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121 Cards in this Set
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What was the first city to be leveled by a plutonium-based atomic bomb?
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Nagasaki
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What high-level computer language was named after a French mathematician and philosopher?
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PASCAL
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What Mercury astronaut had a pulse rate of 170 at lift-off-John Glenn, Alan Shepard or Gus Grissom?
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Gus Grissom
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What creature proved to be much faster than a horse in a 1927 race in Sydney, Australia?
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The Kangaroo
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What radioactive element is extracted from carnotite and pitchblende?
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Uranium
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What organ of a buffalo did Plains Indians use to make yellow paint?
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The Gallbladder
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What creature's fossilized leg bone did John Horner discover red blood cells in, in 1993?
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A Tyrannosaurus Rex's
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What sticky sweetener was traditionally used as an antiseptic ointment for cuts and burns?
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Honey
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What computer was introduced in 1984 Super Bowl ads?
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The Macintosh
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What male body part did Mademoiselle magazine find to be the favorite of most women?
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Eyes
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What planet is named after the Greek god who personified the sky?
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Uranus
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What fat substitute got FDA approval for use in snack foods, despite reports of diarrhea and cramps?
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Olestra
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What plant's meltdown was dubbed "Russian Roulette" by nuclear power wags?
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Chernobyl's
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What is a single unit of quanta called?
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A Quantum
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What will fall off of the Great Sphinx in 200 years due to pollution and erosion, according to scholar Chikaosa Tanimoto?
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It's Head
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What suntan lotion was developed by Dr. Ben Green in 1944 to protect pilots who bailed out over the Pacific?
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Coppertone
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What was Friedrich Serturner the first to extract from opium and use as a pain reliever?
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Morphine
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What substance nets recyclers the most money?
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Aluminum
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What are you shopping for if you are sized up by a Brannock Device?
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Shoes
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What animal travels at 25 mph under water but finds it easier to toboggan on its belly on land?
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The Penguin
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What's the itchy skin condition tinea pedis better known as?
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Athlete's Foot
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What uncooked meat is a trichina worm most likely to make a home in?
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Pork
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How many of every 10 victims infected by the Ebola virus will die in two days?
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Nine
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What computer company was named after a founder's memories of spending a summer in an Oregon orchard?
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Apple
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What butterfly-shaped gland is located just in front of the windpipe?
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The Thyroid
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What's short for "light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation"?
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Laser
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What planet is the brightest object in the sky, after the sun and moon?
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Venus
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What weapon did German gunsmith August Kotter unload on the world in 1520?
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The Rifle
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What type of machine did 19-year-old French genius Blaise Pascal invent to help his dad do taxes in 1642?
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An Adding Machine
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What do leukemia sufferers have too many of?
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White Blood Cells, or Leukocytes
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What Benjamin Holt invention was good news to farmers in 1900?
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The Tractor
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What weather phenomenon is measured by the Beaufort Scale?
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Wind
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What do itchy people call the "rhus radicans" they were sorry they came into contact with?
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Poison Ivy
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What drupaceous fruit were Hawaiian women once forbidden by law to eat?
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The Coconut
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What was the first planet to be discovered using the telescope, in 1781?
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Uranus
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What V-word is defined as "the ability of a liquid to resist flowing"?
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Viscosity
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What unit of measure was originally designed to be one forty-millionth of the Earth's circumference?
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The Meter
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What's sometimes dubbed Biosphere I?
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Earth
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What antidepressant is most often referred to by snide shrinks as "Slo Mo"?
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Valium
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What gardeners' aid is identified by numbers indicating its percentages of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium?
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Fertilizer
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What facial features flank your glabella?
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The Eyebrows
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What organ of the body leads all others with 3,195 distinct genes?
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The Brain
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What Cool Whip ingredient outweighs all the others?
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Water
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What does a linonophobic fear?
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String
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What's the common name for the eye inflammation doctors call conjunctivits?
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Pink Eye
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What country flew the first supersonic airliner in 1968 but saw it crash in 1973?
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The Soviet Union
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What two-word term is defined as "the lowest possible temperature"?
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Absolute Zero
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What century did mathematicians first use plus and minus signs?
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The Sixteenth
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What boxcar-sized instrument was repaired by the crew of the shuttle Endeavor in 1993?
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The Hubble Telescope
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What name for a bone disease translates as "porous bone"?
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Osteoporosis
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What earthenware ceramic was produced in ancient China from feldspar and china clay?
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Porcelain
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What's the U.S. military acronym for liquid oxygen?
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LOX
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What's one-tenth of a bel?
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A Decibel
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What type of machine do the French call a telecopie?
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A Fax Machine
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What unit of measure was once defined as the length of three grains of barley laid end to end?
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The Inch
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What are the two main constituents of bronze?
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Copper & Tin
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What Greek was the first physician to record case histories of patients?
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Hippocrates
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What four planets have a smaller diameter than Earth?
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Mars, Mercury, Pluto, Venus
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What name for an automaton came from the Czech word meaning "forced labor"?
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Robot
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What delta-winged supersonic transport is the fastest passenger plane?
