What force precisely measured in the Cavendish experiment is caused by space-time curvature in general relativity and was conceived of by Isaac Newton?

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Edouard Manet painted this controversial updating of Titian's Venus of Urbino, which depicts its title prostitute along with a black servant.

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The musical work Carmina Burana belongs to this genre of music for chorus and orchestra, whose name comes from the Latin word for "sing".

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This author wrote, "A rose is a rose is a rose is a rose."

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This god tricked the dwarf Alvis into talking until the Sun turned him into stone.

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What is the length of the hypotenuse of a right triangle whose legs are 4 and 3?

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What is the value of 5! (5 factorial)?

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Volcanic eruptions near the ocean produce large rafts of this vesicular [veh-SIK-yoo-lur] rock, which is often used as an abrasive.

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Unique fan-shaped leaves characterize the only extant plant in this gymnosperm genus; that plant has the species name biloba [bih-LOH-bah].

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His conquest of the Spanish March appears in the Song of Roland, a tale of the paladins who followed this father of Louis the Pious.

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Pope Sixtus V considered this force a crusade, granting indulgences to participants and allowing the king to collect crusade taxes to fund it.

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Give BOTH values of x that solve the equation: x squared equals x.

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"A" is a 2 by 2 matrix whose top row is (2, 3) and whose bottom row is (3, 5). "A" is NOT a singular matrix because what property of A is nonzero? For a 2 by 2 matrix, this property may be calculated as ad minus bc.

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Manhattan is an island surrounded by three rivers; the Hudson River, the East River, and this one separating Manhattan from the Bronx.

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The Fourth Crusade ended with the crusaders deciding to sack this Christian city, the capital of the Byzantine Empire, because they had lost their original source of funding.

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Name this process, that has been studied in the C. elegans embryo, which involves a "caspase cascade" and a "death-inducing signaling complex."

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Name this law of motion which, in one translation, is worded as "the mutual actions of two bodies upon each other are always equal, and directed to contrary parts."

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Name this Rudyard Kipling poem about a heroic Indian water-carrier.

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Charles Marlow embarks on a mission to find Mr. Kurtz in this author's novel Heart of Darkness.

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