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What is Quebec?
First settled by the French, it's Canada's largest province in area
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What is the Golden Gate Bridge?
At the time of its opening in 1937 in San Francisco, it was both the longest and the tallest suspension bridge in the world, with a main span of 4,200 feet and a total height of 746 feet
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What is a million?
1 with 6 zeroes after it
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What is sodium?
The 11th element on the periodic table, this element is often associated with salt?
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What is Python?
Also the name of a snake, this programming language was conceived in the late 1980s in the Netherlands
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What is California?
Admitted into the Union in 1850, this state is the only state whose motto is in Greek
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What is corinthian?
Of the 3 classical Greek architectural orders, this one named for a city is the most decorative
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What is mean?
Arithmetic, geometric, and harmonic this are all examples of a way to find the central tendency of a set of numbers
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What are SI units?
For luminous intensity, it's candelas, for energy it's joules, for capacitance, it's farads in this international system
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What is binary?
In computer science, ones & zeroes are key to this
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What is Shanghai?
Follow all 3900 miles of China's Yangtze River and you'll end up at this metropolis.
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What is Gothic?
Built between the 1100s & 1300s Paris' Notre Dame cathedral is a leading example of this style of architecture
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What are matrices?
Cramer's Law, determinants, and Gaussian-Elimination relate to this
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What is speed?
Don't mistake this for velocity, it doesn't account for the direction
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What is Carnegie Mellon?
When it comes to a computer science Ph.D. program this university at Pennsylvania leads the field
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What is Mali?
The Great Mosque built in 1200 CE is located in Djenne, a city in what country
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What is an abacus?
This uppermost part of the capital of a column shares its name with an ancient calculator
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What is minimum?
If a function is concave up at a critical point, that point is also a local this
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What is a solution?
A colligative property of this include vapor pressure and freezing point depression,
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What is Basic?
The name of this early programming language is an acronym starting Beginner's All-purpose
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What is Tagus River?
The westernmost capital in continental Europe Lisbon is on the banks of this river
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What is glass?
This material is typical of the International style & is dominant in the 1951 Corning Museum
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What is magnitude?
Also known as the absolute value of a complex number, this represents the "size" of a vector
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What are sarcomeres?
It's the basic contractile unit of a muscle fiber, each contains both actin and myosin
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What is (Blaise) Pascal?
A unit of pressure & a computer programming language are named for this mathematician
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