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The Hound of the Baskerville's
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's detective novel in which Sherlock and Watson investigate the claims of a mythical dog-like monster in the English countryside.
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Conditioned Stimulus
In Pavlovian psychology, what does "CS" stand for?
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AB Positive
Which blood type is known as the “universal recipient.”
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The Nile River
What is the name of the longest river in Africa?
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Upton Sinclair
This author wrote The Jungle, a piece of literature that exposed the unsanitary conditions of the meat packing industry in the early 1900's.
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A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dicken's famously long novel set in Paris and London before and during the French Revolution.
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John Watson
This person is considered the father of Behaviorism.
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Karyotype
An individual's complete set of chromosomes, isolated and in numerical order.
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Rhode Island
What is the name of the smallest US state (by area)?
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Bull Moose Party or Progressive Party
The political party founded by Teddy Roosevelt in 1912 when he ran for a third term against William Taft.
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Fahrenheit 451
This famous novel by Ray Bradbury is purposely named after the temperature at which paper burns.
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Stanley Milgram
This psychologist conducted an infamous experiment on obeying authority in which real participants administered electric shocks to fake participants.
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Endoplasmic Reticulum
The organelle made up of two subunits – one rough and one smooth.
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4 (England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland)
How many countries make up the United Kingdom?
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Grover Cleveland
The only president to serve two non consecutive terms in office, he was both the 22nd and 24th president.
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Walden
This memoir by American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau details his experience living in solitude in a cabin by a lake for two years.
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Wernicke's Area
This part of the brain is critical for speech production, specifically understanding the meaning of words.
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Kingdom, Phylum (Phyla), Class, Order, Family, Genus (Genera), Species
Name the 7 major taxonomic ranks that follow the acronym KPCOFGS.
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6
How many time zones are there in the US?
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Treaty of Ghent
This treaty ended the War of 1812.
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Ernest Hemmingway's famous novel about an American dynamiter's experience during the Spanish Civil War.
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Ablation
The surgical removal of a specific region of the nervous system to examine the behavioral effects and determine its function.
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AUG
The standard start codon for gene translation which encodes the amino acid methionine (Met/M).
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Bolivia
This South American country has two capitals, Sucre and La Paz.
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George B. McClellan
This Union general led the Army of the Potomac at the start of the Civil War and participated in the Peninsula Campaign and the Battle of Antietam.
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