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Ceres is the Roman equivalent of Persephone mom Flashcards

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On Sesame Street Oscar the Grouch lives in this

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Garbage can
Oscar is known for hating nice things so he’s happy to live in a garbage can

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Piece of furniture design to seat, two people

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Originally because the two seats allow a couple to sit together away from others

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The keto diet focuses on replacing carbohydrates with this

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Fats
Ketogenic diets demand extremely low carbohydrate consumption replacing them with fats so the body learns to burn fat instead

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Niagara Falls forms and natural border between this Canadian province and this US state

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New York just outside the city of Buffalo Niagara Falls mark the border between New York State and Ontario Canada

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Brothers that were founding members of The Beach Boys

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Wilson brothers
Brian Dennis and Carl Wilson join their cousin Mike love and friends Alan Jardine and David Marks to form the beach boys in 1961

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This iconic monument is also the tallest building in the city

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Eiffel Tower
Paris mostly limits building Heights to 121 feet letting the 1083 foot Eiffel Tower stand above the landscape

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This British desert was first used to liven up some leftover cake with booze
It’s name also means something of little significance

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trifle

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Andrew Zimmerm‘s website notes thatthis portmanteau of a dish goes by the moniker three bird roast in the United Kingdom

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Turducken

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A 1940 ad in the Australian women’s weekly recommended 1 teaspoon of this spread for good health and digestion

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Vegemite

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There’s an actual one of these at space center in Houston

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Moon rock

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These performers can bend over backwards, literally twist their bodies, and all kinds of unusual ways

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Contortionist

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It’s Frances oldest city and its main Seaport

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Marseille
Mar say

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The operetta the student prince is sat in the city in southern Germany site of the countries oldest university

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Heidelberg

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Istanbul, European and Asian sides are separated by this strait

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Bosphorus

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FDR became the first president to fly while in office when he attended in conference in this African city, sweetheart

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Casablanca

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State tree of Virginia as well as it’s state flower

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Dogwood

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Movie soundtracks
just two of its four number ones were if I can’t have you and how deep is your love?

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Saturday night fever

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I believe I can fly. Got things animated in this 1996 film.
Movie soundtracks

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Space jam

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It featured kiss by Prince and the Revolution and it wasn’t purple rain
Movie soundtracks

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Under the cherry moon

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Addis Ababa was founded by this Emperor the second in the late 1880s

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Menelik
Men uh lick

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The name of a biblical king gives us this adjective meaning wise

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Solomonic

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Mohammed the sixth became king of it in 1999

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Morocco

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John Adams the second serve as an a to this man, his father and got to get married at the White House in 1828

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John Quincy Addams

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This guy, the second knew something about cars like when he brought the Thunderbird to market

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Henry Ford the second

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Shakespeare’s play about this king deposed in 1399 Was staged in 1601 as part of the feeble rebellion against Queen Elizabeth the first

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Richard the second

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A 16th century, Antoine artist was a re-pieter sometimes known by this name second
Re Peter

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Broy ghul
Bruegel

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James W Alexander, the second was one of the founders of this -ology in which forms like a mug and a doughnut are equivalent

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Topology
Tuh pology

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President Biden‘s October 30 23 order on the development and use of this noted its extraordinary potential for both promise and peril

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Artificial intelligence

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Lincoln’s order of September 3, 1864 gave thanks to General Sherman and his gallant troops for their capture of this city

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During the Korean War, Harry Truman ordered a takeover of the industry making this vital alloy ;The Supreme Court said no

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Martin Van Buren’s first order March 7, 1837 commanded the surgeon general to accompany this man headed home to Tennessee

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Andrew Jackson

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In 1964 LBJ made this soon to be seven-year-old exempt from impending compulsatory retirement under federal law

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He said J Edgar Hoover didn’t need to retire

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Authors
Love is within the titles of three of his most famous books a fourth the rainbow calls, love the flower of life

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DH Lawrence
Lady Chatterley‘s lover
Sons and lovers
women in love

34
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For decades pop tarts number one best selling flavor has been frosted this fruit

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Strawberry

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Traditionally marzipan gets unique flavor from these nuts, and it often enhance with the extract

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Farewell Summer was this sci-fi authors 2006 sequel to dandelion wine for almost 50 years before

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Ray Bradberry

37
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Also a bird
Pharaoh or Leno

38
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The reptile phrynocephalus guttatus can jump 8 inches so a group would qualify for this little orphan Annie catchphrase
Fren o sef uh lis goo tot is

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Leapin lizards

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This cop falls down the stairs with and breaks the neck of a terrorist, but it’s still gonna be a long knife for him at Nakatani Plaza

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John McLane

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In 2024 he stepped into some majors shoes as Stutman colt Seavers in the fall guy

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Ryan Gosling

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In February 62, A.D. the city and Herculaneum were hit by a big earthquake, but that was nothing compared to what was coming up 17 years later
Her cuh lane e um

42
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James Clark was brutally killed in a garage at 2122 N. Clark with other Bugs Moran gang members in 1929 on this date
More Ann

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February 14

43
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Calbee makes Japanese snacks, including kah pah eb.e sin crackers, flavored with their shellfish the ebi
Eb e

44
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Also a bird
a poke in the buttocks

45
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Cousins beach is the setting for the summer. I did this the basis for an Amazon prime series.

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Turned pretty

46
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Call puma cougar or by this 2 word name. It has a 40 foot horizontal and 20 foot vertical leap.

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Mountain lion

47
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Nursery rhyme concerns, nimble quick Jack, and this feet of his

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Jumping over candlestick

48
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Cinnamon cardamom and ginger are the predominant flavors in this type of tea Hindi for tea

49
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In December 18 94 this French captain was convicted of selling military secrets to Germany, but after an uproar got a pardon five years later

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After dealing with this dysentery and disease bearing mosquitoes, the year before this Virginia colony was decimated by a fire in January 1608

51
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Silent movie star, taking a fall as only he could

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Buster Keaton

52
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There’s bouncing and leaping a plenty in awl a gree uh called this troupe most iconic show

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Circ dis so lay
Cirque du soleil

53
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Or takes a stab at the bard with his horror tale called a Midsummer nights this

54
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Also a bird
type of number like one or seven

55
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Using a variety of confections these seeds are usually described as having a licorice flavor

56
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Not learning from history and be wearing some ides king odoacer of Italy went to a banquet he would not survive on this date in 493

57
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On SNL Chevy Chase took many clumsy Pratt Falls while playing this president who ironically was a great athlete

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Ford
Play college football

58
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Also a bird
any New Zealander

59
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Also bird
a jolly escapade or a prank

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