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The electrically excitable cells that communicate with other cells via synapses use a signaling process made of what components?
The signaling process of neurons is partly electrical and partly chemical.
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What type of snake is pink, purple, or silvery-brown in color, shiny, wormlike, cylindrical, blunt at both ends, and has light-detecting black eyespots and is a species of snake in the family Leptotyphlopidae?
The Western blind snake
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Are there more islands as part of Andaman and Nicobar Islands or as part of the West Indies?
There are more islands as part of Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
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Tara is said to have been the capital of the Tuatha Dé Danann, who are based on the pagan gods of what country which the concept of a royal site goes back to texts describing ?
Ireland
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In the drugs that increase activity of the central nervous system and the body, what type of them is often used for their therapeutic effects?
Amphetamines-type stimulants.
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Goblin and lemon are both types of what?
Sharks
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What is gasteroid fungi and what does it mean when a gasteroid fungi is saprotrophic?
The gasteroid fungi are a group of fungi in the Basidiomycota.Most gasteroid fungi are saprotrophic, living on dead plant material, including very rotten, fallen wood.
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The Battle of the Lacus Curtius involved a people facing the Sabines, who later joined with Theodoric I to fight Atilla at what battle?
The Battle of the Catalaunian Plains
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What was built to provide a point of controlled access to and departure from a walled city that is one of the best-known landmarks of Germany was built on?
A city gate
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Who appoints EU commissioner for agriculture?
EU parliament
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Alouatta palliata and members of Cercopithecidae are both types of what?
Monkeys
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How long ago was the siege of Edessa by the time Mu'izz ad-Din Muhammad was born?
It was 5 years before his birth.
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Although both the Pisanos and Giotto had students and followers, the first true artists of what period, in which Venetian painting was a major force, were not to emerge in Florence until 1401?
Renaissance
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What commercial broadcast television and radio network currently owned by a subsidiary of Comcast was founded in 1926 by the Radio Corporation of America?
NBC
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The Weierstrass approximation, The Chebotarev and The Lebesgue are examples of what?
Theorems
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The supervisor that oversaw the production of the Polikarpov R-1 and R-2 Copy of DH.9A at Duks Aircraft Works led which Soviet design bureau?
Polikarpov Design Bureau
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The Northern part of Hilltop in the Journal Square district of Jersey City is located east of where?
Five Corners
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Ein el-Jarba was a settlement ascribed to a culture of what archaeological type?
A Pottery Neolithic archaeological culture
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Is the presence of the belief system known endonymically as Sanatan Dharm growing or diminishing in the Middle East?
Hinduism is also one of the fastest growing religions in the Middle East.
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What are three threats to the 'ua'u?
Feral cats, small Asian mongooses, and rats are all threats.
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The Isis Lock allows access between the Oxford Canal and what river which the Romans called Thamesis?
The River Thames
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Saru Maru is the archaeological site of an ancient monastic complex and caves associated with what, of which the Sughanas were a kingdom of?
Buddhists
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What type of acid is a metabolite of vitamin A 1 and can result in a potentially life-threatening complication of APML sufferers?
Retinoic acid.
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Which groups fought in the Battle of Tianmen and who led the Chinese force?
The Battle of Tianmen (天门战斗) was a battle between the nationalists and the communists immediately after World War II during the Chinese Civil War in Tianmen, Hubei, China and the Chinese force was led by Chiang Kai-shek.
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How much longer is Louisiana Highway 8 than Louisiana Highway 2 Alternate?
It is 113.21 miles longer.
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How many species of the earliest and most primitive genus of the Borophaginae have been described?
Three species have been described in the genus Archaeocyon, the earliest and most primitive genus of the Borophaginae.
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Hypostomus plecostomus is what type of animal that is known to have the rectangular suboperculum in them?
Fish.
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What is known as "fragmentary kana" and was developed around 700?
Katakana
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What was an important crop in ancient Korea that usage by humans dates back to at least the third millennium BCE in written history?
Cannabis
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The place known as Pinaglabanan Church is the seat of a diocese that is affiliated with what same organization as Saint John the Baptist Parish and The Diocesan Shrine and Parish of the Our Lady of the Pillar - Imus Cathedral?
Roman Catholicism
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What main branch of math is used to express quantitative relationships in science and mathematics?
Algebra
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What bones outside of the bone that joins with the scapula at the shoulder joint and with the other long bones of the arm, are the long bones found in the arms?
The ulna and radius
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The pulp is part of the what of a tooth, which is a hollow area that houses soft tissues, such as the nerve, blood vessels, and connective tissue?
The center
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Buccinum undatum is what kind of shelled species in which true ones are carnivorous and feed on worms?
Whelks.
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What is the county seat of the seventh-most populated county in the third most populous country?
Miami is the county seat of the seventh-most populated county in the United States.
