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What is the highest peak in the only overseas collectivity of France that has the status of being an outermost region of the EU?
The highest peak is Pic Paradis.
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There are wide varieties of economic inequality, most notably measured using what, which the Lorenz curve can represent?
Distribution of income
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According to Law act no 6360, all provinces in what country, the government of which appoints the Governor of Manisa, with a population more than 750 000, were renamed as metropolitan municipality?
Turkey
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The Roman Catholic diocese that covers Jacksonville and Gainesville was created in which year?
The Roman Catholic Diocese of St. Augustine, the diocese that covers Jacksonville and Gainesville, was created in 1870.
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What reaction is a key step in the fatty acid synthesis cycle is an enzyme that is used in condensation reactions?
The forming of 3-ketoacyl-ACP.
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CINCPAC was the Commander in chief of a fleet that had how many surface ship subdivisions by the beginning of World War II?
2
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NE which is in north-east England, and GU which is in Guildford, are both codes designating what?
Postal areas.
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What non-native people of Myanmar consist of individuals from Fujian and Shan?
Chinese.
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What son of a prosperous peasant felt that the farmers in China were the ones in need of a revolution?
Mao.
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What common place name can mean a northern town or farm and in Old English means 'north settlement?
The name Norton.
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Photosynthesis is the process of a chemical reactions to create glucose and oxygen, which is vital for what, of which the distinction between aquatic and terrestrial versions are often blurred?
Plants
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The first Ottoman claimant to the title of Caliph conquered what city and renamed it Edime?
Murad I conquered Adrianople and renamed it to Edirne.
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What type of glands increase friction on the paws that is the highest density in palm and soles?
Eccrine glands.
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What was born during the first two centuries of the Roman Republic and one is is located in the Old town of Plovdiv?
Theatre.
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The Sultan Ahmet Square's alternate name is named after what city that was once the capital of the Byzantine Empire?
Constantinople.
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What do Chimeras and Firedrakes have in common?
They breathe fire.
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What Greek philosopher dedicated the Strategikos to a general that became consul in 49 and elevated to patrician status by Emperor Claudius?
Onasander.
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How many main wings that contribute to lift are there in the aircrafts like the Mignet Pou-du-Ciel?
Two.
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The Warcop Training Area ( WTA) is a UK Ministry of Defence military training area near the village of Warcop in what upland, coastal and rural area, with a history of invasions, migration and settlement, as well as battles and skirmishes between the English and the Scots?
Cumbria
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What parts of the hog plum are used in traditional medicine?
The fruit of Spondias mombin, aka hog plum, is used as a diuretic and febrifuge. The bark is used as an emetic and for diarrhea, dysentery, hemorrhoids, gonorrhoea, and leukorrhea.
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Regarding the city that has the west of the district lying within the flat coastal plain of the Fylde, in what era was it a boomtown in?
Industrial Revolution.
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Johnson & Johnson vaccine and the Oxford–AstraZeneca vaccine are two examples of vaccines to treat what
COVID-19
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What kind of evidence exists of the health benefits of the dietary type of a large family of a naturally occurring organic compounds characterized by multiples of phenol units?
There is no evidence to date that dietary polyphenols have health benefits.
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What doctrine would be violated in Australia by the act of a legislature like the one that Elizabeth Barton was executed under?
A bill of attainder is a violation of the separation of powers doctrine in Australia.
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What genus of black searcher beetle has the name of what great uncle of philosopher Aristotle?
Callisthenes.
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An oxbow lake is a U-shaped lake that forms when a wide what, a term which derives from the Meander River located in present-day Turkey, of a river is cut off?
Meander
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Emperor Wuzong ordered Liu Hongyi and Xue Jileng to commit suicide in what year of his reign?
2nd
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The Algerian Popular Movement, The Indian National Congress and The Movement for the Autonomies are all examples of what?
Political parties
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The anti-obesity treatment that uses two anorectics consists of phentermine and the brand name drug Fintepla which is normally used for what type of seizures?
Seizures associated with Dravet syndrome in people age two and older.
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How many aisles and sets of seats would a Boeing 757 have?
It would have a single aisle with a set of seats on each side as other narrow-body airliners do.
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Central Bavarian is also known as what, which is also used to refer to the Cimbrian, Hutterite German, and Mócheno dialects of Germany?
Central Austro-Bavarian
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Which bannerfish can reach a greater length: masked bannerfish or The schooling bannerfish?
The masked bannerfish can grow longer.
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What is spiritualism and when did it reach its peak?
Spiritualism is a religious movement based on the belief that the spirits of the dead exist and have both the ability and the inclination to communicate with the living. It developed and reached its peak growth in membership from the 1840s to the 1920s, especially in English-speaking countries.
