JANUARY 20 Flashcards
What was the name of the state in modern-day Florida that was proclaimed as a sovereign Native American nation by William Augustus Bowles in 1799 with the intention of resisting the expansion of the United States? The state shares its name with a city in Oklahoma commemorated in one of Merle Haggard’s best-known songs
Muskogee
The coldest natural place currently known in the universe is which nebula in the constellation Centaurus? One common name for this nebula was given to it on its discovery in 1980 when it was believed to be curved, rather like a banana, while another common name was applied to it after its true shape was ascertained.
Boomerang Nebula aka Bowtie Nebula
Sometimes compared to Stranger Things, which German-language Netflix series is set in the small town of Winden, where people keep going missing?
DARK
which Russian-American linguist and literary theorist who identified the six ‘functions of language’ as referential, emotive, conative, poetic, phatic, and metalingual?
Roman Jakobson
It is well-known that Buddy Holly was from Lubbock, Texas, was the lead singer of The Crickets, and died in a plane crash. It is less well known that the man who replaced him as the lead vocalist of The Crickets (on the 1960 single Don’t Cha Know/Peggy Sue Got Married) was also from Lubbock, Texas and also died in a plane crash. This is which near-identical Buddy Holly soundalike who died in 1964?
David BOX
Tablut, Tawlbwrdd, Brandubh, Ard Rí, and Alea Evangelii are all examples of games in this ‘family’. Which family of ancient Nordic and Celtic strategy board games is played by two players on a checkered board with a distinctive 2:1 ratio of playing pieces? Games in this family were played by the Vikings (pictured) and were still being played by some Sami people until the 17th century.
TAFL
Emperor Meiji aka
MUTSUHITO
Japanese emperor 1912 to 1926
TAISHO/YOSHIHITO
HIROHITO AKA
SHOWA
AKIHITO AKA
HEISEI
NARUHITO aka
REIWA
NARUHITO CONSORT
MACHAKO
NARUHITO heir and brother
FUMIHITO
a Japanese swordsman, strategist, artist, and writer who became renowned through stories of his unique double-bladed swordsmanship and undefeated record in his 62 duels (next is 33 by Itō Ittōsai).[3] Musashi is considered a kensei (sword saint) of Japan.[4] He was the founder of the Niten Ichi-ryū, or Nito Ichi-ryū, style of swordsmanship, and in his final years authored The Book of Five Rings (五輪の書, Go Rin No Sho) and Dokkōdō (獨行道, The Path of Aloneness).
MIYAMOTO MUSASHI
Founded in 1956 by Norman Granz, the label is home to the world’s largest jazz catalogue, which includes recordings by artists such as Ella Fitzgerald, Cal Tjader, Nina Simone, Stan Getz, Bill Evans, Billie Holiday, Oscar Peterson, Jon Batiste, and Diana Krall a
VERVE
a nursery rhyme first recorded in America in the late 19th century.[1][2] The melody to which the nursery rhyme is sung recurs in other nursery rhymes including “It’s Raining, It’s Pouring”; “Rain Rain Go Away” and “Ring around the Rosie”. It was further used as the basis for a successful 1938 recording by Ella Fitzgerald, composed by Fitzgerald in conjunction with Al Feldman
A TISKET A TASKET
He has directed several Academy Award-nominated films including The Fox (1967), The Reivers (1969), Cinderella Liberty (1973), The Rose (1979), and The River (1984). He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director for On Golden Pond (1981).
MARK RYDELL
schools chief inspector
martyn olive
summerhill founder
as neill