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Compounds within a what series, recombination of which is a type of genetic recombination in which genetic information is exchanged between two similar or identical molecules of double-stranded or single-stranded nucleic acids, typically have a fixed set of functional groups that gives them similar chemical and physica...
Homologous
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The termini of Norwegian County Road 55 are in which counties?
The termini of Norwegian County Road 55 are in Lom, which is in Innlandet county, and Høyanger, which is in Vestland county.
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What event caused the city that is located 30 miles from the historic site of Tell Aswad to become the most populous city in its country?
The Syrian Civil War led to Damascus being Syria's most populous city.
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The official language in Iceland is descended from what language?
Icelandic is descended from Old West Norse.
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The Lappic language and the Permic languages both fit into what family?
The Finno-Ugric family.
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What did Australian Kriol develop from and where is it widely spoken?
Australian Kriol is an English-based creole language that developed from a pidgin used initially in the region of Sydney and Newcastle in New South Wales, Australia in the early days of European colonisation. Kriol is very widely spoken in the Katherine area, but there are minor differences between the varieties of Kri...
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What do Rhizopus stolonifer, Mucormycosis, or Reid Auricularia auricula-judae have in common?
They are all black colored fungus/ molds.
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The slaty-tailed trogon is a member of the family that dates back approximately how many years?
49 million
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Warren in Somerset County and Delaware in Hunterdon County are both names of what?
Townships.
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How old was Shams al-Din Mohammad when Yunus Emre was born?
He was 53.
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What feature is unique to hornbills like the great hornbill which has a wingspan of 152 cm?
Casque
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When antibodies attach to the serve of a B cell, the resulting receptor forms which type of protein when combined with immunoglobin molecules?
Type 1 transmembrane receptor protein
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The People's Party of the Basque Country lies within what country that has a conservative and Christian-democratic political party known as The People's Party?
Spain.
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There are two main lineages of what people in Alaska whom Raven Tales are unique to?
Tlingit
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Where does the two-lane route that the follows the Mohawk Trail and travels through Gill and Erving experience grade-separated interchanges?
Millers Falls
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The US classes vehicles based on what, which is a measurement of wheeled motor vehicles; either an actual measured weight of the vehicle under defined conditions or a gross weight rating for its weight carrying capacity?
Vehicle weight
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Most of the oxygen in what, which in the arterial version will generally contain an oxygen concentration of around 20 mL/100 mL, is carried by hemoglobin?
Blood
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The cat-sìth may have been inspired by what cat called the felis silvestris silvestris?
The Scottish wildcat.
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What airport is in a region near Lake Terkos that is found in the most populous city in Europe?
Istanbul Airport.
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The multi-use park in Pensacola, Florida that includes a stadium, commercial buildings, a waterfront public park and amphitheater seats how many in the stadium?
Admiral Fetterman Field is a 5,038 seat multi-use stadium.
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Who discovered Nuclear fission and how is uranium-236 nucleus excited?
Nuclear fission of heavy elements was discovered on December 17, 1938 by German Otto Hahn and his assistant Fritz Strassmann. A neutron is absorbed by a uranium-235 nucleus, turning it briefly into an excited uranium-236 nucleus.
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The proteins encoded by the BSG gene and the ECM2 gene are both related to function of which cellular component?
The extracellular matrix.
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The Letts and Kolbe are both types of what?
Nitrile synthesis
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Human radiation experiments studying what were conducted without informed consent that is also used in nuclear reprocessing can separate spent fuel into various combinations of reprocessed?
Plutonium
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If a person has a BMI of 25 or more, what can they be called which is a growing phenomenon where adolescents have an 80% chance to carry it to adulthood if one or more parents are like that?
Overweight.
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The M16 Multiple Gun Motor Carriage was built during what war that the M18 recoilless rifle was used in?
World War II
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What is the Caro-Kann defence and which defence is it similar to?
The Caro–Kann defence is a chess opening. It is a defence for Black when White opens by moving his King's pawn two squares on the first move. It is is similar to the Sicilian and French defence in that it is an asymmetrical defence.
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The opera composed by Georges Bizet and based on a novella by Prosper Mérimée first opened on what date?
Carmen was first performed by the Opéra-Comique in Paris on 3 March 1875.
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The pancha bhoota and water are both what?
Elements.
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Which note is twice as short as the reference time unit of the dodeka notation system?
The eighth note or quaver.
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What letter(s) do the acronyms for message submission agent and Simple Mail Transfer Protocol share?
They both share an "S" and an "M.
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Water is a pure example of what particulars that are ontologically independent?
Substances.
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According to the ECCC, the BC Coast has four distinct ecozones which are the Coastal Western Hemlock-Sitka Spruce Forests, Pacific and Nass Ranges, Strait of Georgia/Puget Lowland and what ecozone that spans a strip approximately 200 kilometers wide along the British Columbia Coast, then narrowing along the border with...
