A cryptocurrency exchange.
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Derbs, Notts, Norwich, Ipswich and Thetford are all locations in what country?
England
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Ancestors of the Khitan were the Yuwen clan of what ethnic group of ancient nomadic people that once resided in the eastern Eurasian steppes in what is today Mongolia, Inner Mongolia, and Northeastern China?
Khitan's ancestors were the Yuwen clan of Xianbei peoples.
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The tank also known as the Liberty and the Mk IV (A22) Churchill were both part of which armed forces?
British
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Which one of the islands that form the ABC islands emerged as a centre of the slave trade?
Curaçao.
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How many centuries are between King Arthur and Camber?
Six centuries separate them.
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Trần and Song were both names of what?
Dynasties
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Besides indigenous Southeast Asians, South Asians and people from where, ethnic groups from which include the Bai, Hui, and Tibetans, call Southeast Asia their home?
East Asia
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Atypical pneumonia, also known as walking pneumonia, is any type of pneumonia not caused by one of the pathogens most commonly associated with the what, an example of which is cold agglutinin?
Disease
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How can MAC computers get attacked?
MACs can be flooded or spoofed in which they either have switch with many addresses or a broadcast domain tinkered with.
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What major U.S. navy formation in the South Atlantic Ocean was originally established in part to provide protection from merchant vessels used for evading naval blockades during World War II?
The 4th Fleet was originally established for this goal.
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Plantagenet and Second Gonanda were both names of what?
Dynasties
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What anemone is widespread throughout the tropical and subtropical waters of the Indo-Pacific area and can host up to 15 different species of anemonefish?
The sebae anemone.
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What is the name of one of Denver's wealthiest neighborhoods that is bordered on the west by Colorado Boulevard?
Hilltop
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The Taming of the Shrew is a comedy by what person, whose plays are widely regarded as being among the greatest in the English language and are continually performed around the world?
Shakespeare
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Saint Paul is the capital of a state wherein what river is the longest that is entirely within state boundaries?
Minnesota River
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Bremen is the fourth largest city in the area of what West Germanic language variety spoken mainly in Northern Germany?
Low German
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The rudder and the rudder trim tab are both components of what?
Aircraft
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The House of Commons of what country whose capital is Ottawa is the lower chamber of the bicameral Parliament of the country?
Canada
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What language is spoken by most people who live in the place that was named after a Germanic tribe called the Angles?
They speak English.
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Sila Mutungi is the lead singer of what band formed in 2003?
Sila Mutungi is the lead singer of Sila and the Afrofunk Experience.
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Outwash plains are made from the melting what large body of ice and snow?
They're made by glaciers.
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The important industrial crop that had several uses was also a part of the Neolithic founder crops along with how many other members?
7
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Amygdalin breaks up under what catalysis, and example of which would be Benzaldehyde dehydrogenase?
Enzyme
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A city and comune in Lombardy, northern Italy shares a name with a sub-group of the Bettani tribe of what?
Pashtuns
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What major reservation located in southern Arizona includes the San Xavier Indian Reservations and the San Lucy district near Gila Bend?
The Tohono O'odham Nation
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In the law of hope where if there is more than one way to do something, someone will do it the wrong way, where did its namesake come from?
Capt. Ed Murphy.
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Why would a flower's scientific name and a marsupial's scientific name contain macropus?
Macropus is a Greek word meaning long foot, in the flower name it refers to the the long bulb and in the animal name it refers to the long feet, especially of the kangaroos who are members of the species.
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What is a special case of a rectangular wave?
Square wave
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The farthest point from Earth's centre is located in which country?
The farthest point from the Earth's centre is Chimborazo, which is located in Ecuador.
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What period is referred to as The Reign of Terror and who introduced the term "Terror"?
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Which family was affiliated with both Pope Gregory XI as well as King Francis I?
De Poiters.
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Agamenticus, Katahdin, and Mauna Kea are all what?
Mountains.
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In ribonucleotides, the sugar component is what, a name chosen by Fischer, while in deoxyribonucleotides, the sugar component is deoxyribose?
Ribose
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Żegota was active chiefly in what city which has the largest and most important in Central and Eastern Europe?
Warsaw
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The feverfew herb and the 5-HT 2C antagonist both can treat what condition?
Migraines.
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Who are the developers of the device that was built to study the two components of the self as well as creativity and religious experience?
Koren and Persinger
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What was the name of the prophet who was the first of the prophets to write down the messages he heard and spoke out against the growing gap between the rich and the poor?
Amos was the name of the prophet who was the first to write down the messages he heard and speak out against the widening divide between the affluent and the poor.
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How does VEGF act through paracrine signaling on endothelial cells?
It induces changes in the nearby endothelial cell, altering the behavior of those cells.
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The Navajo Sandstone summit that is immediately northeast of the Great White Throne is located in what U.S. national park?
Cable Mountain is in Zion National Park, in Washington County of southwest Utah.
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What type of gun is the the Walther LGR, that is part of a discipline in a shooting sport?
A rifle.
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Newton and al-Khazini both speculated on the nature of what?
Gravity
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Eastchester–Dyre Avenue terminal station of the NYC Subway is located in which NY borough that is the only borough of New York City not primarily on an island?
It's in the borough of the Bronx.
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Did Lee Roche and Lenny Johnrose play the same positions or different positions?
They played different positions.
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Foreskin piercings have been used in what male practice that is referred to as placing a clasp through the male foreskin?
They have been used for infibulation.
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[ { "text": "Infibulation also referred to placing a clasp through the male foreskin. In ancient Greece, male athletes, singers and other public performers used a clasp or string to close the foreskin and draw the penis over to one side, a practice known as kynodesmē (literally \"dog tie\")." }, { "text":...
