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Government Information:Answering Your Questions
What did Frank Lloyd
Wright design besides
architecture?
How were live fish
transported from coast to
coast in 1874?
http://purl.fdlp.gov/GPO/gpo19904
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about government spending?
USAspending.gov
What is the relationship like between the CIA and Congress?
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Where can you find free
information about the vascular
plants, mosses, liverworts,
hornworts, and lichens of the
U.S.?
Plants.USDA.gov
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Is your aircraft
unbalanced?
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invest wisely and avoid
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Investor.gov
What percent of Floridians lived near
the coast in 1960?
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Who was the only
lighthouse keeper to
ever have a lighthouse
named after them?
Where can you find free information about which government benefits you are eligible to receive?
Benefits.gov
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What is intellectual property?
How does your
digestive system work?
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What are all of the Navy’s
aircraft carriers and submarines
powered by?
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What is a low-calorie recipe for
striped bass?
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from all three
branches of government?
GPO.gov/FDsys
How much did a joint cost in the late 1990’s?
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Regulations.gov
What is a duckbutt?
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What prompted a significant change in
U.S. defense needs in
1991?
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Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
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Where can you get free
comprehensive information on
disability programs and
services?
Disability.gov
When did the Berlin
Wall open?
http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS3840
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What did the Vietnam War
look like?
Where can businesses
get access to services to help them grow and
hire?
Business.USA.gov
How many species of sea turtles
exist today?
http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS50277
What 1836 event caused the Patent
Office to lose 9,000 patent
drawings, all of models, and all
records of patent applications and
grants?
http://purl.fdlp.gov/GPO/gpo20727
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When was SPUTNIK launched?
Where can you get free
authoritative taxonomic
information on plants,
animals, fungi, and microbes?
ITIS.gov
How many acts of
domestic terrorism
occurred in the United States in
1977?
What was President Gerald R.
Ford’s birth name?
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When did the Gulf War
begin?
Where can you find a catalog of free images
and animations of
Earth?
VisibleEarth.NASA.gov
How long did it take to
build the pentagon?
http://history.defense.gov/resources/1st50years.pdf
Where do most of the
world’s emeralds
come from?
http://purl.fdlp.gov/GPO/gpo13656
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What is the largest central resource for government-
funded scientific, technical,
engineering, and business
information?
NTIS.gov
How do you grow
bonsai?
What is the average
depth of the Gulf of
Mexico?
http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS106878
Where can you view
live Senate floor
proceedings for free?
Senate.gov/floor
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What percent of
high school students
smoked in 1997?
Where can you search over 55
scientific databases and
200 million pages of science
information at once?
Science.gov
Who is known as the father of the U.S. Army
Dental Corps?
http://purl.fdlp.gov/GPO/gpo7792
Who inspired the Beautification Act
of 1965?
