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Hairless Cat Sphinx Flashcards

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What is Malcom X birth name

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Malcolm little

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First black women millionaire in America thanks to her home made line of hair care products

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Madam CJ walker

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Traditional method of shaping eyebrows

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Threading

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Hold me closer tony Danza is a comically misheard lyric of this song

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Tiny dancer
Elton John

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Joe burrow unexpectedly led this team to its first super bowl performance in 33 years

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Bengals

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Rookie thr unicorn is the mascot of this popular toilet stool

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Squatty potty

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Sports and the movies
A Geena Davis institute study found shortly after a 2012 franchise films release womens participation in this sport rose 105%

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Archery
Hunger games

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This band was formed at the university of Vermont in 1983 and has an ice cream flavored named after it

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Phish (food)
Bend and Jerry’s

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Jason muh mow uh plays this superhero

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Aqua man

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10
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Largest city in Oregon

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Portland
Also in Maine

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This 16 tons singer released 2 albums in 61 called civil war songs of thr north and civil war songs of the south
Bonus appearances on this sitcom made him become a household name

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Tennessee Ernie ford
Played cousin Ernie on I love Lucy

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This Famous song during the civil war commemorated this famous abolitionist and martyr

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John browns body for John brown which became the battle hymn of the republic

Julia ward Howe wrote the new lyrics

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Between 1939-2001 this postseason college football all star game between players from northern and southern schools wqs played at this location

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The blue gray football classic in Alabama
Way for players not in owl games to be seen by scouts but now combines serve that role

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During the civil war on at least one occasion soldiers reportedly used a cannonball in this sport

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Bowling

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This civil War general was falsely declared the inventor of baseball based on testimony of one man who provided no evidence and committed to a psychiatric hospital after murdering his wife

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Abner Doubleday

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16
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All along the watch tower immortalized by who and written by who

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Jimmy Hendrix
Written by bob Dylan

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This is the largest freshwater fish in the world

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beluga sturgeon

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In the early 1900s he built a pineapple plantation and cannery in this state

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James dole in Hawaii

19
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Historic organizations
A senator called the 49 pact that formed this a fraternity of peace that makes the obligation plain …..for us and others

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NATO
North Atlantic treaty organization

The North Atlantic Alliance was founded in the aftermath of the Second World War. Its purpose was to secure peace in Europe, to promote cooperation among its members and to guard their freedom – all of this in the context of countering the threat posed at the time by the Soviet Union. The Alliance’s founding treaty was signed in Washington in 1949 by a dozen European and North American countries.

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This word for a underground network of burrows foe rabbits is a Alina common proper name

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Warren

21
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Living in this country this large creature that sleeps in a nest is the worlds heaviest tree dwelling animal

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Orangutan in Borneo

22
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5 founding members of OPEC

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Iran
Iraq
Saudi Arabia
Venezula
Kuwait

23
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This name was given to unusual symbol used by prince on his recording

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Love symbol #2
Dispute with record label so changed his name to an unpronounceable symbol

24
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The habitable zone around a star describes an area where conditions on a planet allow this to exist

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Liquid water
Goldilocks zone where conditions have to be warm enough for water to exist in liquid form but not too hot
It has to be just right

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A print made from this part of a dog is as unique as a human fingerprint

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Nose

26
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A word with 2 meanings that are opposite from one another
Bonus example

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Contronym
Sanction
Trim

27
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First to win 6 competitive acting tony awards and first to win in all 4 acting categories - name them

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Audrey McDonald
Lead actress in a musical
Featured actress in a musical
Lead actress in a play
Featured actress in a play

Porgy and Bess
Carousel
Masterclass
Rag time
Lady day at Emerson’s bar and grill
A raisin in thr sun

28
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First first
Lady to announce best picture winner
85th AAs
Also announced this winner which is tied for shortest title to win

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Michelle Obama
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Argo
Others GIGi and coda
GG

29
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She launched her solo singing career in 2002, after making her first appearance as an actor. In 2006 she played the lead in the very successful movie adaptation of the Broadway musical “Dreamgirls”.

Also 23 record breaking tour

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Beyoncé is married to rap star Jay-Z. She is also referred to affectionately as “Queen Bey”, a play on the phrase “the queen bee”. Her fan base goes by the name “Beyhive”.

Renaissance Tour

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In ancient times this city in Yemen was a trading port for incense and spices

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Aden
Ah din

31
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The daughter of herodias requested this gruesome gift from king Herod
Huh road e is

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The head of John the Baptist

32
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This queen states if I perish I perish after agreeing to find a way to derail a murderous decree instigated by haman
Hay muh

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Esther

33
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Jacob marries Leah after 7 years of hard labor for her dad ; after 7 more years of work he marries this sister of Leah

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Rachel

34
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This Aretha Franklin songs says for five long years I thought you were my man but I found out I’m just a link in your chain

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Chain of fools
Chain chain chain

35
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Tip 5 hit by mamas and papas was written on a Cold winter night in Manhattan

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California dreamin

36
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This folk trio has a 69 top 10 hit with leaving on a jet plane

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Peter paul and Mary

37
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Poem lamenting a death ; toi derricotte wrote a moving one “for my husband “

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Elegy

38
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Sherman bros of Disney fame wrote this song of young love that mentions peaches and cream and lips like strawberry wine

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You’re 16

39
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Marvin Gaye first no 1 hit it got new life when it wqs used in a commercial for California raisins in 80s

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I heard it through the grapevine

40
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In acts 17 a woman named Damaris was receptive to a sermon in Athens by this apostle of tarsus

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Paul

41
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This widow with a Bible book named after her remarried but remains devoted to her first mother in law Naomi

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Ruth

42
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Penumbral term for hinting at things to come in a work of fiction
Pen numberal

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Foreshadowing

43
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Capital on the aare river
R uh

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Bern

44
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Give peace a chance at the Nobel peace center in this world capital

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Oslo

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