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Who is James Watt?
This steamy Scot's name is now used to denote a unit of power.
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Who is Pierre L'Enfant?
He drafted the urban plan for the City of Washington.
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What are solar panels?
This equipment powered the Hubble Space Telescope.
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What is the New River?
This is river is poorly named, given that it is actually older than most rivers on the same continent.
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Who is Madonna?
Vogue
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What is the National Nuclear Security Administration?
This part of the Department of Energy has the largest annual appropriated budget.
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What is Northeast?
This quadrant is the second largest by area in the District of Columbia.
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What is IBM?
This company is on the forefront of artificial intelligence, creating the computer chess champion, Watson.
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What is Florida?
If made a state, the District of Columbia would take the title of having the lowest high point from this state.
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Who are the Eagles?
Hotel California
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What is the Massachusetts Institute of Technology?
Known for his long hair, Secretary Ernie Moniz was a professor at this university before becoming Energy Secretary in 2013.
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Who is Darth Vader?
This Star Wars character is memorialized in stone on the walls of the National Cathedral.
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Who is Katherine Johnson?
This West Virginian woman became mathematician at NASA and one of the focal roles in the film Hidden Figures.
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What is the Maldives?
Climate change and sea level rise have become chief concerns in this small island state, whose president once held a press conference underwater to make that very point.
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Who is Dolly Parton?
9 to 5
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What is the Department of Defense, or DOD?
The DOE headquarters building, named for James Forrestal, was originally build as a document retention building for this agency.
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What is Tokyo?
The famed cherry blossoms were a gift to Washington, D.C., from this Japanese city to honor the growing friendship between the two countries.
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What is nitrogen?
This gas can cause the bends when it becomes too highly concentrated in the blood of divers.
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What is Sitka, Alaska?
This city is the largest city by area in the United States.
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Who is Ariana Grande?
thank u, next
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What are Los Alamos, Oak Ridge, and Hanford?
The first three National Laboratories created under the Manhattan Project included these three sites.
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What is the Ronald Reagan Building?
This federal building is the largest in the District of Columbia.
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What are Omega-3 fatty acids?
These fatty acids in cold-water fish are believed to reduce the risk of strokes.
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What is the Lake of the Ozarks?
This manmade lake has a shoreline longer than the California coast, good for hiding illicit substances.
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Who is Kermit the Frog? Or who is Ray Charles?
It's Nott Easy Being Green
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