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WHEN DINOSAURS ROAMED THE EARTH |
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REJECTED S.A.T. QUESTIONS |
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There's no de"Nile": She became Egypt's teen queen in 51 B.C. |
Cleopatra
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This "king" of dinosaurs may have been the largest carnivore ever to live on land |
Tyrannosaurus rex
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List the following in chronological order earliest to latest: Christianity, Hinduism, "South Park" |
Hinduism, Christianity, South Park
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In 1802 he declared he would "take fate by the throat" & continue composing despite his deafness |
Beethoven
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If you listen to CDs, you should know CD stands for this |
compact disc
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Very similar things are like 2 peas in one of these |
a pod
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In 1644 Christina turned 18 & was crowned queen of this Scandinavian country |
Sweden
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This geological period when most of the largest dinosaurs lived is part of the name of a Spielberg movie |
the Jurassic period
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Train A goes only 20 mph & B goes 30; this U.S. national rail corp. will have to fix them |
Amtrak
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Oratorios Handel wrote after this 1742 one include "Hercules" & "Belshazzar" |
Messiah
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The January 2, 1928 issue of this magazine featured its first "Man of the Year", Charles Lindbergh |
Time
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In a poem by Clement Moore, St. Nick's "little round belly" shook "when he laughed, like a bowlful of" this |
jelly
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Maria Carolina was a teenage queen of Naples; this sister became a teen Queen of France in 1774 |
Marie Antoinette
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Flighty is to capricious as flimsy is to: A. indefatigable B. insubstantial C. interfascicular |
B (insubstantial)
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Frederic Chopin was born in a village near this Polish capital |
Warsaw
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Peter Parker, aka this comic book hero. got his super powers after he was bit by a radioactive arachnid |
Spiderman
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To do this like a log or a top is to do it soundly |
sleep
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This Queen of Scotland spent most of her teen years (the 1550s) in France; as the betrothed of the Dauphin |
Mary (Queen of Scots)
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The Apatosaurus, formerly called this, was an herbivore that stretched 70 feet & weighed up to 30 tons |
Brontosaurus
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Asia's 1900 Boxer Uprising was a movement to: A) win Olympic gold; B) unionize; C) get rid of foreigners |
get rid of foreigners
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This "Four Seasons" composer taught violin at a Venetian girl's orphanage |
Vivaldi
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Headquartered in McClean, Virginia, it's "the nation's newspaper" |
USA Today
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To be perfectly composed is to be "as cool as" this veggie |
a cucumber
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Like many young ladies, she kept a journal; on June 20, 1837, at age 18, she wrote in it, "I am queen" |
Victoria
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The 8-foot long Sinosaurus got its name because of its discovery in Yunan in this Asian country |
China
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Of A) codicil; B) uracil; C) Clearasil, it's a base contained in RNA |
uracil
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Franz Schubert called this man's overture to "The Marriage of Figaro" "the most beautiful in the whole world" |
(Emily: Who was Rossini?)
Mozart
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Programs on this cable network include "Crossfire" & "The Point with Greta Van Susteren" |
CNN
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One might be as mad as a hatter or as this, also a character in "Alice in Wonderland" |
a March hare
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