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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Preface | |
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| Who were the 3 sons of Adam and Eve? | |
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| Who are the 3 gods of the Hindu Trinity (the Trimurti?) What are Kepler's 3 Laws of Planetary Motion? | |
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| Who are the 3 daughters of King Lear? | |
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| What are the 3 stages of Hegel's dialectic? | |
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| What are the 3 Laws of Thermodynamics? | |
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| Who are the 3 Persons of the Christian Trinity? | |
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| Who are the 3 Musketeers? | |
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| Who were the 3 sons of Noah? | |
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| What are the 3 ages of Vico's historical cycle? | |
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| Who were the 3 Magi, and what gifts did they bring? | |
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| What are the 3 components of the Freudian psyche? | |
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| What 3 beasts confront Dante in Canto 1 of theInferno? | |
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| Who were the 3 Furies? | |
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| Who were the 3 members of the First Triumvirate? | |
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| Who were the 3 members of the Second Triumvirate? | |
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| What are Newton's 3 Laws of Motion? | |
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| What were the 3 Temptations of Christ? | |
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| Who were the 3 Fates? | |
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| What were the 4 elements and their associated humors? | |
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| What are the 4 voyages of Lemuel Gulliver? | |
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| What are the 4 conic sections? | |
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| What are the 4 sections of a symphony orchestra? | |
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| What were the 4 Freedoms of Franklin Delano Roosevelt? | |
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| What were the 4 chief winds in ancient Greece? | |
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| What are the 4 Noble Truths of Buddhism? | |
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| Which 4 U.S. Presidents were assassinated-and who were their killers? | |
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| What are the 4 fundamental forces? | |
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| Who are the 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse? | |
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| Who were the Big Four, and what nations did they represent at the Paris Peace Conference (1919)? | |
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| Who were the 4 Bronte siblings? | |
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| Who were the 4 Evangelists, and what were their symbols? | |
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| What are the 4 properties of a musical tone? | |
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| What are the 4 parts of T. S. Eliot'sFour Quartetsand their associated elements? | |
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| What are the 4 Last Things? | |
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| What are the 5 Pillars of Islam? | |
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| What were the 5 events of the ancient Olympic pentathlon? | |
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| What are the 5 basic positions of the feet in classical ballet? | |
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| Which were the 5 Civilized Tribes? | |
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| What are the 5 classical architectural orders? | |
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| Who were the Russian composers known as the Mighty Five? | |
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| What were the 5 rivers of the classical underworld? | |
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| What are the 6 flavors of quarks? | |
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| Who were the 6 wives of Henry VII? | |
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| Who were the 6 French composers known asLes Six? | |
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| What were the 6 major European invasions of Russia since the days of Peter the Great? | |
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| What are the 6 trigonometric functions? | |
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| Which were the 6 Iroquois (or Allied) Nations? | |
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| What are the 6 ranges of the human voice? | |
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| Which were the 6 Axis Powers in World War II? | |
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| What are the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World? | |
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| What were the works of the 7 days of Creation? | |
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| What were the 7 Hills of Rome? | |
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| What were the 7 Liberal Arts of the medieval curriculum? | |
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| Where do the English names of the 7 days of the week come from? | |
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| What are the 7 kinds of plane triangles? | |
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| What are the 7 main levels of taxonomic classification? | |
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| Which 7 European nations were the main colonizers of Africa in 1914? | |
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| What are the 7 sacraments? | |
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| Who were the 7 against Thebes? | |
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| What are the 7 Heavens of the Muslims made of--and who presides over each? | |
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| Who were the 7 Sages of Greece? | |
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| What are the 7 Deadly Sins? | |
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| What are the 7 Virtues? | |
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| What are the 7 Ages of Man according to Shakespeare? | |
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| What were the 7 metals of alchemy and their associated gods and planets? | |
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| What were 7 French dynasties? | |
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| What are the 7 voyages of Sinbad the Sailor? | |
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| What are the 7 Last Words of Christ? | |
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| What are the components of the Noble Eightfold Path of Buddhism? | |
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| Who were the American artists known as The Eight? | |
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| What are the 8 Beatitudes? | |
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| Who were the 9 great gods of ancient Egypt (The Great Ennead)? | |
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| What were the 9 royal houses of England after 1066? | |
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| Who were the 9 Muses, and what were their associated arts? | |
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| What are t[$$$] | |