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What is the derivative of sin x?
Answer: Cos x
What is the main gas responsible for the greenhouse effect on Earth?
Answer: Carbon Dioxide
In 1804 Rhode Island College was renamed this
Answer: Brown
Term for a type of triangle with three equal sides.
Answer: equilateral
Which language is the native tongue of most people in Austria?
Answer: German
1/8 of a mile, or 201.7m.
Answer: Furlong
South Carolina military college whose name sound like a fortress.
Answer: The Citadel
Which element has the atomic number 6?
Answer: Carbon
What is the process of a solid turning directly into a gas called?
Answer: Sublimation
In a circle there are 360 of these units
Answer: Degrees
What name is given to the fraction part of a logarithm number?
Answer: Mantissa
A straight angle has this many degrees.
Answer: 180
Which device is used to measure electric current?
Answer: Ammeter
A binary system is based on 2; this is a system based on 10.
Answer: A decimal system
Urbanology is the study of the problems of these places.
Answer: Cities
In the number 4.231, what digit is in the “hundredths” place?
Answer: 3
Traditionally, biology is divided into 2 major fields: botany & this study of animals.
Answer: Zoology
If you're into acting or photography, you may want a B.F.A., which stands for this.
Answer: Bachelor of Fine Arts
If the Sea Dragon theme park ride moves in a semicircle, it describes an arc of this many degrees.
Answer: 180
What is the chemical symbol for Iron?
Answer: Fe
The 6th letter of the Greek alphabet, it corresponds to our 26th
Answer: Zeta
It means occurring every 6 years.
Answer: Hexennial
Which element is liquid at room temperature?
Answer: Mercury
In the sentence "It was as if an occult hand had been at work", "occult" is this part of speech.
Answer: An adjective
Sedimentology is a branch of this -ology.
Answer: Geology
Angles & compass readings are measured in these.
Answer: Degrees
Which state of matter has no definite shape or volume?
Answer: Gas
This D.C. university is America's oldest Roman Catholic-sponsored college.
Answer: Georgetown
1/15 + 1/45 = this.
Answer: 4/45
An angle that is less than a right angle; or sharp & severe.
Answer: Acute
You can earn a J.D. degree online, preparing you to practice in this field.
Answer: Law
Term for the partial story between 2 main stories of a building, or, a low balcony in some theatres.
Answer: Mezzanine
Which hormone regulates circadian rhythms in humans?
Answer: Melatonin
What is the answer to a division problem called?
Answer: Quotient
A cube has this many sides.
Answer: 6
In the sentence "Sailing is fun", "sailing" is this, also called a verbal noun.
Answer: A gerund
The name of this branch of math comes from 2 Greek words meaning "earth measure".
Answer: Geometry
What is the value of 3 squared plus 4 squared?
Answer: 25
What is the smallest unit of society in sociology?
Answer: Family
What do we call the bending of light as it passes from one medium to another?
Answer: Refraction
A key plot point in "The Social Network," the exclusive frat-like clubs at Harvard University are called what?
Answer: Final Clubs
Otology is the medical branch that deals with these organs.
Answer: Ears
Whether you're male or female, you're this kind of "man" as a first-year student in college.
Answer: Freshman
On a map, this is denoted by 1 inch=3 miles, for example.
Answer: Scale
In 1989 this first U.S. woman in space became a professor of physics at UCSD & director of the Ca. Space Institute.
Answer: Sally Ride
An angle greater than 90 degrees is said to be _________.
Answer: Obtuse
The symbol for this looks like a number 8 lying on its side.
Answer: Infinity
The average value of a set of numbers, or cruel.
Answer: Mean
Franz Boas & Margaret Mead were experts in this field.
Answer: Anthropology
An integer that is greater than 1 & is divisible only by itself & 1 is known as this.
Answer: Prime Number