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What is a high-pressure area and in which direction does the air around a high pressure zone in the northern hemisphere move?
A high-pressure area, high, or anticyclone, is a region where the atmospheric pressure at the surface of the planet is greater than its surrounding environment, the air around a high pressure zone in the northern hemisphere moves in a clockwise direction.
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In the city that is known as being inside or outside Interstate 610, what kind of ring road does it have?
Beltway 8.
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In which country could you once find both Neotherapsida and Dvinia?
Neotherapsida and Dvinia could once be found in Russia.
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Tallinn Airport is the largest airport in what country bordered by the Gulf of Finland, the Baltic Sea, Latvia, and Lake Peipus?
Tallinn Airport is the largest airport in Estonia.
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nRTKs that have an important tyrosine kinase catalytic domain are lacking in what feature such as an extracellular ligand -binding domain?
They lack receptor-like features.
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What four countries border the country where Slovenska Bistrica Castle is found?
Italy, Austria, Hungary and Croatia all border Slovenia.
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The liquid explosive compound that is formed when a certain achiral sugar alcohol is fully nitrated looks like what in pure form?
Xylitol pentanitrate is a white crystalline explosive in pure form.
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The lands of what, where Alfonso V was killed by a bolt from the walls, frequently switched hands between the Christians and Moors?
Viseu
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What is commodity value and does it make money valuable?
The commodity value of a good is its free market intrinsic value under optimal use conditions. It does not make money valuable since money is valuable because of its performance.
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Taklamakan desert and Xinjiang are both located in what country?
China
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About how much of the country that has near-flat landforms called peneplains lies below 100 m?
About one third.
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Distributions of what type, which the logarithmic spiral is a curve bearing this property, are the Pareto distribution and the Zipfian distribution?
Scale-invariant
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What can cause the following; low blood sugar, death, female breast, colorectal, larynx, liver, esophagus, oral cavity and pharynx cancers, mental illness, delirium tremens, Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome and others?
Alcohol
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The Henotikon was a christological document issued by which Byzantine Eastern Roman emperor from 474 to 475 and again from 476 to 491?
It was issued by the emperor Zeno.
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While ruling the Sukhothai Kingdom, when did Si Inthrathit first adopt the Thai alphabet?
Si Inthrathit didn't adopt the alphabet. He ruled before the Thai alphabet was created.
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Scientific pitch notation avoids possible confusion between various derivatives of what notation, fully described and normalized by the German scientist Hermann von Helmholtz ?
Helmholtz notation
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The best-known practitioners of Sama were founded by which individual?
The whirling dervishes were founded by Jelaluddin Rumi (1207-1273).
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Would you find Lage and Laar in the same district or different districts?
They are in the same district.
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What are both Sentis rhynchocarpa F.Muell and Eremophila micrantha?
Shrubs.
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What small volcanic atoll in the central Pacific is an example of a site that would have been used by a group lead by a ComServRon?
Ulithi
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In the country known as Four Seasons Country what geographical features have helped shape both the political and economic history of the country for centuries?
Mountains
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Which Asian nation is home to Mount Pinatubo, the Naval Base Subic Bay, and is where Emilio Aguinaldo comes from who fought in the Spanish-American War?
The Philippines.
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How can pitch be modulated on the instrument that evolved from the Egyptian sistrum?
The pitch of a triangle can be modulated by varying the area struck and by more subtle damping.
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The Order of the Black what, a large and rather plump version of which decorates the chamber of the Bundestag, was the highest order of chivalry in the Kingdom of Prussia?
Eagle
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Pharmaceutical reference and EN are both varieties of what?
Standards
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Chiral Lewis acids are a type of what catalyst that effects the chirality of the substrate that is capable of binding two Lewis base?
Lewis acid
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How long after the death of Eschiva's father did Odo become appointed as bailli of the kingdom?
49 years
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The family of twin-engine, multirole combat aircraft, jointly developed and manufactured by Italy, the United Kingdom and West Germany that have a set of wings, that may be swept back and then returned to its original straight position during flight, are named what?
The Panavia Tornado
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The Battle of Guadalete was fought between the Christian Visigoths of Hispania and what people who drove on the early Muslim conquests, including North Africa, Spain, Central Asia, and Sindh?
The Umayyads
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Who developed and patented character detection & recognition, more commonly known as CDR coding?
It was developed and patented by the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
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What area borders Pangasinan to the north and northeast and has a mountain range that includes Jurassic to Miocene ophiolite massifs?
Zambales.
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M. B. Sreenivasan and Mallikarjun both made music for what?
