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The number 4, raised to what power, equals 8?

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If a tax increase of one quarter percent causes you to pay an extra 15¢ for a product, what was the original price of the item?

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What do the business symbols TM, SM and R mean?

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What is the name for the type of Japanese verse form having three lines with 5, 7, and 5 syllables?

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Since the early 1700's, nearly all British prime ministers have lived at what London street address?

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I'll give you a sequence of initials. You give the initials that logically follow: JFK / DDE / HST

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It was imported to Europe for the first time by Dutch traders around 1610. It was sold for the first time in Britain around 1660. What was it?

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This mysterious number, the base of a natural logarithm, is related to natural and exponential growth. What is this number called, and what is its decimal value?

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Sought for over 17 years in connection with a series of mail bombs, which mathematician was arrested in April, 1996 as the so-called Unabomber? full credit if spelled right.

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Emoticons, or smileys, are a series of typed characters frequently used in e-mails that resemble a face and express the writer's emotion. What does the following represent :-) (colon-dash-right parenthesis) ?

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His presidential inauguration speech in winter, 1841 took well over an hour to read, during which time he caught a chill that led to pneumonia and death a month later. Name this ninth President who had the shortest term of office.

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In 1960, one was studying at the London School of Economics and the other at the Dartford Art School. They shared a mutual interest in rhythm and blues music and eventually formed one of the most popular groups of all time, the Rolling Stones. Who were th

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Name the three bones of the ear.

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What sporting event is named for a fifth century B.C. military battle in which the Greeks defeated a much larger Persian army, and sent a messenger who collapsed and died upon delivering his message?

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The name of what disease means, in Italian, bad air?