Alvin Ailey Of Dance Flashcards
Floral symbol in Buddhist art
Lotus
Dessert described as half bread, half cake
Babka
Evil corporation on Apple TV+ severance
Lumon
BIOGRAPHIES
Between 1919 and 1920 who wrote many entries in the W section of The New English Dictionary before later turning his attention to Middle-earth?
J.R.R. Tolkien
SCIENCE & TECH
Invite-only since its launch in 2015, which dating app popular with celebs and influencers had a reported 100,000-person waiting list just three years later?
Raya
HISTORY & SOCIETY
Drawing nearly 100,000 hippies to its Haight-Ashbury district in 1967, which U.S. city was home to what was dubbed the Summer of Love?
San Francisco
MONEY & NUMBERS
Which singer received the posh gift of a Napa Valley vineyard from her husband shortly after he joined the LA Galaxy football club?
Victoria Beckham
ARTS & CULTURE
Also known as this, the Christian holiday Epiphany takes place on the 12th day after which holiday?
Three Kings’ Day
After Christmas
With a long snout and more than 100 sharp interlocking teeth, a gharial is a type of which animal?
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Crocodile
GEOGRAPHY
Known as Y Ddraig Goch, a red dragon appears on which country’s flag?
Wales
ANYTHING GOES
Which school is home to a 134-foot-tall mural commonly called “Touchdown Jesus” that overlooks its football stadium?
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University of Notre Dame
ANIMALS & NATURE
Having immobile eye tubes rather than eyeballs that can move, which birds have evolved necks that can rotate 270 degrees?
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Owls
ANYTHING GOES
In 1994 Ford Bronco sales increased by about 25 percent months after which celebrity rode in one during a televised low-speed police chase?”
O.J. Simpson
HISTORY & SOCIETY
Commonly spoken in many parts of the Middle East until the 7th century, which language was believed to be spoken by Jesus?
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Aramaic
VOCAB
An oligarchy is a government controlled by which group?
A select few
BIOGRAPHIES
Before becoming one of the world’s foremost sex therapists, which media personality trained as a sniper in a Jewish paramilitary force in the 1940s?
Dr Ruth
February 2024 Walmart executed a 3-for-1 stock split. With the stock priced at $175.56 at the time of the split, what was its price after the split?
$58.52
Rereading it nearly two decades after he wrote it, which novel did William Golding denounce as “boring and crude”?
Lord of the flies
With bright colors and wavy lines that typified Catalan Modernism, Sagrada Família is a widely visited church in which city?
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Barcelona
TECH
Which tool is used by physicians to examine a patient’s ear canal?
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Otoscope
Oxyphenbutazone will give you the highest known score in what board game
Scrabble
Gives you 1458 points +50 for playing all your letters +270 for making seven new other words
Getting almost no snow despite freezing temperatures where are the McMurdo dry valleys
Antarctica,
the dry valleys live up to their name by getting almost no precipitation at all
Made with wine, cream, sugar, and eggs the medieval drink posset is the origin of what
Eggnog
Posset was served with a layer of gruel on top that you could eat with a spoon
Which country artist has sold the greatest number of records
Garth Brooks
since Taylor Swift turned to pop early in her career Garth Brooks should hold as the top selling country artist for a while
Who is the first ruler of the holy Roman Empire?
Charlemagne,
born in the 700s Charlemagne became king of the Franks king of the Lombards and the first holy Roman emperor
Charles Lindbergh’s famous trans Balantic flight took off from where and landed where
Long Island, New York and landed in Paris.
Spirit of St. Louis. Took about 33 hours ago to go from Long Island to Paris in 1927.
BIOGRAPHIES
In 1985 the state of Michigan officially declared the voice of which singer, raised on Detroit’s west side, a “natural resource of the state”?
Aretha Franklin
HISTORY & SOCIETY
Utilizing his celebrity status earned during Prohibition, which lawman was hired by the U.S. government to combat the spread of venereal diseases among soldiers?
Elliot ness
GEOGRAPHY
While the majority of Siberia lies in this country , a small portion of it is found in which other country?
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Russia
Kazakhstan small
ARTS & CULTURE
Mixing combat and music, which martial art was created by enslaved people in Brazil who disguised their fighting techniques as folk dancing?
Capoeira
MONEY & NUMBERS
Its name derived from an Old English word for “outstretched arms,” a fathom is equal to what distance?
6 feet
SCIENCE & TECH
If an athlete needs meniscus surgery, the doctor will operate on which body part?
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Knee
ANYTHING GOES
Dating back to Victorian England, in which game do players use a squidger to shoot small plastic discs into a pot?
