CODA 2022 Flashcards by Michael Kridla

One of the largest estuaries in the world, South America’s Río de la Plata is located between what two countries?

Uruguay and Argentina

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What name is given to a person who compiles dictionaries?

Lexicographer

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Big 12 teams

Arizona (2024)
Arizona State (2024)
Baylor (1996)
BYU (2023)
Cincinnati (2023)
Colorado (1996, 2024)
Houston (2023)
Iowa State (1996)
Kansas (1996)
Kansas State (1996)
Oklahoma State (1996)
TCU (2012)
Texas Tech (1996)
UCF (2023)
Utah (2024)
West Virginia (2012)

Consists of 16 full-member universities (3 private universities and 13 public universities) in the states of Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Kansas, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, and West Virginia. It is headquartered in Irving, Texas,

BYU, Cincinnati, Houston, and UCF joined the conference for the 2023–2024 season.[4] The next season Arizona, Arizona State, Colorado, and Utah joined the conference and Texas and Oklahoma left as part of a more extensive NCAA conference realignment.[5]

Institution Location Founded Joined Type Enrollment
(fall 2023)[6] Endowment
(billions – FY24)[7] Nickname Colors
University of Arizona Tucson, Arizona 1885 2024 Public 53,001 $1.387 Wildcats
Arizona State University Tempe, Arizona[a] 79,593[b] $1.592 Sun Devils
Baylor University Waco, Texas 1845 1996 Private
(Baptist) 20,824 $2.094 Bears
Brigham Young University Provo, Utah 1875 2023 Private
(LDS) 35,074 $3.080[9] Cougars
University of Central Florida Orlando, Florida[c] 1963 Public 69,233 $0.255 Knights
University of Cincinnati Cincinnati, Ohio 1819 43,338 $2.016[10] Bearcats
University of Colorado Boulder Boulder, Colorado 1876 1996, 2024[d] 41,432 $2.245
(system-wide) Buffaloes
University of Houston Houston, Texas 1927 2023 46,676 $1.113[11]
(system-wide) Cougars
Iowa State University Ames, Iowa 1858 1996 30,177 $1.717 Cyclones
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas 1865 28,406 $2.525 Jayhawks
Kansas State University Manhattan, Kansas 1863 19,745 $0.849 Wildcats
Oklahoma State University Stillwater, Oklahoma 1890 26,043 $1.482
(system-wide) Cowboys / Cowgirls
Texas Christian University Fort Worth, Texas 1873 2012 Private
(DOC) 12,785 $2.676 Horned Frogs
Texas Tech University Lubbock, Texas 1923 1996 Public 40,773 $2.904
(system-wide) Red Raiders
University of Utah Salt Lake City, Utah 1850 2024 35,260 $1.860 Utes
West Virginia University

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team from 2006-2012 before having breakout seasons for the Titans.

Guess: Washington Commanders
Answer: San Francisco 49ers

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Dane Cook plays a man who has a side hustle where he takes women on bad dates so they go back to their exes in this 2008 RomCom also starring Kate Hudson and Jason Biggs.

Guess: The Other Woman
Answer: My Best Friend’s Girl

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This Syracuse Defensive Lineman was 2001 Big East Defensive Player of the Year before becoming a Colts 1st Round pick.

Guess: Dwight Freeney

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Before he was the coach of the Warriors, Steve Kerr was the General Manager of this Western Conference team from 2007-2010.

Guess: San Antonio Spurs
Answer: Phoenix Suns

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Founded in 2009, this online retailer of pet food and other pet products netted over 11 billion dollars in revenue in 2023 and has a five-letter name.

Guess: Petco
Answer: Chewy

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With a similar shape to Mike & Ike’s, this candy comes in boxes and is licorice coated in pink & white shells.

Guess: Starburst
Answer: Good & Plenty

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Litchfield Correctional Institution is the primary setting for the first few seasons of what Emmy-nominated show that debuted in the 2010’s?

