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What is Brokeback Mountain?
2000s neo-Western romantic drama featuring the Wyoming mountains and sheep.
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What are the La Brea Tar Pits?
Californian feature that has contained the remains of a saber-toothed cat, dire wolves, bison, horses, a giant ground sloth, turtles, snails, clams, millipedes, fish, gophers, and an American lion; also discovered in it is a nearly intact mammoth skeleton, nicknamed Zed
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What is the Red Kangaroo?
The largest marsupial in the world and can weigh 200 pounds, move to 30-40 miles per hour, and leap over obstacles up to 10 feet high.
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What is Alzheimer's Disease?
Gradually depleting an enzyme called BACE1 completely reverses the formation of amyloid plaques in the brains of mice with this 6th leading cause of death in the U.S.
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What is obtuse?
The name of this type of triangle that has one angle greater than 90°?
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Who is Shane?
In this 2000s cult classic TV drama, Papi is this character's "competition" according to Alice's radio show.
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What is mass wasting?
Slope angle, weakening of material by weathering, increased water content; changes in vegetation cover, and overloading can cause the change in potential of this.
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What is an octopus?
This sea animal has 3 hearts.
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What is a bomb (Massive Ordnance Air Blast; largest nonnuclear conventional weapon in existence)?
In April 2017 the U.S. used this on Afghanistan in a strike against ISIS forces; it weighed 22,000-lbs.
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What is Gingko?
This tree is native to China, and herbal extracts from its leaves increase blood flow; genus name is regarded as a misspelling of "silver apricot" in Japanese.
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Who is RuPaul?
Famous reality TV competition host and originator of the quote: "We're all born naked and the rest is drag."
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What is an volcanic eruption?
This extrusive feature is the cause of the Giant's Causeway, about 40,000 interlocking basalt columns, that is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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What is a dog?
This mammal's sense of smell is about 100,000 times stronger than humans', but they have just one-sixth our number of taste buds.
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What is hydrogen?
On 01/27/2017 it was the first time this element has existed in a metallic state on Earth, when scientists applied almost five million atmospheres of pressure to its liquid state.
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What is Vulcan?
According to this Sci-Fi culture's mythology, all creation arose from a "Garden of Eden"-like place known as Sha Ka Ree.
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What is Transparent?
Comedy-drama web tv series that revolves around a Los Angeles family and their lives following the discovery that the person they knew as their father is transgender; employs more trans and queer folks behind the camera than any show in the history of the universe.
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What are glaciers (/earth rebounding from glacial pressure)?
It is a result of this feature that earthquakes in the Great Lakes region occur.
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What are African buffalo?
Herds of these animals display voting behavior, in which individuals register their travel preference by standing up, looking in one direction and then lying back down; only adult females can vote.
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What is CRISPR?
In one of the biggest scientific breakthroughs of 2017, scientists used this technology inside the human body for the very first time, in a new human trial aimed to remove the human papillomavirus (HPV) by applying a gel that carries the necessary DNA coding to disable the tumor growth mechanism.
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What are zoonoses?
Name of animal diseases that people can catch (anthrax, avian influenza, plague, orf(!), rabies, ringworm, Trichinellosis)
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What is Sense8?
Co-created by the Wachowski sisters, this Netflix series follows 8 pansexual strangers from different socioeconomic backgrounds around the world who telepathically pick up each other’s feelings and teleport into their respective lives.
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Who is Clyde (Wahrhaftig)?
Queer geologist famed for his application of geological science to environmental issues, making geoscience more accessible and understandable, and was one of the first scientists to highlight the role of plate tectonics in earthquakes.
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What is a mantis shrimp?
The claws of this animal can accelerate as quickly as a .22-caliber bullet.
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What is quantum computing?
These computers are considered "the next great evolutionary step in the development of computing tech," and at the 2017 International Conference on Quantum Technologies, Mikhail Lukinannounced that his team had successfully built a 51-qubit version.
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What is Dark matter?
This is FIVE times more prevalent than ordinary matter (the stuff of galaxies, stars, planets, gas, dust, plasma!), is responsible for the structures in the unvierse, and is the name given to matter we cannot observe directly (made up of something other than baryons!)
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