Concord Flashcards

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What pork and pineapple taco variety has a name that literally means Shepard style

A

Al pastor

All pas tor

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Only US state whose name begins with an A but does not end with an A

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Arkansas

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Business students might be excited to know that the little ball in your can of Guinness is called

A

Widget
For air ration purposes
Release nitrogen to create a draft experience

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MLB player diagnosed with ameo trophic lateral suh row sis

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Lou gherig

ALS

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5
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According to its jingle Big Mac ingredients

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2 all beef patties 
Special sauce 
Lettuce 
Cheese 
Pickles 

Onions
On a sesame seed bun

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60s Children’s author that Wrote the chart topping hit a boy named sue

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Shell Silverstein; has book named a boy named sue and actually also a song
Johnny cash hit

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Kids bop volume 1 contained wonderful covers of songs such as all star slide bye bye bye what year was this album released

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2001

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More people in Africa are killed by this anima than any other

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Hippopotamus

Terrible swimmers Fast runners (running and. Bouncing off bottom of the water)

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60+ HRs in a season

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Sosa 3 
Bonds 2
McGuire 1
Maris 1
Babe with 60
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This NFL franchise launched a million schoolboy fantasies with the introduction of the first professional cheerleading squad in the 70s

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Cowboys

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In what year did emperor emperor here o heat o die

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1989

Axis leader

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A dutiful Italian father tries to shelter his son from the dangerous truth of the Holocaust

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Life is beautiful

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This absurdist take on propaganda film depicts the brutal death of hitler

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Inglorious bastards

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One of the greatest films ever made this film practically set the standard for the war torn romance genre

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Casablanca

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2 Japanese children struggle to survive in the waning days of Ww2 in this highly celebrated animated film

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Grave of the fireflies

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US mint produced pennies of ehat medal during Ww2 and why

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Steel

To Conserve the use of bronze

17
Q

Series W savings bond were more commonly known as

18
Q

Quote
I’d rather have more sinful aluminum now than good aluminum too late for the war
What monopoly is being referenced?

A

Alcoa
Said By Secretary of war stimpson
“Alcoa can’t wait” commercial promoting themselves as progressive company

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The US spent about 350 bil on domestic war time projects with about 10% spent in what state

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California because they built ships?

20
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7 modern wonders of the world west to east

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Chicken itsa Mexico City
Manchu pichu Peru
Christ the redeemer Rio de janiero 
Collesum in Italy 
Petra in Jordan 
Taj Mahal Agra
Great Wall of China
21
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19th century contemporaries

Congratulations her on the 1869 release of her biography Frederick Douglas wrote I have wrought in the day you in the night

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Harriet Tubman

22
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When this tennesse Williams plays debuted in 1947 the cast included marlon Brando Kim hunter and Jessica Tandy

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A streetcar named desire

23
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The 2008 Pulitzer went to Tracy letts for this play

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August:osage county

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Jonathan Larson posthumously won a Pulitzer in 96 for coming up with this bohemian musical

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This Wendy Wasserstein play follows the life of an art historian from high school through her 30s
The heidi chronicles
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Eugene O’Neil Pulitzers in the 20s
Beyond the horizon Anna Christie Strange interlude
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Around 218 BC this cArthagian led 20K infantry into Italy via the alps while dealing with the elephant out of the room
Hannibal
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This Union general swung north in Feb 1865 through the Carolinas toward Virginia
William t Sherman
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After it’s futile appeal to the Supreme Court this tribe lost 4 K members along the 1830s trail of tears
cherokee
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The 2nd offensive by this offensive German lasted from Jan to July 1942 with stops in Tobruk and Benghazi
Erwin Rommel