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Who did the Macedoniankings claim Mithridates IV descended from?
Herakles
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Who was Labour M.P. in 1986?
Clare Short
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At what currently defunct New Haven venues did minor league hockey and baseball teams play throughout the latter half of the 20th century?
New Haven Arena (built in 1926, demolished in 1972), New Haven Coliseum (1972–2002)
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Constructing a botnet to attack another target is an example of the activity of what?
malware
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How did the FBI respond to requests to release information beyond the initial press release?
The FBI refused
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In what year did Schwarzenegger's former girlfriend Barbara Outland Baker publish her memoir?
2006
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When was zinc introduced to Europe?
end of the 16th century
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How do chimpanzees arrange themselves in a group setting?
into hierarchies
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The inability to compete with multinational firms led to what for workers?
large numbers of layoff
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Who predicted that Beyoncé would become the highest paid black entertainer?
MTV
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What distinction does the city of Thessaloniki have in regards to size in Greece?
the country's second-largest city
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What areas were the hardest hit?
the poorer, rural villages
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Which of Tuvalu's atolls is largest?
Funafuti
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What shape does the east end of French chapels typically have?
The east end is polygonal
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Who thought the senses were less important, Aristotle or Plato?
Plato
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How many variations of the Old Testament offer the same meaning?
virtually every possible alternative reading
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How many parishes of the LDS church are in Paris?
two
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What does transcription produce?
a single-stranded RNA molecule known as messenger RNA
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In what century did Muslims conquer North Africa?
7th
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What types of cuisine are noted within Hyderabadi haleem?
Mughlai and Arab
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What was the initial ratio of Axis to Allied divisions in Italy?
2 to 1
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A cardinal who does not hold the title of "bishop" may not do what?
perform the functions reserved solely to bishops, such as ordination
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Ibn al-Haytham wrote about his work around the year 1000, what was it?
Book of Optics
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How long did the Babylonians and Assyrians continue to teach the Sumerian language in their schools?
for as long as cuneiform was utilized.
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Name a Jewish community that disappeared entirely?
Kaifeng Jews of China
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Why does basing sexual orientation on one component cause problems?
Because of the limited populations that each component captures
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What year was Michael Foot elected as leader?
1980
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How many did Crazy in Love sell to become one of the greatest selling singles in history?
8 million
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What value does RK represent?
the von Klitzing constant which appears in the quantum Hall effect
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What was a driving force behind the revival of the second British Invasion of New Music to America?
MTV and modern rock radio stations
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How many seats did the BJP win?
41 of the 68 seats
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Steel and manganese combines form to make what?
Mangalloy
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List two reasons why Libya become an "international pariah."
Overseeing unsuccessful border conflicts with Egypt and Chad, Gaddafi's support for foreign militants and alleged responsibility for the Lockerbie bombing
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What accounts for the geometry involved in the use of an antenna?
inverse square law
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During what dynasty did Nanjing become a thriving textile city?
the Song dynasty
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What law protects the teaching of Arabic and Islamic traditions in Mindanao?
Department Order No. 51
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How many rail stations has cork had over the years?
eight
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What is the name of a popular arcade located within the Hoddle Grid?
Royal Arcade
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When did the latest magnitude 6 aftershock occur?
on August 5, 2008
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What is the name of the second Digimon series?
Digimon Adventure 02
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what percentage of florida was black in the early 1900's
During the early 1900s, black people made up nearly half of the state's population
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Besides Amoy, what is another hybrid of Quanzhou and Zhangzhou?
Taiwanese
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How large a stake did Platinum Equity want to buy in the AFL?
$100 million
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Besides the Greeks, what other culture contributed to the study of botany?
medieval Muslim world
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What country has Institutes of Technology/Polytechnic Institutes from which students can earn certificates, diplomas, and degrees?
