1971 French Connection 70 Patton Flashcards
In 1714, Britain offered £20,000 to the first person to devise an accurate way to measure what?
Longitude
If named after its clinical term, what would the film Total Recall be called?
Eidetic memory
What magazine claims to have popularized the phrase “sex appeal”?
When a car’s air bags are activated, they are usually inflated with what kind of gas?
Nitrogen
Hospital MRI machines are calibrated by their magnetic flux density, which is measured in units named for what scientist?
Nikola Tesla
BIOGRAPHIES
Who listed his middle name as “Handcuff” on his World War I draft card?
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Harry Houdini
HISTORY & SOCIETY
Now a part of France, this region was ceded to what country from 1871 to 1919 and again from 1940 to 1945?
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Alsace-Lorraine
Germany
MONEY & NUMBERS
On a standard 6-sided die, each set of opposite sides adds up to what?
7
ARTS & CULTURE
Despite its portrayal in several film adaptations, the notion of balloon travel is quickly discarded by Phileas Fogg in which novel?
correct
Around the World in Eighty Days
Which video game character has a punnily named sidekick Miles Prower, though he is often just called “Tails”?
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Sonic the Hedgehog
Winsome typically describes a person who is…
charming
ANIMALS & NATURE
Although it might resemble a piercing weapon, the long bill of which animal is swiped side-to-side to stun its prey?
Blue marlin
TECH
Reflecting on his own invention, in 1912 who predicted that “the coming of the wireless era will make war impossible, because it will make war ridiculous”?
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Guglielmo Marconi
GEOGRAPHY
Although it is a perfect square, the flag of which country features a white cross with arms slightly longer than they are wide?
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correct
Switzerland
Not sweden
The taro suit known as wands rods or batons equates to the suit in the modern playing card deck
Clubs
The southernmost portion of US Highway one the overseas highway runs about 100 miles between these two islands
Key West and Key Largo
The God Mercury would enter with a branding iron to make sure you weren’t faking dead , and then this ferryman of Hades would hit you with the hammer he carried in eh trusk in myth
Charon
Karen
Derek Jack uh bee famously starred in a miniseries as this Roman emperor the only one known to have been told those about to die salute you
He is Claudius
Romans won the love of the people with gladiator shows and in 46 BC this conqueror of gaul put on a gory extravaganza and also introduced the giraffe to Rome later use in the combat
Julius Caesar
Lowest level of the Colosseum, it had this Latin word for a platform you stand on that some use for what you’re standing behind
Podium
Not necessarily a bad thing the character on this card is often portrayed riding a white horse or holding a sickle
Death
This tarot card also known as Le Pandu is upside down when drawing the namesake figure on it appears upright
The hanged man
Tarot deck is divided into the major and minor of this Aladdin plural meaning secrets
Arcana
R cahn uh
A street brawl between rival news teams was to be cut from the script of this comedy. It quickly escalated into an iconic scene.
Anchorman
