JPAs - General5 Flashcards
Free Press is this city’s newspaper
Detroit
A Free Radical is an atom or molecule that had an odd number of these
electrons
Economist with a PBs series “Free To Choose”
Milton Friedman
Freedom 7 astronaut
Alan Shepard (first American in space)
Revolutionary War battles at Freeman’s Farm also known as this, for the nearby city
Saratoga
Freeze Yer Gizzard Blizzard Run is an annual event at International Falls in this state
Minnesota
Traditionally the last car on a Freight Train; also the name for a ship’s food prep area.
Caboose
1797 hubbub when French Agents Demanded a $10 million bribe from U.S. Diplomats
the XYZ Affair
Falsely accused Jewish officer of the French Army; was reinstated in 1906
Alfred Dreyfus (“Dreyfus Affair”)
French Cardinal
Cardinal Richelieu
French Chemist who wrote “On La ric Fermentation”; founder of microbiological science.
Louis Pasteur
Execution device named for a French Doctor
the guillotine
French Emperor
Napoleon or Napoleon III
French Engineer, “magician of iron”
Gustave Eiffel (designed the Eiffel Tower as well as the skeleton of the Statue of Liberty)
Capital of French Guiana
Cayenne
French Holiday (July 14)
Bastille Day
American painter awarded the French Legion Of Honor in 1904
Mary Cassatt
French Mathematician (2)
Blaise Pascal (invented first mechanical adding machine) or Rene Descartes (Cartesian plotting system)
French Novelist, author of “J’accuse!” essay
Emile Zola
French Palace
Versailles
French Philosopher and Mathemetician
Rene Descartes
Word adapted from French Phrase for walking/traveling/mobile hospital
Ambulance
Capital and main port of French Polynesia
Papeete (on Tahiti)
French President from 1958-1969
Charles de Gaulle
Name for the French Protestants
the Huguenots
French Queen 1789
Marie Antoinette
French Saint
Joan of Arc
French Sculptor
Auguste Rodin
Small town in SW France that welcomes 2-3 million visitors on pilgrimages each year
Lourdes
Fresh Prince actor
Will Smith
Deep Siberian lake that is the witkd’s largest body of fresh water
Lake Baikal
Freshwater Crustaceans
Crayfish
World’s longest Freshwater Lake at 420 miles
Lake Tanganyika
1899 Freud Work
The Interpretation of Dreams
Frida Kahlo’s husband
Diego Rivera
Fried Eggs en español
Huevos rancheros
“Fly the Friendly Skies” was a motto of this company
United Airlines
Fritz Haber won Nobel Prize for producing this gas from hydrogen & nitrogen
Ammonia (NH3)
Fritz Lang directed this 1927 film
Metropolis
Swim stroke that uses a Frog Kick
the breaststroke
Author of 1865 bestseller “From the Earth to the Moon”
Jules Verne
Front Teeth (2 on top, 2 on bottom)
Incisors
Perennial Frozen Subsoil, aka pergelisol
Permafrost
Name of this Fruit Comes from fact that it grows in grape-like clusters
grapefruit
Fruit Sugar
Fructose
In legends, a Full Moon triggers this monster
a werewolf
“Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!” Into this body of water
Mobile Bay
Leader of the Funky Bunch
Marky Mark
During the Boer War, this Future British Prime Minister served as First Lord of the Admiralty
Winston Churchill
This Future Chief Justice was Dewey’s running mate in 1948
Earl Warren
Future Prime Minister
Winston Churchill
GK Chesterton’s priest/sleuth character
Father Brown
Gabriel Garcia Marquez work
Love in the Time of Cholera
Galina Ulanova was prima ballerina of this company
the Bolshoi
1978’s “Game Of Death” was his last film
Bruce Lee (released 5 years after his 1973 death)
Game Show Host of one show from 1956-1974 and another from 1972-2007)
Bob Barker (Truth or Consequences & The Price is Right)
Baseball player known for his streak of consecutive Games Played (2,632)
Cal Ripken, Jr.
This U.S. city had a famous Garden District
New Orleans
Garden State
New Jersey
Author/creator of Gargantua And Pantagruel
Francois Rabelais
Garrison Keillor’s fictional town used in his storytelling segment on A Prairie Home Companion
Lake Wobegon
Garry Shandling created, wrote, and started in this HBO show
The Larry Sanders Show
She was married to Garson Kanin for 42 years
Ruth Gordon (Maude in “Harold & Maude)
Gary Busey received an Oscar nomination in 1979 for his role as this famous mucisian
Buddy Holly
Gary Gygax created this game
Dungeons and Dragons
Gary Hart (former U.s. Senator who sought presidential nomination in 1984 and 1988) had an affair with her on a yacht named “Monkey Business”
Donna Rice
Gary Oldman leads a group of terrorists in a plane jacking in this 1997 film
Air Force One
Gaston Leroux’s novel that inspired a musical of the same name
The Phantom of the Opera
“Gather Ye _______ while ye may.”
