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Assault Amphibian Battalions and the Recruit Training Regiment at MCRD Parris Island are both associated with what?
Marines
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What conventions does the United Nations system use to distinguish countries in the process of industrialization from countries whose industry has developed to the point where the country is outsourcing its industry jobs?
There is no established convention distinguishing "developed" and "developing" in the United Nations system.
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The Winnipeg Capital Region and the 14th largest lake in Canada both belong to what Canadian province?
Manitoba.
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What is the cracking pearlymussel (Hemistena lata) and where is it native to?
The cracking pearlymussel (Hemistena lata) is an endangered species of freshwater mussel, an aquatic bivalve mollusk in the family Unionidae. This species is native to the United States, where it remains only in Tennessee and Virginia.
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Which building has more floors, the Bank of America Corporate Center in Charlotte or Bank of America Plaza in Dallas?
Bank of America Plaza in Dallas
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How old was Philip II during the Battle of Chaeronea?
Philip II was 44 years-old at the Battle of Chaeronea.
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The home of Ohio University is located on a river that ends at which town?
Athens, the home of Ohio University, lies on the Hocking River, which ends at the town of Hockingport.
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Regarding the number that is sometimes called "Euler's number", what other constant is it similar to in which both are irrational?
Pi.
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Western Zhou, Eastern Han, and Shang were all names of what?
Dynasties
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Did Pliny the Elder get inspiration for his name from the independent film adaptation of the 1981 Kiss concept album The Elder?
No, he died before the film was made.
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What "spiritual echo" has a variation that was said to summon a demonic cat called Big Ears?
A Taghairm.
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The Temple of the Feathered Serpent has fine stylized depictions of that deity in a style which includes apparent influences of art from the Maya and what ancient Mesoamerican city in a sub-valley of the Valley of Mexico, known today as the site of many of the most architecturally significant Mesoamerican pyramids buil...
It had influences from the Maya and Teotihuacans.
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What is generally regarded as the first historically recorded epidemic of Yersinia pestis occurred during what time period?
The Plague of Justinian occurred between 541 and 549 AD.
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Who created the series with the Reaver ships seen in the pilot episode that are known for flying without proper safety measures such as nuclear engine radiation containment?
Joss Whedon.
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The Prime Minister of Japan would look to which two government entities when fulfilling their role as the commander-in-chief of the JSDF, in terms of spending?
The Navy Ministry and the Ministry of the Army.
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Reduction of what in the metabolic disorder characterized by high blood sugar has little effect on the dilute concentration of urine?
Fluid
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What type of language may have been used by Australian people who used weapons like boomerangs sticks and spears to kill animals for food?
Manually coded language.
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What was the size of the largest member of the crocodile family to ever exist and now is extinct skull that was largest discovered?
The largest C. thorbjarnarsoni skull found (KNM-ER 1682) measures 85 cm (33 in) from the tip of the snout to the back of the skull.
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Which period does the Three Kingdoms refer to and when did it start?
Academically, the period of the Three Kingdoms refers to the period between the foundation of the state of Wei in 220 AD and the conquest of the state of Wu by the Jin dynasty in 280 and it started with the end of the Han dynasty.
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What was the village with Bucklow Hill is at its northeast end, and the Mere crossroads is at the southwest end named after?
A lake
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Between them, Banan and Bavel districts have a total of how many communes?
14 - Banan has 8 and Bavel has 6.
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When was the oldest surviving and first mosque in Yemen rebuilt by Al-Husayn ibn Salama?
896 to 981
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On NCIS: Los Angeles, are Fatima Namazi and G. Callen the same sex or different sexes?
They are different sexes.
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How does the force of the type of skeletal muscle with fascicles that attach obliquely (in a slanting position) to its tendon compare to other muscles parallel to it?
It is greater
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The percentage of the main constituent of traditional soaps depends on the ingredient what?
Fats
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Are the Rombak Bridge and the Storseisundet Bridge in the same country or different countries?
They're in the same country.
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What is the capital of the least populous province of the Netherlands?
Middelburg is the capital of Zeeland, the least populous province of the Netherlands.
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What is a drug that has the same type of effects as the pharmaceutical drug mentioned in Bencao Tujing?
Pseudoephedrine has the same type of effects as ephedrine which was mentioned in Bencao Tujing.
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260,000 manuscripts discovered in an old synagogue in Cairo were in what language whose Alphabet is of Aramaic origin?
Hebrew.
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Which bodily component contains the outer pollicis longus and the pollicis brevis?
The arm contains both the outer pollicis longus and the pollicis brevis.
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What instrument does not have a standard full size and can resemble the tone of a cello if the body size is increased?
Viola.
