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What is a real number?
The name of the category of numbers that includes all rational and irrational numbers.
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What is momentum?
This is the product of the mass and velocity of an object.
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What is the Treaty of Paris (Versailles)?
In 1773, this treaty ended the American War of Independence.
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Who is F. Scott Fitzgerald?
I am the author of "This side of paradise".
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What is 3?
The movie "Star Wars" was the first of the franchise to be released. In the storyline, however, it is preceded by this number of earlier episodes.
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What is the Pythagorean theorem?
The theorem represented by the equation a^2 + b^2 = c^2
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What is the left ventricle?
In most people this is the most powerful chamber in the heart.
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What is a "More economically developed country"?
A country referred to as a MEDC
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What is "To a Mouse"?
The novella "Of Mice and Men" got its title from this poem.
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What is The Netherlands?
The country that was the runner up in the 2010 FIFA world cup.
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What is an imaginary number?
The square root of a negative number.
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What is 3 x 10^23?
Nine grams of water contains about this many molecules.
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What is the Boston Tea Part?
An anti-tax political protest by Americans against the British that occurred in December 1773.
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Who is Agatha Christie?
My works have been outsold only by the Bible and William Shakespeare.
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Who is Michael Phelps?
This person has won the most Olympic medals (including gold, silver and bronze).
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What is an asymptote?
A line on a graph that approaches an axis but never touches it.
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What is diastolic blood pressure?
The name of the blood pressure that is measured when the heart rests between contractions.
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What is 14 July 1789?
On this date the Bastille was attacked and the French Revolution was underway.
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What is onomatopoeia?
A term that is used to describe a word that imitates a sound made by natural objects.
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What is Tottenham Hotspur?
Along with Arsenal, Aston Villa, Manchester United, Liverpool and Everton this is the only other team never to have been relegated from the English Premier League since it started.
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What is 5?
The value of x such that the square root of (3x + 10) = 5
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What is the specific latent heat of fusion?
The quantity of heat needed to change the sate of one kilogram of a substance from solid to liquid.
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What is an isthmus?
A narrow strip of land joining two larger land masses.
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What is "The Hunger Games"?
The second of this trilogy of novels, written by Suzanne Collins, was adapted into the most successful US movie of 2013.
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Who is Bruno Mars?
According to Billboard, this was the most successful Hot 100 artist in 2013.
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