What weather term comes from the Aboriginal "Huracan"?
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Question 2 of 10
What is a bird doing when it molts?
Question 3 of 10
What Japanese paper-based art is also of interest to mathematicians?
Question 4 of 10
As the story goes, in the first century BCE, what kind of surgery was Aulus Cornelius Celsus inspired to invent, after watching a goat cut its eye on a thorn?
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Question 5 of 10
As the largest bone in the foot, the calcaneus is also known by what name, particularly if it belongs to a scoundrel?
Question 6 of 10
As we learned in "Fight Club," if you have beech ash for the alkali, what can you make with animal fats?
Question 7 of 10
Aerodynamically speaking, this object's 330-500 dimples "turbulate the boundary layer." What is it?
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Question 8 of 10
Despite its effectiveness in controlling malarial mosquitoes, what controversial chemical vanished from use after Rachel Carson blamed it for killing birds and poisoning people in her 1962 book Silent Spring?
Question 9 of 10
In the 1990s, it became very common to give methylphenidate to kids, especially boys. What is it?
Question 10 of 10
Named for James Clerk Maxwell, the mountain Maxwell Montes is called "the only man on" what astronomical body, whose features are mostly named for women?
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