HodgePodge Flashcards
1
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Name of a climber attacked on Mount Everest.
A
Jonathan Griffith.
2
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November Typhoon Haiyan, also known as…
A
Yolanda.
3
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Name of the Metallica Documentary
A
Through the Never.
4
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Rabies vaccine invented when?
A
1885.
By Pasteur and Roux?
5
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Record for most paid for painting
A
142.4 million.
6
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Who set the soccer transfer record?
A
Gareth Bale, Real Madrid.
7
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Who is Frank Whittle?
A
Invented jet engine in 1930.
8
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Nylon invented what year?
A
1938.
9
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Who discovered protons in 1919?
A
Rutherford.
10
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What is the chemical form of fat?
A
Triglycerides.
11
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Who discovered calcium in 1808?
A
Humphrey Davy.
12
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Jenner did vaccine when?
A
- Germ Theory Pasteur 1886.
13
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Smallpox was eradicated by WHO in what decade?
A
WHO.
1970s.
14
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Bark scale is for what?
A
LOUDNESS.
15
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Why is old newspaper yellow?
A
Because of lignin.
16
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Agamemnon’s wife was…
A
Clytemnestra.
17
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2001 Radiohead album
A
Amnesiac.
18
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Radiohead album with mannequin on the cover…
A
The Bends.
19
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Great White sharks are: a) growing population or b) declining population.
A
a.) growing.
20
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Who is Dov Charney?
A
Removed CEO of American Apparel
21
Q
China had an oil rig dispute with what southeastern Asian country?
A
Vietnam
22
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Who is Jung Hong-Won
A
Prime Minister, South Korea, (re-elected)
23
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Who did Gary Oldman defend?
A
Mel Gibson and Alec Baldwin.
24
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What is Prince Carl Philip the prince of?
A
Sweden.
25
What central American country surprised Italy in the 2014 World Cup?
Costa Rica.
26
What book is Daniel Keyes famous for?
Flowers For Algernon.
27
What is Alstom?
Some French energy company that maybe G.E. bought.
28
What is the only bird that can see the color blue?
The owl.
29
Nepotism, meaning "favoring relatives" comes from the Latin word "nepos," meaning what...
Nephew.
30
what is "aa"?
a form of lava.
| hawaiian word
31
What city gave the world both Paul Anka and Alanis Morissette?
Ottawa.
32
What lumberjack from the Ottawa Valley became especially famous after he figured in a Bunyan-esque Stompin' Tom Connors song?
Big Joe Mufferaw.
33
What happened to Andre Bessette, a former Montreal textile worker, in 2010?
He was canonized.
34
Which actor's brother was the Deputy Prime Minister of Canada for two years?
Leslie Nielsen.
35
Alexander Lukashenko became president of this country in 1994 and its currency is the ruble.
Belarus.
36
Whose flag is a half blue and half red with a crown in the upper left corner?
Liechtenstein.
37
In 1981, who posed with a python in a famous photo taken by Richard Avedon?
Nastassja Kinski.
38
What is the name of plant form of decoration that can be found in visual arts?
Arabesque.
39
Born in Cody, Wyoming, what cowboy protege of Thomas Hart Benton's became the leading American abstract expressionist?
Jackson Pollock.
40
A founder of the Washington Color School, what color field painter became known for circles and arrows?
Kenneth Noland.
41
MOMA acquired one of the works of what actor/painter, the son of a Hungarian tailor?
Tony Curtis.
42
Who is famous for the image of two people kissing on a crowded Paris street in 1950?
Robert Doisneau.
43
What was the only rule of the non-movement in art called "Dada"?
Follow No Rules.
44
Name the book which begins: "In the town, there were two mutes and they were always together."
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.
45
In the Aztec legend of the "Soles," how many suns are there?
5.
46
According to Maori beliefs, who or what dwells on the Moon?
A man.
47
Iounn hangs on to the apples that give what pantheon's gods eternal youth?
Norse.
48
Who was forced to bathe in the Pactolus River in Asia Minor?
Midas.
49
Who is the mother of Achilles?
Thetis.
50
Which Mesoamerican monster can turn into a turkey, a bat, or a jaguar?
Nagual.
51
Who built the Walls of Troy?
Poseidon.
52
In Greek myth, who captured and rode Pegasus, used it to kill the fire-breathing Chimera, then tried to fly up to Olympus?