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The Concorde
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What comet was first sighted by the Chinese in 240 B.C.?
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Halley's Comet
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What does "SPF" mean on sunscreen containers?
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Sun Protection Factor
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What M-word is defined as "a device that changes sound into electric current"?
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Microphone
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What brand became the first sugar-free sugar substitute, in 1957?
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Sweet 'n Low
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What colorless gas is essential in the production of fertilizers and light bulbs?
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Nitrogen
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What explosive jelly is combined with gasoline to make incendiary bombs?
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Napalm
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What did Dr. Heinrich Dreser hype as a non-addictive substitute for morphine in 1898?
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Heroin
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What did the Nimbus-7 satellite monitor changes in the depth of?
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The Ozone Layer
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What body part is low-density lipoprotein most likely to clog?
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Arteries
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What's wire rope most often called?
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Cable
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What was the short word for "Infantile Paralysis" on 1950s March of Dimes posters?
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Polio
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What did Christians often place on their foreheads to cure insomnia in medieval times?
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The Bible
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What's the most common automotive essential that is measured in terms of its viscosity?
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Oil
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What did 18th-century chemist Antoine Lavoisier prove was a compound of hydrogen and oxygen?
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Water
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What objects are studied in what enthusiasts call "ufology"?
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Unidentified Flying Objects
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Who's known in the shrink biz as "Weird Beard"?
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Sigmund Freud
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What's the unit of capacity for fuel wood?
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A Cord
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How many of every ten coffee beans in USDA approved coffee can be moldy, insect-infested or insect-damaged?
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One
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What's the English title of Freud's book Traumdeutung?
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The Interpretation of Dreams
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What celestial objects were once referred to as "hairy stars"?
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Comets
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What piece of lumber's actual size is one-and-a-half by three-and-a-half inches when "surfaced"?
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A 2X4
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What tool did astronomer Rodger Thompson say is "fundamentally altering our view of the universe"?
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The Hubble Telescope
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What's the most common contributor to chronic bronchitis?
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Smoking
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What constellation points to the south celestial pole?
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The Southern Cross
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What's the study of materials at very low temperatures?
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Cryogenics
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What unit of length is derived from the Latin word uncia?
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The Inch
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What country launched Europe's first super-high-speed passenger train, in 1981?
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France
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What's believed by many to be a satellite of Neptune that escaped its primary orbit?
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Pluto
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What planet is circled by only two moons?
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Mars
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What artillery weapon was launched upon the world in 400 B.C.?
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The Catapult
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What procedure is performed on an abscess if the dentist thinks the tooth can be saved?
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Root Canal
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What Greek advised: "Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food"?
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Hippocrates
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What does an anthropophagic census-taker fear?
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People
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What "black metal" gave blacksmiths their name?
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Iron
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What word describes the physical components of a computer?
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Hardware
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What planet is the brightest object in the sky, after the sun and moon?
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Venus
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What does a bromidrosiphobic shoe salesman fear?
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Smelly Feet
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What planet needs 248 years to meander its way around the sun?
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Pluto
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What did 18th-century astronomer Edmund Halley chart 24 of?
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Comets
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What's a video cameraman doing when he "juices the brick"?
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Recharging The Battery
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What New York City hospital founded the first school for nursing in the U.S., in 1872?
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Bellevue
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What type of telephones did AT&T stop making in the mid-1980s?
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Rotary Phones
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What Entertainment Tonight star's voice did the New England Journal of Medicine claim triggered a woman's epileptic seizures?
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Mary Hart's
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What home appliance did the U.S. produce seven million of in 1953, up from 6,000 in 1946?
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Television
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What are you forbidden to do in a "snuff zone"?
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Smoke
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What teenage year does an American first develop phobias in, on average?
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Thirteen
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What innovation decreases the odds of hitting the car in front of you, but increases the odds of being hit by the car behind you?
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Anti-Lock Brakes
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What red-blooded body organ are vitamins A, B, D, E, and K stored in?
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The Liver
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What's the positively charged particle in the nucleus of an atom called?
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A Proton
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What cartoonist has had three insect species named after him?
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Gary Larson
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What did William Stanley invent in 1885 to transfer the current of one circuit to another?
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The Transformer
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What is a siderodromophobic hobo afraid to hitch a ride on?
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Trains
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What country was India ink developed in?
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China
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What three-letter word denotes the residue of combustion or incineration?
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Ash
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What fiber-optic instrument allows surgeons to see and repair damage within joints?
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Arthroscope
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What photo company brags that with their products, "there really are no negatives"?
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Polaroid
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What high-tech mogul appeared on a 1995 cover of Time headlined "Master of the Universe"?
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Bill Gates
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What time period is sandwiched between the Cretaceous and Triassic?
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The Jurassic
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What colorless, odorless substance is the main constituent of natural gas?
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Methane
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What early scientist, after being forced to declare the Earth was motionless, muttered: "Nevertheless, it does move"?
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Galileo
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What typewriter brand was founded by a man whose father made a well-known flintlock rifle?
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Remington
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