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Agriculture: In 1940, Norman Borlaug led a group of scientists looking into ways to improve farm efficiency. Where were the farmers they were asked to help?
South Dakota
Brazil
Mexico
South Africa
Biology: Who is credited with discovering photosynthesis?
Andreas Vesalius
Leonardo da Vinci
Charles Darwin
Jan Ingenhousz
Horticulture: Where did tomatoes originate?
Central America
Italy
Africa
China
Language: Which language family does the most widely spoken language in the world belong to?
Indo-European
Hamitic
Semitic
Sino-Tibetan
Literature: Which is an example of allegory?
War and Peace by Tolstoy
Animal Farm by Orwell
Moby Dick by Melville
Bleak House by Dickens
Mathematics: In a right triangle, what is the side opposite the right angle called?
the tangent
the cosecant
the hypotenuse
the hypothesis
Perfume: Of the 5,000 ingredients used in creating fragranced products, what percentage of these have the inhaling effects been safety tested?
0%
50%
80%
99%
Physics: Which is not one of the four fundamental forces of nature?
elasticity
electromagnetism
gravitation
weak nuclear force
SETI: Where was the world's first SETI meeting held?
Geneva, Switzerland
Berkeley, California
Arecibo, Puerto Rico
Green Bank, West Virginia
Software: Software that is intended to be purchased after a free trial period is called what?
liteware
public domain software
shareware
freeware

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