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Traditional adobe bricks are made mainly from earth and water, often reinforced with what plant material?

Answer: Straw

Bonus fact: Straw or other fibrous material can help reinforce earthen adobe bricks.

The traditional Indigenous North American “Three Sisters” planting system combines corn, beans, and what third crop?

Answer: Squash

Bonus fact: Corn, beans, and squash can complement one another when grown together.

Which scientist is strongly associated with the 20th-century Green Revolution and the development of high-yield wheat varieties?

Answer: Norman Borlaug

Bonus fact: Norman Borlaug received the 1970 Nobel Peace Prize for work connected to increasing food production.

The Wright brothers made their famous 1903 powered flight near Kitty Hawk in which U.S. state?

Answer: North Carolina

Bonus fact: The Wright Flyer flew at Kill Devil Hills near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.

Which medieval scholar, whose work helped give algebra its name, is often called a father of algebra?

Answer: Muhammad al-Khwarizmi

Bonus fact: Al-Khwarizmi wrote an influential 9th-century work whose title included the term al-jabr.

The ancient Greek word elektron, which helped give rise to the word “electricity,” originally referred to what material?

Answer: Amber

Bonus fact: Rubbing amber can produce static electricity, a phenomenon known since antiquity.

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