Eddy Grant Electric Avenue Flashcards

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Marsupials are normally associated with this continent but what is the only marsupial found in North America

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Opossum

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2
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She famously worked with gorillas

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Diane Fossey

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3
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After 50 years this Loraine Hansberry play was the inspiration for this Pulitzer Prize winning drama

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Clybourne park
Play - raisin in the sun

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4
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Judicial org. : ABA

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American Bar Association (ABA)

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5
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Too late to turn back now song
72

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Cornelius bros /sister rose

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This Egyptian goddess representing motherhood and fertility was often depicted as a woman with thr heqd of this animal

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Hathor
Cow
Also god of cosmetics

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7
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This dwnce move makes someone appear to be moving forward while waking backward

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Moonwalk also called the backslide
MI made famous in the Motown 25th anniversary special but predates
Cab Calloway in thr 40s

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This island has its own distinct language with words from Arabic Hebrew and Greek
Also location

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Sicily - 5 M peeps - language predates Italian
Originally a lot of Greek colonies -Archimedes thr mathematician from Sicily from Syracuse
Boot tip of Italy

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9
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Once thr richest man in the country whose American fur company is considered the first US business monopoly

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John Jacob Astor

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10
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This 87 arcade game now practically synonymous with fighting games dhad 2 cabinet releases
One with 6 buttons and
a deluxe version with 2 giant pads

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Street fighter
Huh duke in

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Stainless Marlin 1895 rifle rated for hunting bear deer hog moose and also this - the only firearm in the world
Due to its appearance in a 15 movie

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T rex
2015 Jurassic world

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12
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Big 3 in thr tennis world

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Roger Federer
Raphael nadal
No vack Joke uh vich
3 most dominant mens singles champs
Since 04 French open only 4 others have won 1 of the grand slams
Andy Murray - Great Britain
Stanisslav vav rank uh - Swiss
Chill ich -
Juan mar teen del po tro

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13
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Bach’s pieces are known by this

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BWV number - Bach’s works number

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14
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Beethovens pieces are catalogued by

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Opus number

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15
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Mozarts compositions are assigned this single letter

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K- ko chel catalog - named after the guy who catalogued for him
Must mean they are pretty allright

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16
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What does this Sequence describe
151
251
386
493
649
721
809
894

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17
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This class of vertebrate is characterized by its ability to live both entirely on land and in water

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Amphibians
Like toads and newts

18
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This blended treat from Dairy Queen shares its names with a kind of snowstorm

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Blizzard

19
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After looking for the right woman on the show in 04 Jesse Palmer became the host of this reality program in 22

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The bachelor

20
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Named for a French cardinal this Canadian river roses from lake Champlain

A

Richelieu

21
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In a black hat mask and coat Boris the burglar is the logo of this community crime prevention organization

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Neighborhood watch

22
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Billy Dolly Jeffy and PJ are the children in this long running comic strip

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Family circus

23
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In 21 the eight installment series f this Nintendo video game franchise became the best selling racing game in US history

A

Mario kart

24
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Before they were authors
While working for British naval intelligence during world war 2 he was code-named 17 F

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Ian Fleming
Creator of 007 James Bond

25
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This monarch 1819 birthday is commemorated each year with a holiday in Canada

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Queen Victoria

Victoria Day, known colloquially as “May Two-Four” or “May Long Weekend”, is a federal Canadian public holiday celebrated on the last Monday preceding May 25th. The day is in honour of Queen Victoria’s birthday, who was born on May 24, 1819

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Portuguese colony until 99
Last colony relinquished after 442 years of rule
Special administrative region of peoples republic of China

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Muh cow

27
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This city was incorporated in 1854 from portions of egg harbor and Galloway townships

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Atlantic City
Miss America pageant held for last 100 years
Street names basis for majority of monopoly
Has a famous boardwalk

28
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United Nations members states that start with the letter J

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Japan
Jordan
Jamaica

29
Q

This temperature scale was named after William Thompson

A

Lord kelvin

30
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Celsius = Fahrenheit at this temp

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-40

31
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Counties that begin with letter G

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Gambia
Greece
Guatemala
Greenland
Guinea

32
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from the Latin “”, an adjective meaning “of six months”.

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Semester
Latin - semestris

German word

We use the term in a system that divides an academic year into two roughly equal parts. A trimester-system has three parts, and a quarter-system has four.

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is a headwear manufacturer based in Buffalo, New York that supplies all the official baseball caps used by the Major League teams.

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The New Era Cap Company

34
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California gold rush year

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The 49ers football team in San Francisco takes its name from the gold prospectors who flooded into Northern California around 1849 during the California Gold Rush. These “1849 prospectors” became known as the “49ers”.

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Dinosaurs were reptiles that roamed the Earth from the late this period until the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event.

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Triassic

The term “dinosaur” was coined by English paleontologist Sir Richard Owen in 1842. He used the Greek words “deinos” meaning “terrible” and “sauros” meaning “lizard” to come up with the name.

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is an American actress born in London, England. She is best known for portraying the character Diane Court in the 1989 high school romance movie “Say Anything…”, starring opposite John Cusack. She is the daughter of the Scottish folk singer Donovan.

Also on La Brea”

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Ione Skye