Emergency physicians and registered nurses conducting a trauma evaluation. Emergency medicine is the medical specialty concerned with the care of illnesses or injuries requiring immediate medical attention. Emergency physicians care for unscheduled and undifferentiated patients of all ages.

Question: Practitioners of the medical specialty concerned with the care of illnesses or injuries requiring immediate medical attention have been quick to adopt what?

Answer: Smart phone applications


Neil Mullane Finn OBE (born 27 May 1958) is a New Zealand singer-songwriter and musician who is currently a member of Fleetwood Mac. With his brother Tim Finn, he was the co- frontman for Split Enz, a project that he joined after it was initially founded by Tim and others, and then became the frontman for Crowded House.

Question: What last name is common between band members of the American indie rock band The Hold Steady and the band Fleetwood Mac?

Answer: Finn


Mammalian cells have seven known sequence variants of histone H3. These are denoted as Histone H3.1, Histone H3.2, Histone H3.3, Histone H3.4 (H3T), Histone H3.5, Histone H3.X and Histone H3.Y but have highly conserved sequences differing only by a few amino acids.

Question: The protein that in humans is encoded by the H3F3A and H3F3B genes is one of how many sequence variants in mammalian cells?

Answer: Seven


A converse is Raikov's theorem, which says that if the sum of two independent random variables is Poisson-distributed, then so are each of those two independent random variables.

Question: What is a converse of one of the expressions given in the Poisson distribution?

Answer: A converse in Raikov's theorem.


After the completion of the George Washington Bridge to New Jersey in 1931, the Harlem River span served as a connector for traffic between New Jersey and the Bronx. The Alexander Hamilton Bridge was completed in 1963, diverting traffic from the Harlem River Washington Bridge.

Question: The current Pelham Bridge opened for traffic how many years before The George Washington Bridge was completed?

Answer: The current Pelham Bridge opened to traffic in 1908, 23 years before the completion of the George Washington Bridge.


An ecosystem is a community of living organisms in conjunction with the nonliving components of their environment, interacting as a system. These biotic and abiotic components are linked together through nutrient cycles and energy flows. Energy enters the system through photosynthesis and is incorporated into plant tissue.

Question: Communities of living organisms in conjunction with the nonliving components of their environment, interacting as a system can end up doing things very differently because they have what present?

Answer: Different species pools


Sentis rhynchocarpa F.Muell. nom. illeg. Eremophila divaricata, also known as spreading emu bush, is a flowering plant in the figwort family, Scrophulariaceae and is endemic to Australia. It is a shrub with stiff, spreading, tangled branches which are often spiny on their ends, erect leaves and mauve to lilac-coloured flowers.

Question: What are both Sentis rhynchocarpa F.Muell and  Eremophila micrantha?

Answer: Shrubs.


For the amyloid scan used in diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease, see Positron emission tomography § Neuroimaging. A SAP scan is a type of nuclear medicine imaging test which uses iodine-123 ( 123 I) and serum amyloid P component (SAP) to diagnose amyloidosis.

Question: What type of imaging is used to diagnose Alzheimer's disease that scans for the substance that shows up as homogeneous pink material in lamina propria?

Answer: Positron emission tomography.


The Catholic University of America ( CUA) is a private Catholic university in Washington, D.C. It is a pontifical university of the Catholic Church in the United States and the only institution of higher education founded by U.S. Catholic bishops.

Question: Which has a longer abbreviation: Catholic University of America or Washington University in St. Louis?

Answer: Washington University in St. Louis has a longer abbreviation.


The Ptolemaic dynasty (/ˌtɒlɪˈmeɪɪk/; Ancient Greek: Πτολεμαῖοι, Ptolemaioi), sometimes also known as the Lagids (/ˈlædʒɪdz/) or Lagidae (/ˈlædʒɪdi/; Λαγίδαι, Lagidai, after Lagus, Ptolemy I's father), was a Macedonian Greek[1][2][3][4][5] royal family, which ruled the Ptolemaic Kingdom in Egypt during the Hellenistic period. Their rule lasted for 275 years, from 305 to 30 BC.[6]

Question: Which dynasty came first: the Byzantine or the Ptolemic?

Answer: The Ptolemaic (it was in ancient Egypt).


The Siege of Damascus (also known as the Sack of Damascus and the Capture of Damascus) was a major event in 1400 during the war between the Timurid Empire and Mamluk Egypt . Timur was one of the most powerful Central Asian rulers since Genghis Khan.

Question: What war between Timur's forces and mamluk Egypt did Timur's soldiers commit mass rape?

Answer: The Siege of Damascus.


In 1086, when the Domesday Book was compiled, Leziate was in the hundred of Freebridge, and was quite small, with just three households. It had 4 acres (1.6 ha) of meadow land and a mill.

Question: How many acres larger are the Leziate fens now than when the Domesday Book was compiled?

Answer: 213 acres larger


The term Outer Carpathians is frequently used to describe the northern rim of the Western and Eastern Carpathians. The Carpathians provide habitat for the largest European populations of brown bears, wolves, chamois, and lynxes, with the highest concentration in Romania, as well as over one third of all European plant species.

