Hattie Mcdaniel Gone With Thr Wind First AA Oscar Nom Flashcards

1
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Known as the land of 1000 lakes

A

Finland

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2
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Founded in 1881 this organization now offers an app to find local
Blood drives and track your donations

A

Red Cross

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3
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The novel fifty shades of grey started off as fan fiction of this book series

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Twilight

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4
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Although founded in thr US this brand of trench coat alludes to the mist of the British capital

A

London fog

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5
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Bird and lime are Among thr top companies for this app based rental vehicles

A

E scooter

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6
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This stellar name is given to a region of 15 southern U.S. states

A

Sun belt

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7
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The national symphony orchestra performed on this date in 2019 for thr 50th anniversary of this event

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July 20 for moon landing

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8
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Thr 4 surviving original copies of the magna carts are all located in this country

A

England

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9
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This device for measuring thr atmospheric pressure was invented in Italy in the 17th century

A

Barometer

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10
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This novel has the chapter title Marius becomes practical once more to the extent of giving cosette his address

A

Les miserable

Lay mis uh rob luh

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11
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Female authors
At age 9 in 1883 she moved west where she met Annie pavelka a young pioneer on whom she would later model a title character

A

Willa Cather
Model character for My Antonia ann tuh knee uh

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12
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Now meaning anyone against technology this word first referred to English laborers who destroyed machines

A

Luddites

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13
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Unbelievable song

A

EMF

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14
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Monday monday
This was the name given to the stock market crash in which the Dow unexpectedly lost 22.6% of volume - the largest percentage drop in history
Also occurred this year

A

Black Monday in 87
Came out of savings and loans debacle

Mamas and papas song - Monday Monday

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15
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I saw her again
Having been put to death in 1536 for accusations of witchcraft and adultery among other things this woman’s ghost is said to haunt her childhood home of haver castle in Kent England as well as this tower

A

An. Bolyne
Tower of England

I saw her again - mama and papas song

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16
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Though it’s known as the 7 sisters this astronomical cluster is made up of more than 800 stars

A

Pleiades
Plee uh dees

17
Q

In the miracle on the Hudson his flight departed this city for this other city

A

Chesley sully sullen berger
NY to Charlotte NC

18
Q

First American in space

A

Alan Shepard

19
Q

First American to orbit the earth

A

John Glenn
62
Friendship 7
Mercury atlas 6

20
Q

Universal plasma donor

A

AB

21
Q

CIA predecessor

A

Office of strategic services
OSS

22
Q

This is the common name of the homo errectus fossils found in thr north east part of China in the 1920s ; supported the claim that this found decades earlier were a new hominid species rather than deformed apes

A

Peking man pe king

Java man found decades earlier in Indonesia

23
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Collective name for the funerary art buried near the tomb of shin sher wong in about 210 BCE

A

Terracotta Army
Consist of 8000 soldiers 130 Chariots with 520 horses and 150 Calvary horses

24
Q

First dynasty not started by a native Chinese
And also who founded
1270s

A

Wan dynasty started by kubula khan
Coo bluh

25
Q

In 1911 this doctor became the provisional head of the revolutionary republic of China that eventually ended this dynasty

A

Dr sun yat sen
Ended the Ching dynasty

26
Q

Karl Marx nice referred to these 3 great Chinese inventions that ushered in the boosh wah society

A

Gunpowder
Printing press
Compass

4 includes paper making

Not anime which is Japanese

27
Q

Longest river in China

A

Yang sea river

28
Q

This is the longest artificial river in the world
-~1100 miles
Bonus connects what

A

Grand canal
Beijing to hang zhou
Yellow to yang sea river

29
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China is home to this desert
Bonus ranking in terms of size

A

Gobi 6 th largest

30
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This small citrus fruit resembling an orange but about the size of a large olive is native to China ; name translates to small mandarin orange

A

Cum quat

31
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This percentage of thr worlds freshwater is contained within the Great Lakes

A

21%

32
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This actor portrayed this color barrier breaking MLB athlete in this movie

A

Chadwick Bozeman aka black panther portrayed Jackie Robinson in 42

33
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Fernando singers

A

ABBA