JPAs - General3 Flashcards
Carnivorous Marsupial
the Tasmanian devil
Carnivorous Plant
Venus Flytrap
Carol Burnett appeared as Jamie Buchman’s mother on this 1990s TV show
Mad About You (and won an Emmy)
Carole Lombard’s husband
Clark Gable (m. 1939-1942 - her death; died in plane crash returning from WWII bond trip)
Caroline Meeber novel
Sister Carrie (title character of the Theodore Dreiser novel).
Carolyn Keene character
Nancy Drew
Carrie Chapman Catt organization
the League of Women Voters (she founded it in 1920)
Carrie Fisher’s mother
Debbie Reynolds
“Carry Me Home” spiritual transport
Sweet Chariot
“Cartagena Manifesto” author
Simon Bolivar
Carthaginian General
Hannibal
Carving Knife cut off their tails
the Three Blind Mice
Casa Guidi residents
Elizabeth Barrett Browning & Robert Browning (their house in Florence where she spent the last 14 years of her life)
French-named Casino Card Game where winner’s hand is that closest to 9
Baccarat
His empire stretched from Caspian Sea to eastern China
Genghis Khan (peaked in early 13th century)
Cassius Clay
Muhammad Ali
“Cat Ballou” actor
Lee Marvin
Cat Stevens hits
“Peace Train,” “Moonshadow”
Cat’s Cradle author
Kurt Vonnegut
Catalonian City
Barcelona
Catharine Beecher’s sister
Harriet Beecher Stowe (Catharine promoted higher education for women)
Catherine Howard’s husband
Henry VIII (his 5th)
Catherine The Great’s lover/advisor
Grigori Potemkin (Potemkin is also the name of an artificially clean village - he supposedly fixed up rund-down towns to fool her before her grand tour)
Catherine Zeta-Jones Oscar-nominated musical role
Chicago
Cathy Rigby Broadway role
Peter Pan (also Cat in the Hat in “Seussical the Musical”)
Cattle Trail
the Chisholm trail (ran from Texas to Kansas)
A causeway connects this Persian Gulf nation with the Saudi Arabian mainland
Bahrain
Volunteer Cavalry Unit
the Rough Riders
Cayman Trench location
the Caribbean Sea
CBS Anchorman
Walter Cronkite (His successor was Dan Rather)
CBS News
60 Minutes
CBS Soap
The Young and the Restless
Cecil B De Mille’s neice
Agnes De Mille (she was a dancer and ballet choreographer)
Cecil B DeMille’s Oscar-winning film
The Greatest Show on Earth (1952)
Cedar Tree is on this country’s flag
Lebanon (famous for its cedars)
Cedric The Saxon is title character of this novel
Ivanhoe (by Sir Walter Scott)
Celebrated Seafood Stew
Bouillabaisse (hails from Provence)
Basis of plant cell walls
Cellulose
Holiday on what was once the last day of the Celtic Year
Halloween (evolved from Celtic festival to celebrate the dead)
Centennial Exposition World Fair held here
Philadelphia (1876)
Centennial Olympic Park location
Atlanta
Central Italian Region
Tuscany
White Ceramic Material
porcelain
Cervantes Novel
Don Quixote
Realist from Chadds Ford, PA
Andrew Wyeth
Chain of Islands
archipelago
It’s the term for the minimum amount of fissile material needed to achieve a self-sustaining chain reaction
critical mass
Chamber Music Society
Lincoln Center (Alice Tully Hall)
Champ De Mars
Eiffel Tower
Channel Islands
Jersey & Guernsey
Chaparral Cock
a roadrunner
Chapter 7 Bankruptcy
liquidation
Charge Of The Light Brigade war
the Crimean War (1854’s Battle of Balaklava)
Charles Blondin tight-rope walked across this landmark many times
Niagara Falls
Charles Dawes was VP for this President
Calvin Coolidge (also won Nobel Prize for creating plan for Germany to pay its war reparations)
Charles Frazier debut novel
Cold Mountain (a take on Homer’s “Odyssey” set during the Civil War)
Charles Guiteau victim
James Garfield (his assassin)
Charles Hires creation
root beer (1870s; had originally called it “root tea”)
Charles IX’s mother
Catherine de’ Medici (Italian was mother of 3 French kings: Francis II, Charles IX & Henry III)
Charles Ingalls is a character in this novel/TV show
Little House on the Prairie
Charles Lindbergh plane
The Spirit of St. Louis
Charles Martel’s son
Pepin the Short (who was father to Charlemagne)