Films.
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What main religious concept teaches that God revealed to Moses on Mount Sinai and that only God created the universe
Judaism teaches that God literally revealed to Moses on Mount Sinai and that God created the universe
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What is the capital of the only German state with municipalities that have fifth-level administrative subdivisions?
Munich is the capital of Bavaria, the only German state with municipalities that have fifth-level administrative subdivisions.
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Japanese and Tibetan are both types of what?
Buddhism
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What river with the Warkworth Castle built on its loop discharges into the North Sea on the east coast at Amble
The River Coquet.
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What Idaho peak with an elevation of 12,009 feet above sea level was named after an early settler and businessperson in the local mining industry?
Hyndman Peak
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Ef represents the voiceless labiodental fricative in what script that was made Bulgaria in 893?
Ef is a Cyrillic letter.
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What largely homogenous society has racism arising from its own history, sinicization, and nationalism?
China.
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The Chrysididae family of wasps containing the cuckoo wasps are known for what kind of appearance to the point where one species is called "chrysis" which means "gold vessel"?
They are cosmopolitan and brilliantly metallic.
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How many acres larger is the Battery than Cannon Park?
22.3
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How many varieties of the language Romani are there and which language does it share features with?
Romani is an Indo-Aryan macrolanguage of the Romani communities.[19] According to Ethnologue, seven varieties of Romani are divergent enough to be considered languages of their own.Romani shares a number of features with the Central Zone languages.
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The seat of the Catholic parish of the same name of the Vicariate of Recco-Uscio-Camogli, and the Santa Maria de Montserrat are both what?
Abbeys
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What plant organ that contains the reproductive structure is the largest of any spruce on the Picea abies?
The cones.
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How tall is Tahoma?
14,411 feet
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The United States Air Force 's Advanced Medium Short Takeoff and Landing Transport competition was intended to find a replacement for what?
Lockheed C-130
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What historical monument is found in the region of Iran that has Alvand Mountain?
The stone lion of Hamadan.
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Maturing what, the composting of which is the production of compost by piling organic matter or biodegradable waste, can occur at a facility for aerated static pile composting?
Windrows
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The San Bernardino Strait and the Basilan Strait can be both found within what country?
The Philippines.
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What are the attributes of the deity who is associated with the cardinal modality of the three air signs?
This deity's attributes are a blindfold, scales, and a sword.
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Kangaroos of what gender weigh from 18 to 40 kg and have a pouch called a marsupium?
Female
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Interstate 105 runs past a major travel hub that is ranked what worldwide?
LAX was the fifth busiest airport in the world.
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In ancient times what was the accepted measurement of the distance between a person's outstretched thumb and little finger?
Half a cubit
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Who was the first European to visit the county that includes the largest of the Sea Islands of Georgia?
Jean Ribault was the first European to visit what is now Camden County, the county that includes Cumberland Island, the largest of Georgia's Sea Islands.
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What structure always shares the drainage basin of the river and first saw use during the Roman occupation of the south of Great Britain?
Canals.
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What kind of boots are brogan and ammunition boots?
Both are ankle boots.
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The constellation known in the UK as the Plough has how many stars in its moving group?
Five.
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Which letter is different in the acronym for Artificial neural networks and Spiking neural networks?
The first letter is different.
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What is the population-level measure of toxicity for fenbendazole?
The LD 50, which is a measure of toxicity for a population, is 10 g/kg when administered orally.
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What country has the most popular and copied cuisine whose people in the US were viewed mainly as construction and industrial workers?
Italy.
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The Homs governorate is one of how many governorates of Syria?
14
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How common is the use of the epiglottis in producing epiglottal consonant speech sounds?
This sound type is rare, like the voiced epiglottal affricate, which has not been reported to occur phonemically in any language.
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Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia operates a hospital that is located in the national capital of a country that has a population of what size?
Over 32 million.
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British Isles" has been used in a geographical sense in parliamentary debates in what country where in the northern part local councils do not carry out the same range of functions as those in the rest of the United Kingdom;?
Ireland
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What are the two subpopulations of neutrocytes?
neutrophil-killers and neutrophil-cagers
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What type of an inability to produce voiced sound is seen in patients with underlying psychological problems?
Psychogenic aphonia
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Which part of a Lebetine viper is almost completely fused into a single plate?
Nasal and nasorostral scales
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Hepatic steatosis affects more than what percentage of heavy drinkers?
90%
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In geometry what kind of solids are metabigyrate rhombicosidodecahedron and parabigyrate rhombicosidodecahedron?
They are Johnson solids.
