Galvani Frog Experiments Flashcards

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Memelik a son of Solomon is said to have brought this lost artifact to Aksum in Ethiopia; tradition maintains still there

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Ark of the covenant

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Prison 15 miles north of San Francisco

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San Quentin

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1980s fads
A November 29 83 NY times article used “near riot” “adoptable” waiting for 8 hours and my life (is) in danger

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Cabbage patch kids

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4
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Virginia Woolf used steam of consciousness in this novel about the Ramsay family vacationing on the isle of skye

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To the lighthouse

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Car whose interior “looks like Darth Vader’s bathroom,” per Michael Knight :

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KITT
The 1982 crime television show called “Knight Rider” famously starred David Hasselhoff as well as a very cool, artificially intelligent car called KITT. KITT (which stands for Knight Industries Two Thousand) is a heavily modified Pontiac Trans Am.

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About a Boy” is a 2002 film adaptation of a 1988 novel of the same name by him

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Nick Hornby (who also wrote “High Fidelity” and “Fever Pitch”, which were also turned into successful movies). “About a Boy” stars Hugh Grant and Toni Collette, with Nicholas Hoult playing the title character. Hornby’s novel has now been adapted for the small screen, and a TV series of the same name premiered on NBC in 2014.

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She is an actress who first came to public attention for playing one of the leads in the 2005 film “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants”. She then took a starring role in the 2007 movie “Gossip Girl”. She met her future husband Ryan Reynolds while working with him on the 2011 film “Green Lantern”.

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Blake Lively

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” is an oil on canvas that Georgia O’Keefe painted in 1932. When Walmart heiress Alice Walton purchased the work in 2014, she paid over $44 million dollars, the highest ever price paid at auction for a painting by a female artist

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Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1

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She is an actress from New Zealand. She might be best known to American audiences for playing the lead in the supernatural crime drama TV series “iZombie” starting in 2015. She also headed the cast in three “A Christmas Prince” movies from 2017 to 2019.
Also ghosts

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Rose McIver

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The iconic sandwich was introduced nationally in 1967. It was the creation of a Pittsburgh franchisee who offered it on the menu as a response to the very similar “Big Boy” sandwich offered by the competing Big Boy restaurant chain.

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Big Mac

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was the man in the corner of the ring for Muhammad Ali throughout his career. He also trained actor Russell Crowe for his role in the 2005 movie “Cinderella Man”, and even made a cameo appearance in the film.

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Angelo Dundee

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is a 2023 album released by Pink. The two most successful singles from the album are the title track and “Never Gonna Not Dance Again”

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Trustfall”

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Land between the Atlantic and the Pyrenees :

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IBERIA
The Iberian Peninsula in Europe is largely made up of Spain and Portugal. However, also included is the Principality of Andorra in the Pyrénées, a small part of the south of France, and the British Territory of Gibraltar. Iberia takes its name from the Ebro, the longest river in Spain, which the Romans named the “Iber”.

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Greek and Roman goddess of love

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Aphrodite- Greek - Venus de Milo
Venus - Roman

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15
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See Russia from this state

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Alaska Islands in Bering sea

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16
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Big 5 academy awards

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Director
Actor actress screenplay
Picture
One flew over the cuckoos nest
Silence of the lambs
It happened one night

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17
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Sightseeing tour at Niagara Falls

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Maid of the mist

18
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According to popular legend he did this as Rome burned
64AD

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Nero played a fiddle
But they didnt exist for another 1K years

19
Q

Golf 3 under par

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Albatross
Double eagle

20
Q

Hard knock life song samples this musical

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Annie
Ghetto anthem subtitle
Jay z

21
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A nameless talking cricket is not only introduced to this title character in chapter 4 but also killed by him with a hammer

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Pinocchio

22
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Peter and Judy find a box containing this a jungle adventure game that truly brings the jungle home to its players

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Jumanji

23
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Jill munroe on Charlie’s angles

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Farah faw set

24
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Change from female to male

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Hermaphridite

25
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A convoy of cars perhaps escorting the president and a sauce made with mayo and capers used on po boys

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Motorcade
REM uh lahd

26
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3 So called reconstruction amendments

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13
14
15 th

27
Q

Amala debut album
Ahm uh la

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Doja cat

28
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Garfield wife and nickname

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Crete
Lucretia

29
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1970 film in which Jack Nicholson in order to get toast requests a chicken salad sandwich hold the chicken

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Five easy pieces

30
Q

Highest Rank in army

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Brigadier General

31
Q

Wisdom teeth are this kind of teeth

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Molars

32
Q

Tv show west wing pioneered a kind of conversation known as

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Walk and talk

33
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Triceratops stegosaurus and brachiosaurus have this in common

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Vegetarian

34
Q

Spying agencies in Great Britain

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MI 5 and 6

35
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Tolberone featured this mountain on its wrapper

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Matterhorn
Until 23

36
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Chris named peoples sexiest man alive

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Hemsworth 14
Evans 22

37
Q

Crowned Hungary’s first king circa 1000 Ad also country’s patron saint

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Steven

38
Q

Turkmenistan academy of sciences in this capital is home to an institute for studying these that cover over 80% of the country

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Ahsh guh bhat
Deserts

39
Q

In a 08 adaptation of this Jules Verne novel set way way down under a Dino chases after Brendan Fraser

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Journey to the center of the earth

40
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At a recent summit Turkmen desires to build a pipeline under this vast inland sea were opposed by several regional nations

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Caspian

41
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A traditional men’s hat thr telpek is made from the domesticated breast

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Sheep