Question: The term Outer Carpathians is frequently used to describe the northern rim of what section, in addition to the Western Carpathians, that is divided into three formal groups in Romania?

Answer: Eastern Carpathians


The Cariboo Plateau is a volcanic plateau in south-central British Columbia, Canada. It is part of the Fraser Plateau that itself is a northward extension of the North American Plateau.

Question: In which Canadian Province will you find Adams Plateau and Cariboo Plateau?

Answer: They are found in British Columbia.


Canaan is the northeasternmost town in Vermont, bordered by the Canadian province of Quebec to the north and the U.S. state of New Hampshire to the east. It is one of two towns in Vermont to share a border with both another state and Canada, the other such town being Alburgh in the northwestern corner.

Question: Do the towns of Canaan, Vermont and Granville, New York both border a neighboring US state?

Answer: Yes


Altaussee ( Central Bavarian: Oid Aussee) is a municipality and spa town in the district of Liezen in Styria, Austria. The small village is nestled on the shores of the Lake Altaussee, beneath the Loser Plateau. Occupying an area of 92 km², Altaussee is home to 1,777 people.

Question: The small village nestled on the shores of the Lake Altaussee, beneath the Loser Plateau in the district of Liezen in Austria was first documented in what year?

Answer: Altaussee was first documented in 1265.


The bounty hunter crew of the spaceship Bebop work to find the terrorist and discover the source of the pathogen before the attack can take place. The film was conceived by Watanabe as an extension of his work on the television series, which he treated as a series of miniature films.

Question: The film conceived by Watanabe as an extension of his work on the television series took place between what episodes of that series?

Answer: 22 and 23.


Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. The United States Second Fleet is a numbered fleet in the United States Navy responsible for the East Coast and North Atlantic Ocean. The Fleet was established following World War II.

Question: Do The United States Second Fleet and The Third Fleet operate in the same ocean?

Answer: No, the former is in the Atlantic and the latter is in the Pacific.


The Romans constructed aqueducts throughout their Republic and later Empire, to bring water from outside sources into cities and towns. Aqueduct water supplied public baths, latrines, fountains, and private households; it also supported mining operations, milling, farms, and gardens.

Question: What group constructed aqueducts throughout their Republic and identified with Minerva?

Answer: Romans


Originally it was an oblong and convex shield. By the first century BC it had developed into the rectangular, semi-cylindrical shield that is popularly associated with the scutum in modern times. This was not the only shield the Romans used; Roman shields were of varying types depending on the role of the soldier who carried it.

Question: Is the Nguni shield formed into an oblong and convex shape like the scutum?

Answer: It is rather a pointed oval-shape.


The interval is, for events separated by light signals, the same (zero) in all reference frames, and is therefore called invariant . For the Lorentz transformation to have the physical significance realized by nature, it is crucial that the interval is an invariant measure for any two events, not just for those separated by light signals.

Question: Lorentz and invariant can both be found in relation to what?

Answer: Light.


The andesite of the British Columbia Parliament Buildings is from Haddington Island in the Alert Bay Volcanic Belt. The granite used to build the buildings came from Nelson Island, at the mouth of Jervis Inlet, on the Sunshine Coast .

Question: Where is the andesite for the building that is home to the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from?

Answer: Haddington Island in the Alert Bay Volcanic Belt


Normandy is divided into five administrative departments: Calvados, Eure, Manche, Orne and Seine-Maritime. It covers 30,627 square kilometres (11,825 sq mi),[3] comprising roughly 5% of the territory of metropolitan France.

Question: How many departments are there in the administrative region of France where the Château de Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte is located?

Answer: There are five departments in Normandy, the administrative region of France where the Château de Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte is located.


The internal anal sphincter is not innervated by the pudendal nerve, which carries somatic (motor and sensory) fibers that provide the innervation to the external anal sphincter. The IAS contributes 55% of the resting pressure of the anal canal.

Question: What contributes 55% of the resting pressure to the feature  located within the anal triangle of the perineum, between the right and left ischioanal fossa?

Answer: The internal anal sphincter.


Cerebrovascular disease includes a variety of medical conditions that affect the blood vessels of the brain and the cerebral circulation. Arteries supplying oxygen and nutrients to the brain are often damaged or deformed in these disorders.

Question: 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?

Answer: Cerebrovascular disease


The River Shannon ( Irish: Abha na Sionainne, an tSionainn, an tSionna) is the longest river in Ireland at 360.5 km (224 miles). It drains the Shannon River Basin which has an area of 16,865 km 2 (6,512 sq mi), one fifth of the area of Ireland.

Question: The river that was first mapped by Graeco-Egyptian geographer Ptolemy drains what basin that consists of one fifth of the area of Ireland?

Answer: Shannon River Basin.


About 2 miles south of Elmer, Oklahoma, the Salt Fork of the Red River joins from the north. The combined waters then receive the North Fork Red River from the north about 10 mi (16 km) west-southwest of Frederick, Oklahoma to form the Red River proper.

Question: Salmon and Red are both names of what?

Answer: Rivers