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Q 01DIFFICULTY 52 · HARDLITERATURE

The turkey dinner Meg and Calvin enjoy on Camazotz in A Wrinkle in Time tastes like what to Charles Wallace?

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  1. Q 01The turkey dinner Meg and Calvin enjoy on Camazotz in A Wrinkle in Time tastes like what to Charles Wallace?

    • APaper
    • BChalk
    • CSand
    • DAshes
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    Sand

    Sand is all he tastes, because the meal is an illusion planted in the mind and his mind is shut tight against it. Soon afterwards he lowers his guard on purpose, hoping to find his father.

    VERIFIED · GRADESAVER · SUMMARY-CHAPTER-7-THE-MAN-WITH-RED-EYES

  2. Q 02How did engineers stop Hoover Dam's concrete from taking over a century to cool and cure?

    • ALiquid nitrogen in the mix
    • BWinter-only pouring
    • CSalt added to the mix
    • DChilled water in embedded pipes
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    Chilled water in embedded pipes

    Chilled water was pumped through embedded pipes to cool each concrete column; once a column stopped contracting the pipes were filled with grout. Uncooled, the mass would have taken over a century to cure.

    VERIFIED · WIKIPEDIA · HOOVER DAM

  3. Q 03Which territory at the southern tip of the Iberian Peninsula did Spain cede to Britain in the 1713 Treaty of Utrecht?

    • AGibraltar
    • BAlgeciras
    • CCeuta
    • DCartagena
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    Gibraltar

    Gibraltar is dominated by its Rock, home to a colony of Barbary macaques, the famous 'apes' that are actually monkeys.

    VERIFIED · WIKIPEDIA · GIBRALTAR

  4. Q 04Johnny Marr formed which supergroup with New Order's Bernard Sumner after The Smiths broke up?

    • ABad Lieutenant
    • BThe The
    • CElectronic
    • DThe Other Two
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    Electronic

    Electronic also drew in Neil Tennant of Pet Shop Boys, and the group released three albums over the following decade.

    VERIFIED · WIKIPEDIA · THE SMITHS

  5. Q 05¿Quién otorgó a Mánchester en 1301 la carta que le concedía categoría de ciudad?

    • AHugh Lupus
    • BThomas Grelley
    • CRoger de Poitou
    • DRobert de Lacy
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    Thomas Grelley

    La villa perdió su condición de borough en un caso judicial de 1359 y hasta el siglo XIX la gobernaron tribunales señoriales.

    VERIFIED · WIKIPEDIA · MÁNCHESTER

  6. Q 06標高2,374メートルで、オリンピック山脈東部の最高峰とされる山は？

    • Aアンダーソン山
    • Bストーン山
    • Cデセプション山
    • Dミステリー山
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    デセプション山

    山脈全体の中心的な存在は西半部にあり、東部はそれに比べてかなり乾燥した性格を帯びている。

    VERIFIED · JA.WIKIPEDIA · オリンピック国立公園

  7. Q 07Wie heißen die Eisstraßen, die im Winter auf dem zugefrorenen Baikalsee angelegt werden?

    • ARasputiza
    • BZimnik
    • CPurga
    • DPolynja
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    Zimnik

    Einige Ortschaften am Ufer und die Inseln sind in der kalten Jahreszeit nur über diese Eispisten zu erreichen.

    VERIFIED · WIKIPEDIA · BAIKALSEE

  8. Q 08The PS3's wand-shaped Move controller is tracked by a camera that follows what on its tip?

    • AAn infrared strip
    • BA mirrored disc
    • CA laser pointer
    • DA glowing orb
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    A glowing orb

    A glowing orb lit by coloured LEDs sits on top of the wand. The system picks a colour that stands out from the rest of the room the camera can see.

    VERIFIED · WIKIPEDIA · PLAYSTATION MOVE

  9. Q 09スパイクが時折話を聞きに行く占い師ラフィング・ブルの住まいは？

    • Aイグルー
    • Bホーガン
    • Cユルト
    • Dティピー
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    ティピー

    ネイティブアメリカンの占い師で、準レギュラーとして登場する。予言のような謎めいたセリフが多い。

    VERIFIED · JA.WIKIPEDIA · カウボーイビバップ

  10. Q 10Which model is Vince secretly dating in the Entourage film, angering Travis McCredle?

    • AKate Upton
    • BCara Delevingne
    • CEmily Ratajkowski
    • DGigi Hadid
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    Emily Ratajkowski

    Emily Ratajkowski plays a version of herself; the financier's son is infatuated with her, and his demands to recut the film turn out to be plain jealousy, which Ari exposes in front of his father.

    VERIFIED · WIKIPEDIA · ENTOURAGE (FILM)

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