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The phenomenon is named for the Roman goddess of the dawn

• Auroa
• Dawn
• Dayanis
• Demetria

Forming the Iowa-Illinois border, this river flows south past the cities of Tunica, Vicksburg, and Natchez.

• Missouri
• Mississippi
• Arkansas
• Rio Grande

Medieval trade across this desert used camel caravans to exchange gold for salt

• Arabian
• Gobi
• Great Basin
• Sahara

The ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter is symbolized by this Greek letter

• pi
• alpha
• zeta
• lambda

The ratio of a line's rise over its run is this quantity

• parallel
• step
• slide
• slope

Shot at Chancellorsville, this man earned the nickname "Stonewall"  after Barnard bee saw him standing at Manassas.

• Jefferson
• Lincoln
• Jackson
• Harrison

This son of Zeus and Hera was the Greek god of war

• Mars
• Athena
• Ares
• Triton

He was a successful peanut farmer when he saw a UFO in Leary, Georgia, in 1969. Seven years later he won the U.S. presidential election

• Richard Nixon
• Jimmy Carter Jr.
• Hubert Humphrey
• John F. Kennedy

The SI unit of power is named for which Scottish engineer who improved on the Newcomen steam engine?

• Watt
• ampere
• current
• voltage

At soccer's 2010 World Cup Lodeiro   earned one of these cards in which he was ejected from a game against France

• orange
• blue
• red
• yellow