Cheeky Day 1 Flashcards

1
Q

The Vardar river divides this capita of north Macedonia into old and new sections

A

Skopje

Skow pee uh

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2
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Grant woods sister and dentist posed as the Midwestern farmer and daughter in this iconic painting

A

American gothic

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3
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Edvard Munchs diary entry describing flaming clouds and shivering with anxiety inspired this iconic 1893 work

A

The scream

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4
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News coversge of the horrific bombing of a Spanish basque City by the Germans in 1937 led this painter to create this huge anti-war painting

A

Guernica

Picasso

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5
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A restaurant on green which ave innNYC wheee 2 streets meet inspired this Edward hopper painting

A

Nighthawks

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6
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This American exhibited her children playing on the beach at the final impressionist exhibition in 1886

A

Mary Cassatt

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7
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Awkwafinas time growing up in this big apple inspired her character ina. Comedy Central series

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Nora from Queens

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8
Q

Tig notaro got some laughs playing a feisty helicopter pilot in this zack Snyder zombie flick

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Army of the dead

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9
Q

B is for this frank comedian who palys frank Murphy on the animated hit f is for family

A

Bill burr

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10
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This comedian who was nicknamed fluffy was the voice of speedy Gonzales in space jam a new legacy

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Gabriel Iglesias

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11
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In a 2018 film kevin hart attends the title night school and this female comic is his teacher

A

Tiffany had dish

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12
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Known as the year without a summer

A

1816
Eruption of mt tambore uh
Caused a nuclear winter
In Indonesia

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13
Q

Earth has seasons not because of distance from the sun but …

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Tilt of the earth relative to its orbital plane
23.5

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14
Q

What landmark can grow up to 6” in the heat

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Eiffel Tower
Because of heats effect on iron

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15
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First modern summer Olympics

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1896

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16
Q

5 new sports for 2020 Olympics

A

Skateboarding
Surfing
Baseball/Softball
Karate
Sports climbing

Says the IOC

17
Q

Cities that have hosted the summer Olympics 2 or more times

A

Paris 1900 1924 2024?
LA 1932 1984
Athens 1896 2004
London 1908 1948 2012
Tokyo 1964 2020

18
Q

Longest amount of time between summer olympic games

A

12 years
36-48
40 Helsinki/Tokyo
44 London

19
Q

Which of these statesmen won the Nobel peace prize in literature but was reportedly disappointed it wasn’t for peace

A

Winston Churchill

Literature for history of the English speaking peoples

20
Q

Won the World Series during a global pandemic in 2020

A

LA

21
Q

Won the World Series during the 1918 global pandemic

A

Red Sox

22
Q

Fashion designer Thomas Burberry invented and patented what material to protect people from British weather

A

Gabardine
Coats are made of

23
Q

Camp crystal lake

A

Friday the 13th
Kevin bacon!
Make the podcast connection

24
Q

Camp north star
Starring bill Murray

A

Meatballs

25
Q

History

Intimately familiar with world war 1 Churchill considered this war from some 150 years before the First World War

A

Seven years war
Global war between England and France
French and Indian war was the North American arena

26
Q

Women in history

The orphaned future Queen Elizabeth I was devoted to this stepmother
Who died 2 days before her 15 th birthday

A

Catherine parr

27
Q

King Henry wife one

A

Catherine of Aragon

28
Q

King Henry second katherine wife

A

Catherine Howard

29
Q

It’s a light greenish blue

A

Aqua

30
Q

A woodwind instrument with a double reed

A

Oboe

31
Q

In this means instead

A

Lieu

32
Q

Academy award

In 2019 he won his first competitive Oscar 36 years after a student academy award for a film about a Brooklyn barbershop

A

Spike lee
Blackklansmann

33
Q

World literature

Befitting th title Antoine galland the first western translator of this collection worked on it only “after dinner”

A

Arabian nights
1001 nights into European languages

34
Q

Showing great steadfastness in 2021 NASA landed this 2.7 b rover on Mars a mere 127 million miles away

A

Perseverance

35
Q

Old maps depicting what’s now this 125K square mile country labeled the area with the French word for teeth

A

Ivory Coast or coat de vware
Cote de dents
Coast of teeth
Named for for elephant tusks found there

36
Q

On the internet

This website launched in 2015 with offerings form James Paterson
Serena Williams
Dustin Hoffman

A

Masterclass