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Trivia Questions

A silvery food fish, or to heat ore in order to extract metal

In rhyme, the bells of St. Clement's speak of these 2 fruits that'll help prevent scurvy

Unlike most of its pine family relatives, the larch is classified as this, as it loses its needles each fall

In 1585 Dutch mathematician Simon Stevin first converted fractions to this format

In 1582 much of Europe switched to this calendar after dropping 10 days from October

In 1569 this Flemish geographer developed a map of the world in which Greenland looks bigger than Africa

This tube connecting the ear and the throat was named for the scientist who illustrated it in 1552

He died on May 24, 1543, just after receiving the first copy of his book "On the Revolutions of Heavenly Bodies"

This force causes an object to travel 32 feet per second faster for every second that it falls

A substance whose molecules contain more than one kind of atom, like water's hydrogen & oxygen atoms