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Butterfly best fit to live in a vivarium Flashcards

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Three of King Henry VIII’s six wives shared what first name?

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Catherine

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Which film, released in 2007, is based on a Broadway musical first staged in 2002, itself based on a film released in 1988?

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Hairspray

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An image of the White House is featured on the reverse of what U.S. banknote?

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20

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Borrowing its name from a Latin term for the Etruscans, the Tyrrhenian Sea lies between these 2 countries

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Corsica and Italy

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The animal called the short-tailed weasel in North America is known by what other name to the rest of the world?

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Stoat

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Urticaria, named for a Latin word for stinging nettle plants, are the itchy red bumps associated with what condition?

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Hives

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Despite its name, what dish is usually made using the pancreas of a calf or lamb?

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Sweetbread

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The first British royal to compete in the Olympics and also competed in which event at the 1976 Summer Games?

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Princess Anne
Equestrian

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The only surviving child of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon, who was the first queen of England to reign in her own right and not through marriage?

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Mary 1

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In 2007 she made history as the first woman elected to serve as speaker of the house

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Nancy Pelosi

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An early example of a “first-person shooter,” which video game was the first to receive an M (mature) from the Entertainment Software Rating Board?

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Doom

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you are a hedonist, your primary goal in life is…
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pleasure

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Several scenes of which holiday film were shot on location at the 1946 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade?
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Miracle on 34th Street

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Actually an iron sulfide that’s worth a fraction of real gold, which mineral is known as “fool’s gold”?

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Pyrite

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Which actor narrated the Hall of Presidents attraction at Disney World from 2009 to 2017, more than a decade after portraying a president in Deep Impact (1998)?

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Morgan freeman

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Along with winning 73 singles titles, who’s won $94 million during her career—more than twice as much as any other female tennis player?

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Serena Williams

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the yellow-bellied sapsucker is which type of bird?

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Woodpecker

Known to drill wells in more than 1,000 types of trees,

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which country has the longest coastline in Europe—63,000 miles in total?

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Norway

Because of its many islands and fjords,

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Popular in the 19th century but later widely discredited, phrenology attempted to predict character traits based on what?

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Skull shape

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Which animal is the only non-primate to have fingerprints, thought to help them grip trees?

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Koala

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a stock priced at $25 increases by 200 percent, how much is that stock now worth?

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$75

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Although visitors can buy bottles there, which liquor brand’s distillery is located in a dry county in Tennessee?

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Jack Daniels

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Filled with animals like the viscacha and the guanaco, the Pampas is a 300,000-square-mile plains region in which country?

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Argentina

24
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A 2008 portrait of Barack Obama by street artist Shepard Fairey was emblazoned with which word?

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Hope

25
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Famously visited by Marco Polo, the ancient capital city Xanadu (Shangdu) was established by which ruler?

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Kublai Khan

26
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Which future pop star was the subject of a Facebook group called “Stefani Germanotta, you will never be famous,” created by some of her New York University classmates?

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Lady Gaga

27
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Introduced in a 1920 play, which word is derived from a Czech word meaning “forced labor”?

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Robot

28
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In Mexico, luchadores don colorful masks to perform which activity?

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Wrestling

29
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When launched in 2003 as a dating site for objectivists, the Atlasphere based its name on a work by which author?

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Ayn Rand

30
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The book The Antisocial Network details how amateur investors drove which company’s stock to rise by 1,500 percent in January 2021?
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GameStop

31
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Located the farthest east, which is the only Great Lake that doesn’t border the state of Michigan?

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Lake Ontario

32
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Archduke Franz Ferdinand, whose assassination began World War I, was the heir to the throne of which country?

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Austria -Hungary

33
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Affecting about one in three people, which eye condition is caused by an irregular curvature of the lens or cornea?

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Astigmatism

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Used as pack and draft animals by the Sami people of northern Europe, which animal is the only domesticated type of deer?

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Reindeers

35
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Ryan Gosling temporarily lived with which future pop star when both were child actors on The All-New Mickey Mouse Club?

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Justin Timberlake

36
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Mick Jagger provided uncredited backing vocals to Carly Simon on which 1970s hit—and many think the song is about him?
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“You’re So Vain”

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The discovery of mold growing on the rind of a cantaloupe was integral in the mass production of which medicine?
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Penicillin

38
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Infamous for leaking classified information about U.S. surveillance operations, who was granted Russian citizenship in 2022?

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Edward Snowden

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When airing its 636th episode, which show in 2018 surpassed Gunsmoke as the longest-running scripted series in TV history?

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Simpsons

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Rarely used on national flags because of its historically high-priced dye, which color appears on the is country’s flag as plumage on a parrot?

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Purple on Dominica

41
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A Tony-winning epic about the AIDS epidemic, which play is subtitled A Gay Fantasia on National Themes?

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Angels in America

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Mostly found in the rainforests of Borneo and Sumatra, which primate is the largest tree-dwelling mammal in the world?

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Orangutan

43
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be retitled as The Portent?

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The Omen

44
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The Ozians” is the name of which Broadway musical’s official Facebook fan group?

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Wicked

45
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Derived from a phrase meaning “burning stone,” brimstone is another name for which element?

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Sulfer

46
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U.S. Navy recruiters set up tables outside screenings of which blockbuster film upon its 1986 release?

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Top gun

47
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Thirty-second ads during the Super Bowl cost advertisers $1 million for the first time in what year?

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1995

48
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Once called the Spanish Silk Poodle, which is the only dog breed that is native to Cuba?

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correct
Havanese

49
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Indirectly spurring the United States’ entry into World War I, German submarines sank which boat, killing 1,198 passengers, including 128 U.S. citizens?

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RMS Lusitania

50
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Later describing her as “the eighth wonder of the world,” Mark Twain helped fund the college tuition of which woman?

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Helen Keller

51
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An actor who is criticized for “phoning it in” has given which type of performance?

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Perfunctory

52
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Which country’s flag features a red and blue taegeuk, derived from the symbol for yin and yang?

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South Korea

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