intersecting point between 0 degrees of latitude and 0 degrees of longitude, i.e. the Equator and Prime Meridian cross Flashcards
2 suns in 24 who won a gold medal at 20 Olympics here
Durant
Booker
Tokyo 21
Nobel prize categories
Also nationality of founder
Sweedish
Chemistry
Economics
Literature
Medicine
Physics
Peace
Miley Cyrus Grammy
best pop solo performance -
24 flowers
World theater
This 1867 play has a reindeer hunt and a king dwelling in snowy mountains but it’s title character also spends time in Morocco and Egypt
Peer gynt gint
Henrik Ibsen
Not Hedda gabbler
Camila cabello billy Porter and James corden starred in a 21 Amazon prime movie musical that retells the story of
Cinderella
Washington origins presidential cabinet included this future president as Secretary of State
Jefferson
Traditonal japanese haiku poem has this many lines
3
5 7 5 syllables
- only major to cross equator 2X
Congo - also 80 Michael chricton book which later became movie
Emmy coo sigh or see is a volcano that lies at the southwest end of thr tuh best e mountains and is highest peak in Sahara and is in this country
Chad - no men from
This country are not hyper p alpha males
When this bands cover of this Toto song wqs well received by public Toto proceeded to reciprocate and cover hashpipe
Weezer covered Toto africa
In her song or uh no co flow she sings we can reach we can beach on thr shores of trip uh lee which is capital of
Also what other continent is river on
Libya - North Africa
Africa and South America. - Colombia and Venezuela
Orinoco- 4rh largest by discharge
Sail away sail away
While Robert plant wqs on a long seemingly sunny endless drive through the wastelands of the Sahara in southern this country he inspired wrote this song which counterintuitively refers to a region in Asia
Cashmere - disputed between India and Pakistan
Morocco
Gateway drug for Kels - Led Zeppelin?
USA for Africa wqs a supergroup that sung this song which raised 60 M for African famine relief
Also who conceived of the idea after seeing success of this groups do they know it’s Christmas
Bonus 2 credited with writing
We are the world song
Bandaid do they know it’s Christmas
Harry bellafonte Idea
Michael Jackson and Lionel Ritchie wrote
Quincy Jones produced
Movie tribonds
Sigourney weaver
Julie Harris
Brown brown
Gorillas in the midst
Goodall chimps
Fossey gorillas
Movie tribonds
Matthew mccon uh hey
Steve zahn
Penelope Cruz
Sahara
Movie tribonds
Nick notle
Don cheadle
Wha keem Phoenix
Hotel Rwanda
Movie tribonds
David schwimmer
Sasha Barren ?Cohen
Jada pinket smith
Madagascar
David schwimmer - giraffe
Sasha Barren ?Cohen
Jada pinket smith hippo
Chris rock zebra
Stiller lion
African nation producing most NBA players
Nigeria
Meet me at our spot
21 collaboration between
Willow smith and Tyler cole as the anxiety
Anatomical name for the thigh bone
Femur
This area stretches roughly from paradise point to coolangatta in Queensland and largely consists of beach resorts
Get uh
Gold Coast
Place in India wqs dubbed the rome of the orient since it wqs a center for the Roman Catholic Church in the east
Goa
In the 1380s this Oxford theologian led an effort to translate the Bible into English
Wycliffe
Today this is a seaport on a peninsula that wqs captured by the ottomans in 1354; first foothold in Europe
Guh lip oh lee
It was primal in thr title of a Richard gere and Edward Norton film
fear
13 letter toothed Dino bird of the Jurassic period
R key op tuh rix
Archaeopteryx
Second word of the tell tale heart ; narrator admits he was dreadfully so
Nervous
Freuds works helped popularize this loan word for a general sense of unease or dread
Angst
During the Great schism beginning in 1378
Robert of Genova reigned as clement 7 this type of guy
Antipope
14 letters
Christian doctrine laid out by Paul in Romans 8:29-30 so just doesn’t know all but foreknows all
Predestination
Novel title objects
A girl in a 1950 novel walks into this and got in among the coats and rubbed her face against them
The wardrobe
From the lion the witch and the wardrobe
Main international mens Football tournament held in Africa every 2 years
Started in 57
Also country that has won the most
African cup of nations
Egypt
South African golfer only 1 of 4 to win a career grand slam
Bonus other 3
Gary player - SA
Jack Nicholas
Tiger woods
Gene sare uh zin
Plastic monotone instrument creating havoc at football games in Africa
Vu vu zalea or zell uh
World
Cup SA 10
Made it heard to watch , not because of soccer
Nile river flows north out of this lake and into this sea
Lake Victoria into Mediterranean sea
3 women mentioned by this singer in she’s so high
Joan of arc
Cleopatra
Ah fruh dite E
Tall Bachman - he
Countries in mainland Africa that equator passes through
7 total
6 mainland
Congo
DRC
Gabon
Kenya
Uganda
Somalia
Sah tomr and prince uh pay - island
Which of the following is most likely true about a capacious car?