The other ecozone is the Pacific Maritime Ecozone.
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Who produces the primary army rifle for the military forces of the country that hopes to start building tanks, armored vehicles, military planes and military helicopters in the future?
Azerbaijani Defence Industry company AZTEX
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British and Pritenic are language variations that resulted from what people's conquest of Britain, whose principal sites indicate Celtic tribes?
Romans
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What do both an endocrine disorder and LOCAH refer to?
Congenital adrenal hyperplasia.
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What are both Grimm's and Verner's?
Laws.
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Arrow pushing or electron pushing is a technique used to describe the progression of organic chemistry what, defined as writing step by step how a chemical reaction works?
Reaction mechanisms
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What continent has both melaleuca alternifolia and melaleuca parviceps?
Australia has both.
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The United States city named by Thomas Penn after Spencer Compton is the county seat of a county where which US president lived?
Wilmington, Delaware, the city named after Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington, is the county seat of New Castle County, where US president Joe Biden lived.
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The what emperor seemed to indicate that the policy was designed to prevent foreign nations from collaborating with his subjects to challenge his rule that was also notable for his unprecedented political reforms?
The Hongwu emperor
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What northern Caribbean country has major cities named Santiago de Cuba and Camagüey?
Cuba
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What percentage of people in the world suffer from the speech problem experienced by the Grand ole Opry member Tillis?
One percent of the people worldwide suffer from stuttering.
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The European Solanum nigrum is part of a species that is usually called what in Britain?
Bittersweet or woody nightshade.
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The trumpet belongs to what family of musical instruments sometimes called labrophones?
The trumpet is a brass instrument.
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What is a cold air intake ( CAI) and what strategies are used in designing aftermarket cold air intakes?
A cold air intake ( CAI) is usually an aftermarket assembly of parts used to bring relatively cool air into a car 's internal-combustion engine.Some strategies used in designing aftermarket cold air intakes are: Reworking parts of the intake that create turbulence to reduce air resistance.[2] Providing a more direct ro...
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What type of behaviours are motivated by a social - cultural system of designated morals that relates humanity to spiritual elements?
Religious behaviours.
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Which penultimate prophet was believed to be resurrected?
Jesus
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How old was Emperor Xian of Han when Dong Cheng died?
Emperor Xian of Han was 19 years-old when Dong Cheng died.
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The physical geography of what, which straddles the Kennebecasis River, 70 km (43 mi) northeast of Saint John, relies heavily on its lying on the southern part of the Wealden anticline?
Sussex
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What concept can be either servile or ideological, with the Independent State of Croatia having such a role in it with Yugoslavia?
Collaborationism.
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The function of a typical line set is to fly (raise and lower) a slender beam (typically a steel pipe) known as a what, defined as the long metal pipe from which lighting fixtures, theatrical scenery, and theater drapes and stage curtains may be hung?
A batten
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The WWF tag team composed of Nikolai Volkoff and Boris Zhukov had a title opportunity in Saturday Night's Main Event XIV against what team that was then WWF World Tag Team Champions?
The Bolsheviks received a title opportunity against WWF World Tag Team Champions Strike Force.
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Brain vascular lesions can also be the result of diffuse types of what disease, defined as including a variety of medical conditions that affect the blood vessels of the brain and the cerebral circulation?
Cerebrovascular disease
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The anticancer drugs that can block the activity of PD-1 are what type of inhibitors that can additionally target CTLA4 molecules?
Checkpoint inhibitors.
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What happens to someone if they go through the gates that the tourists, who were harassing Cheryl Englar, were looking for?
Anyone who passes through all seven gates goes straight to hell.
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The bond that results from the transfer of electrons from a metal to a non-metal in order to obtain a full valence shell for both atoms is both strong and what?
Brittle
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What type of acid was in a chemical plant that Kent extinguishes a fire in, which when he had a canister of it, destroyed a supercomputer?
Beltric acid.
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In the form of programmed cell death, what is the intrinsic pathway also known as?
The mitochondrial pathway.
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The limiting what, an example of which is Leucine, is the essential version of this in the smallest quantity in the foodstuff?
Amino acid
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The largest lake in the Indian state whose capital is Shimla is located in which district?
Renuka Lake, the largest lake in Himachal Pradesh, the Indian state whose capital is Shimla, is located in Sirmaur district.
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Which radio frequency has higher ranges of MHz: HF or UHF?
UHF (300 MHz - 3 GHz) is higher than HF (3 MHz to 30 MHz)
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There cam be hundreds or even millions of fertile eggs present in the ovary of what kind of species that developed external armor during the Paleozoic?
Fish.
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What is the neighborhood called that is built on landfill, and is within the nine-county Bay Area that includes San Francisco?
The China Basin.
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CUN and Owen Roberts are both names of what?
Airports.
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