Greta Gerwig Barbie

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Metal band with the hit single “Beth”

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Kiss

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Shoelace features that prevent fraying

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Aglet

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it is also the lightning capital of the US,

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experiencing more lightning strikes than the rest of the country. Florida is also the nation’s fourth-rainiest state, after Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.

Florida is known as the Sunshine State, although

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This wonderful, wonderful actor was born in Bristol in England, and was given the name Archibald Leach. In the 1949 Howard Hawks film “His Girl Friday”, there’s a line where he describes the fate suffered by someone who crossed him. He names that person “Archie Leach”, an ad-lib using his real name.

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Cary Grant

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This is a large marine mammal related to the manatee, and an ugly-looking brute. It feeds upon seagrass, and is the only marine mammal that is a strict herbivore.

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dugong

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Apparently, “this” is a term used to describe two different weather conditions. One is a shower of ice pellets that are smaller than hail, and the second is a mixture of rain and snow, with the snow melting as it falls.

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sleet

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She is Professor Henry Higgins’ speech student in his “Pygmalion”. “Pygmalion” was adapted by Lerner and Loewe to become this Broadway musical “.

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Eliza Doolittle

George Bernard Shaw’s

My Fair Lady”
The musical spun off the wonderful 1964 film of the same name starring Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison. To cockney Eliza Doolittle, Professor Henry Higgins was “‘Enry ‘Iggins”.

Question 8

: male horse under the age of four

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Colt

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: horse of either sex that is less than one year old

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Foal

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: female horse under the age of four

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Filly

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: horse of either sex that is one to two years old

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Yearling

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: female horse four years or older

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Mare

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: non-castrated male horse four years or older

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Stallion

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French Tony equivalent :

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MOLIERE
The Molière Awards are presented annually for outstanding achievement in French theater. They are considered to be the equivalent of the Tony Awards in the US and the Olivier Awards in the UK. The Molières were the creation of producer Georges Cravenne, who also founded the César Awards for film

Question 15

In the sport of tennis, the Grand Slam tournaments were opened up to professional players, and not just amateurs, in 1968. So, the period since 1968 has been called the “

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Open Era”.

Question 16

Cub Scout leader :
also from this book

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AKELA
Akela is the wolf in “The Jungle Book” by Rudyard Kipling. The wolf gave his name to a cubmaster in the scouting movement, who is now known as “Akela”.

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is an unusual island bird in that it has a highly developed sense of smell and is the only one of our feathered friends with nostrils located at the tip of its long beak.
Flightless

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The kiwi

Question 18

This prefix “-” comes from the Greek word “” meaning sacred or holy.

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hiero

hieros

The classic use of the prefix is in the term “hieroglyph” (meaning “sacred carving”), the writing system that uses symbols and pictures.

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who composed “Heart and Soul” :

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HOAGY
Singer-songwriter Hoagy Carmichael was born Hoagland Howard Carmichael. Carmichael’s remarkable first name was given to him in honor of a circus troupe called “The Hoaglands” who stayed at the Carmichael house during his mother’s pregnancy. Now that’s a story …

“Heart and Soul” is a 1938 song that was composed by Hoagy Carmichael, with lyrics by Frank Loesser. It is often performed as a piano duet, although the pair usually play a simplified version of the song. One famous “Heart and Soul” duet is performed on the big screen by actors Robert Loggia and Tom Hanks on a giant floor piano in the 1988 film “Big”.

Question 20

The traditional Christmas song “Jingle Bells” was first published in 1857, penned by

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James Lord Pierpont. We associate the song with Christmas, although in fact Pierpont wrote it as a celebration of Thanksgiving.

Dashing through the snow
In a one horse open sleigh
O’er the fields we go
Laughing all the way

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is ale or mulled wine used for toasting at festivals, especially Christmas. The term “” comes from Old Norse “” meaning “be healthy”.

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Wassail

ves heill

Question 22

Famously,she lived a life of seclusion in New York City after she retired from the entertainment business. Commentators often associated her need for privacy with a line she uttered in the great 1932 movie “Grand Hotel”. Her character Grusinskaya the Russian ballerina said, “I want to be alone (…) I just want to be alone”.

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Greta Garbo

Honorary Oscar recipient in 1955

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led the Roman Catholic Church from 1534 until he passed away in 1549. He was a patron of the arts, and sponsored works from Florentine artist Michelangelo.

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Pope Paul III

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This river rises in Switzerland, passes through Lake Geneva, flows through the southeast of France, and empties into the Mediterranean Sea near Arles

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Rhône

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His tomb may not have been the most significant of the pharaohs historically, but he is the most famous today largely because of the discovery of his nearly intact tomb in 1922 by him . Prior to this find, any Egyptian tombs uncovered by archaeologists had been ravaged by grave robbers. Tutankhamun’s magnificent burial mask is one of the most recognizable of all Egyptian artifacts.

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Tutankhamun

Howard Carter

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This , as opposed to a cruise missile, is guided during the initial launch phase but later in flight just relies on thrust and gravity) to arrive at its target.

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ballistic missile

(hence “ballistic”)

As an aside, an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) is a ballistic missile with a range greater than 3,500 miles.

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is the oldest of the US intelligence services. It was set up in 1882 to determine the state of advancement of foreign naval forces.

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The Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI)

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” is a proprietary name for piped music, and is apparently a blend of the words “music” and “this other word ”. The system was developed way back in 1922 and was first used in workplaces.
Elevator music

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Muzak

Kodak

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is a retired American soccer player who turned to coaching. On the field, he set the world record for the most international goal assists, and shares the US record for the most international goals.

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Landon Donovan

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was originally made by coating canvas with solidified linseed oil.

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Lino (short for “linoleum”)

The product’s inventor, Englishman Frederick Walton, gave it the name “linoleum” from “linum” and “oleum”, the Latin for “linen” and “oil”.

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The main tenet of this is that bourgeois suppression of lower classes in a capitalistic society inevitably leads to a socialist and ultimately classless society.

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Marxism

Marxism is the political and economic philosophy espoused by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in the mid-to-late 1800s.

Question 32

was an American Heavyweight Champion of the World in the thirties. He held the title for 364 days, and then went into the ring after hardly any training at all against the well-prepared James J. Braddock. Braddock was a huge underdog, and yet emerged victorious after 15 rounds (Braddock is the subject of the 2005 movie “Cinderella Man”).

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Max Baer

By the way, his son is Max Baer, Jr., the actor who played Jethro on “The Beverly Hillbillies”.

Question 33

In 14 film russel Crowe as this title character sees storms on the horizon and goes to see his grandad methuselah

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Noah

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Accuweather debunked the premise of this 13tv movie saying marine life could not be swept up by the title storm

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Sharknado

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Dennis quail sounded thr alarm on climate change in this 04 movie that saw the word plunged into a new ice age

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The day after tomorrow

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Bogie attests one Rocco more or less isn’t worth dying for in this tempest tossed John Huston thriller

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Key largo

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June 4 1859 French and Sardinian troops defeat the Austrians at this Italian town soon to give a purplish red color its name

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Magenta

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June 4 70 this pacific kingdom gains it’s independence from Great Britain

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Tonga

Question 39

Fictional characters
This character in a series of a popular books begun in 1934 promises illl stay until the wind changes

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Marty poppins
Open ended employment contract to the banks family
Julie Andrews best actress
Dixon an dyke plays Bert