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  2. Skill testing question - Wikipedia

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    For example, a sample question is "(16 × 5) - (12 ÷ 4)" (Answer: 77). The winner should not receive any assistance (e.g. using a calculator, asking another individual to calculate the answer for the winner) in answering the STQ. Enforcement of these rules is not very stringent, especially for small prizes.

  3. Multiple choice - Wikipedia

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    A multiple choice question, with days of the week as potential answers. Multiple choice (MC), [1] objective response or MCQ(for multiple choice question) is a form of an objective assessment in which respondents are asked to select only the correct answer from the choices offered as a list.

  4. Mythology of Benjamin Banneker - Wikipedia

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    The question's answer is incorrect. Banneker did not help design either the United States Capitol or the nation's capital city and did not write America's first almanac. [ 34 ] The first known clockmaker of record in America was Thomas Nash, an early settler of New Haven, Connecticut, in 1638.

  5. Pinaceae - Wikipedia

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    The Pinaceae (/ p ɪ ˈ n eɪ s iː ˌ iː,-s i ˌ aɪ /), or pine family, are conifer trees or shrubs, including many of the well-known conifers of commercial importance such as cedars, firs, hemlocks, piñons, larches, pines and spruces. The family is included in the order Pinales, formerly known as Coniferales.

  6. Spruce - Wikipedia

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    Spruce is useful as a building wood, commonly referred to by several different names including North American timber, SPF (spruce, pine, fir) and whitewood (the collective name for spruce wood). [47] It is commonly used in Canadian Lumber Standard graded wood. [ 48 ]

  7. Sums of three cubes - Wikipedia

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    Semi-log plot of solutions of + + = for integer , , and , and .Green bands denote values of proven not to have a solution.. In the mathematics of sums of powers, it is an open problem to characterize the numbers that can be expressed as a sum of three cubes of integers, allowing both positive and negative cubes in the sum.

  8. The monkey and the coconuts - Wikipedia

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    The monkey and the coconuts is a mathematical puzzle in the field of Diophantine analysis that originated in a short story involving five sailors and a monkey on a desert island who divide up a pile of coconuts; the problem is to find the number of coconuts in the original pile (fractional coconuts not allowed).

  9. Children's literature - Wikipedia

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    A mother reads to her children in a mid- to late 19th century lithograph by Jessie Willcox Smith. The Adventures of Pinocchio (1883) is a canonical piece of children's literature and one of the best-selling books ever published.