Flashcard Bowl Club - Week 1

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Zoology is the study of what kingdom that you belong to?

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Animals

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This man wrote a song for Bertha Faber to sing her child to sleep. Name this third of classical music’s “Three Bs,” a German composer who wrote a famous “Lullaby.”

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Johannes Brahms

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Name this disaster that reduced the home of poet Anne Bradstreet to ashes.

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Fire

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This EDM pop-duo described a “Blink 182 song/that we beat to death in Tuscon” while Halsey sang “we ain’t ever getting older” in another. Name this EDM-pop duo of “Something Just Like This”, "Paris", and “Closer.”

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The Chainsmokers

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This German astronomer noted that planets move in elliptical orbits in the first of his laws of planetary motion.

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Johannes Kepler

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Kepler described this many laws of planetary motion, the same number that Newton used to describe motion in general.

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3

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Name this MLB team that won the AL pennant in 2016 before losing to the Chicago Cubs in the World Series.

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Cleveland Indians

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When graphed, these mathematical objects obey the vertical line test, because they cannot provide two different y-values for the same x-value; put another way, each input must lead to exactly one output. Name these mathematical objects which are often written in f(x) notation.

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Functions

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In the radian measurement system, a right angle measures this many radians.

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Pi over 2

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These quadrilaterals are parallelograms with four equal sides. Their angles don’t have to be 90 degrees, but if any one angle is 90 degrees, it immediately follows that all four angles are right angles and this shape is actually a square.

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Rhombus