JLH Flashcards
First female best director
Bonus what oscars
Bigelow for hurt locker
83rd in 2010
3 women on circulating us coins
Helen Keller
Susan b Anthony
Sack uh guh why uh
Nicknamed lady magic who became the first woman to coach a men’s professional basketball team
Bonus in what state
Nancy Liberman in Texas
First female inducted into the rock and roll hall of fame
1987
Aretha Franklin
Soul singer
The most famous female scientist of all time
Marie curie
First woman to win a Nobel prize
Physics 1903
Chemistry 1911
In 2014 first female to pitch a winning shutout in little league ws history
Mo nay Davis
First woman to win the Pulitzer Prize
1921 for this book later adapted into an award winning film of the same title
Bonus director
Edith Wharton wrote age of innocence
Scorsese
The Iron Lady
Margaret thatcher
Also gold uh mir a decade earlier held the position of prime minister of isreal
2nd woman to win a Nobel prize
Irene curie
24 years after Marie
Famous ships
It’s wreck was discovered in 89 48 years after it had been sunk and 91 years after the man it was named for had died
Bismarck
41
German Battleship sunk by the British
Who was the mother of castor and pollox thr twin bros transformed into this constellation
Helen of Troy
Gemini - 2 personalities
In Greek myth who was the first woman and what was in her legendary box
Pandora who really has an urn or jar
Misery evil - released
Hope left
What Irish actor starred in the 2010 Greek mythology inspired film clash of the Titans as the character Zeus
Loin enemas
Liam knee son
Who was responsible for firing the arrow that hit achielles only known vulnerable spot
Paris aka Alexander
Hit him in the Heel
Although still associated with a mythological figure what is the only planet not directly named after a Roman god or goddess
Earth
Creature Front part of an eagle and hind legs and tail of a horse
Hip o griff
2 of the oldest surviving sources of info on Greek gods are these 2 epic poems by the this blind poet
Homer wrote
Illiad
Oddessy
What did the Greeks construct out of wood to gain access to Troy in order to destroy it and end the war
Cleverly constructed Trojan horse
Opened gates Horse rolled in and guys popped out and ended war and destroyed city
Only films to have won 3 acting awards
Network
Streetcar named desire
G7 countries
UK
US
France
Italy
Germany
Japan
Canada
10 smallest US states by area
Rhode Island
Delaware
Vermont
New Hampshire
Maryland
Massachusetts
Hawaii
West Virginia
4 prewar states that permitted slavery but did not secede
Bonus largest
Delaware
Maryland
Kentucky
Missouri - largest and latest to join the union
Of the 3 Classical Greek architectural orders this one named for a city is the most decorative
Corinthian
The name of this uppermost part of an entablature is from the Latin for crow for its resemblance to a crow beak
Cornice
The swia one southwest of Cairo has about 200 natural springs
200
College newspapers
The rebel yell - out west
UNLV
Nevada Las Vegas
In 1541 this Spanish explorer headed west across the Mississippi River into what now Arkansas
De Soto
While in California in 1579 this circumnavigator held the first Protestant religious service in the new world
Sir Francis drake
Hundreds of years before the marines got there this South Carolina island was settled by French Huguenots in 1562
Paris island
In 1513 he led an expedition Puerto Rico and found what he thought was an island which he named la Florida
Ponce de Leon
