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Fort Mchenry Flashcards

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Games packaged with Wii at launch
Best selling Wii game of all time?

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Wii sports
Mario kart Wii

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Authors
When esquire began as a men’s lifestyle magazine in the 1930s he was asked for manly content and wrote in 28 of the first 33 issues

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Hemingway

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Charity

A catholic charity called caritas Rome is the beneficiary of money collected from here over the years averaging about $3,500 daily

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Trevi fountain

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4
Q

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife

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Pride and prejudice
Jane Austen

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This is a tale of a meeting Of 2 lonesome skinny fairly old white men on a planet which was dying fast

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Breakfast of champions
Kurt Vonnegut

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The Hollywood actor and husband of kyra Sedgwick (wig?) is a perfect accompaniment for your Land T sandwich

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Kevins bacon

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Q

In order to prevent this Hollywood actor from facing off with additional drunken charges and or finding his way into a 5th failed marriage He has agreed to remain in his new personal enclosure

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Nicholas’ cage

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Q

Sports legend and NBA rookie of the year was one of the most intimidating sluggers in the 80s and 90s on and off the field but is now devoting his time to his sweet red fruit crop

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Darryl’s strawberry
Mr long ball

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This American actress who had a career that spanned more than 40 years has an instrument mouthpiece they will knock your woodwinds off

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Donnas reed

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The lead singer of the rock band the killers cherishes his lovely boquoe

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Brandon’s flowers

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Canadian music
Referenced in South Park movie what Canadian singer has won more Juno awards than any other in history

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Ann Murray
Bryan adams 2
Celine dion number 3
Bigger longer uncut

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Famous dicks
Dick vermeil brought 3 different franchises to the playoffs but only super bowl championship is with

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The Rams in 99
The greatest show on turf

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Ancient Rome
Two well known men a father and son with the same name were witness to the eruption of this volcano
Also what was the name

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Mount visuvious
Ply knee the elder and younger
Younger remote the account
Elder passed away from the eruption

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Company formerly a part of google that leveraged its experience from developing augmented reality games like ingress to develop this insanely popular game

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Nigh Ann Tec
Name from the same Native American tribe that the town nantucket got its name from
Pokémon go

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Puzzles
In charge of NYT crossword puzzle since 93

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Will shorts

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Astronauts would be in bad shape if they had uh bar uh phobia , the fear of this

Barophobia

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Gravity

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US newspapers
During the American Revolution this New England paper had the USA highest circulation; it’s still in the top 50

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The Hartford courant

18
Q

Elected to a third term as British PM on 5/4/2005

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Tony Blair

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Q

2 major airlines that declared bankruptcy in 2005

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Delta
North west

20
Q

To the relief of many this space shuttle returned safely to earth in august 8 2005 following launch problems

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Discovery

21
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3rd country to send a person into space
2002

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3 China
Russia
US

22
Q

The fault in our stars gets its title from what Shakespeare play
Bonus book author

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Julius ceaser
John green

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Center field wharf at AT&T north park is where what team plays home games where you can order the crazy crab which combines 2 of the cities influences like creamy crab and sourdough bread into a single meal

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San Fran giants

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Assassinated Garfield
1881

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Guh toe
Six months after taking office

25
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Pi you 4 digits

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3.1415

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President Died in office from a heart attack

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Harding
Did his wife Florence do it
Infidelity
No autopsy

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Pioneer began working at nasa in the 50s and was instrumental in calculating flight paths to space and manually calculates the flight trajectory for the first American in space
Her contributions also included first moon landing and space shuttle program earned her a presidents medal of freedom in 2015

A

Kathryn Johnson

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President when the first computer HP 3000 costing 95K and size of a walk in closet arrived at the White House in 78
Also first printer !

A

Carter

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Although specifics to his identity are under debate knock e moat o is the credited developer for this first peer to peer digital currency

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Bitcoin

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Originally making a splash in the tech world for leading eBay this successful business executive served as CEO of hP and is cEO of quibi
Failed gubernatorial run in 2010 for this state

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Meg Whitman
California

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