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Stuff You Might Not Have Wondered About Depression
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Some doctors actually get through medical school without learning about this common but devastating disease. Not if I've taught them, though! A brief true/false review on depression.
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Psychological Disorders
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Average
10 Q
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ragiel
Sep 16 03
7236 plays
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Stirring My Soup With A Silver Spoon
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A quiz for silver collectors. Since I first collected US hand-made coin spoons, this quiz will deal with UK silversmiths. Hey, collecting is a passion, and who ever said a passion was logical?
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Collectibles
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Difficult
10 Q
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ragiel
Jan 15 04
348 plays
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Orange Cats are Red, Gray Cats are Blue
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Cat coat colors range from black to white, and their patterns are unique! Still, some patterns show up again and again...
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Cats
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Tough
10 Q
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ragiel
Sep 12 03
4821 plays
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A Gleaming Torrent: 19th Century American Silver
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The development of mass-production techniques in the 1800s permitted silver to swirl and blossom as never before - or since.
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Collectibles
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Difficult
10 Q
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ragiel
Aug 30 04
249 plays
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Sing It Out Loud: Smoke Our Coffin Nails!
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The ads are history, but those (American) cigarette-advertising jingles play on and on in my head! I can still hear them! After 50 years! Can you remember them too?
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Marketing
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Average
10 Q
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ragiel
Sep 02 04
1386 plays
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The Proverbial Cat
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I noticed that this section covers plenty of horses and dogs, but I'm a cat person! I want to see more cats! Well, here are a few...
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Animals in Idiom
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Easy
10 Q
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ragiel
Sep 03 04
3240 plays
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Agate and her Sisters
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Quartz is all around us, a part of many common rocks. Its crystals can form gorgeous gems, or can swirl, layer, and dance in a thousand colors...
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Gems and Birthstones
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Tough
15 Q
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ragiel
Sep 16 03
888 plays
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It's All in Your Head!
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We can't transplant it, reproduce its functions, or live without it... the brain has been called the last vital organ we have!
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Neurological Disorders
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Tough
10 Q
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ragiel
Sep 05 03
2235 plays
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Out Of the Forest Primeval: Amber
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People have been intrigued for millenia by this mysterious and precious material. This quiz provides only a sample of amber lore! (In memoriam LAC 1923-1999.)
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Gems and Birthstones
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Difficult
15 Q
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ragiel
Sep 17 03
1140 plays
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Paging Dr. Wall!
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Worcester porcelain met an eighteenth-century demand for useful wares and superb cabinet art. Learn some of the details here!
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Collectibles
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Difficult
10 Q
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ragiel
Sep 11 03
222 plays
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First Ladies and Gentlemen
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Meet some of the people and cats who have founded unusual cat breeds! I've tried to avoid the better-known stories, as they are already well represented in this section.
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Cats
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Difficult
10 Q
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ragiel
Sep 03 03
2115 plays
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Out of My Head: Disturbed Consciousness
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Can the brain be healthier than its body? Let's look at delirium and the range of conditions that cause it.
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Psychological Disorders
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Tough
10 Q
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ragiel
Sep 22 03
1434 plays
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To Assist the Goddess: the Cultured Pearl
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The pearl: an irritating speck is trapped inside an oyster. Iridescent nacre flows over it and hardens. Then, in perhaps one of ten thousand shells, the rarest gem in nature forms. If the process were assisted, could every woman be radiant as a queen?
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Gems and Birthstones
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Tough
20 Q
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ragiel
Jan 12 04
345 plays
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Living Depends on the Liver: Viral Hepatitis
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The liver, largest of the internal organs, is the target of many viruses. Some of these are generally benign, others deadly. Let's look at a few.
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Viral Diseases
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Tough
10 Q
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ragiel
Sep 10 04
816 plays
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Green Heat, Green Sugar: Emerald
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My favorite stone and my astrological talisman. This quiz was difficult for me to compose, perhaps for just that reason.
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Gems and Birthstones
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Difficult
10 Q
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ragiel
Jul 05 04
594 plays
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Circles Unbroken: A Ring and a Promise
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A favorite piece of jewelry, the ring is also a symbol of love, of commitment, and of belonging. Let's look at the power of betrothal and wedding rings over the ages.
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Jewelry
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Difficult
10 Q
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ragiel
Sep 23 03
1410 plays
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Adamantine Fire: the Diamond
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The greatest diamonds are given proper names and gather a history and legends all their own. Meet some of the most celebrated diamonds ever described!
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Gems and Birthstones
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Very Difficult
10 Q
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ragiel
Sep 07 03
645 plays
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A Proper English Tea: Porcelain
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Of course, it's not really a proper tea without a good set of proper English china! Which reminds me of the men who made it all possible...
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Collectibles
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Difficult
10 Q
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ragiel
Mar 08 04
399 plays
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My Tea, Please, Caddy
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Before teabags, loose tea had to be measured directly into the pot. The small, often fanciful, scoops called caddy spoons are avidly sought by spoon collectors. Let's look at British ones here...
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Collectibles
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Tough
10 Q
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ragiel
Oct 23 05
300 plays
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A Flash from the Dawn of Time: Diamonds III
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Much more than a mystical symbol or ultimate jewel, the history of diamonds extends backward to the birth of the universe.
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Gems and Birthstones
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Difficult
10 Q
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ragiel
Feb 23 04
477 plays
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Like a Queen in her Radiance: the Pearl
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This quiz is about historic natural pearls. Perhaps I'll look at cultured pearls another time.
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Gems and Birthstones
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Difficult
10 Q
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ragiel
Sep 15 03
510 plays
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The Ancient Sky: Sapphire
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Tales of the sapphire could fill more than one quiz! All folklore and legend cited here can be found in George F. Kunz's book "The Curious Lore of Precious Stones." Other sources list more; I limited myself to one source to keep this quiz's length down!
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Gems and Birthstones
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Tough
10 Q
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ragiel
Sep 09 03
627 plays
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Cold as Ice: Diamonds II
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A glance at my bookshelf shows that diamonds have at least as fascinating a place in history as they do in lore and legend. Here's just the facts...
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Gems and Birthstones
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Very Difficult
10 Q
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ragiel
Jan 04 04
798 plays
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What (Who) are the Odds?
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Your challenge is this: identify the individual in each group who possesses a distinction not shared by the others. Warning: I deliberately tried to make this one hard.
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Mixed People
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Very Difficult
5 Q
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ragiel
Sep 23 03
1704 plays
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