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What is the county seat of the Tennessee county that US Route 41 enters upon leaving Georgia?
Upon leaving Georgia US Route 41 enters Hamilton County, Tennessee, whose county seat is Chattanooga.
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What is the county seat of the county that is the northern terminus of US Route 395 in California?
Alturas is the county seat of Modoc County, the northern terminus of US Route 395 in California.
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Which Byzantine aristocrat was the nephew of sebastokrator Isaac Komnenos's younger brother?
Emperor Alexios I Komnenos.
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When what compound that is soluble in water is present does diphenylamine get oxidized, giving a blue coloration?
Nitrates.
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Roman forces at the disastrous Battle of Cannae were lead by a person whose last name was derived from a word meaning what?
Fool
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Public key algorithms are fundamental security primitives in the modern form of a thing that typically contains how many algorithms?
Three
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What magazine praised the book that Rocker started writing when he was living in Germany in 1925?
Willi Eichler 's magazine Geist und Tat praised this book.
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Perdiccas I and one of the most celebrated strategists and rulers of all time where both kings of what?
Macedon.
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What are the substructures of the particles whose interactions are given different descriptions in various baryogenesis theories?
These particles have no currently known substructures.
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Oscillation from what weather phenomenon impacts the climate of the region that has been sealed off and reconnected many times?
The North Atlantic oscillation.
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The Zeila Archipelago and the 1st century Guardafui are both near what country?
Somalia.
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The Achaemenids conquered what valley, where a site has been found on the Oxus River at Shortugai in northern Afghanistan?
Indus Valley
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The stimulus–response what, which when involving chemicals is a measure of how stable a substance is when mixed with another substance, is known to also affect the choice reaction time for the Hick–Hyman law?
Compatibility
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Titus and Fairfax are both names of what?
Counties
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Zinc chloride hydroxide monohydrate and Zirconium (IV) chloride are both types of what?
Compounds.
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The chemical element with the symbol Si can be found in what silicate mineral found in nature as the mineral quartz?
Silicon.
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What sacred Aboriginal area is near Adelaide one of the fastest growing cities in Australia?
The Mount Barker Summit
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What is a griffin and why was it thought to be an especially powerful and majestic creature?
A griffin is a legendary creature with the body, tail, and back legs of a lion; the head and wings of an eagle; and sometimes an eagle's talons as its front feet. Because the lion was traditionally considered the king of the beasts, and the eagle the king of the birds, by the Middle Ages, the griffin was thought to be ...
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Cynon and Conwy are both names of what?
Rivers
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In the first reaction of the immune system to an infection or irritation, if it becomes chronic and systemic what type of substances are released from the immune-related cells?
Pro-inflammatory cytokines.
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Church of Our Lady of Light and St.Philomena's Forane Church are both Catholic-affiliated places in what country?
India
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What are two mammals that have an inferior vena cava?
Mice and humans.
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To which continent are Reichskommissariat and Reichskommissariat Niederlande associated with?
Europe
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Where is the military decoration awarded to a person who "has demonstrated deeds of valor and courage on the battlefield" that uses the term "Polonia" for people of their origin outside their borders?
Poland.
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What state do the Indian River and the county named in honor of Willem Anne van Keppel have in common?
They have Virginia in common.
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Are there more presenters on the show "Brainiac: Science Abuse" or more Superman relatives alive in Kandor?
There are more presenters.
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What famous Swedish serial killer was known to use an open head container designed for pouring coal?
Hilda Nilsson
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A BIOS boot partition is needed on GPT-partitioned storage devices to hold the second stages of what thing that stores its files in the subdirectory grub/ (i.e. /boot/grub/ )?
GRUB
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What is something studied in psychology that can be both time-related and social?
Perception is studied in psychology and can be related to time or social life.
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What attractive interaction involves a hydrogen atom and are represented as dots when bonded?
The hydrogen bond.
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If you see a dark fungus appear on your old loaf of bread, what likely type of fungus is it?
Black bread mold
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What company abandoned the Excalibur project and built a total of 114 Model 14s?
Lockheed.
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Caelifera and Ensifera are both suborders of what?
Insects.
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Point Lay LRRS Airport and Barter Island LRRS Airport are both for public and what use, which Tin City LRRS Airport is used exclusively for?
Military use
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Of the Avicennia germainans and ceriops australis, which is named after a lighter color?
Ceriops australis is named after a lighter color.
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Do the Aldabra Group of islands share any ocean coast with the country where Mount Malabar can be found?
Indonesia and The Aldabra Group of islands both have coastlines of the Indian Ocean.
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Trace-class, bounded, and integral are all types of what?
Operators
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Atomic physics and quantum physics are two examples of what kind of field of study?
Physics
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Tiwaz was the sun god of a people who lived in what is now which modern country?
Tiwaz was the sun god of the Luwian people, who lived in what is now Turkey.
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Primordial germ and epithelial are both what?
Cells.
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[ { "text": "An oogonium (plural oogonia) is a small diploid cell which, upon maturation, forms a primordial follicle in a female fetus or the female (haploid or diploid) gametangium of certain thallophytes . Oogonia are formed in large numbers by mitosis early in fetal development from primordial germ cells." ...
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Relative to the rest of the world, how common is the practice of groups of people or businesses working together as a council or an association in the realm of television broadcasting?
Syndication is more common in the United States than the rest of the world.
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Underground coal gasification (UCG) is an industrial process which converts what, which along with natural gas account for most of the electricity production in Finland, into product gas?
Coal
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