APRIL 2 Flashcards
an Italian and American Eurodance group who released various successful hits during the mid-1990s, including “Dreamer”, “Don’t Stop Movin’”, “Follow the Rules” and “Where Can I Find Love”.[1]
lIVIN’ jOY
an American hip hop duo from Oakland, California, formed by West Coast rappers Yukmouth and Numskull.[4][5] They were signed to Noo Trybe Records and C-Note Records, and were the flagship act for the latter. The group is best known for the internationally successful hit in 1995 titled “I Got 5 on It”, known as a weed-smoking anthem
luniz
had a No.2 hit in 1996 with the theme tune to X Files
Mark Snow
Which French driver won the only race of his Formula 1 career when he was victorious at the 1996 Monaco GP?
Olivier PANIS
Which team won their second and most recent Champions League in 1996, a victory which has been marred by allegations of EPO cheating?
JUVENTUS
Bulgarian born, which 1m47 tall Turkish weightlifter won his third Olympic gold in 1996?
Naim SULEYMANOGLU
in 1996 who won the 1996 PGA Championship? The only major his his career and a man who holds the record for the most starts on the PGA tour with 803
Mark BROOKS
Which American golfer won his one and only major championships at the 1996 Open?
Tom LEHMAN
Which Quarterback led Dallas Cowboys to victory in the 1996 Superbowl? This was one of three times he would achieve this honour with the Cowboys
Troy AIKMAN
Outsider Foinavon won the 1967 Grand National when which perhaps aptly named horse, which had unseated its rider, caused a pile up of other horses?
popham down
A real-life Will Hunting, which astronomer began his career as a janitor at Mount Wilson Observatory? He volunteered to be a night assistant and was eventually made a staff member, assisting Edwin Hubble in formulating his namesake law and narrowly failing to discover Pluto (he took photos which included it in 1920, but failed to spot it himself).
Milton HUMASON
With the subtitle Private Vices, Public Benefits, which 1714 work by Bernard Mandeville is noted for suggesting key economic principles such as division of labour and the invisible hand many years before Adam Smith wrote about them?
Fable of the Bees
Alexander Stewart, the third surviving son of the Scottish King Robert II, was known for his rapacity and his destruction of the Royal Burgh and Cathedral of Elgin; by what epithet is he best known?
WOLF OF BADENOCH
Which year was the longest year in human history at 445 days, because Julius Caesar shifted from the pre-Julian Roman calendar to the Julian calendar by adding two leap months?
46 bc
Which 2000 action role-playing video game released by Eidos centres on nanotechnically-enhanced UNATCO agent JC Denton in a future world ravaged by inequality and a deadly plague?
deus x
Anthony Field is the only person who has been a member of which group throughout its existence? This Australian group is aimed at pre-school children and has sold many records in its home nation and the US.
THE WIGGLES
Derived from a Portuguese (and ultimately an Urdu or Persian) word for “soldier”, what six-letter name was given to sailors from the Indian subcontinent, and Asia and the Arab world more generally, employed on ships until the mid-20th century?
LASCAR
the brightest star in Canis Minor
PROCYON
Which ‘blog was founded by the former Financial Times journalist Nick Denton but closed in 2016 after being bankrupted by a libel action taken by Hulk Hogan?
GAWKER
Which American football team was threatened with legal action by the government of John F Kennedy when its owner George Preston Marshall insisted that the team would not draft black players? on 24th March 1961, Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall warned Marshall to sign black players of face federal retribution.
Washington Redskins
In 1966 who founded the black Panthers
Bobby Seale and Huey Newton
Martin Luther King and several other prominent civil rights leaders set up the SCLC in after a meeting in New Orleans in 1957. For what do the intials SCLC stand?
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
In 1964, White supremacist Byron De La Beckwith was twice acquitted by an all-white jury of the murder, in Jackson, Mississippi, of which prominent civil rights activist? De La Beckwith was eventually found guilty at a landmark third trial thirty years later. The case features in the 1996 film ‘Ghosts of Mississippi’ starring Alec Baldwin, Whoopi Goldberg and James Woods.
Medgar EVERS
Which non-native gamebird accounts for more than 50% of bird biomass in Britain as around 50 million are released every year for shooting after having been factory-farmed in continental Europe? The name of this bird is ultimately derived from the Ancient Greek name for the Rioni River in Georgia where these birds originated.
Pheasant
Gallinago gallinago
Common snipe
Once one of the most common waders in the Americas, it would migrate between Canada’s Northwest Territories and Patagonia, but hasn’t been recorded in the wild since 1963.
eskimo curlew
Stinkbird aka
hoatzin
No voting system can be fair
Arrows impossibility theory
Titian 1514
It perhaps depicts a figure representing the bride dressed in white, sitting beside Cupid and accompanied by the goddess Venus.[3
Sacred and profane love
ZORBA compiser
Mikos theodorakis
Mikos yheodorakis holocaust trilogy
Malthausen
First European pocket calculator
Digittron
Croatian nba goat
Drazen petrovic
Directed battle of neretva
Veljko Bulagic
Yugoslavia sole eurovision win
1989
Rock me
Riva
First non us animated short to win oscar
Surogat
Vukotic
Diffeŕnce between giffen and veblen goods
Giffen goods are low status. As price increases so does demand due to more of budget being spent on it.
Veblen goods also go up in demand as price increases. But these are high status goods. The demand goes up due to status
Equation dealing with substitution effect and income effect
Slutsky equation
Laffer curve shows what
Taxation increases government revenue up to a peak
Lead singer of everything everything
Jonathan higgs
Esp cards
Zener
Esp zener cards creator
Jb rhine
Esp test
Ganzfield
