Ansel Adams Flashcards

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What actress singer and dancer was born Francis Ethel gum on June 10 1922 in Grand Rapids Minnesota

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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

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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

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Bud grant

Won a champ in 1950 Minneapolis lakers coached and played for the Winnipeg blue bombers

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How many years did Minnesota go without an NBA team

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Lakers left in 60 and timberwolves started in 89

29 years

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Although from Pittsburgh this artist and playwright wrote his 2 most famous pieces in A bar in st Paul Minnesota

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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

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Famed American novelist short story writer and playwright from sock (Sauk)center Minnesota whose works criticized capitalism and materialism

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Sinclair Lewis

First Writer from US to win the Nobel prize in literature in 1930

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Though he was not known as an author he won the 2016 novel prize for literature

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Bob Dylan

Born in Duluth Minnesota

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A family adopts a mouse as a second son while abagail Breslin competes in a beauty pageant

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Stuart little miss sunshine

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Judge reinhold fantasizes about a bare chested phoebe kates while jack black and John cusack Hang out at a record store mocking customers

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Fast times at ridgeMont high fidelity

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Robert de nero boxes and a veteran catcher mentors a prospect in the minors

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Raging bull durham

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Sean Connery goes rogue in a state of the art Soviet submarine as a poor coal miners son palys with rockets in the 1950s

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The hunt for red October sky

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Harrison fords plane gets hijacked while Jack Nicholson spends time in a mental institution.

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Air Force one flew over the cuckoos nest

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FBI agent Martian Lawrence wears a fat suit and women’s clothing while Paris Hilton’s head is impaled by a pole

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Big momma house of wax

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A Resistance of teenagers defend America. From a Soviet invasion while severa stwngers take refuge from zombies in a shopping mall

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Red dawn of the dead

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3 men in their 30s try to relive their college days by starting a faternity while jack black teaches contemporary music to kids

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Old school of rock

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An astronaut crew lands on Mars and gets attacked by insects 2000 years in the future gorillas and chimpanzees have taken over the earth

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Red planet of the apes

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Lindsay Lohan swaps bodies with her mom while billy bob Thornton coaches high school football in Texas

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Freaky Friday night lights

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Only player to lead the league in hits in both ALand NL

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Lance Johnson

White Sox and Mets

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This Syrian capital is the oldest continuously inhabited one on earth

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Teams that have never been to the WS

20
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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

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Puerto Rico

21
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On average How long is the $1 bill in circulation

22
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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

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How many political parties have been represented by presidents

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Dem
Rep 
Democratic-republican 
Federalist 
National union 
Whigs
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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

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Waiting for godot

Friends with playwright Samuel Beckett

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Biographies The passage of power covers 1958-1964 in Robert Caros 4th volume on the life of this American
Lyndon Johnson
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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
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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
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Golden bears in the Pac 12
Cal Berkeley
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In baseball scorekeeping 9 de ores this position played by babe Ruth and Ichiro
RF
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Where is the Big Dipper located
Ursa Major
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B9
Folic acid