Charles Ryder is the narrator of this novel
Brideshead Revisited
Charles Taylor was a dictator in this country
Liberia
She helped Charles VII (the Dauphin Charles) to the throne
Joan of Arc
Charles Wilkes led an expedition here
Antarctica (America became first to fly a flag there - 1840)
Charlie And The Chocolate Factory author
Roald Dahl
Charlie Hustle
Pete Rose
Charlie Sheen TV Show
Two and a Half Men, Anger Management
She replaced Farrah Fawcett on Charlie’s Angels
Cheryl Ladd
Charlotte Bronte novel
Jane Eyre
Charlotte’s Web author
E.B. White
Charlton Heston played this character in “The Agony and the Ecstasy”
Michelangelo
Chaucer Work
The Canterbury Tales
Cheese Steak city
Philadelphia
Chelsea Clinton college
Stanford
Chemical Elements that make up water
hydrogen and oxygen
Chemical Name for table salt
Sodium chloride
Term for a substance that causes or accelerates a chemical reaction without itself being affected
Catalyst
This 19th century chemist saved France’s beer, wine & silk industries
Louis Pasteur
cocktail of gin, cherry brandy & lemon juice
a Singapore Sling
Geore Washington Cherry Tree writer
Parson Weems
Algonquin for “where goods are brought in,” this river flows into Chesapeake Bay
the Potomac
Chestnut Hill college
Boston College
Chevy Sports Car
a corvette
Chewing Gum Company
Wrigley
Chicago Bears running back 1975-1987
Walter Payton
Chicago Bulls
Michael Jordan
Scottish Chicago Detective
Allan Pinkerton
Chicago Gangster
Al Capone
Chicago Landmark
The Sears Tower
Chicago Mayor (!955-1976)
Richard Daley
Chicago Poet
Carl Sandburg
Chicago River flows into
Lake Michigan
Chicago Sun-Times movie critic
Roger Ebert
Chicken Fat
schmaltz (Yiddish)
Same virus that causes Chicken Pox can cause this in older adults
shingles
Chicken Soup With Rice author
Maurice Sendak (children’s book)
Chief Joseph led this tribe
Nez Perce (led his troop 1,000 miles, but didn’t make it to their goal of Canada; surrendered in 1877)
First Chief Justice Of The United States
John Jay
“Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage” poet
Lord Byron (his longest poem other than “Don Juan”)
Childhood’s End author
Arthur C. Clarke
It begins, “All children, except one grow up.”
Peter Pan
Children Of A Lesser God actress
Marlee Matlin (youngest woman and only deaf person to win Best Actress Oscar)
Children’s Corner composer
Claude Debussy (he dedicated the suite to his young daughter Claude-Emma)
Chilean Cape
Cape Horn
Chilean Desert
the Atacama
Chilean Island
Easter Island
Chilean Poet
Pablo Neruda
Chili Palmer is a character in this novel/film
Get Shorty
“Chim Chim Cher-ee” is a song in this musical
Mary Poppins
China’s Sorrow
the Yellow River (Called so due to excessive flooding; the Yangtze is called “China’s fortune”)
Chinese Detective character
Charlie Chan (played by non-Chinese actors)
Chinese Dialect widely spoken in Hong Kong & Macao
Cantonese
Chinese Medical technique
Acupuncture
Chinese Philosopher
Confucius
Japan seized this Chinese Region in 1931
Manchuria
Chinese River
the Yangtze (longest); Yellow (or Huang He - second longest)
Chiricahua Apache leader
Geronimo (led last major Native American stand 1881-1886)
“Choo Choo” City
Chattanooga, TN
Chris Martin band
Coldplay
Chris O’Donnell played this author in the movie “In Love & War”
Ernest Hemingway
Chris Van Allsburg book
The Polar Express (Author/Illustrator)
Chrissie Hynde band
The Pretenders
Christian Emperor
Constantine
Christian IV was longest man to rule over this country (60 years)
Denmark
Christian Roman
Constantine
Christian Science founder
Mary Baker Eddy
Christina Crawford “tell-all”
Mommie, Dearest (about her allegedly abusive mom, Joan Crawford)
Christina Olson inspired this artist’s “Christina’s World”
Andrew Wyeth
“Christina’s World” artist
Andrew Wyeth
Christine Todd Whitman was governor of this state 1994-2001
New Jersey
“Christmas City” in PA
Bethlehem (appropriately named on Christmas Eve)
Christmas Flower
the poinsettia
