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What is the study of atmospheric conditions and climate called?
Question 2 of 10
What are the building blocks of all plants and animals?
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What is a bird’s ‘gizzard’?
Question 4 of 10
Which of these plants is a source for marijuana?
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Introduced in 1979 by Harvard University seismologists Thomas Hanks and Hiroo Kanamori, the Moment Magnitude Scale replaces what other scale?
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Caused by the bacteria Mycobacterium leprae, what disease may have reached Europe when the Persians under Xerxes invaded Greece?
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Made famous by Lewis Carroll, people in what profession may have been driven mad because they treated felt with mercuric nitrate?
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The Andean and California are the only species of the largest flying land birds in the Western Hemisphere. What are they?
Question 9 of 10
Which of these is a type of plier, but not a type of shoe?
Question 10 of 10
While interred during WWI, a German soldier named Joseph Pilates discovered an interesting use for old English hospital beds and springs. What did he use them for?
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