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1. Colloids: What kind of colloids are dispersions of gases in liquids or solids?
   
   
2. Play Synopses: This is a partial synopsis of what play?
   The exiled duke Prospero releases the ecalcitrant Ariel from a pine tree prison, and engages his services in cultivating romance for his daughter, Miranda, and in regaining his dukedom.
   
   
3. Chemicals: Isopropanol, ethanol, and methanol are members of what group of chemical compounds?
   
   
4. Poems: Who, according to Longfellow, uttered these words?
   John Alden! You have betrayed me!
   You who have fed at my board and
   drunk at my cup, to whose keeping
   I have intrusted my honor. Let there
   be nothing between us save war and
   implacable hatred!
   
   
5. Plant Problems: What term indicates the bleaching of plant leaves due to light deprivation?
   
   
6. Bacteria: What can bacteria do without according to this passage?
   When in the resting spore stage, bacteria can tolerate extreme desiccation for long periods of time.
   
   
7. The Ocean Floor: These plains are adjacent to what continent?
   Bellingshausen Abyssal Plain
   Enderby Abyssal Plain
   Weddell Abyssal Plain
   Wilkes Abyssal Plain
   
   
8. Courageous Ladies: As British forces were torching Washington and everyone was fleeing, she stayed behind to save state papers and presidential portraits. When she finally left, the British were so close that they ate the hot meal she had made for herself. Who was she?
   
   
9. Amendments: Because it moved the presidential and vice presidential inauguration dates from March 4 to January 20, what amendment to the U.S. Constitution is also known as the Lame Duck Amendment?
   
   
10. Plays: What play by Neil Simon could have been, but was not, given this title?
    Perambulating without shoes or socks in a green tract of public, urban land.

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