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2016 ACF Fall Flashcards

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In what play does Adela carry out an affair with Pepe El Romano, who her sister Angustias is going to marry?

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The House of Bernarda Alba

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Arizona Congressman Paul Gosar boycotted one of this who’s speeches because this he supported Barack Obama’s climate change initiative?

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Pope Francis

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One minor tradition on what holiday is the reading of the entire Book of Jonah during the afternoon service?

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Yom Kippur

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What numbers are specified by Binet’s formula?

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Fibonacci numbers

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What theorem states that for n > 12, the nth Fibonacci number F(n) has at least one prime divisor that does not divide any earlier Fibonacci number?

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Carmichael’s Theorem

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Who is brought to tears by the singing of the bard Demodocus in the court of King Alcinous?

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Odysseus

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Who landed on the island of Scheria and was received by King Alcinous, Queen Arete and their daughter Nausicaa?

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Odysseus

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What was the name of the Irish- American gang in New York that supported Mayor Fernando Wood and Tammany Hall?

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Dead Rabbit Gang

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What Manhattan neighborhood was known as a hub for the Irish?

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Hell’s Kitchen

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Who defeated her sister Joanna La Beltraneja to claim the throne after the death of her brother Alfonso, Prince of Asturias?

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Isabel of Castile

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Who served as Minister to Spain during the American Revolution?

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John Jay

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What title was held by the members of the Sanson family?

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Royal Executioner of France

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What group of knitting women sat behind the guillotine?

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Tricoteuse

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In what square did most of the executions take place during the French Revolution?

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Place de la Concorde

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Who wrote The English Patient?

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Michael Ondaatje

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Who wrote Political Liberalism?

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John Rawls

17
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Who planned a humongous hotel in New York called Hotel Attraction

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Antoni Gaudi

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Who designed a mosaic lizard nicknamed “El Drac”?

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Antoni Gaudi

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What designer’s projects feature his four-armed cross?

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Antoni Gaudi

20
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Who designed the Park Guell, named after his patron?

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Antoni Gaudi

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Who wrote Vile Bodies?

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Evelyn Waugh

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What ship defeated the Raphael Semmes- commanded ship CSS Alabama, the most successful raider in the Confederacy at the Battle of Cherbourg?

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USS Kearsarge

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What kind of sugar has the namesake property due to its possession of a carbonyl group?

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Reducing sugar

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In what organometallic chemical reaction do alkyl, vinyl, or aryl-magnesium halides add to a carbonyl group in an aldehyde or ketone?

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Grignard Reaction

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What chemical reagent is used to determine the presence of an aldehyde or alpha-hydroxy ketone functional groups?

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Tollens’ Reagent

26
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Who wrote the story The Two Friends?

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Guy de Maupassant

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Who wrote the story A Piece of String?

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Guy de Maupassant

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What is the name for the caste of chariot-mounted hereditary warrior nobility which existed in many of the societies of the Middle East during the Bronze Age?

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Maryannu

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What artist published a book entitled Jazz which included many works created with the pochoir stencil technique?

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Henri Matisse

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Who ordered the killing of Danes in the St. Brice’s Day Massacre?

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Aethelred the Unready

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What king’s life is recounted in Chronicle of John of Wallingford?

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Sweyn Forkbeard

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Who led invasions into England after Aethelred the Unready killed his sister Gunnhilde?

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Sweyn Forkbeard

33
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In what conflict did a party accidentally attacked the American warship USS Liberty?

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Six-Day War

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In what war was Operation Focus carried out to destroy the Egyptian air force?

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Six-Day War

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