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62½¢ Trivia
Name the 20th century novel most commonly associated with this word.
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62½¢ Trivia
- Pound-for-pound, table salt is a more effective antifreeze agent than either ethylene or propylene glycol.
- A duck's quack doesn't echo
- According to Newtonian physics, the magnitude of the gravitational force between any two objects is inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them.
- The Five Books of Moses, while considered Holy, are not generally considered divine works by evangelical Protestants.
- “This is England” was the only single released in the US by punk band The Clash that did not feature Mick Jones on either guitar or vocals.
- Assuming they have no great-grandparents, grandparents, or parents in common, David Shaw’s two great-great-granddaughters would necessarily be 4th cousins of one another.
- Steve Ignorant was a vocalist for both the punk bands Crass and Conflict.
- If dy/dx = y then y = ln(x).
- log<sub>b</sub>(x) = log<sub>c</sub>(x) ÷ log<sub>x</sub>(b)
- Brown University is the only member of the Ivy League to have neither a business school nor a law school.
- As the degrees of freedom of Student’s t-distribution approach infinity, the distribution approaches normal.
- Don Cheadle is the only Academy Award-nominated African-American actor to have graduated from College before the age of 20.
- In US sports betting, a money line of -160 is equivalent to decimal odds of exactly 1.625.
- This temporal ordering of US Vice-Presidents is correct: Tom, Calvin, Charles, Charles, Henry, John, Harry, Alben, Dick.
- The Queen's College, Oxford was founded after the start of the Hundred Years War.
- e<sup>iπ</sup> = 0
- 40 degrees below zero Celsius is colder than 40 degrees below zero Fahrenheit.
- The official motto of the Girl Scouts of the United States of America is “Be Prepared”.
- Lincoln's secretary, Kennedy, warned him not to go to Ford's Theatre and Kennedy's secretary, Lincoln, warned him not to go to Dallas.
- The conversion of sodium and chlorine molecules to table salt is an endothermic reaction.
- Bert, the Sesame Street Muppet, appears on posters carried by supporters of Osama bin Laden and photographed by Reuters and the AP.
- Dr. Josiah S. Carberry once served as Professor of Psychoceramics at Brown University.
- According to Einstein, the laws of physics may be different relative to one another in varying inertial frames of reference.
- Exactly one Commandant of the (US) Marine Corps has held a rank equivalent to that of a 5-star General.
- The NFL’s last successful drop kick occurred more recently than the NFL’s last fair catch kick attempt.
- For integers b and x > 1, the number log<sub>b</sub>(x) is irrational if either b or x has a prime factor which the other does not.
- Harvard University is the oldest institution of higher education in the Americas.
- The cardinal number of the set of all real numbers between any two integers is equal to the the cardinal number of the set of all rational numbers.
- Prior to President Bill Clinton, two US Presidents had been impeached.
- Were all Cabinet members natural born US citizens, the Secretary of Health and Human Services would be twelfth in the presidential line of succession.
- David Letterman and Brad Pitt were both members of the same national collegiate fraternity.
- Because Rudolph Giuliani was knighted in 2002, he’s properly known as Sir Rudolph in the United Kingdom and Commonwealth Realms.
- The theory of evolution by natural selection as put forth by Charles Darwin can not successfully explain the origin of life on Earth.
- The cardinal number of the set of all positive integers is greater than the cardinal number of the set of all even integers.
- No American astronauts landed on the surface of the moon on July 20, 1969.
- If two people are traveling in opposite directions at a constant velocity of one-quarter the speed of light relative to a stationary observer, then either person will view the other as receding from him at one-half the speed of light.
- A Boeing 747's wingspan is longer than the Wright brothers' first flight.
- The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.
- The Yale University coat of arms is one of only two coats of arms or official logos of the Ivy League and Seven Sisters schools that contain non-Roman letters.
- The Queen of the Bahamas is married to a former Prince of Greece and Denmark.
Name the 20th century novel most commonly associated with this word.
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