Spacious
Fits a lot of people
NATURE
Growing a volume of wood equal to a 50-foot-tall tree annually, California’s “General Sherman” is what type of tree?
Giant sequoia
ARTS & CULTURE
The original of which masterpiece was appropriately painted on the wall of the Santa Maria delle Grazie convent dining hall?
Last supper
BIOGRAPHIES
Which entrepreneur chose blue as the primary color for his company’s logo because he has red-green colorblindness?
+100
correct
Mark Zuckerberg
ANYTHING GOES
While filming on an aircraft nicknamed the Vomit Comet, a camera operator threw up on Kevin Bacon during production of which movie?
Apollo 13
Believed to purify people from sin, which waterway is the most sacred river in Hinduism?
Ganges
Forty years afterward, a reporter claimed to have fabricated the famous “Mrs. O’Leary’s Cow” origin story of which city’s massive 1871 fire?
+100
correct
Chicago
The name of which chemical element is derived from the Latin word for “charcoal”?
+100
correct
Carbon
MONEY & NUMBERS
Then the world’s largest retailer, which company in 1969 commissioned a skyscraper—the world’s tallest upon its completion—to consolidate its staff?
+100
correct
Sears
“Question number one. What was the title of the 1989 American crime drama that was written and directed by Gus Van Sant and starred Matt Dillon as a pharmacy robber and troubled addict?
Drugstore cowboy
Reaching #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2006, this Atlanta-based rap group is most known for their song “Laffy Taffy”.
Guess: 69 Boyz
Answer: D4L
Gene Hackman, Anjelica Huston, Ben Stiller, Luke Wilson, and Gwyneth Paltrow were all part of an eccentric family that was the focus of this 2001 dramedy directed by Wes Anderson.
Guess: The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
Answer: The Royal Tenenbaums
Along with creating the series, this woman was the primary host of America’s Next Top Model from 2003-2018.
Guess: Tyra Banks
Answer: Tyra Banks
Born in 1982, this Brazilian entrepreneur cofounded Facebook and later cofounded the venture capital firm B Capital.
Guess: Andrea Martin
Answer: Eduardo Saverin
After a limited-time launch in 2019, this major chocolate bar brand brought back its Pecan variety full-time in 2024.
Guess: Hershey
Answer: Snickers
In 2007, this pitcher achieved his 300th career Win while pitching for the Mets.
Guess: Kevin Appier
Answer: Tom Glavine
Carl Nassib was an All-American and 2015 Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year after racking up 15.5 Sacks for this school.
Guess: Ohio State
Answer: Penn State
Dan Orlovksy went 0-7 as the starting QB of this NFC team during the 2008 season and had an infamous moment where he ran out the back of his own end zone.
Guess: Detroit Lions
Question number two. What infamous and fashionable event is held annually in Louisville, Kentucky, almost always on the first Saturday in May?
Kentucky derby
Question number three. Portrayed by Wilmer Valderrama in the teen comedy show That 70s Show, what was the name of the foreign exchange student character who was assigned such racist other aliases as the foreigner and the foreign kid?
Fez
Question number four. What transcontinental Central American country is home to the port of Cristobal and the Tokumen International Airport?
Panama Canal
Question number five. What collectible line of stuffed toys emerges a major fad in the 1990s, but after declining sales, retired the line in 1999, with its final release of a bear called The End.
Beanie babies
Question number six. Blake Snell, Hugh Darvish, and Mookie Betts are all famous, professional what? What?”
Baseball players
“Question number seven. The 1985 Prince and the Revolution song with the lyrics, I was working part time in a five and dime. My boss was Mr. McGee.
He told me several times that he didn’t like my kind because I was a bit too leisurely, and so I decided to do leisurely is
Raspberry Beret.”
“The question or clue that went along with this anagram was, what American country band topped the country music charts with such songs as Kissed You Good Night and Wild at Heart before disbanding in 2017?
And the answer is Gloriana. A loin rag scrambles up to be Gloriana.”