Christmas Seals were first sold in 1907 to raise funds to fight this disease
Tuberculosis (fundraiser for the American Lung Association)
Christopher Atkins starred in this desert island movie
The Blue Lagoon (with Brook Shields)
Christopher Dodd served as senator of this state from 1981-2011
Connecticut
Christopher Robin creator/author/father
A.A. Milne (his real son’s name)
Christopher Walken 1978 film
The Deer Hunter
Chrysler Building rival
the Empire State Building (Surpassed it in height shortly after Chrysler Building was build)
Chuck Barris hosted this TV show
The Gong Show
Chuck Mangione played it on his 1978 hit “Feels So Good”
the flugelhorn
He posted his 95 theses on a German Church Door
Martin Luther
Church Father
Saint Augustine
He broke the Church Of England from the Catholic Church
Henry VIII
Churchill Downs race
the Kentucky Derby
Cimarron County state
Oklahoma
Cinchona Trees medicint
Quinine (treats malaria)
Cincinnati Reds player-manager
Pete Rose
Cincinnati Reds catcher
Johnny Bench
Cindy Birdsong’s Motown group
The Supremes
“Circle Of Friends” and “Tara Road” author
Maeve Binchy
“Circle Of Life” is a song from this movie
The Lion King
Circus Showman
P.T. Barnum
name for a Citizen Army
a militia
Citizen Kane director/writer/actor/producer
Orson Welles
Citrullus Lanatus
Watermelon
City Near Mexican border
San Diego
Mythical City Of Gold searched for by many South American explorers
El Dorado
(Greek for ) “City Of The Dead”
a necropolis
Oscar-winner for City Slickers
Jack Palance (played Duke Washburn, Curly’s twin brother)
From 1936-1961, this capital was called Ciudad Trujillo
Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic)
Civic Arena here was first with retractable roof
Pittsburgh (now Mellon Arena)
Civil Rights Leader
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Mother of the Civil Rights Movement
Rosa Parks
Officials of the Civil Service of the Chinese Empire
mandarins
The Five Civilized Tribes of ____________
Oklahoma (the Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Chickasaw & Seminole)
Clair De Lune composer
Claude Debussy
2 most popular styles of Clam Chowder
New England & Manhattan
Clara Wieck’s husband
Robert Schumann (married 1840; she was an outstanding composer & pianist also)
Clarence Thomas scandal
Anita Hill
Teenage Clark Kent TV show
Smallville
3 Main Classes Of Rock
Igneous, Sedimentary (75% of exposed rocks on land), Metamorphic
Classic 1877 Ballet
Swan Lake
Classical Guitarist
Andres Segovia
Classical Language of India/Hinduism
Sanskrit
At the end of “Casablanca,” Claude Rains (playing Captain Louis Renault) tells an officer to:
“Round up the usual suspects.”
Claudette Colbert Oscar-Winning film
It Happened One Night (first co-stars to win Best Actor & Best Actress; first French Actress to win Oscar)
Claus von Bulow
Alan Dershowitz (Claus von Bulow was accused of the attempted murder of his wife Sunny von Bülow by administering an insulin overdose in 1980 which left her in a persistent vegetative state for the rest of her life; his conviction in the first trial was reversed and he was found not guilty in both his retrials)
Clause 39 of this document was the beginning of the principle of due process of law
the Magna Carta (influenced Britain’s Habeas Corpus Act of 1679)
Clement V moved the papal residence here
Avignon
Clement XIV suppressed this order
the Jesuits
Clemson University location
South Carolina
Cleveland Rocks is theme song of this show
The Drew Carey Show
Cliff Divers of La Quebrada location
Acapulco
National Park with well-preserved Native American Cliff Dwellings
Mesa Verde (in Colorado); Others: Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument in NM, Montezuma Castle National Monument in AZ.
1967 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film: “Closely Watched Trains” from this country
Czechoslovakia
Show with Cloth Upper & rope sole
Espadrilles
Another name for the Clove Pink flower
Carnation