Davis Cup Tennis Flashcards

1
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This Brazilian driver won 2 formula 1 championships in 72 and 4 and 2 Indy 500 races in 89 and 93

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Emerson Fit uh pald E

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2
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5 consecutive Wimbledon wins in 2000s

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Federer

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Only club in premiere league that is an F word
Bonus only team based in East Midlands only half meets criteria

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Fullum (Fullerton?)
Nottingham forest

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4
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Bad movie descriptions
A band takes a child no one is related to on tour to live with groupies

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Almost famous
Hold me close tiny dancer

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Bad movie descriptions
A guys uncle goes missing after his birthday party and his old stoner friend from out of town tells him the souviner his uncle brought back from holiday 80 years ago is actually satan’s mood ring and now zombie assassins are coming

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LOTR fellowship of the ring

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6
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Bad movie descriptions
Soap maker experienced psychosis while hosting backyard boxing

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Fight club
I thought we weren’t supposed to talk about

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7
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In various hitchhiker’s guide to thr galaxy iterations he is a designer of planets and has this favorite geographic feature

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Fjords
Shlarty Bartfast

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8
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1818 novel is considered by some to be the first true science fiction story

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Frankenstein

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9
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This is Elizabeth’s primary love interest in this Jane Austen novel

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Fitz William Darcy in Pride and prejudice

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This author set at least 10 novels and dozens of short stories in the fictional county of yack nuh pot uh fa based largely on Lafayette county Mississippi

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Faulkner

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11
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This group won Grammys for record of the year in 68 and 70 for up up and away and Aquarius of the sunshine and respectively ??

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The fifth dimension

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12
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This show ran for 4 seasons on fox starting in 99
picked up by comedy central in 07
Then Hulu in 23

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Futurama

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13
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Tv show name often anagramed on sign outside of eponymous location

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Faulty towers ; John Cleese
BBC show from 70s

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14
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Chat GPT movie descriptions
In a futuristic city where working class live in oppression and ruling class live in luxury a mad scientist creates a humanoid robot in his image but experiment sparks an uprising that ends up throwing a wrench in city’s machinery

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Metropolis
27 Fritz Lang joint

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15
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In French, “été” is “

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In French, “été” (summer) is “la saison chaude” (the warm season).

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16
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Cookie in UK

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Biscuit
Although sweeter biscuit cookie

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17
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Only NBA father son combo to play in same regular season game

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Lebron and bronny
24 season opener

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18
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Since 70s many Japanese families gather on December 25 to eat a Christmas bucket from

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KFC
In 23 $30 4580Y

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19
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Founder of BYU
1875

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Second president of Mormon church
Bringham young
Joseph smith first

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20
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First EGOT

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Richard Rodgers
1962

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21
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Founded by 2 New Englanders this city would have been named Boston if a coin flip went thr other way

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Portland Oregon
Boston lawyer asa lovejoy lost thr coin toss to portend Maine Francis pettygrove when claiming Oregon land in 1800s

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22
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Saying mount and Yama to the name of this highest Japanese peak is redundant Yama means mountain

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Mount Fuji

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23
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One offering on this series for kids is twilight sparkle, and the crystal heart spell

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My Little Pony

24
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A burp takes down the totalitarian King in the story by Dr. Seuss

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Yertle thr turtle

25
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One review said this provocative 1993 novel by Lois Lowery is sure to keep older children, reading and thinking

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The giver

26
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A modern favorite by Alexandra Day is called good dog this first name

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Good dog Carl

27
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In a classic by Natalie Babbitt, this title family is everlasting

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Tuck everlasting

28
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Don’t want pollutants ending up in a drainage basis also called this a term for an important moment

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Watershed

29
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It’s not even a car accident, but near one that puts Ali Wong and Steven Yuen at odds in this Emmy winning limited series

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Beef

30
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The head of a college of the presiding official of a cathedral

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Dean

31
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Put kitchen scraps and yard clippings in a bin to make this fertilizer, whose name means mixture

A

Compost

32
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This British title heroine said I have a horrible feeling that I’m a greedy, perverted, selfish, apathetic, cynical woman

A

Fleabag

33
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I miss it, 2016 Anthony Anderson and family at Disney World. It was an ABC show they weren’t going to Universal.

A

Blackish

34
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Killing ones brother

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Fratricide

35
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At the beginning of the invisible man, a stranger walking from the railway station was carrying a black one of these

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Portmanteau

36
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As well as humans, many animals are mummified in ancient Egypt, like this primate, whose hamadryas species was held sacred

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Baboon

37
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Inspired by a palace in France, Ben and Bernice Novak built this iconic Miami hotel

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Fon tahn blue

38
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Traditionally a bride kept this collection of items that she was bringing into her marriage in a cedar chest

A

True so

39
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The Deccan plateau forms most of the southern peninsula of this country

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India

40
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90° is the highest temperature ever recorded in the state capital

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Juneau, Alaska

41
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Some animals are highly resistant to snake venom like the mongoose, and the sweet sounding creature also called a ratel

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Honey badger

42
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Proceeds from a pair of hotdog hands used this film went to the laundry worker center

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Everything everywhere all at once

43
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This film inspired the hidden no more program that highlights the achievements of women in careers like engineering

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Hidden figures

44
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Twice to one William and once to another William this William ran and lost lost three times

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William Jennings Bryan
Two to McKinley one to Taft

45
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He carried Arizona and five states in the deep south in his unsuccessful 1964 presidential bid

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Barry Goldwater

46
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A few after his loss al gore did get to see this film he wrote when the Oscar for best documentary feature

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An inconvenient truth

47
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His loss in 1800 election came by a vote in the House of Representatives not in the electoral college

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Aaron burr

48
Q

There were three losers the first time Lincoln one

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John Breckenridge, John Bell, and debate foe Douglas

49
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After the success of this best picture winner Danny Boyle and Christian Colson donated 745,000 to a Mumbai children’s fund

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Slumdog millionaire

50
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In 2018 Disney pledge 1 million of this marvel films proceeds to stem programs in underserved areas

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Black Panther

51
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The film the beautiful game gives a glimpse of the homeless World Cup a real life tournament in this sport

A

Soccer

52
Q

Most of the dead scrolls were written in Hebrew
A few are in this Semitic language of Jesus.

A

Aramaic

53
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Also, the name of a 2000 Vin Diesel flick this two word color describes something dark as tar

A

Pitch, Black

54
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A Southern University shares its name with this reddish color, often used of hair

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Auburn

55
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The longest Dead Sea scroll at around 27 feet includes design for this Jerusalem building and it’s compound

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The second temple