Cambodia
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What does there medicines do for livestock?
develop resistance
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What is the usual condition of precipitation in the Antarctic?
snow
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What is another large industry?
a tourist destination
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What team did Nwankwo Kanu go on to play on?
Inter Milan, Arsenal
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At what altitude does snowfall begin in November?
At altitudes between 1,000 and 3,000 m
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What kind of births did the Christian Church fathers believe occurred in nature?
monstrous births from union between species, and spontaneous generation of life.
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Who are many of the people of Chile the descendants of?
the Mapuche
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What did James Macpherson "translate" from?
own composition
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What date did Estonia join the European Union?
1 May 2004
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In what year did BYU draft a new Statement on Academic Freedom?
1992
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What was the original name of AT&T Broadband and Comcast going to be?
AT&T Comcast
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Op. 74 is made up of how many Polish songs?
17
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Where is the main office of Siglo21?
Lawrence
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What conclusions were race anthropologists pressured to revise?
sources of phenotypic variation
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Who did Idaho execute in 2011?
Paul Ezra Rhoades
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What is one thing that the Necessary is detached from?
time
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Who replaced Gladstone?
Lord Salisbury
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How many millions of tourists does Greece attract each year?
more than 16 million
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When did the first public HDTV broadcast happen in the US?
July 23, 1996
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Within what frame of reference does Darwin use the phrase "Struggle for Existence?"
"a large and metaphorical sense
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What organization's policies regarding acceptance of professional qualifications prompted thoughts of revamping ARCUK?
European Union
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What two formats are typically used to recorde non-cinematic HDTV video intended for broadcast?
720p or 1080i
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How many organs does Eton house?
eight
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Who is the main character in the sixth Digimon series?
Mikey Kudō
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On what day was Kanye West arrested at the Los Angeles International Airport?
September 11, 2008
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In what year was India's constitution drafted?
1950
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What did Sewall Wright develop one way of measuring?
genetic differences between populations
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When did the Sunday Mail overtake The Sun in sales numbers?
May 2015
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From what words is the term 'Somali' generally regarded as being derived?
soo and maal
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What was a key factor in Frossard's disasterous retreat to the south?
Seriously flawed communications
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What organization killed Gaddafi's grandsons?
NATO
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Along with corruption, what were Libyans upset with in 2011?
patronage
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When was the West Bank annexed by Jordan?
1950
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The Imperial War Cabinet was created by which British Prime Minister?
Gallipoli Campaign
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What date marked the first law restricting greenhouse gas emissions?
September 27, 2006
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Why was the Duke not a friend of Anglicanism?
openly divine-right Catholic,
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Who directed The Terminator?
James Cameron
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How do the US and Brazil vary after slavery has ended?
violent racial tensions that have divided the US are notably absent in Brazil.
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Which term is indicative of people who place their faith in Jesus?
Masihi
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What is the operational ceiling of the Beaufighter?
26,000 ft (7,900 m)
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Why is pasture land limited?
because of the steep and rocky topography of the Alps
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Where did Feynman work on the "Wateer Boiler"?
Los Alamos
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Who did the Neo-Confucian establishment have animosity towards?
Tibetan Buddhism and lamas
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Other than the Jewish Theological Seminary, which other Seminary touches Seminary Row?
Union Theological
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What script saw no more stages of evolution?
mainstream
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What caused a Tetanus outbreak?
contaminated smallpox vaccine and diphtheria antitoxin
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From the '50s to the '80s, was the field's focus devoted to describing patterns of behavior or explaining them?
describing
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What is the state fossil
Maiasaura
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When was the samurai military modernized?
1854
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What percentage of the Congo's gross domestic product did petroleum account for in 2008?
65%
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Who was Dell's main business rival?
Hewlett Packard
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Who proposed this theory?
Fresnel coefficients
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What Greek song won the Eurovision Song Contest in 2005?
My Number One
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Under which agreement are Detroit's major newspapers published?
Detroit Newspaper Partnership
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What does CD stand for?
Compact Disc
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