FDR 4422 WHH 31 Days Flashcards
Where my love lies waiting silently for me is a lyric from this Simon & Garfunkel hit about a musician on the road
Homeward bound
Hockey version of a three word phrase for the edge the team has that’s playing for friendly fans in the city where it’s based
Home ice advantage
Shakespeare
Giving her desdeMona’s this piece of cough, which as it turns out is nothing to sneeze at
Handkerchief
Shakespeare
Spoiler goneril and this woman’s bodies brought out
Regan
Re ghin
Shakespeare
And our park and this character with an ass his head
Bottom from a Midsummer night’s dream
Shakespeare
enter Polonius and this doomed duo who definitely get exeunted
Ex e ewww tid
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
Hamlet
Enter the ghost of young Prince Edward to this title king and not a friendly ghost
Richard the third
This beloved character introduced the song rainbow connection in a 1979 film
Kermit, the frog
Dan in his characteristic drip style greyed rainbow was among his last great purely abstract paintings
Pollock
There’s no actual rainbow variety of this vegetable. It’s just a mix of colored varieties.
Swiss chard
Great Odens Raven!
this name of the rainbow bridge that leads the Asgard gives me the chills
The bifrost
His gravity rainbow was considered for a Politzer prize, but then deemed un unreadable, turgid and obscene
Tur gid rhymes with kid
Pynchon
Pitchin
A state of Missouri video for these dwellers says if a tornado or even a bad thunderstorm is coming get out
Mobile home dwellers
This 1929 novel is an autobiographical portrait of Thomas Wolf’s early life growing up in Asheville, North Carolina
Look homeward, angel
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Apoplexy is a dated term for this
Stroke
In 1969 he released his Nashville skyline album that featured the hit lay Lady lay and a duet with Johnny Cash.
Bob Dylan
This endower of a New York City school for performing arts was born at sea in 1836 and his parents immigrated from France to America
Augustus Juliard
Mark Twain predicted he would die when this was in the sky just as it had been when he was born - he was right
Hallie’s comet
Fourth of July babies include this 19th century Italian patriot who is inspired by the American fight for liberty
Garibaldi
Reported last words of this Pulitzer winning play right in 1953 “I knew it”
Born In a hotel room and died in a hotel room
Eugene O’Neill
In a bygone tradition, Elizabeth, the second was born in the presence of this British cabinet official for domestic affairs
Home Secretary
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Pyrexia
Rest drink, plenty of fluids and take some aspirin, Advil or Tylenol
Fever
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Cervicalgia ser vuh kal ghuh
Literally this
Neck
Pain in the neck in fact
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Myocardial infarction in fark shun
It’s life-threatening
Heart attack
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Bruxism
It can happen while awake or asleep
Teeth grinding
With her cowboy Carter album she roped in the top spot on both the billboard 200 and country album charts
Beyoncé
His Tuskegee country album consists of duets of his hits, including endless love with Shania Twain and sail on with Tim McGraw
Lionel Richie
This Aussie Megastar went country in a pop sort of way for her 2018 album golden
Kylie Minogue
She was part of a country supergroup with Dolly Parton and Emmylou Harris and they recorded two Trio albums together
Linda Ronstadt
Ron stad
ANIMALS & NATURE
Ancient Egyptians acute fevers and skin conditions with which plant, now often used to make soothing teas?
Chamomile
BIOGRAPHIES
Preferring El Productos because they stayed lit onstage, which comedian claimed he smoked 10–15 cigars a day for 70 years?
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George Burns
SCIENCE & TECH
Speeding at 700 miles per hour above the Mojave Desert, in 1947 who became the first person to fly faster than the speed of sound?
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Chuck Yeager
Airing his grievances over wasteful federal spending, this senator releases an annual report inspired by which fictional holiday popularized by Seinfeld?
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U.S. Sen. Rand Paul
Festivus
GEOGRAPHY
Destroyed and rebuilt several times—most recently during World War II—which city is nicknamed Phoenix City for the way it has risen from the ashes?
Warsaw
MONEY & NUMBERS
Meaning “people’s currency” in English, renminbi is a formal term for the currency used in which country?
China
VOCAB
A person known for their probity is unlikely to…
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tell a lie
HISTORY & SOCIETY
Since William the Conqueror’s rule in 1066, which have been the two most common first names for British kings, with eight uses each?
Henry and Edward
ANYTHING GOES
The 1995 short film “The Spirit of Christmas,” featuring a fight between Jesus Christ and Santa Claus, led to the creation of which show?
South Park
ARTS & CULTURE
Designed by Inuit people, which footwear is named after a Yupik word for “bearded seal,” whose skin is used to make them?
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Mukluk
ANYTHING GOES
Which cocktail is a variation on a Manhattan, aptly named, as it is made with Scotch instead of American whiskey?
Rob roy
BIOGRAPHIES
A longtime fan of the “Man of Steel,” Nicolas Cage named his younger son Kal-El, the birth name of which comic hero?
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Superman
MONEY & NUMBERS
Sometimes called “red gold” because of its high price, which spice requires thousands of crocus flowers to produce a single ounce?
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Saffron
HISTORY & SOCIETY
In 1947 and again in 1965, wars for control of Kashmir broke out between which countries
India and Pakistan
GEOGRAPHY
Formed by the asteroid strike thought to have caused dinosaur extinction, the Chicxulub crater is located on which peninsula?
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Yucatán
SCIENCE & TECH
In 1885 Louis Pasteur saved a nine-year-old boy’s life by using infected spinal cords to create the first vaccine for which disease?
Rabies
ANIMALS & NATURE
Found in tropical areas such as the Florida Everglades, which type of tree can survive in water 100 times saltier than most other plants?
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Mangrove
The device known as a Foucault pendulum is used to demonstrate what natural occurrence?
Earths rotation
In U.S. professional auto racing, what color flag traditionally is waved to signal that there is one lap to go?
White
Following his legendary “You talkin’ to me?” line in Taxi Driver, what does Robert De Niro say next?
Well in the only one here
Noted medical school professor Dr. Joseph Bell was the inspiration for what fictional character?
Sherlock holmes
The Rhine River flows through
six European countries: Germany, France, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Austria, and the Netherlands
The Danube River flows through
ten European countries: Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Germany, Hungary, Moldova, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, and Ukraine