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What travels along the east coast of Florida, beginning at 490 Whitehead St. in Key West and parts have the name Federal Highway?
U.S. Route 1.
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In addition to West, the area bounded by the cities of Muskegon(in the north), Grand Rapids(in the northeast), Kalamazoo-Battle Creek (in the southeast) and St.Joseph-Benton Harbor(in the southwest) is labelled with what word derived from a word meaning "large water" or "large lake"?
Michigan
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What precedes the process that includes the stages of prophase and anaphase?
S stage of interphase
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Would the species of the suborder Vermilingua or the Vespertilionidae be more likely to fly?
The Vespertilionidae would be more likely to fly.
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What structure is both the one found in Drino Valley, in the Dropull region, and the one that was the first cultural object to be destroyed for the Orthodox?
A monastery.
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What is a weather vane and when was it invented?
A weather vane, wind vane, or weathercock is an instrument used for showing the direction of the wind. It was independently invented in ancient China and Greece around the same time during the 2nd century BCE.
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Do the Kalinago speak the first language in the Caribbean or a different language?
They speak a different language.
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What is the Boulder, CO Metropolitan that is a term for a combination of adjacent metropolitan (MSA) and micropolitan statistical areas (µSA) across the 50 US states and the territory of Puerto Rico that can demonstrate economic or social linkage?
Combined Statistical Area.
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Many international car rental companies have a presence at what that is Latin America 's fourth and Mexico 's second busiest airport?
Cancún International Airport.
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Are the blackfin seabass and the blackfin icefish both from the same family?
No, the blackfin seabass and the blackfin icefish are not from the same family.
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What, which is considered to be a physiological (normal) response to a specific stimulus, may be due to any number of causes, including proliferation of basal layer of epidermis to compensate skin loss?
Hyperplasia
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When the city of Rome was founded, a senate and what, which was for legislative, electoral, and judicial purposes, were both created?
The Curiate Assembly
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Arrhenius and acetic are both types of what?
Acids
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In inorganic nomenclature, the what, defined as is the loss of electrons or an increase in the oxidation state of an atom, state is represented by a Roman numeral placed after the element name inside the parenthesis or as a superscript after the element symbol?
Oxidation
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What force carrier particles may be elementary or composite?
Bosons.
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What color is the edge of the foot for the grey bonnet?
reddish brown
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What is the function of the malleus, incus and stapes in the middle ear?
The ossicles are supposed to mechanically convert the vibrations of the eardrum into amplified pressure waves in the fluid of the cochlea.
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Ganapathi S Poduval and Bala Palanisamy are both what?
Indians
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What kind of heaped pile of earth do the Havana Hopewell culture use to bury the dead?
A mound.
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What waterway is protected by the island whose northern point Matthew Flinders landed near in 1802?
The Great Sandy Strait is protected by this island.
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During the Northern Crusades, there was a common practice of building churches on the sites of what, examples of which include the Greco-Roman temenos?
Sacred groves
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Puri, Rameswaram, Dwarka, and Badrinath are all examples of what thing that Temple Mount is the most extreme example of in Judaism?
Holy sites
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Senior Enlisted Advisor to the Chairman and SEA's are both positions in what?
United States Armed Forces
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The Beechcraft Model 50 Twin Bonanza was an aircraft deigned by a company whose what model was their largest aircraft ever?
Model 34 Twin-Quad
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What risk assessment determines the vulnerability of the act that the American Association of Suicidology's seeks to educate people on?
The Suicide risk assessment
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The role of the what, which DBC are a type of, in power electronics is to provide the interconnections to form an electric circuit (like a printed circuit board ), and to cool the components?
Substrate
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In the solid state, the molecule of what, which is used as an acidic cleaning agent, is well described by a zwitterionic form?
Sulfamic acid
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Saint Roch and Benedict of Nursia are both what?
Patron saints
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Flowering plant sperm and the earliest component found in both embryonic and adult organisms are both types of what?
Cells.
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The temple found near the Mandakini river, and the small temple town in the Kumta taluk are both dedicated to what deity?
Shiva.
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Cenozoic relicts found refuge in the southern and mountainous parts of the what, floristic versions of which are characterized by a high degree of family endemism?
Kingdom
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The formal start of an English law of real property came after the Norman Invasion of 1066, when a what, which is made by sitting judges who apply both statutory law and established principles which are derived from the reasoning from earlier decisions, was built throughout England?
Common law
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Why did the unorganized territory where the lower part of the Rivière aux eaux mortes flows become smaller in 2004?
It became smaller because portions of this territory were annexed by Trois-Rives and Lac-aux-Sables.
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The train line that runs from the Norlina Subdivision to the Hamlet Terminal Subdivision in North Carolina is owned by what entity?
