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What animal is it that in the morning goes on four feet, at noon on two, and in the evening on three? was ariddle told by this creature before devouring anyone who failed to solve the riddle. What/who was this GreekMythology creature?_____________________.

What is the answer to the riddle, What animal is it that in the morning goes on four feet, at noon on two, andin the evening on three? ___________________.

The Earth-mother who gave birth to many monsters and other terrifying creatures. Her offspring includedTyphon, who battled against Zeus, Python, an enormous serpent and The Cyclopes, who were giants with onlyone eye. _____________________.

Achilles, the son of Thetis and mortal Peleus, was dipped by her mother in the waters of the underworld toavert his fate of being killed in battles. What was the name of the River?_____________________.

He was the son of the god of heaven, Uranus and the earth goddess, Gaia. He was a Titan who devoured hischildren right after birth in fear of the prediction that one of his sons would dethrone him. He was theeventually dethrone by his youngest son, Zeus, who escaped his fate of being devoured by his father afterbirth.__________________________.

He was called the Father of Philippine Botany in 1935. He was the first Filipino to become a licensedpharmacist and delivered a paper Las plantas medicinales utilizadas por los Filipinos. (The Uses of MedicinalPlants for the Philippines.)___________________________.

The American astronomer who made important discoveries about the universe and whose name was namedafter an orbiting space telescope launched in 1990.______________________.

Blaise Pascal invented a mechanical adding calculator. Charles Babbage prepared designs for steam-poweredmachine that could store a program on punched cards. Who developed the first computer language tounderstand Engilsh?_______________________.

The Father of the Internet, who wrote the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) that allowed systems toconnect and become a true Internet.____________________.

He was the British physicist who discovered the neutrally charged particle in the nucleus in an atom.

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The youngest person to be elected as president in the U.S.______________.

What East African country was a powerful Christian empire more than 1,600 years ago?______________.

The Byzantine Empire started out as the eastern part of the______________________.

The Black Death, which killed one- quarter of Europes population in the 14th century, was a huge outbreak of what disease?___________________.

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The Pueblo people, a Native American culture of the southwestern United States, were named for theirwhat?________________________.

When Christopher Columbus returned from America, he brought with him something that quickly becamepopular in Europe. What was it?__________________.

Post-1945 struggle between the United States and its allies and the group of nations led by the Soviet

Union._____________________.Deepest, lowest, male singing voice_________________.

A song praising a deity or expressing thoughts of religious meditation or worship.______________.

Art of maintaining precise control over a horse while riding it (sometimes referred to as the equitation), whiledriving it from a seat of a vehicle.____________________.

Which silent movie actor is considered as the first truly international film star and was best known for playingthe little tramp. _______________________.

What is the birthstone for October?_____________________.

Birthstone for April.________________.

Brass wind instrument with a cup-shaped mouthpiece and a slide mechanism.____________.

The battle fought July 1 through July 3, 1863, considered by most military historians the turning point in theAmerican Civil War._______________________.

The name of the six- seater plane that crashed last Saturday where one of the passengers was DILG Secretary

Jesse Robredo.___________________.

What is the meaning of DILG? ___________________.