Guess: Prison Break
Answer: Orange Is the New Black

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Along with gaining fame in the 1990’s for their songs “Jerry Was A Racecar Driver” and “My Name is Mud”, the rock band Primus sings the opening theme song for what animated show?

Guess: South Park
Answer: South Park

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The calm center of the hurricane is called the what

Eye
even in a powerful hurricane, there is a calm circular center called the eye where winds only reach about 15 mph

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Borat, ali G and Bruno are characters portrayed by who

Sasha Baron Cohen
Sasha Baron Cohen got his start in television playing fake hip-hop journalist aliG on a British comedy show series called the 11 o’clock show

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More than 40% of the bodies blood cells are of which type

Red blood cells make up between 40 to 45% of all blood cells while white blood cells only make up about one percent

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The current king of the United Kingdom is part of which dynasty
2025

Windsor
Queen Victoria was the last of the house of Hanover and her grandson. King George change the family name to Windsor during World War I.

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Measured by assets what’s the largest company in America?

Fanny Mae
The federal national mortgage Association - Fannie Mae - basically guarantees mortgages for banks, which means it has a lot of mortgages

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This continent is named for a mythological princess, pursued by Zeus

Europe
Europa was a daughter of the king of Phoenicia and kidnapped by Zeus, who took her to Crete where they had three sons together

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This 2023 film was a minus in title only indiewire said the king of monsters is back and better than ever

Godzilla minus one

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The river Ray in Wiltshire empties into this much larger one just east of the town of Cricklade

The Thames
Tems

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Why just o’er?
why just land?
we’re going to put our sea plane down on this 730 square mile Florida lake and do a little fishing

OK, Okeechobee
Oh uh cho B

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The Cardinals beating the Cowboys 28 to 16 was a big one in 2023

Upset

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She gets raised as Sydney on the bear and gives them online. Florence Pugh can punch me in the neck I’d die for her.

Ayo edebiri
Uh deb uh ree

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Collider said this 2023 murder movie features the best animal performance of the year. It’s pooch won the palm dog at Cannes
can

Memorable dog performance from anatomy of a fall

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We’re beginning our descent into the city out your window. You may be able to see Coit tower and Giardelli Square.
Ghee r deli

San Francisco

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You can soar above the 11,842 lakes of 10 acres or more in this not quite accurately nicknamed state

Minnesota

If spelunking is your hobby, you like to study and explore these like Vietnam, Hang soon dong

Caves

The name of this data storage format came from the color of the laser used to read the disks

Blu-ray

Elle and Joel were back in their awful world in part two of this video game, which Rolling Stone dubbed an absolute bleeping banger

The last of us

The New York Times called this Broadway show inspired by a movie musical, a natural high with a knockout Karen Olivio as satine

Moulin Rouge

The trooper on Apollo rocking recliner, trying to help guys become the company name

La-Z-Boy

A bodysuit was the basis for this New York designers first collection under her own name back in 1985

Donna Karen

This Italian designer became a global name after Richard Gere wore his suits in American gigolo

Armani

In 1980 this designer created controversy with provocative jeans ads that featured 15-year-old Brooke shields

Calvin Klein

She created a DVF awards in 2010 to honor women who have demonstrated leadership strength and courage in the causes they support

Diane Von Firstenberg

In 2008 Christian Siriano won the fashion competition on this TV series and launched his own collection that same year.

Project runway

13 letter words Specific profession of filmmaker, Errol Morris

Documentarian

13 letter words A prisoner held this way is not allowed any contact with the outside world

Incommunicado

Makes sense the raelettes back this late great icon Ray lets

Ray Charles

Freddie Gorman, a letter carrier by day contributed to the lyrics of this song that delivered a number one hit for the Marvelettes

Please Mr. postman

Robbie Montgomery was an original member of this unheralded girl group that baked Tina Turner on hits like Proud Mary

The Ikeetts Backing up lke and Tina

Though dark haired, Janette nuh pol uh tahn O was the lead singer of this group that in 1990 sang about Joey

Concrete blonde

Astronaut William Anders he saw a gorgeous orb coming up and took a photo called This died at 90 piloting a small plane.

