JAN - JUN 2023 Flashcards
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Leader Cuba
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Diaz-Canel
2
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First King of Carolingians
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Pepin the Short (715)
3
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Explored Gulf of St Lawrence
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Cartier
4
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Treaty that ended war of Spanish Succession
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Peace of Utrecht
5
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The Lass That Loved a Sailor
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HMS Pinafore (Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera)
6
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Porgy and Bess composer
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Gershwin
7
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Wagner Jewish friend
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Mendelson
8
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Tchaikovsky opera based on Pushkin novel
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“Eugen Onegin”
9
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Greek God of night
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Nyx
10
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Marry Poppins author
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Travers
11
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Painter of the Revolution
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John Trumbull
12
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Greek god of death
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Thanatos
13
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Portrait Madame X
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John Singer Sargent
14
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Fauvist painter, still lifes
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Matisse (invented Fauvism with Picasso)
14
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British born French landscape painter
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Sisley
15
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Dancers painter
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Degas
16
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Spanish deaf painter guys against wall getting shot, creature eating child
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Goya
17
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Longest serving SecState
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Hull
18
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Seabiscuit athor
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Hillenbrand
19
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The Betrayal playwright, UK
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Pinter
20
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The Road author
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Cormac McCarthy
21
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Goodbye Columbus author
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Phillip Roth
22
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Confederacy of Dunces author
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John Kennedy Toole
23
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First World Series
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Boston Americans def Pittsburgh Pirates (1905)
24
Discovered Uranus
HERschel
25
Gadsden Purchase Pres
Pierce (he pierced AZ to get it)
26
Last Pres born in 18th c
Buchanan
27
President who promoted meritocracy, from Cincinnati
RB Hayes
28
Coke inventor
Pemberton
29
Amonute, Matoaka, Rebecca
Pochahontas
30
Wrote How Do I Love Thee?
Elizabeth Barret Browning
31
Snort and chuckle, from Lewis Carrol
chortle
32
Mandates certain financial reporting from corporations
Sarbanes Oxley Act
33
Polish nobility
Zlatcha
34
Not a Pilgrim, but their military leader
Myles Standish
35
Holds records for wins, as well as innings pitched and lost
Cy Young
36
Named calculus
Leibniz
37
Fourth Article of Constitution deals with
relations between the states
38
Invention of liberties beyond procedural due process
Substantive due process
39
Speedy public trial amendment
Sixth (six = speedy)
40
DC electoral vote amendment
23
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First empire
Akkadian (Sargon the Great founded)
42
Founder Achaemenian (Persian) Empire
Cyrus the Great (Cy Started)
43
Ruled Persia at peak, lost at Marathon but dominated
Darius the Great (Dar Dominated)
44
Ruled Persia, lost in Greece at Salamis
Xerxes (X'd by the Greeks)
45
Wrote Valperga, historical fiction of 12th c
Mary Shelley
46
Wrote Tender Buttons
Gertrude Stein
47
Pioneer woman blogger/chef/writer
Ree Drummond
48
Diary of Wimpy Kid author
Jeff Kinney (kid is named Greg Heffley)
49
Captain Underpants writer
Dav Pilkey
50
Only one president has had two VPs die under him
Madison
51
TX city named after VP
Dallas
52
Four great inventions China
paper, gunpowder, compass, printing
53
Second largest city of UA
Kharkiv
54
City next to Hong Kong is
Shenzhen
55
Cape Australia
Cape Leeuwin
56
Largest sea in world
Philippine Sea
57
Two Antarctic seas
Ross and Wedell
58
West Coast of India sea
Arabian Sea
59
First Plantagenet monarch
Henry II (killed Thomas Beckett at Canterbury)
60
Napoleon second wife
Marie Louise
61
Last emperor China
Puyi
62
Henry VIII wives beheaded
Boleyn and Howard
63
King executed in English Civil War
Charles I
64
lowest type of flat cloud
Stratus
65
Hungarian dances
BraHams
66
Tuesdays with Morrie writer
Mitch Albom
67
First female monarch
Mary I
68
Last Douglas Adams book with Arthur Dent
Mostly Harmless
69
Genghis Khan century
1162-1227
70
Italian, inventor of first electric battery, lends name to unit
Volta
71
Grandson of Genghis Khan
Kublai Khan (invaded Europe with Golden Horde)
72
Scottish, inventor of the steam engine (not to be confused with Robert Fulton, who was American and more focused on steamboat engines)
Watt
73
Napoleon of the West
Santa Ana
74
A garden at the foot of the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem
Gethsemane
75
late 16th c Italian sculptor with David in the Vatican
Bernini
76
wrote the Tarzan books
Edgar Rice Burroughs
77
With his wife Sophie was killed in Sarajevo
Franz Ferdinand
78
friend of Emperor Vespasian, military commander, natural philosopher (wrote Natural History– first encyclopedia)
Pliny the Elder
79
Scotland and England were unified by
James VI
80
Faces in the Crowd author
Valeria Luiselli
81
Moses successor
Joshua
82
Lightest planet
Saturn
83
Second largest satellite in solar system
Titan
84
Closest part of atmosphere
(troposphere-- most distant is exosphere)
85
Telescope inventor
Lipperhey
86
Zodiac Nov 22-Dec21
Sagittarius (Archer)
86
Whooping cough
pertussis
87
Sagittarius is associated with the centaur Chiron, who mentored
Achilles
88
Wrote Babbitt
Sinclair Lewis
89
Roman who wrote The Great Mathematician and an early atlas, Cartography
Ptolemy— Roman mathematician is always Ptolemy unless it’s KILLED by Roman then it’s Archimedes (Greek)
90
femal who helped invent vaccine for whooping cough
Leila Denmark
91
Glass House architect
Philip Johnson
92
Daughter of Helios (God of Sun)
Circe
93
Flower goddess
GR-- Chloris, RO-- Flora
94
Danish-American muckraker who was the father of flash photography
Jacob Riis
95
Norwegian composer
Grieg
96
American orator of suffragette movement
Lucy Stone
97
National flower France
iris
98
Abstract square painters
Rothko (color field), Malevich (all black), Kandinsky (Bahaus, lines and dots)
99
speculative fiction, white woman
Guinn
100
The Cremation of Sam McGee poet
Robert Service (CA)
101
Pacific maantee
Dugong
102
Leaves at top column
Corinthian
103
Highest summit Western Europe
Mt Blanc
104
Highest mountain Andes
Mount Aconcagua
105
Highest mountain Antarctica
Vinson Massif
106
Last 7 Ancient Wonders to fall
Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
107
Longest occupied palace in Europe
Windsor
108
Pip Longstocking author
Lindgren
109
