Emilia Perez Most Oscar Noms 24 Flashcards
Oldest monthly magazine in the US launched in 1850
Harper’s
Maryland governor
Wes Moore
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
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
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”
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?
Delorean
ANYTHING GOES
Dating back to ancient Greece, the Hippocratic oath is usually taken by practitioners in which field?
Medicine
GEOGRAPHY
The world’s largest noncontinent island, Greenland is a territory of which country?
Denmark
HISTORY & SOCIETY
Early official portraits of which world leader had his port-wine stain birthmark airbrushed out?
Mikhail Gorbachev
Made up partly of objects called Plutinos
Also location
where is the Kuiper belt located?
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Outside our solar system
What nation gifted the Statue of Liberty to the United States
France
Another country that rebelled against the monarchy France gave Lady liberty to the US to commemorate their alliance during the American revolutionary war
A strange delicacy in Greenland urumit is made of what
Bird poop
Urumi consist of the droppings of the ptarmigan which is also known as the snow check in
This plant is famously poisonous to cats
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
What did the Coors brewery produce to stay in business during prohibition?
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
The world’s second highest mountain is found in the territory administered by what two countries
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
Who is the youngest winner of the presidential medal of freedom
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
Until 1975 it took this many senators to end a filibuster , seven more than now
67
Each year monsoon rains in this Asian country swell Lake tonle sap from 1000 to 4000 mi.²
Tohn lay
Cambodia
The silver state officially joined the US in 1864
Nevada state number 36
The USA first paved coast to Coast Highway this more than 3000 mile presidential one was dedicated in 1913
Lincoln
In 1541 Michelangelo put the final touches on this huge fresco on the West wall of the Sistine Chapel
The last judgment
The body or frame of a ship, apart from the mast sails a a rigging
Hulls
Veneration of any image or object regarded as the embodiment of a God
Idolatry
I doll uh tree
The Oxford, English dictionary really living up to the word : that does not cease unceasing ceaseless either in duration or repetition
incessant
A body of persons ranked in grades orders or classes, one above another
Hierarchy
In his preface to this 1855 work. Walt Whitman urged us to stand up for the stupid and crazy and hate tyrant.
Leaves of grass
With the trigger man beat rappers like big freediA innovate in this rap sub genre that sounds like what you do on trampoline
Bounce
In 2024 this star of the country rap genre appeared on Beyoncé’s cowboy Carter and had this number one country hit
Shaboozey a bar song (tipsy)
In most states, only the governor has the power to do this not drive to work and back, but reduce a sentence
Commute
The biological genus that comprises modern man
Homo
Among the quotations engraved in the Martin Luther King Jr. memorial is hate cannot drive out. Hate only this can do that.
Love
In 1941 after 14 years of instruction, this landmark in the Black Hills was declared completed
Mount Rushmore
The earth’s lowest body of water
Also, what river empties into it
Dead say
Jordan River empties
Rapper Pac-Man gets credit for creating drill a genre associated with this city that’s in the state of drIllinois
Chicago
Animals the Aztecs called this animal Ayotochtli meaning a turtle rabbit for its rabbit like ears and it’s turtle like shell
I o toooe ch lee
Armadillo
From 2009-2011, this pop rock band had hits with: “You Make Me Feel…”, “Good Girls Go Bad”, and “Hot Mess”.
Guess: Panic! at the Disco
Answer: Cobra Starship
The da Vinci code begins with a murder in the grand gallery of this French institution
The loo vvvvuh
In a work by him, Jason Bourne discovers Jacqueline Lavier dead in a church confession booth
Lav e a
Ludlum
The mean pawn broker, Alonia, Ivanovna and her twin half sister are murdered in their apartment in this 1866 work
Crime and punishment
In an Agatha Christie work from 1926. This title character is killed in his home study
Roger Ackroyd
The logo of this brand of scotch is a London dandy mid stride
Johnny Walker
After his tenure with the Jets, Rex Ryan coached this team from 2015-2016.
Guess: Houston Texans
Answer: Buffalo Bills
The Marlins had two player hit over 35 Home Runs in 2017: Giancarlo Stanton and this Dominican outfielder.
Guess: Angel Castro
Answer: Marcell Ozuna
Since it’s name includes an abbreviation for next vision. It makes sense this AI innovator’s logo is a green eye.
Nvidia
This maker of cookies and crackers, uses a white oval surrounded by a double barred cross on a red triangular corner seal
Nabisco
Also a cooking verb
Also four letters for to flay or to beat
Whip
Also a cooking verb
This machine equipped with a suction or scooping device is used to deepen harbors and waterways
Dredge
Three glasses of whiskey are said to have made his 1865 VP inaugural address a bit of an adventure ; a Lincoln couldn’t even look
Andrew Johnson
In 1859 she provided notes on nursing what it is and what it is not and here’s what the book is - still available today
Florence Nightingale
The October 25, 1854 battle of balaclava in this war was immortalized in the charge of the light brigade later that year
The Crimean war
Also a cooking verb
It once meant to brighten now it means to make something easier to understand
Clarify
Like you might do to butter
Rest easy and well comic genius Larry fine of this movie series trio ; no one can hurt you in wildly, funny ways anymore
Three Stooges
This rat packers inscription says the entertainer his father says daddy Sam
Sammy Davis Junior
Maurice Sendak wrote and illustrated this 1963 children’s picture book about a boy named Max who dresses in a wolf suit and becomes king of a group of wild creatures.
Guess: Where the Wild Things Are
I vant to eat your cereal!” is a slogan associated with what cereal?
Guess: Count Chocula
A man in a hot dog costume asking the question: “We’re All Trying To Find The Guy Who Did This?” is a famous moment turned meme from this Netflix sketch comedy series.
Guess: Funny or Die Presents
Answer: i Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson
Daniel Day-Lewis won his third Best Actor Oscar for this 2012 biographical historical drama.
Guess: Lincoln
From 2009-2011, this pop rock band had hits with: “You Make Me Feel…”, “Good Girls Go Bad”, and “Hot Mess”.
Guess: Panic! at the Disco
Answer: Cobra Starship
“All right, question three, who’s the youngest female to win a best album Grammy when she earned her first one, her first of ten Grammys in 1964?
Locked in.
So at the time, she was the youngest. She’s no longer the youngest. I think she’s fourth now.”
Barbara Streisand
Babs
“And question four. What’s the English translation of the name Las Vegas?”
The meadows
“What do Grip Hook, Azog, and Bart Hamilton have in common?”
Goblins
“So Grip Hook was a goblin from Harry Potter. Azad was a goblin from The Hobbit and or The Lord of the Rings. And Bart Hamilton was the third green goblin.”
“Who created the evil Skeksis from the dark crystal?”
Jim henson
“Who won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 2002? And for the easy mode, I’ll give you the name of the movie for half points
Beautiful mind
Jennifer Connelly
“And question four. What types of animals are in the class AVes?
Order Strigiformes. S-T-R-I-G-I-F-O-R-M-E-S.”
Owls
“And strigiforms are the order owl, order for owls, and then there’s two suborders of owls. There’s the true owls and the barn owls, specifically.”
Kingdom: Animalia (animals)
Phylum: Chordata (vertebrates)
Class: Aves (birds)
Order: Strigiformes (nocturnal birds of prey)
Family: Strigidae (typical owls
“What director with a career spanning from the 1970s to the 2020s also wrote the soundtracks to many of his movies?”
John carpenter
“What is centered on Grant Avenue and Stockton Street in San Francisco, California?”
Chinatown
