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Science › Astronomy › Solar System › Solar Eclipses
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A solar eclipse occurs when the moon passes between the Sun and the Earth so that the Sun is fully or partially covered. This can only happen during a new moon. |
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| Posted: | June 14, 2009 |
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| By: | MastersOfTrivia | |
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Literature › Authors › Literary Fiction › Jules Verne
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Jules Gabriel Verne (8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) was a French author who helped pioneer the science-fiction genre. |
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| Posted: | November 6, 2009 |
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| By: | MastersOfTrivia | |
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Humanities › Literature › Authors › H. P. Lovecraft
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Lovecraft's major inspiration and invention was cosmic horror, the idea that life is incomprehensible to human minds and that the universe is fundamentally alien. |
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| Posted: | June 28, 2009 |
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| By: | MastersOfTrivia | |
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Humanities › Literature › Authors › Stephen King
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A quick quiz about the "Master of Horror" whose books have been translated into 33 different languages and published in over 35 different countries. |
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| Posted: | September 20, 2009 |
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| By: | MastersOfTrivia | |
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Science › Chemistry › Chemistry › Chemistry
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Chemistry (from Arabic:الكيم Latinized: chem (kēme), meaning "earth") is the science concerned with the composition, behavior, structure, and properties of matter, as well as the changes it undergoes during chemical reactions. |
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| Posted: | October 31, 2009 |
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| By: | MastersOfTrivia | |
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Science › Alternative Science › Paranormal Phenomena › Nostradamus
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Michel de Nostredame, usually Latinised to Nostradamus, was a French apothecary and reputed seer who published collections of prophecies that have since become famous worldwide. |
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| Posted: | November 7, 2009 |
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| By: | MastersOfTrivia | |
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Science › Astronomy › General Astronomy › Astronomy Quiz
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Brush up on your astronomy I.Q. with this quick, ten-question quiz... |
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| Posted: | October 11, 2009 |
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| By: | MastersOfTrivia | |
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History › US History › 19th Century › Thomas Edison
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In 1983, the United States Congress, designated February 11, Edison's birthday, as "National Inventor's Day". |
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| Posted: | June 28, 2009 |
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| By: | MastersOfTrivia | |
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Humanities › Literature › Authors › Johann von Goethe
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Brush up on your Humanities I.Q. with this Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quiz. |
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| Posted: | September 2, 2009 |
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| By: | MastersOfTrivia | |
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Science › Biology › Biology › Biology
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Biology (from Greek βιολογία - βίος, bios, "life"; -λογία, -logia, study of) is the natural science concerned with the study of life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, distribution, and taxonomy. |
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| Posted: | October 31, 2009 |
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| By: | MastersOfTrivia | |
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Science › Alternative Science › Paranormal Phenomena › UFOs
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Unidentified flying object (commonly abbreviated as UFO or U.F.O.) is the popular term for any aerial phenomenon whose cause cannot be easily or immediately identified by the observer. The United States Air Force coined the term in 1952. |
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| Posted: | November 4, 2009 |
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