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Tiddlywinks
Which insect is known to build mounds up to 30 feet tall and 80 feet wide, with many chambers dedicated to wood storage?
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Termite
History and the movies
This 1935 best picture Oscar winner tells of a 1789 event near the isolated Pacific volcano of tofua
Toe fehw ah
Mutiny on the bounty Fletcher Christian, and his men committed mutiny on the bounty
Not How green was my valley 1941
Her first number one pop hit
2008. I kissed a girl (and she liked it. )
Katy Perry
Her first number one pop hit
1985 saving all my love for you
Whitney Houston
Her first number one pop hit
1989 straight up
Paula Abdul
Her first number one pop hit
1989 wind beneath my wings
Bette Midler
On February 24, 1836, William B Travis wrote the victory or death memo from this landmark, but Travis and his man did not find victory
The Alamo
Vanilla is one of the scented essential oils that are the basis of this practice to help you feel calmer and boost your mood
Aromatherapy
Saint Catherine’s Greek orthodox monastery in Egypt is situated at the foot of this mountain found on a peninsula
Mount Sinai
Oscar wild called this British activity with a pack of hounds, the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable
Fox hunting
This watery site must be one of the earliest, if not, the keenest disappointment in American married life said Oscar Wilde
Niagara Falls popular honeymoon site at the time
On October 16, 1946 joachim Vonn ribbentrop Wilhelm Keitel and eight others were executed in the city
Nuremberg
of the Nuremberg trials
Like many others on that 79 A.D. day pliny got no elder after succumbing to the fumes from this volcano above the bay of Naples
Plin e
Vesuvius
Dolly Parton’s mom’s recipe for this dessert a southern specialty of course includes a box of vanilla wafers
Banana pudding
Sculptor Augustus Saint gauden , last major work was his monument honoring this Civil War hero on the March?
Sherman’s March
Vanilla come from the beans or pods of certain varieties of this flowering plant
Orchid
She and three Lincoln conspirators would be hanged in 1865 but two years later only the jury was hung in her son’s trial
Mary suh rot
Surratt
5,5
About 230 of the Shakespeare collections called this still exist
a good quality one can fetch over 5 million
First folio
5,5
An Egyptian style of this is called rocks Sharkey (raqs sharqi) and is now performed by both men and women often as wedding entertainment
Belly dance
5,5
It’s the only US state capital that fits this category
Baton Rouge
5,5
This 10 limb invertebrae lives up to its name with the eyes the size of dinner plates
Giant squid
And this novel lord , Henry says I like men who have a future and women who have a past
The picture of Dorian Gray
A character in a woman of no importance claims moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like this.
Excess
In the early 1800s, Barry, a dog of this breed reportedly saved over 40 people in the Alps
Saint Bernard
1993 of Saint Germain, recognized the independence of several countries and the end of this families empire
Jer man
Habsburg’s
This conquistador gets the credit for bringing vanilla back to Europe from Mexico to be used as a flavoring
Cortez
Surely, after her husband fell on his sword in 30 BC, this royal got snakepit and was buried with her beloved
Cleopatra
The difference between regular vanilla ice cream, and French vanilla is the addition of these which also makes it yellow
Egg yolks Shakira
First number one hit
Hips don’t lie 2006
Shakira
5,5
Like slap, happy this adjective originally referred to a boxer who is dazed from taking too many blows to the head
Punch drunk
It states second most populous city this capital is built on Bluffs along a curve in the Mississippi River
Saint Paul
In lady Windemere‘s fan wild wrote I can resist everything except this
Temptation
In 2012 he became the first person to reach Challenger deep solo
James Cameron
In a 1985 epic Edward Woodward play saw and Richard Gere is this title king
David
The four stars on toke uh lahw’s flag represent this constellation and the role of Christianity in the countries culture
Southern Cross
This alternative rock band is most known for their 1997 hit song “Sex and Candy”.
Guess: Alice in Chains
Answer: Marcy Playground
Justin Duchscherer was an All-Star in 2005 as a reliever and in 2008 as a starting pitcher while playing for this American League team.
Guess: Los Angeles Angels
Answer: Oakland Athletics
Undrafted and initially joining the team on a 10-day contract, Langston Galloway earned 2015 NBA All-Rookie honors while playing for this Eastern Conference team.
Guess: Orlando Magic
Answer: New York Knicks
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“There are some things money can’t buy; for everything else, there’s…” is a partial slogan for what credit card company?
Guess: MasterCard
This woman won her second Best Actress Oscar for her role as Maggie Fitzgerald in the 2004 film Million Dollar Baby
Guess: Hilary Swank
Two WR’s caught more than 50 TD passes from Aaron Rodgers:
Davante Adams and this now retired WR.
Guess: Jordy Nelson
