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What is the poles?
In a magnet flux lines converge at these points
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Who is Jackie Robinson?
The first American to play modern Major League Baseball, he joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947
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What is smell?
When a snake sticks out its tongue, it's not tasting but using this sense
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What is mah-jongg
This tile game takes its name from the Chinese for "sparrows"
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Who are the Gorgons?
Euryale and Stheno were immortal; Medusa was the only mortal one of these monster sisters
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Who is Galileo?
This Italian discovered the laws of the pendulum when he observed a hanging lamp swing back and forth (daily double)
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Who is Colin Powell
A biography of this former Cabinet secretary is subtitled "Soldier and Statesman"
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What is their eyes?
Cats have tapetum lucidum membranes in this body part, so they have 2 chances to catch photons
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What is Jonny Quest?
This adventurous cartoon boy had a pal named Hadji and a dog named Bandit
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Who are Castor and Pollux?
Zeus rewarded these twin brothers by placing them in the stars as Gemini
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What is atmospheric pressure?
This measure of pressure abbreviated atm. is equivalent to 14.7 pounds per square inch
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Who is Maya Angelou
Her website calls her a Renaissance woman, poet, historian, author, actress, and playwright
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What is whiskers?
Rats have poor vision but can enhance their perception by using these, also called vibrissae
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What is jonquil?
Although this flower is a type of Narcissus it is popularly called this
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Who is Apollo?
Artemis is his twin sister
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What is a quark?
This elementary particle has 6 types: 3 have 1/3 unit of negative charge and 3 have 2/3 unit of positive charge
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What is Cleveland?
Carl Stokes, the first black mayor of a major U.S. city, was mayor of this Ohio metropolis from 1967 to 1971
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What is pheromones?
Some moths are able to detect chemical love signals called these up to 7 miles away
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What is zabajone?
Also known as sabayon, a dessert or sauce consisting of egg yolks, sugar, and wine or liqour beaten until thick and served hot or cold
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Who is Ares?
Some myths say that Aphrodite's affair with this Greek god of war produced Eros and brothers Phobos and Deimos
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What is nucleons?
From their location, protons and neutrons but not electrons are called these, also ending in -on
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Who is August Wilson
He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1987 for his play "Fences" and another for "The Piano Lesson" in 1990
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What is an angler fish?
This fish has a road and bait on top of its head to lure and catch prey
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What is donjon?
Sounding like the basement torture room, it's the main tower within the walls of a medieval castle or fortress
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Who is Electra?
She got her brother Orestes to kill their mom, Clytemnestra, to avenge the murder of Agamemnon, their dad
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