Bahn Me (mi) Flashcards
Only US president to hold a patent
Lincoln
Device to buoy and lifts boats over instructions on rivers
Alexander Graham bell was born in ehat country in 1847 March
Scotland
Graham bell national historic site which contains a museum highlighting his inventions site near his residence Ben vre uh on Cape Breton Island in which province
Nova Scotia
Even though Edison was born in Ohio grew up in Michigan he is most closely associated with
NJ
Where the Edison national historic park is located
Edison is most famous for improving the design of
The lightbulb
Where was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart born
SultZberg Austria
Worlds largest single drop waterfall by volume of water flowing over it
Bonus location
Ki cher falls (as it kite)
Guyana
Kaiteur
Very remote part of the country
Have to fly in from the capital Georgetown
Ford was born with what name
Leslie lynch king jr
What does CVS stand for
Customer Value store
What US president was said to be so large that he required a special bathtub
Taft
musical that contains music by bjorn ew vah use of ABBA
Benny Anderson
Chess
Mama Mia
Which character in C programming language is often used to retrieve the memory address of a stores variable
Ampersand
The tallest mountain in the US east of the Mississippi River
Mount Mitchell in North Carolina
6.6K feet
Close behind mount Washington in NH @ 6.2K
The Japanese pufferfish that is a 1000 times more deadly then cyanide if improperly prepared
Fugu
Foo goo
An expert in matters of the home who is America’s first made self made billionaire
Martha Stewart
Jazz musician nat adderly was accomplished at what smaller relative of the trumpet
Cornet
Trombone?
Introduced the sharpie in 1964
Sanford ink company
City that has held the first at Patrick’s day celebration in the American colonies in 1737
Home to the centuries old charitable Irish society
Boston
Bonnie and Clyde
Clydes last name
Darrow
Bonnie and Clyde and their gang committed numerous robberies during what 1930s period
The Great Depression
College sports team known as the banana slugs
Santa Barbara in CA
College sports team known as the banana slugs
University of California at Santa Cruz
Bridge in France that was a site for this particular lovers custom until 2016
Pown day czar
Need a padlock
Officials began installing anti love lock Devices to keep it safe
First 2 feature length Disney animated movies
Snow White and the 7 dwarves 1938
Pinocchio 1940
Allegedly named for Ruben cool uh kof ski a grocer in Ohama NB in the early 20th century what are the traditional ingredients
Corned beef
Sauerkraut
Swiss cheese
Rye bread
Thousand island
Long Island is pretty long 118 miles end to end
What is the longest island in the world
Greenland
Not even close
Also longest feom north to south
However don’t be fooled by Mercator projections;it’s not as large as it appears on a map
Roughly equivalent in size on a map to Africa yet Africa is 14x the size
While paradoy songs do not infringe copyright laws weird al yank o Vick still seeks permission from any artist he intends to parody
Paul McCartney refused to give blessing for ethical reasons for what song
Live and let die
From wings?
Weird al chicken pot pie
McCartney is a vegetarian
Weird al never recorded but you can catch him performing
Briefcase in pulp fiction
Necklace in titanic
Maltese falcon in Maltese falcon
Are all examples of what plot device
Bonus popularized by who
Mcguffin - Scottish name
Motivator in and of itself not important to the plot but important to move the plot along
Hitchcock
In the beginning the universe was created. This has made a lot of people angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move is an opening line in a book of an inaccurately named trilogy by this humorist British novelist
Douglas Adams
Restaurant at the end of the universe which is sequel to inaccurately named
Hitchhiker’s trilogy consists of at least 5 books
Fitting term that creates a new word when spelled backwards
Stop pots
Emordnilap
E mord nuh lap
