Ac Actinium 1st Alphabetically Flashcards

1
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Title of a French duke that is a Louisiana parish name
Note no new in the parish name

A

Orleans

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Tricky plan intended to deceive switches the S for an N to be a character in a Viking alphabet

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Ruse to rune

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The S bows out of a word meaning to replace an actor in a role and N is the new star in a word meaning to disavow testimony

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Recast and recant

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This 250K square mile peninsula of southwestern Europe that is also a Louisiana parish name

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Iberia

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In legend a beautiful water spirit known as Lorelei lures sailors to their destruction on this river

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Rhine

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This rap group hit the top 10 with the musical question you down with this
Answer Yeah you know me

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Naughty by nature
Opp

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In California love now let me welcome everybody to the wild Wild West a state that’s untouchable like this lawman

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Elliot ness

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Next up after Neil this mission grabbed a camera from the survivor 3 probe that had arrived 2.5 years before

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Apollo 12

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Popularity of this dog breed was boosted in 75 when one named Liberty gave Keith to 9 pups in the White House

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Golden retriever

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In a 1930 novel Mr Cairo asks Sam spade to retrieve this statuette the black figure of a bird

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Maltese falcon

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This George Gershwin opera that premiered in 1935 feature the song I got plenty of nuttin

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Porgy and bess

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This region of Canada where the Cajuns originated and got their name

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Acadia
Also a Louisiana parish

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13
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Last name of this beautiful looking general who commanded the attack on fort sumter in 1861

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Bore uh guard

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14
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The Airedale is known as the king of this family of dogs of which it’s the largest

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Terriers

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15
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Some say this voice ranges between the notes A3 and A5 but it’s more about the color

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Mezzo soprano
MetsO

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16
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Th 1st ceremony was in 1812 when Lucy Payne Washington this First Lady’s sister married Supreme Court Justice Thomas Todd

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Dolly Madison

17
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95 the first ever reported sightings of chupacabra reported here

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Puerto Rico - match monster in horror film species released same year

18
Q

Tv show takes its name from George Orwell novel

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Big brother
1984

19
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Mostly European country has 12 square miles in North Africa

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Ceuta and Melilla are 2 Spanish autonomous cities located in far North Africa bordering Morocco

20
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First woman to own host and produce her own nationally syndicated television talk show

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Oprah
89 took ownership and national

21
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Now behind it in Fortune 500 this company will once invested 150 million to save Apple from bankruptcy

A

Microsoft

22
Q

Key west Florida once tried to secede from the U.S. to become this

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Conch republic
Roadblock put up in 82 mayor Dennis Wardlow attempted to declare independence