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What is New York?
Niagara Reservation at Prospect Point in this states is the US's oldest state park
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What is the Army?
This branch of the military was put in charge of the Manhattan Project
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What is Penicillin?
Sir Alexander Fleming took a shot in the dark & discovered this in 1928
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What is a fraternity?
In college, David Letterman wore the letters for Sigma Chi, one of these organizations
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What is a rung?
Chime in if you know" it's any of the steps on a ladder
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What is Yellowstone?
Wyoming's Grand Teton National Park is only 7 miles south of this other national park
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What is plutonium?
Using Pu-239, an isotope of this element, the atomic bomb was tested in the summer of 1945
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What is water?
Cyril Hinshelwood explored how oxygen & hydrogen combine to form this
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What is plagiarism?
To pass off someone else's work as your own
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What is rummy?
Variations of this game included Michigan, 500, & Gin
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What is Lake Erie?
Glacial carvings can be found in Ohio's Kelleys Island State Park in this Great Lake
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What is Bockscar?
The Enola Gay dropped the bomb on Hiroshima; this B-29 bomber dropped the bomb on Nagasaki?
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What are lighthouses?
Sir David Brewster invented a system of illumination for these seaside saviors
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What is elementary?
This synonym for "basic" is used to describe a type of school
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Who is Rue McClanahan?
She won the Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series Emmy in 1987 for her portrayal of Blanche Devereaux
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What is Mount Whitney?
Sequoia National Park is home to the giant General Sherman tree and this tallest California mountain
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What is Trinity?
The A-bomb test site was named this
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What is the Tsetse Fly?
In Africa, Sir David Bruce found that sleeping sickness was spread by this "fly"
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What is serpentine?
This adjective means "winding" or "like a snake"
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What is Rubella?
It's the medical name for German measles
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What is Easter Island? (acc: Isla de Pascua)
Huge stone statues are a feature of Chile's Rapa Nui National Park on this island
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Who is J(ulius) Robert Oppenheimer?
This Los Alamos director recalled the words, "Now I am become Death...Destroyer of Worlds"
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What is the Cat Scan?
(computerized axial tomography, CT)
Sir Godfrey Hounsfield helped develop this medical imaging technology
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What is hemoglobin?
It's the oxygen-carrying pigment in red blood cells
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What is Rudolph?
Former President Gerald Ford's middle name
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