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A group of what organic compound whose molecule consists of a single hydrogen atom bonded to a carbon atom, which is connected to the remainder of the molecule by a double bond?
Methylidene
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Privilege which is the legal concept whereby someone is exempt from the ordinary operation of the law over time, and people who may be distinguished between physical and juridic persons both from what type of law in the Catholic Church?
Canon law.
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Who won The Battle of Mount Li?
The insurgents
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In the organic compound with the formula CH 3 OC (O)CN, what kind of reagent is it known as?
Mander's reagent.
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What can be used to describe species or higher groups or a group which has survived to the present day, and so it is a living group?
Extant.
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What is wrist drop and what are some situations that can lead to it?
Wrist drop, is a medical condition in which the wrist and the fingers cannot extend at the metacarpophalangeal joints, some situations that can lead to it are stab wounds and broken humerus.
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The invariant what of a system of particles, another type of which is used to refer to a single particle or system at rest, is equal to the mass of the decay particle?
Mass
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How many sons did Alī ibn Muḥammad al-Hādī have?
Three
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The patron goddess of Memphis, Wadjet, was depicted as what animal that is the same kind as the species in the genus Cacophis?
A snake.
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Who were the defectors of the army that included five major service branches like the Rocket Force?
Many National Revolutionary Army units and generals were defectors.
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Fondements de la Géometrie Algébrique is a book that collected together seminar notes of what man considered by many to be the greatest mathematician of the 20th century?
Fondements de la Géometrie Algébrique collected together seminar notes of Alexander Grothendieck.
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When the Yuan dynasty mainly adopted Tibetan Buddhism, what were the dominant religions at that time in the khanates?
Shamanism, Tengrism and Buddhism
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Which has a higher MHz number: UHF business communications or the "75 meters" sub-band?
The UHF business communications (450-470).
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The Ashkenazi from Ukraine, and the Mizrahim and Sephardim are both different groups of what people?
Jews.
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The physiological reaction that occurs in response to a perceived harmful event, attack, or threat to survival is activated by what system in the body?
The fight-or-flight response is activated by the sympathetic nervous system.
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The blue, red, and yellow tricolor of Moldova is identical to the what of Romania, which is usually used by the population at large and is flown outside and on ships?
National flag
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RYR1 and YY1 are both types of what?
Genes
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Which European country contains the village called Bradenstoke and is where a Marquess held a peerage title there?
England.
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What is the name of the 1976 American horror film written and directed by Jeff Lieberman that takes place in the fictional town of Fly Creek Georgia?
Squirm is a 1976 American horror film written and directed by Jeff Lieberman.
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The person that Townsend's mole was named after was born in which city?
Townsend's mole was named after John Kirk Townsend, who was born in Philadelphia.
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A motor glider is a type of what aircraft, the wings of which are not necessarily rigid, that can be flown with or without engine power?
Fixed-wing aircraft
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The Charge of the Light Brigade" refers to a failed military action in what battle in which two of the most important events of the Crimean war took place?
The Charge of the Light Brigade was a failed military action involving the British light cavalry led during the Battle of Balaclava.
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Trukhaniv Island is an island located on what river that is the longest one in the Ukraine and Belarus?
It's on the Dnieper River.
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Who ruled the country formerly known as South Canara between the 8th and 14th century?
The Alupas ruled South Canara between the 8th and 14th century.
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What family of fishes which is called tripod fishes or spiderfishes interchangeably are small slender fishes that can be as long as 40 cm?
Ipnopidae
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With the exception of Brazil, British America, and some small regions in South America and the Caribbean, what, which Pan-Americanism encourages relationships, associations and cooperation among the states of, did the Spanish Empire invade and incorporate?
The Americas
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What are both Pikeview Street and SR 2?
Highways.
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Black bullheads have been known to eat what, of which the black scabbardfish is an example?
Fish
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Baker Island and what other uninhabited U.S. atoll in the Equatorial Pacific are some of the most remote U.S. equatorial possessions?
Howland
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What is Dermatitis herpetiformis ( DH) and what is the age of onset?
Dermatitis herpetiformis ( DH) is a chronic autoimmune blistering skin condition, characterised by blisters filled with a watery fluid that is intensely itchy. DH is a cutaneous manifestation of coeliac disease. The age of onset is usually about 15–40, but DH also may affect children and the elderly.
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The six sense bases and Idaten both belong to the teachings of what religion?
Buddhism.
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Hicetas and Θήρωνος; were both names of what?
Tyrants
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The US Army and US Air Force uses what ribbon device to denote subsequent decorations and awards consisting of a miniature bronze or silver twig of four oak leaves with three acorns on the stem?
Oak leaf cluster.
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Bridgerule is divided by what river that the Batman Bridge crosses?
