Anne Boleyn Queen Elizabeth The First Mother Flashcards
Which figure most closely represents the percentage of the Earth’s atmosphere made up of carbon dioxide?
.038 percent
The American Plague is known by what other common name?
Yellow fever
The fabric called Angora is produced by WHICH animal?
Rabbit
Suffered by deep-sea divers, by what shorter name is decompression sickness also known?
The bends
Which paralytic illness comes from the Latin word for ‘sausage’?
Botulism
The term ‘caprine’ relates to which animal?
Goat
As a general rule, at what height does a pony become a horse?
14.2 hands
Which is the study of bird’s eggs
Oology
How much skin does the average person shed each year?
750gms
Which color of bell pepper is the ripest
Red
Bell peppers are all the same plant. The colors indicate how ripe they are.
What website plans are almost 100 K people month for cheating
Chess.com
Chess has been getting more and more popular, particularly after the Netflix show the Queen’s gambit
At peak effort a working horse produces about how many horsepower
15
James Watt invented the concept of horsepower to market the steam engine and wanted steam engines with horsepower to see more impressive
Kendrick Lamar is the only hip-hop star to have won this awards
Pulitzer
Kendrick won the Pulitzer award for music for his album damn
typically the award goes to jazz or classical artist.
I grabatologist is someone who has a large collection of what
Ties
With grab in the mix, it sounds like it could be a word for someone who collects anything, but a grabatologist. Is someone who collects ties
Due to the rarity in North Carolina, it’s a felony to poach white
Venus fly traps
Venus fly traps only grow in a small area and are endangered. It’s better to buy ones grown in nurseries.
World, political history
William White law and John Peyton were also-Rans in a 1975 leadership vote with this Victor
Margaret Thatcher
Leadership vote for the Tori party in Great Britain set her up to win the Prime Minister seat four years later
Whether called a cornichon or a gherkin its one of these vegetables at the start
Cucumber
Nnedi okorafor’s, 2015 Novela binti picked up both of these sci-fi awards one voted on by fans, the other by fellow writers
Hugo and the nebula
The martyred king of the beats he died in 1969 at age 47
Kerouac
In her creepy novel the lottery a New England town chooses an annual stoning victim to ensure a good harvest
Shirley jackson
NFL connections
Rules Richelieu numbers
Cardinal
NFL connections
Oceanus , Rhea, teth is
Titans
NFL connections
Sea Elsa Mufasa
Lions
NFL connections
Smoky Kodiak gentle Ben
Bears
In 1542 Parliament said it was treason for an unchaste woman to wed the king that can’t be good said her Henry the VIII wife five
Catherine Howard
This future world leader was on trial for treason from 1956 to 1961. He’d be acquitted but was soon jailed anyway.
Mandela
Prdrarias governor of Darien in what’s now Panama had this explorer beheaded in 1519 for treason
Vasco Núñez de Balboa
Dubbed the Cathedral box, the George Peabody library is part of this Baltimore University
Johns Hopkins
Not surprisingly, this states tug valley Chamber of Commerce occupies a house made out of coal
West Virginia
The San Francisco pyramid with a continent spanning name celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2022
Transamerica pyramid
A hindrance or a disability that makes speaking difficult
Impediment
This Philly sandwich can have provolone as one of its namesake ingredients
Cheesesteak
This two word Italian term refers to pasta cook, not too hard or too soft, but still a little firm “to the tooth”
Al dente
Flightless bird of Australia is the only bird with Gastrack knee me is muscles, calf muscles just like humans
Emu
For acts of terror and trying to keep this African country from independence French officer raoul salan was convicted of treason in 1962
Algeria
From the German for around sound, it’s the diacritical mark placed over a vowel that changes its pronunciation
Umlaut
Eww mmm laut
The name of this stew comes from the Hungarian for Herdsman
Goulash
NFL connections
Bald legal Sam from the Muppets
Eagles
Like the one in New York City Atlanta has its own building called this
Flat iron building
The Snark in his 1876 nonsense poem the hunting of the Snark is an imaginary animal not sarcasm
Louis Carol
- Alex Halley book is titled the saga of an American family.
Roots
The Roman Colosseum and the Hollywood bowl are examples of this round arena with tiered seating
Amphitheater
The capital building in Des Moines is unique in that it has not one, but five of these, including the gilded main one
Domes
In 1780 he asked the Brits for 20,000 pounds to betray his command post at West Point. That’s almost 4,000,000 today.
Benedict Arnold
Photo from the 1850s shows an artist in this loose informal garment
Smock
Recipes for Piedmontese banga cauda dipping sauce call for these little fishes
Anchovies
Talking Heads was still a trio in 1975 when they played their first show opening for the Ramones at the legendary New York punk club known by this four letter name
CBGB
He wrote a collection of stories called Dubliners published in 1914
James Joyce
This author of the play Saint Joan wrote an essay on socialism for the 1926 encyclopedia Britannica
George Bernard Shaw
In the encyclopedia
Shapely name for the agriculturally advanced region in Egypt and Saudi Arabia that dates back to the ninth millennium BC
Fertile crescent
The main campus of the University of the Philippines is in this city just north east of Manila
Quezon City
K zahn
The southern portion of this inlet between Baja and mainland Mexico can reach a depth of 10,000 feet
Sea of Cortez
Three out of every five members of a club voted yes if 75 voted this many were not in favor
30
The star of Saltburn said he pronounces the G in his last name, but maybe he’s been saying it wrong all these years
Barry key o ghin
In 2023 music fans mourned her a 1991 Grammy winner for best alternative music performance for I do not want what I haven’t got
Sinéad O’Connor
Shh naid
Rome gets the credit for the name of these water channels, but qanat systems in the Middle East existed earlier
Cuh not
Aqueducts
He developed the cotton gin at Savannah’s Mulberry plantation and got a patent on March 14, 1794
Eli Whitney
Nine letter words
Combining words, meaning, conceited and fame and honor, it refers to excessive boasting over one’s achievements
Vainglory
The name of the city of Southwestern Spain, famous for it Sherry is sometime used for that potent portable
Jerez
Her ez
Nine letter words
A single letter longer than Cavalier is this related Spanish word for a gentleman or Horsemen
Caballero
Cah buh yare o
Stop making sense has been wisely praised for its no nonsense focus on the bands performance by this Oscar-winning Director of the silence of the lambs and Philadelphia
Jonathan Demi
Demme
