Easter Meetup Flashcards
In what famous battle in Texas struggle for independence did 200 defenders hold out for 13 days before the invaders finally overpowered them
Battle of the Alamo
From Mexico
A whole geological time period centered on the queen of the olympians
Hera era
A prohibition on the horned god of Shepard’s and flocks
Pan ban
World war 1
Suvla bay and cape helles were major landing sites along this peninsula
Ga lip o lee
Hellas don’t in modern day Turkey
Meteorology
It was feared this word caused panic but in 1950 the US Weather bureau removed a ban on it in forecasts saying prediction wasnt impossible
Tornado
Weather bureau decided Not impossible to predict but merely difficult
ESRB genesis
Mortal kombat
But we will accept night trap
Books less than zero
American psycho
Brett Easton Ellis
Literary rat pack
4books turned into movies
1969 World Series
Mets defeated orioles
1969 SB
Jets defeated Baltimore colts
2006 movie stars Jamie fox and Colin Farrell as 2 cool cops in Florida
Miami Vice
Adaptation of the TV show of the same name
Only flag that does not contain red white or blue
Jamaica
When blood is removed from the body; components withdrawn from it before returned
Apheresis
Af a reeses
Movie stars
Mccounefy said dazed and confused the first words I ever said on film were
All right all right all right
Though Frederick Chopin is burried in Paris what part of him is preserved where
Heart in Warsaw
The great polish exile
When Angelina Jolie married brad Pitt in 2014 what was unique about her wedding gown
Decorated with her kids drawings
The shroud of Turin is made of what fabric
Linen
Spin-off to holes
Small steps
Follows Theodore aka armpit from the original story
Belgian bicycle racer nicknamed the cannibal
Eddie mar ix
Non fiction
This 1962 classic was dedicated to Albert Schweitzer national hon predicted that man will end by destroying the earth
Silent spring
Rachel Carson ecological classic about the pesticides
Robinson Crusoe
Daniel Defoe
More time zones than any other country in the world
France
Because of territories
Mt acongaua
Argentina in the Andes
Highest mountain in the Western Hemisphere
Aw kawng kah gwah
In the code breaker we learn of Jennifer doudna and her work on this gene editing technology
CrispR
A tale of immigrants from Africa is imbolo mbues behold these people also a term for DACA recipients
Dreamers
The title character in this Paulo coelho novel turns lead into gold for young Santiago
The alchemist
This singer was actually born on Friday feb 16 1990 in Toronto to parents from Ethiopia
The Weeknd
Roots drummer
Quest love
A principle often attributed to Hippocrates and followed by doctors
First do no harm
This leading city of Northern Ireland is home to queens university
Belfast
Only country that borders Venezuela and Ecuador
Colombia
It’s the name of the capita of Alberta Canada and also of a northern suburb of london
Edmonton
In 2019nrbis capital was renamed but-sultan after retiring leader nursultan nazarbayev
Astana
Kazakhstan
Meaning west in Africa this term is used for the region that includes most of African north of the Sahara
The Maghreb
