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Bahn Me (mi) Flashcards

1
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Only US president to hold a patent

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Lincoln
Device to buoy and lifts boats over instructions on rivers

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Alexander Graham bell was born in ehat country in 1847 March

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Scotland

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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

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Nova Scotia

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4
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Even though Edison was born in Ohio grew up in Michigan he is most closely associated with

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NJ
Where the Edison national historic park is located

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5
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Edison is most famous for improving the design of

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The lightbulb

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6
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Where was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart born

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SultZberg Austria

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Worlds largest single drop waterfall by volume of water flowing over it
Bonus location

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Ki cher falls (as it kite)
Guyana

Kaiteur
Very remote part of the country
Have to fly in from the capital Georgetown

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8
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Ford was born with what name

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Leslie lynch king jr

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9
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What does CVS stand for

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Customer Value store

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What US president was said to be so large that he required a special bathtub

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Taft

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11
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musical that contains music by bjorn ew vah use of ABBA
Benny Anderson

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Chess
Mama Mia

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12
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Which character in C programming language is often used to retrieve the memory address of a stores variable

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Ampersand

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The tallest mountain in the US east of the Mississippi River

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Mount Mitchell in North Carolina
6.6K feet
Close behind mount Washington in NH @ 6.2K

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The Japanese pufferfish that is a 1000 times more deadly then cyanide if improperly prepared

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Fugu
Foo goo

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An expert in matters of the home who is America’s first made self made billionaire

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Martha Stewart

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Jazz musician nat adderly was accomplished at what smaller relative of the trumpet

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Cornet
Trombone?

17
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Introduced the sharpie in 1964

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Sanford ink company

18
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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

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Boston

19
Q

Bonnie and Clyde
Clydes last name

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Darrow

20
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Bonnie and Clyde and their gang committed numerous robberies during what 1930s period

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The Great Depression

21
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College sports team known as the banana slugs

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Santa Barbara in CA

22
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College sports team known as the banana slugs

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University of California at Santa Cruz

23
Q

Bridge in France that was a site for this particular lovers custom until 2016

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Pown day czar
Need a padlock
Officials began installing anti love lock Devices to keep it safe

24
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First 2 feature length Disney animated movies

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Snow White and the 7 dwarves 1938
Pinocchio 1940

25
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Allegedly named for Ruben cool uh kof ski a grocer in Ohama NB in the early 20th century what are the traditional ingredients

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Corned beef
Sauerkraut
Swiss cheese
Rye bread
Thousand island

26
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Long Island is pretty long 118 miles end to end
What is the longest island in the world

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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

27
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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

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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

28
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Briefcase in pulp fiction
Necklace in titanic
Maltese falcon in Maltese falcon
Are all examples of what plot device
Bonus popularized by who

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Mcguffin - Scottish name
Motivator in and of itself not important to the plot but important to move the plot along
Hitchcock

29
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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

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Douglas Adams
Restaurant at the end of the universe which is sequel to inaccurately named
Hitchhiker’s trilogy consists of at least 5 books

30
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Fitting term that creates a new word when spelled backwards

Stop pots

A

Emordnilap

E mord nuh lap

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