Ansel Adams Flashcards
What actress singer and dancer was born Francis Ethel gum on June 10 1922 in Grand Rapids Minnesota
Most remembered for one early movie role the wizard of oz Despite being nominated for academy awards in judgement at norenburg and a star is born later in her career
Judy garland
Youngest of the gum sisters
Minnesota coach who played in the CFL NBA and NFL
won 4 gray cups and lost 4 times in the super bowl with the Vikings
Bonus nBA team
Double bonus: cFL team did he coach for 10 years
Bud grant
Won a champ in 1950 Minneapolis lakers coached and played for the Winnipeg blue bombers
How many years did Minnesota go without an NBA team
Lakers left in 60 and timberwolves started in 89
29 years
Although from Pittsburgh this artist and playwright wrote his 2 most famous pieces in A bar in st Paul Minnesota
Best known plays include fences which won a Pulitzer and tony
and the piano lesson which won a Pulitzer
And ma rainys black bottom
The Pittsburgh cycle about black experiences in 10 different decades in Pittsburgh
August Wilson
Famed American novelist short story writer and playwright from sock (Sauk)center Minnesota whose works criticized capitalism and materialism
Sinclair Lewis
First Writer from US to win the Nobel prize in literature in 1930
Though he was not known as an author he won the 2016 novel prize for literature
Bob Dylan
Born in Duluth Minnesota
A family adopts a mouse as a second son while abagail Breslin competes in a beauty pageant
Stuart little miss sunshine
Judge reinhold fantasizes about a bare chested phoebe kates while jack black and John cusack Hang out at a record store mocking customers
Fast times at ridgeMont high fidelity
Robert de nero boxes and a veteran catcher mentors a prospect in the minors
Raging bull durham
Sean Connery goes rogue in a state of the art Soviet submarine as a poor coal miners son palys with rockets in the 1950s
The hunt for red October sky
Harrison fords plane gets hijacked while Jack Nicholson spends time in a mental institution.
Air Force one flew over the cuckoos nest
FBI agent Martian Lawrence wears a fat suit and women’s clothing while Paris Hilton’s head is impaled by a pole
Big momma house of wax
A Resistance of teenagers defend America. From a Soviet invasion while severa stwngers take refuge from zombies in a shopping mall
Red dawn of the dead
3 men in their 30s try to relive their college days by starting a faternity while jack black teaches contemporary music to kids
Old school of rock
An astronaut crew lands on Mars and gets attacked by insects 2000 years in the future gorillas and chimpanzees have taken over the earth
Red planet of the apes
Lindsay Lohan swaps bodies with her mom while billy bob Thornton coaches high school football in Texas
Freaky Friday night lights
Only player to lead the league in hits in both ALand NL
Lance Johnson
White Sox and Mets
This Syrian capital is the oldest continuously inhabited one on earth
Damascus
Teams that have never been to the WS
Seattle
This tabletop game that has players assuming the role of colonial governors is named for the largest island in the US to not be contained within a state
Puerto Rico
On average How long is the $1 bill in circulation
21 months
First iteration of this machine was actually a failure as its customers were primarily prostitutes and gamblers not longer wanting to deal with humans face to face
ATM
How many political parties have been represented by presidents
Dem Rep Democratic-republican Federalist National union Whigs
Art and theater
Asked to design a new set for a restaging of this 1952 play Alberto Giacometti came up with one scraggly plaster tree
Waiting for godot
Friends with playwright Samuel Beckett
Biographies
The passage of power covers 1958-1964 in Robert Caros 4th volume on the life of this American
Lyndon Johnson
On September 23 1992 this woman became the first woman to play in any of the 4 major NA sports
Muh known re ohm in hockey
In 1567 she was said to be the first woman to play golf
Mary queen of Scott’s
Origin of the name Caddys
I don’t know if this is apocryphal or not says Neil She coined because her assistants were called cadets and she shortened
Golden bears in the Pac 12
Cal Berkeley
In baseball scorekeeping 9 de ores this position played by babe Ruth and Ichiro
RF
Where is the Big Dipper located
Ursa Major
B9
Folic acid