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The common surname Yi is a part of what language that uses the name "Hong Gil-dong" as a version of "John Doe"?
Korean.
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Are there more mammalian subspecies or more species in the order Gruiformes as near threatened?
There are more mammalian subspecies near threatened.
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What instrument is used in the Finale and is part of the Sachs–Hornbostel system?
Oboe.
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What US state does the 45 km long mountain range named after an engineer and the 72 km long mountain range eat of the Great Salt Lake Desert belong to?
Utah.
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The Canada Medal and Defence Medal were both created for what conflict?
World War II.
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The automatic grenade launcher Granatmaschinengewehr and the HK69A1 40 mm grenade launcher were both developed by whom?
Heckler & Koch.
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What does the title of the Indian Muslim scholar and the former president of Samastha Kerala Islam Matha Vidyabyasa Board mean?
Musliyar is an honorific associated with South Indian, chiefly Malayali, scholars of Islam
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Who invented th Four square cipher what makes it less susceptible to frequency analysis attacks?
The Four square cypher was invented by the French cryptographer Felix Delastelle.The use of digraphs makes the four-square technique less susceptible to frequency analysis attacks, as the analysis must be done on 676 possible digraphs rather than just 26 for monographic substitution.
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How many universities are in the city that is near the place that where 350th Reconnaissance Aviation Squadron used to be active?
This city has two universities.
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What subcontinent does the history of the country with the mystical kingdom of Lanka intertwine with?
India.
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N3-class are what, which G3s have been considered fast versions of?
Battleships
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If you were suffering from a 101 degree temperature, would an antipyrectic or an antiparasitic be better to take?
An antipyrectic would be better as it's a fever reducer.
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What language developed in isolation in part of the Cook Islands uses two distinctive word orders of verb-subject-object and Verb-Object-Subject?
Pukapukan
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The rare oxide mineral composed of tellurium dioxide should not be confused with what salt that is the conjugate base of the thermally unstable acid hydrogen telluride?
Sodium telluride.
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Both Republic of Mauritius and Trinidad and Tobago have members of legislative bodies called Leaders of what?
The Opposition
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What is the chemical compound that contains at least one oxygen atom present in the mineral magnetite?
An oxide.
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How many years after the Kingdom of Judah ended did Darius I of Persia proclaim that Aramaic be the official language of the western half of his empire?
Darius I of Persia proclaimed that Aramaic be the official language of the western half of his empire some 86 years after the Kingdom of Judah came to an end.
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At the end of the star lifetime, when thermal processes are weaker, some stars may become white dwarfs, which are only sustained against gravity by what pressure, which is a particular manifestation of the more general phenomenon of quantum degeneracy pressure?
Electron degeneracy pressure
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What was the religion of the Empire that referred to its Emperors as Khagan?
Buddhism became the de facto state religion of the Mongol Yuan state
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A strange quark and an antiparticle of an up quark have what mass when combined?
493.677 ± 0.013 MeV
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The immunoglobulin light chain are a group of what thing that PFKFB1 is an example of?
Genes
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What are the most familiar of the composite subatomic particles made of an odd number of valence quarks?
Protons and neutrons.
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The Republic of Azerbaijan and the Republic of the Philippines both have red and blue on their what?
National flags.
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The ani that lives in small groups of one to five breeding pairs and lay their eggs in one communal nest has a habitat that includes which US state?
The groove-billed ani can be found in Texas.
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Hexaphenylethane is a hypothetical organic compound with a core consisting of what organic chemical compound with the formula C 2H 6?
Hexaphenylethane is a hypothetical organic compound consisting of an ethane core.
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What word is used across northern Spain as a generic term for woodwind instruments that use enclosed reeds fed from a constant reservoir of air in the form of a bag?
Gaita
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What qualities do toothed whale mammals, including sperm whales, beaked whales, killer whales, dolphins and porpoises, make them best adapted to aquatic life?
They have a spindle-shaped nearly hairless body, protected by a thick layer of blubber, and forelimbs and tail modified to provide propulsion underwater.
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Tugpahanan sa Ipil and Dipolog can be both names of what?
Airports.
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SANDF comprises the armed forces of what country, whose Army's rank structure was shared between the Army, Air Force and SAMS with some small differences during the apartheid era?
South Africa
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Traditionally, New Orleans what, a quartet of which features two trumpets, a trombone and a tuba, could feature various instrumentations, bands often including trumpets, trombones, clarinets, saxophones, sousaphones, and percussion?
Brass
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The six-spotted fishing spider is from what genus whose species are mainly semiaquatic?
Dolomedes
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