Bellerophon.
53
Which Olympian was not born immortal?
Dionysus.
54
According to the "Franklin's Tale" in which French city do magicians live?
Orleans.
55
The subject of both a play by Ibsen and a piece of classical music by Grieg, Peer Gynt was a folk hero in what country?
Norway.
56
In Egyptian mythology, Maat and Seth represented what two opposites?
Order and chaos.
57
Who is the Judge of the Egyptian Underworld?
Osiris.
58
In Greek mythology who is the embodiment of necessity?
Ananke.
59
Military meat supplier Sam Wilson knew Johnny Appleseed as a boy, and he's said to be the model for what avuncular American icon?
Uncle Sam.
60
As he prepares to leave London for good, Dick Whittington is called back by the Bow Bells. What happens to him?
He becomes Lord Mayor.
61
Amy Tan's novel Zao Jun, who is Zao Jun?
Kitchen god.
62
What Nordic nation had its own mythology, with a sky god called Ukko, from which it gets the word ukkonen, meaning "thunderstorm"?
Finland.
63
What do you call a Scottish sea elf?
Nuckelavee.
64
Who was the Greek goddess of snow; daughter of Boreas?
Khione.
65
Giant snake-like creatures called imoogi are what country's benevolent version of dragons, living in underwater caves for centuries?
Korea.
66
What animals raised Pecos Bill after he fell out of his parents' wagon?
Coyotes.
67
In his spare time, what Greek god of shepherds also invented astronomy, the musical scale, numbers and the alphabet?
Hermes.
68
A gag in the US, which fictional critter was probably inspired by the sidewinder?
Hoop snake?
69
A manticore had a man's head, a lion's body, and a dragon's wings. What other weapon does it have?
A deadly spiked tale.
70
Which god abducted and married his niece Proserpina?
Pluto.
71
Midas had knotty problems of his own, but who was his dad?
Gordius.
72
What All-Father of the Aesir family traded an eye to drink from the spring of wisdom that fed the World Tree?
Odin.
73
Who was the chief deity in the Zoroastrian Pantheon?
Ahura Mazda.
74
Who had access to Tlalocan, the Aztec Paradise?
Drowned people.
75
Women named Cynthia (and Diana, for that matter) get their name from what Greek goddess also known as Kynthia?
Artemis.
76
If manly Vikings wanted to walk the Bifrost Bridge to see their gods in Asgard, what unmanly thing would they be walking on?
A rainbow.
77
It is now fashionable to add a Moor to Robin Hood named...
Azeem.
78
What is the Wiccan ritual knife?
Athame.
79
What did Dionysus turn some sailors into, because they called him a drunkard?
Dolphins.
80
According to lore, where does a cat-headed reptile called the Tatzelwurm live?
Alps.
81
Assyrian buildings were often guarded by statues of protective spirits called lamassus, which is what?
Winged bull with a man's head.
82
Japanese version of Ouija board.
Kokkuri-san.
83
Polyphemos, like all the Cyclops of Greek myth, lived on the slopes of what Sicilian volcano?
Etna.
84
What moored ship in Long Beach, nicknamed the Gray Ghost, is in turn said to be full of ghosts?
Queen Mary.
85
In Paper sizes: Of A3, A4, A5, and Quarto, which is the largest?
A3.
86
Imperial Beach hosts an annual competition dedicated to what art form?
Sandcastles.
87
Mosaic artist Isaiah Zagar became famous for his murals in the South Street neighborhood of what city, now famous for its murals?
Philly.
88
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi recently won a questionable democratic election in which country?
Egypt.
89
Steve Ballmer, who bid $2 billion to buy the LA Clippers, is former CEO of where?
Microsoft.
90
What god will some day kill Jormungandr, only to stagger back nine steps and die from the poison of that World Serpent?
Thor.
91
What is Sillabub?
Syllabub (or solybubbe, sullabub, sullibib, sullybub, sullibub, there is considerable variation in spelling) is an English sweet dish described by the Oxford English Dictionary as "A drink or dish made of milk (freq. as drawn from the cow) or cream, curdled by the admixture of wine, cider, or other acid, and often sweetened and flavoured."
It is reputedly most traditionally made by the milkmaid milking the cow directly into a jug of cider.
92
What do you call a bike bag that can be clipped onto a bike rack?
Pannier.