Earth rise

This Cold War pilot was shot down over the USSR in 1960 and now rests at Arlington

Francis Gary Powers

Weather sound process to develop creative ideas through freethinking and collaboration

Brainstorming

In 421 BC, a general named nicias negotiated an end to this war six years later Athens and Sparta were back at it

Pelo puh nesian war

The palace of this cretan city had basement rooms that served as kind of the strategic wheat reserve

Naxos Nasos Nah sooos

This Greek father of tragedy fought in the battle of marathon, which he included in an epitaph he wrote for himself Taf

S cuh liss

Popular books of the 40s included this novel about a girl and her family living in a tough part of New York City’s Williamsburg area

a tree grows in Brooklyn

Let’s do it now. Let’s get that place now were Lenny‘s last words to George in the Steinbach Novella.

Of mice and men

In chapter one of this novel, the narrator says people are always asking did I know about Tyler Durden

Fight club

1969. The house on the strand was one of the last novels by this Rebecca author.

Daphne duh more e a

Maxine Hong Kingston, said of this 1931 classic which she read in ninth grade it humanized Chinese people

The good Earth by Pearl s buck

The Parthenon features this style of columns the oldest and simplest of the Greek orders

Doric Not Ionic

13 letter words Adjective for the parts of a proposed deal that are not open to discussion or modification

Non-negotiable

13 letter words Uncapitalized it can mean containing coal capitalized it’s a geological period of many vast swamps

Carboniferous

This Wiley one eyed pilot published around the world in eight days after a voyage aboard the Winnie, May

Wiley post

Tuskegee airmen flew under the command of Benjamin O Davis Junior the first black person in the 20th century to graduate from this academy

West Point

The marketts kapowed their way into the top 20 with the theme from this 60s TV series set in Gotham

Batman

According to this French author/flyer a pilot strives to outwit the forces of nature, truth for him is what lives in the stars

Antwan day san ex puh ray X Ub uh ray

The Pythian games were held every third year of the Olympiad at this Oracle city to honor Apollo

Delphi

Sports teams Fittingly this team was born on November 1, 1966 the day the franchise was awarded

New Orleans Saints November 1 is being All Saints day

And the beat still goes on for the late popstar and US congressman - a stretch of I 10 near Palm Springs his name for him

Sonny Bono

Last lines of books he would be there all night and he would be there when jem wake up in the morning

To kill a Mockingbird

This three letter tool makes small holes in wood get our point

Awl AWL

David Schwimmer was there for you as this late lawyer defending O.J. Simpson an American crime story

Robert Kardashian is that is that the same Kardashians

Her writing to hubby, John in 1776 if particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to forment a rebellion

Abigail Adams

Poke an I out An exercise program to increase flexibility becomes less flexible when it loses an I and becomes or metal sheet

Pilates Plates

The Governor Thomas E Dewey Thruway, one of the longest toll roads in the US winds 570 miles across the state

New York

Jimmy Buffett named an album for the state A1A Highway in June 2024 the state return the favor naming A1A for him

Florida

In 2001 the Dallas Fort Worth Turnpike was renamed for this cowboy coach each highway sign depicts a fedora

Tom Landry

The symbol on the flag of the Soviet Union was this hammer and this hook shaped metal blade with a short handle

Sickle

Married since 1992 in South Dakota governor since 2019 she was mentioned as a possible choice for VP, but her past dogged her a bit

Kristi gnome Noem

After marrying Elliot in 1938, this inventor had two kids, Barbara and Ken, who were not thrilled being mom’s inspiration

Ruth handler

Glenbach is well could be shorthand for Glenn Doyle, and this wife a retired soccer star

Abby Wam bach

As conservative lawyer, Joe Quincy this late and very much great. Matthew Perry walked and talked with Allison Jannie on this drama.

The West Wing