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09/27/2016

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Pencil and paper ready. What is the area of a trapezoid with a height of 8 inches and bases of 5 and 13 inches, respectively?
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72 square inches
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What part of a sentence modifies the subject and contains all the verbs and the phrases and objects governed by the verb?
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Predicate
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What is the length of an Olympic-sized swimming pool?
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50 meters
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Give the name for the type of white whale that has small teeth and eyes and that has no dorsal fin?
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Beluga Whale
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What is the last name of the famous Dutch painter Rembrant?
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Van Rijn (van rain)
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in the early 1980"s this country was led by the Sandinistas, but a resistance group called the Contras battled them for control. Identify this Central American country which is now led by Daniel Ortega.
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Nicaragua
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Pencil and paper ready. Find the exact value of the sine of theta if theta is in the third quadrant and the secant of the theta is negative 7 over the square root of 40.
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-3 over 7
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What major river in northern Italy passes through Turin and south Milan and Venice before it empties into the Adriatic Sea?
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Po River
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What was the name of the female villian in the movie 101 Dalmations?
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Cruella de Vil
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One of the seven wonders of the ancient world was a giant statue of the Greeek god Helios and was called the Colossus of this Greek city. Identify this city which belongs to an island by the same name.
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Rhodes
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Pencil and paper ready. What is the exact value of the log base 7 of the quantity 1 over 49?
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-2
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There are very few words that can seve as 5 different parts of speech, but one such word is a noun because it refers to fine bird feathers located underneath the tougher exterior feathers Identify this word which can also serve as a verb,adjective adverb and preposition.
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Down
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Identify the science of earthquakes and the movement of vibrations through layers of the earth.
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Seismology
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among the works of this Scottish author are a mystery novel titled "Better Dead", a melodramtic novel titled "The Little Minister", and the plays "The Admirable Crichton" and "Quality Street". Identify this author, who is perhaps best known for his book "Peter Pan".
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J.M. Barrie
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What major sport awards the Commissioner's Trophy to the winner of it's playoff contest for the best team in it's professional league?
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(Major League) Baseball
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Who was the first leader of the trade union federation initially set up at the shipyards of Gdansk, Poland, in the early 1980's and called "Solidarity"?
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Lech Walsea
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What 1896 Supreme Court case established the principle of "separate but equal"?
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Plessy vs Ferguson
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In Leviticus, Chapter 11, Verses 7 and 8, what animal is forbidden for the Jews to eat?
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Pig
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Pencil and paper ready. there are two supplementary angles, one of which is 8 times the measure of the other angle. What is the measure of the smaller angle?
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20 degrees
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Which article of the U.S. Constitution describes the admendment process?
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5th
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