FDR 4422 WHH 31 Days Flashcards

1
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Where my love lies waiting silently for me is a lyric from this Simon & Garfunkel hit about a musician on the road

A

Homeward bound

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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

A

Home ice advantage

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Shakespeare
Giving her desdeMona’s this piece of cough, which as it turns out is nothing to sneeze at

A

Handkerchief

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Shakespeare
Spoiler goneril and this woman’s bodies brought out

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Regan
Re ghin

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5
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Shakespeare
And our park and this character with an ass his head

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Bottom from a Midsummer night’s dream

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Shakespeare
enter Polonius and this doomed duo who definitely get exeunted
Ex e ewww tid

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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
Hamlet

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Enter the ghost of young Prince Edward to this title king and not a friendly ghost

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Richard the third

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This beloved character introduced the song rainbow connection in a 1979 film

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Kermit, the frog

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9
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Dan in his characteristic drip style greyed rainbow was among his last great purely abstract paintings

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Pollock

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10
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There’s no actual rainbow variety of this vegetable. It’s just a mix of colored varieties.

A

Swiss chard

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11
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Great Odens Raven!
this name of the rainbow bridge that leads the Asgard gives me the chills

A

The bifrost

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12
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His gravity rainbow was considered for a Politzer prize, but then deemed un unreadable, turgid and obscene
Tur gid rhymes with kid

A

Pynchon
Pitchin

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13
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A state of Missouri video for these dwellers says if a tornado or even a bad thunderstorm is coming get out

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Mobile home dwellers

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14
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This 1929 novel is an autobiographical portrait of Thomas Wolf’s early life growing up in Asheville, North Carolina

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Look homeward, angel

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15
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Translate the doc talk
Apoplexy is a dated term for this

A

Stroke

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16
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In 1969 he released his Nashville skyline album that featured the hit lay Lady lay and a duet with Johnny Cash.

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Bob Dylan

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17
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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

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Augustus Juliard

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18
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Mark Twain predicted he would die when this was in the sky just as it had been when he was born - he was right

A

Hallie’s comet

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19
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Fourth of July babies include this 19th century Italian patriot who is inspired by the American fight for liberty

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Garibaldi

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20
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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

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Eugene O’Neill

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21
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In a bygone tradition, Elizabeth, the second was born in the presence of this British cabinet official for domestic affairs

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Home Secretary

22
Q

Translate the doc talk
Pyrexia
Rest drink, plenty of fluids and take some aspirin, Advil or Tylenol

23
Q

Translate the doc talk
Cervicalgia ser vuh kal ghuh
Literally this

A

Neck
Pain in the neck in fact

24
Q

Translate the doc talk
Myocardial infarction in fark shun
It’s life-threatening

A

Heart attack

25
Q

Translate the doc talk
Bruxism
It can happen while awake or asleep

A

Teeth grinding

26
Q

With her cowboy Carter album she roped in the top spot on both the billboard 200 and country album charts

27
Q

His Tuskegee country album consists of duets of his hits, including endless love with Shania Twain and sail on with Tim McGraw

A

Lionel Richie

28
Q

This Aussie Megastar went country in a pop sort of way for her 2018 album golden

A

Kylie Minogue

29
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She was part of a country supergroup with Dolly Parton and Emmylou Harris and they recorded two Trio albums together

A

Linda Ronstadt
Ron stad

30
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ANIMALS & NATURE
Ancient Egyptians acute fevers and skin conditions with which plant, now often used to make soothing teas?

31
Q

BIOGRAPHIES
Preferring El Productos because they stayed lit onstage, which comedian claimed he smoked 10–15 cigars a day for 70 years?
+100
correct

A

George Burns

32
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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?
+100
correct

A

Chuck Yeager

33
Q

Airing his grievances over wasteful federal spending, this senator releases an annual report inspired by which fictional holiday popularized by Seinfeld?

+100
correct

A

U.S. Sen. Rand Paul
Festivus

34
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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?

35
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MONEY & NUMBERS
Meaning “people’s currency” in English, renminbi is a formal term for the currency used in which country?

36
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VOCAB
A person known for their probity is unlikely to…
+100
correct

A

tell a lie

37
Q

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?

A

Henry and Edward

38
Q

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?

A

South Park

39
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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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40
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ANYTHING GOES
Which cocktail is a variation on a Manhattan, aptly named, as it is made with Scotch instead of American whiskey?

41
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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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42
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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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correct

43
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HISTORY & SOCIETY
In 1947 and again in 1965, wars for control of Kashmir broke out between which countries

A

India and Pakistan

44
Q

GEOGRAPHY
Formed by the asteroid strike thought to have caused dinosaur extinction, the Chicxulub crater is located on which peninsula?

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45
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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?

46
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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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correct

47
Q

The device known as a Foucault pendulum is used to demonstrate what natural occurrence?

A

Earths rotation

48
Q

In U.S. professional auto racing, what color flag traditionally is waved to signal that there is one lap to go?

49
Q

Following his legendary “You talkin’ to me?” line in Taxi Driver, what does Robert De Niro say next?

A

Well in the only one here

50
Q

Noted medical school professor Dr. Joseph Bell was the inspiration for what fictional character?

A

Sherlock holmes

51
Q

The Rhine River flows through

A

six European countries: Germany, France, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Austria, and the Netherlands

52
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The Danube River flows through

A

ten European countries: Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Germany, Hungary, Moldova, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, and Ukraine