CSX Transportation in North Carolina
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Are there more governorates of Lower Egypt in the Nile Delta region or more regions of Tunisia?
There are more governorates of Lower Egypt in the Nile Delta region.
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What can be seen as the "lid" of a regular icosahedron that is a pyramid with a pentagonal base upon which are erected five triangular faces that meet at a point?
A pentagonal pyramid.
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Gay sexual practices are what, which between adults most do not constitute a criminal offense unless what?
One of the adults does not consent to the activity
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What body of water is the extensive ice shelf in that creates Denman Glacier?
Mawson Sea
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What is Accessio and why does it still have relevance in present times?
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The Coolgardie–Norseman stretch ( National Highway 94) forms part of the national highway route from Adelaide to what new capital of Western Australia?
Perth
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A Huo Quan was a system of coinage in what country where Wangliang is the name of a malevolent spirit in its mythology and folklore?
China
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The expression "officer of the line" is possibly derived from the 18th- and 19th-century term used by what navy, whose ships were led by commissioned officers of the wardroom?
Royal Navy
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What process that produces a tritium ion, an alpha particle, and kinetic energy is is proportional to the time the neutron is near the nucelus?
Neutron absorption
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How many types of missions was force that The A-Team were part of designed to execute?
The Army Special Forces are designed to execute nine types of missions.
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This animals eats small warty comb jellies and is unusual for its ability to eat phytoplankton; what kind of waters does it prefer to inhabit?
Pelagia noctiluca is found worldwide in tropical and warm temperate seas.
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What is a drug that acts as an antagonist at GABA A receptors that the net effect is to reduce GABA-mediated synaptic inhibition?
Gabazine
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The voiceless labialized velar approximant and voiceless labiodental fricative are types of what kind of sound?
They are both types of consonantal sound.
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What type of terrain surrounds the location of the 1120 battle between Mas'ud ibn Mohammad and the Seljuq emperor Mahmud II?
There are a lot of mountains around Asadabad.
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What specific circumstance will help support the diagnosis of De Quervain syndrome?
Diagnosis is supported if pain increases when the wrist is bent inwards while a person is grabbing their thumb within a fist.
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Paracetamol (acetaminophen) is generally not considered an NSAID because it has only minor what, defined as the property of a substance or treatment that reduces inflammation or swelling, activity?
Anti-inflammatory
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Where would a person apply tetrabutyltin on a ship?
They would apply it to the hull of a ship.
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Evaporites are considered as what kind of rock which is formed from sediment?
Sedimentary rocks.
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Did Julius Caesar's alleged affair with the King of Bithnyia happen with Nicomedes III or Nicomedes IV?
Nicomedes IV
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Sherry was a song popularized by what American rock band that has also been known at times as Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons?
The Four Seasons
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In what state did secessionist bushwhackers exist and also had jayhawking?
Both existed in Missouri.
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What Mountains are partly in Mongolia and have the rivers of Lena and Ob originating from it?
The South Siberian Mountains.
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Pompey's arrival in Damascus and Pompey's annexation of Syria at the end of the Third Mithridatic War both occurred in what year?
63 BC.
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What is the species from the same family as the Yponomeuta plumbella whose nickname involves cherries?
The Yponomeuta padella is also called the cherry ermine.
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In the country with the natural features of the Mediterranean coast and the Sahara Desert, what countries are to the south of it in Africa?
Niger and Chad.
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Which types of government are present in the provinces of both Indonesia and South Africa?
They both have parliamentary systems.
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The county in which New York State Route 18F is located was created in which year?
Niagara County, the county that New York State Route 18F is located in, was established in 1808.
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What former Hindu temple dedicated to God Subramanya had the first qadi of the new mosque was Malik ibn 'Abdu Rahman?
The Madayi Mosque
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Statistical, qualitative and macroeconomic are all types of what?
Models
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Lac de l'Ailette is located in a department named after a river had what name in Roman times?
Lac de l'Ailette is located in the Aisne department, which is named after the river Aisne, which was known as Axona during Roman times.
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What is different about an honor guard as opposed to a Coast Guard?
Coast Guard is an ongoing security organization; an honor guard is set up to honor a particular individual.
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What turtle native to Alabama enjoys eating aquatic vegetation and is considered an endangered species?
The Alabama red-bellied turtle.
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The Klamath Lake sculpin and the Ozark sculpin are both members of which family of fish?
Cottidae
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When was the first European sighting of the island of the Bourke Isles group of the Torres Strait Islands that is found in the Tancred Passage of the Torres Strait in Queensland?
1606
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What are both Hyporthodus niveatus and Hyporthodus exsuls?
They're both Grouper fish
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