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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• The Golden Age Of Piracy

In what year was pirate Stede Bonnet executed in Charleston, South Carolina?

Answer

1718

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• The Golden Age Of Piracy

Who captured pirate Calico Jack Rackham near Jamaica in 1720?

Answer

Jonathan Barnet

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• Easy Easy difficulty.
• The Golden Age Of Piracy

Which pirate captain led the English attack that sacked Panama City in 1671?

Answer

Henry Morgan

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• The Golden Age Of Piracy

What was the name of Blackbeard’s flagship, the captured French ship he refitted in 1717?

Answer

Queen Anne’s Revenge

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• The Periodic Table

On the periodic table, which element is named after the ancient Roman name for Paris?

Answer

Lutetium

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• The Periodic Table

On the periodic table, which element is the first member of the actinide series?

Answer

Actinium

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• The Periodic Table

On the periodic table, which element has the highest atomic number among elements found naturally in significant quantities?

Answer

Uranium

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• Intermediate Intermediate difficulty.
• Earthquakes And Plate Tectonics

Who invented the earliest known seismoscope, an instrument for detecting distant earthquakes, in ancient China?

Answer

Zhang Heng

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• Hard Hard difficulty.
• Earthquakes And Plate Tectonics

In earthquake science, what term describes a section of an active fault that has not ruptured in a major earthquake for an unusually long time?

Answer

Seismic gap

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• Earthquakes And Plate Tectonics

What type of plate boundary formed the Himalayas when the Indian Plate collided with the Eurasian Plate?

Answer

Convergent boundary

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• Earthquakes And Plate Tectonics

What is the name of the longest mountain range on Earth, formed mainly along oceanic spreading centers?

Answer

Mid-Ocean Ridge

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• Earthquakes And Plate Tectonics

Which fault is the best-known transform boundary between the Pacific and North American plates?

Answer

San Andreas Fault

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