The Tamar River
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Polystichum tsus-simense, Appalachian polypody and Polypodium virginianum are all types of what?
Ferns
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Why would the name Gesta regum Anglorum be included in Widsith's heroic poems?
Widsith's heroic poems included a list of Angelic kings, including Gesta Regum Anglorum who was a king in the past.
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In the initial stages of German control of East Africa, private German firms out of Bremen and what second-largest city in Germany and Europe's 3rd largest port, were given autonomy to run the establishment in the colony?
Companies from Bremen and Hamburg were given autonomy to run the colony.
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What is the largest provincial ecozone in the area in which Algoma and Sudbury are districts?
The Boreal Shield
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Approximately 40 to 70% of all white blood cells in humans are formed from stem cells in what?
Bone marrow
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What did Argentine hope would be solved when the first child was born in the continent without indigenous human inhabitants?
Argentine hoped the birth of Emilio Palma would solve the sovereignty dispute over territory in Antarctica.
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Imba Alaje is in what same region as Melfa?
Tigray Region
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What was a criticism of the religion that has believers of the cyclical universe where no beginning can be traced to intelligent life?
There are principles that systemically marginalize women.
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The War on Terror and the project formerly known as Project Avocado were both what in scope?
Global
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The Bergamasque Prealps and the Venetian Prealps are two examples of what?
Mountain ranges
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The episode "Billy and Mandy Moon the Moon" was part of the "Invaded" event of what network, which also made The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy?
Cartoon Network
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The 1.1"/75 caliber gun was an anti-aircraft weapon of World War II used by what military force that is the largest and most powerful navy in the world?
It was used by the United States Navy.
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For the explosive device concealed under or on the ground, remote versions of these are dropped from where?
From an aircraft or carried by devices such as artillery shells or rockets.
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The Gran Canaria giant tortoise had a maximum shell length of what?
The maximum shell length is up to 61 centimeters.
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The Venetian Prealps and the Bergamasque Prealps are two examples of what?
Mountain ranges
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When did the Anasazi Indians fight against the Badoon?
They never fought. Anasazi are characters in DC Comics while the Badoon are in Marvel Comics.
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Which comes first in the process that occurs in silaging maize and sorghum, anaerobic or aerobic?
The aerobic phase.
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What is a northeastern department of Bolivia, in the lowlands region of the country where the region is wide and flat, featuring many large mounds connected by straight earthen causeways, which are believed by researchers to have been built by ancient inhabitants?
Beni.
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Do meningiomas and glioblastoma multiforme require the same treatment?
No, while meningiomas surgical removal is often adequate, with glioblastoma multiform radiation is used after surgery.
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Marcus Antonius Polemon Pythodoros and Mithridates of Armenia were both what?
Princes who served as Kings under the Romans
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Kaempferol-3-O-rutinoside and 3,4′,5,7-tetrahydroxyflavone are both names of what plant-derived substance?
Flavonols.
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What other more traditional programming languages can the programming paradigm that defines applications as networks of "black box" processes be written in?
RaftLib which uses C++.
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What is Rhodium and what are some of its characteristics?
Rhodium is a chemical element with the symbol Rh and atomic number 45. It is an extraordinarily rare, silvery-white, hard, corrosion-resistant, and chemically inert transition metal. Naturally occurring rhodium is usually found as a free metal, as an alloy with similar metals, and rarely as a chemical compound in miner...
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How many regional areas of wildlife management and refuges are there in the State that includes the wine growing areas of Napa, and Russian River valley?
9
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Fastigial and red are both a type of what?
Nucleus
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What legendary being was Harald Wartooth of Denmark and the sagokonungar who preceded Eric the Victorious?
A legendary king.
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The supreme federal authority for federal audit matters in Germany has how many employees?
The Bundesrechnungshof has around 600 employees.
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When did Darayan II submit to the ruling Sassanid dynasty?
Darayan II didn't submit to the ruling Sassanid dynasty. He died before the dynasty first began to rule.
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The Cerastes cerastes and the Pseudocerastes persicus are both venomous species of what?
Vipers.
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Punganur dwarf cattle originated from which Indian state that is the 7th largest one by area and the 10th largest one by population?
It originated in the state of Andhra Pradesh.
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Actress Hong Chau is known for being in what 2017 American science fiction comedy-drama film directed by Alexander Payne, written by Payne and Jim Taylor, and starring Matt Damon, Christoph Waltz, and Kristen Wiig?
Hong Chau was in the film Downsizing.
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What chemical element is a lustrous gray metalloid that can be found in nature as an amorphous red mineral metastibnite?
Antimony.
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Pakistan does not recognize Armenia because of the dispute over a region with which city as its capital?
Pakistan does not recognize Armenia because of the dispute over Artsakh, whose capital is Stepanakert.
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