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Absalom 3rd And Favorite Son Of David Lawlesness Insolence Flashcards

1
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Network logo located in the corner of tv screen goes by this name

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Bug
VH1 one of the first to use so people wouldn’t confuse with MTV

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This HBO show that aired in the 2010s featured 4 main characters with alliterative names

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Girls
Show Shan up Shapiro
Marty Marie Michaels
Jess uh Johansson
Hannah horbath

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What is a googl

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1 followed by 100 0s

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The Canadian equivalent to Ellis island saw 1.5 M immigrants enter canada from 1928-71 via an ocean liner terminal in this province called this

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Pier 21 in Halifax
Pier 1 went out of business

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5
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Baseball HOF location

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Cooperstown NY

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6
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This condition is the leading cause of blindness

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Cataracts - cloud forms over the eye

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wind speeds between 39-73 mph are known as

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Tropical storm

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8
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May queen whisly crab fox welps and lanes Prince Albert are all species of

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Apples

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9
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Creator of SpongeBob and college major

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Stephen hillenberg
Majored in marine biology at humbolt state university

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10
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Who is burried in grants tomb

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No one - above ground historical landmark

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11
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In thr 39 MGM classic wizard of oz dorthy sports some fabulous footwear; intending to blow thr audience away with new founded technique but unfortunately original color did not stand out leading to this change in color
Also what was the original color

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Silver to Ruby
Technique - One of the First films in technicolor

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12
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This is Paul McCartney first name

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James

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13
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Not having rained for more than 2 million years this location on this continent is home to the driest place on earth

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McMurt O dry valleys in Antarctica

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14
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Stephen kings first novel

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Carrie
Threw in the trash because didn’t like ;wife took out and made him finish with the threat to leave

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This Russian femme fatale - first woman in space - is often mistaken with this first American in space

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Valentina Ter ish cove uh
Sally ride - first American

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16
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Author of the fireman
The short story in thr tall grass
And graphic novel lock and key

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Joe hill - award winning son of Stephen king

Joe hill house king - but wanted his own name to succeed on his own

Owen hill doesn’t care ; kind of like a Charlie sheen Emilio estevez deal
Not CJ box

17
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Song lyrics
Ive seen Sunny days that I thought would never end
I’ve seen Lonely times when I could not find a friend but I always thought that I would see you again

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Fire and rain James Taylor

18
Q

Song lyrics
Come now come dry your eyes
You know you a star you can touch the sky
I know that it’s hard but you have to try
If you need advice let me simplify

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Good as hell lizzo

19
Q

A covered market with 4K shops this was completed by mehmed thr conqueror in this Turkish city
Mem ed

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Grand bazaar in Istanbul - biggest city in Europe
Separate parts in Europe and Asia not that big?
Was Constantinople when built

20
Q

Born Elizabeth Anne bloomer

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Betty ford
First Lady who founded a facility to help people with drug and alcohol dependence

21
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African countries
Nicknamed the kingdom in thr sky this landlocked nation is the only country in the world to lie entirely above 4000 ft

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Lesotho - surrounded entirely by South African and very mountainous
Luh so toe

22
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Taking up 5 squares this is the largest ship in the board game battleship

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Carrier

23
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In anthropology members of a human group whose adult males grow to less than 59 inches tall are

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Pygmy
Pig me

24
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Still sailing more than 200 years after its 1797 launch this ship is famously nicknamed old Ironsides

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USS constitution

25
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a famous jam and jelly company’s tagline is with a name like this it has to be good

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Smuckers

26
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In her 1818 novel this is dr Frankenstein first name
Bonus what is the secondary title of the novel

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Mary Shelly
Victor- first name

Or The modern Prometheus

27
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RM rend - who suffers from delusions which compels him to eats living creatures in the hope of obtaining their life force - is a lunatic at the inmate asylum over seen by dr John Seward I’m this novel

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Dracula

28
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Song lyrics
When thr night has come and the land is dark
And the moon is the only light we’ll see
No I won’t be afraid oh I won’t be afraid

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Stand by me ben e king

29
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This was the longest running supernatural tv show of 60s/70s

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Bewitched
Adams family and Munsters only like 60 episodes

30
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If 1000 bill still in circulation you would find this president on the front
Bonus year taken out of circulation

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64
Grover Cleveland

31
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While it may seem oddly inappropriate a group of porcupines is called this

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Prickle

32
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Wearing rainbow platforms a 2020 Barbie doll was inspired by this candle in the wind singer

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Elton John

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