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30 Cards in this Set
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This poem by Emma Lazarus is inscribed on the Statue of Liberty.
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The New Colossus
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The Statue of Liberty was a gift from the country of...
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France
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two points that are directly opposite in location on the Earth care called these
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Antipodes
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An object that light cannot pass through is said to be...
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Opaque
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Spanish, French, Portuguese, and Italian are part of the ______ languages.
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Romance
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Archduke Ferdinand was assassinated in this capital city.
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Sarajevo
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The scale of mineral hardness is name after this man.
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Moh
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He developed the electromagnetic spectrum.
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Hertz
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He discovered the neutron.
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James Chadwick
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Name the longest human-made architectural structure ever built.
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The Great Wall of China
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What 2006 film won Best Picture at the 2007 Academy Awards and earned Martin Scorcese’s first Director’s Achievement award?
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The Departed
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In what year did the Mayflower arrive at Plymouth Rock?
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1620
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D’Artagnan, Athos, Porthos and Aramis are characters in what historical romance?
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The Three Muskateers
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What is the scientific name for the bone commonly called the shoulder blade?
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Scapula
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What Germanic language was widely used by Jews of European descent before the Holo-caust?
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Yiddish
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What is the next term in the geometric sequence 3, 6, 12, 24?
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48
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Since 1974, what type of material has been used as the cover on a baseball?
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Cowhide
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What is bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) better known as?
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Mad Cow Disease
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What fictional character rides on a bony old nag named Rosinante?
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Don Quixote
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What is the English translation of the North Carolina state motto “Esse quam videri?”
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"To be, rather than to seem"
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Who was the first successful presidential candidate of the modern Republican Party?
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Abraham Lincoln
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This Law states that "whatever can go wrong, will go wrong."
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Murphy's Law
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The Japanese bicameral legislature is know as...
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Diet
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The seagull is the state bird of this state.
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Utah
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Wrote Gorillas in the Mist.
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Dian Fossey
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A polyglot is said to be one who can do what?
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Speak many different languages
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Created the X-Ray Device
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Roentgen (pronounced rent gen)
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esse quam videri
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"To be, rather than to seem"
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cavaet emptor
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"Let the buyer beware"
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This ship was the first to come to the Titanic's aid.
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The Carpathia
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