Emilia Perez Most Oscar Noms 24 Flashcards

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Oldest monthly magazine in the US launched in 1850

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Harper’s

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Maryland governor

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Wes Moore

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BIOGRAPHIES
After collaborating with him on an album of jazz standards, which singer tattooed a trumpet on her arm drawn by Tony Bennett?

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Lady Gaga

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ANIMALS & NATURE
A songbird whose call can sound like a rusty pump handle, which animal can mimic hawk noises to scare other birds?
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Blue jay

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ARTS & CULTURE
The 2024 Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown takes its title from the lyrics of which song?

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“Like a Rolling Stone”

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MONEY & NUMBERS
In 1980 which auto brand offered a 24-karat gold-plated version of its signature model at about four times the cost of the iconic stainless steel version?

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Delorean

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ANYTHING GOES
Dating back to ancient Greece, the Hippocratic oath is usually taken by practitioners in which field?

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Medicine

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GEOGRAPHY
The world’s largest noncontinent island, Greenland is a territory of which country?

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Denmark

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HISTORY & SOCIETY
Early official portraits of which world leader had his port-wine stain birthmark airbrushed out?

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Mikhail Gorbachev

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Made up partly of objects called Plutinos
Also location

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where is the Kuiper belt located?
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Outside our solar system

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What nation gifted the Statue of Liberty to the United States

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France
Another country that rebelled against the monarchy France gave Lady liberty to the US to commemorate their alliance during the American revolutionary war

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A strange delicacy in Greenland urumit is made of what

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Bird poop
Urumi consist of the droppings of the ptarmigan which is also known as the snow check in

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This plant is famously poisonous to cats

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Tiger Lilly
Though there’s a kind of cat’s in its name the tiger Lily is not a friend to felines and can damage kidneys and house cats

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What did the Coors brewery produce to stay in business during prohibition?

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Malted milk
When progression hit core had a huge amount of malted barley ready to brew into beer so they switched it to making malted milk

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The world’s second highest mountain is found in the territory administered by what two countries

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China and Pakistan
K2 peak reaches 28,251 feet high within 1000 feet of Mount Everest and is in region split between Chinese and Pakistani administered land in Kashmir

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Who is the youngest winner of the presidential medal of freedom

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Simone Biles
in 2022 at the age of 25 Simone Biles became the youngest ever recipient of the presidential medal of honor which was first awarded in 1963