Rosebuds
Gavrilo Princip killed this man
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
1991 Geena Davis & Susan Serandon film
Thelma and Louise
Gena Rowlands husband and often director
John Cassavetes
Gene Kelly starred in this 1951 musical
An American in Paris
Gene Tunney beat this heavyweight champ in 1926.
Jack Dempsey
Gene Wilder’s 1974 role (Mel Brooks film)
Young Frankenstein
Coin depicting her is first U.S. Coin depicting a woman that went into General Circulation
Susan B. Anthony
This man formed what became part of General Foods to sell his frozen foods
(Clarence)Birdseye
Rocker who played Dr. Noah Drake on General Hospital
Rick Springfield (singer if Jessie’s Girl)
TV show “starring” General Lee
The Dukes of Hazzard (General Lee was the name of the souped up Dodge Charger)
In 1951, General Matthew Ridgway replaced this man as UN Forced Commander-in-Chief in Korea
Douglas MacArthur
General Mills cereal
Cheerios
General Sherman is this type of tree, the largest known living single-stem tree on earth
Sequoia
Einstein’s General Theory of _________
relativity
Genesis 11 structure
the Tower of Babel
Genesis 19 cities
Sodom and Gomorrah
Genie In A Bottle singer
Christina Aguilera
A “Gentleman Caller” breaks Laura’s unicorn figurine in this Tennessee Williams play
The Glass Menagerie
“Gentleman Jim” was this boxer’s nickname
Jim Corbett
She played Lorelai Lee in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Marilyn Monroe
Small green African avian of the Genus Agapornis
Lovebirds
Small sea creature/fish of the Genus Hippocampus
Seahorse
Architect known for his Geodesic Dome at Expo ‘67 in Montreal
Buckminster Fuller
Geoffrey Rush played the title role in HBO’s biopic, “The Life and Death of __________”
Peter Sellers
Geographic Center of North America is in this U.S. State
North Dakota
George And Lennie are the main characters of this novel
Of Mice and Men
George Bernard Shaw play ______ & ______
Man and Superman
George Clooney plays a commercial fisherman in this 2000 film
The Perfect Storm
George Costanza actor
Jason Alexander
George Crum invented this snack as a joke. A customer said his fries were too thick.
potato chips
George Jones’ ex-wife
Tammy Wynette
George Lucas film series
Star Wars
George Nissen invention of 1930s (gymnastic equipment)
a trampoline
George Pataki was a 3-term governor of this state (1995-2006)
New York
Publisher George Putnam’s wife
Amelia Earhart
Kentucky city founded by George Rogers Clark, named for a French King
Louisville
George Romero directed this 1968 classic
Night of the Living Dead
George S Kaufman wrote “You Can’t Take it Sith You” and “The Man Who Came to Dinner” with him
Moss Hart
George Sand’s lover
Frederic Chopin
Author of George Smiley novels
John le Carré
George Vancouver named this mountain for a friend
Mount Rainier
The “George Washington Of South America”
Simon Bolivar
Georges Pompidou succeeded him as President of France in 1969
Charles De Gaulle
Georgia state capital
Atlanta
Georgia O’Keeffe’s husband
Alfred Stieglitz (a photographer)
Georgia Port
Savannah
Home state and alma mater of Gerald Ford
Michigan
Name of the German Air Force
the Luftwaffe
German Airline
Lufthansa
German Astronomer who published 3 laws of planetary motion in 1609 & 1619
Johannes Kepler
Laboratory culture dish named for German Bacteriologist who invented it
a Petri dish
German Battleship sunk by the British Navy in May 1941
The Bismarck
German Chemist with a gas burner named for him
Robert Bunsen
German Count
Zeppelin
Classic 1922 German Film
Nosferatu (based on Dracula)
Historic German Kingdom, now its largest state
Bavaria
Another name for German Measles
Rubella
German Mercenaries that fought for the British in the American Revolution
the Hessians
German Philosopher (4 regularly named)
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Immanuel Kant
- Karl Marx
- Arthur Schopenhauer
German Rocket Scientist
Wernher Von Braun
German Shepherd film star
Rin Tin TIn
German Tennis Star
Steffi Graf (Male = Boris Becker)
Germans Sank this passenger liner in May 1915
the Lusitania
Gertrude Ederle swam across this body of water in 1926
the English Channel
Get Shorty is based on the novel by this author
Elmore Leonard
Hanley tells her “Get Thee To A Nunnery”
Ophelia
This will “Get You Nowhere”
Flattery
“Get Your Kicks on” this road
Route 66 (Nat King Cole song)
Ghent Altarpiece creator(s)
Jan & Hubert Van Eyck
The Ghost Of Banquo appears in this play
Macbeth
“One small step for man, one Giant Leap for mankind” speaker
Neil Armstrong
Pacific island known for its Giant Statues
Easter Island (Moai statues)
Country where the Gibson Desert is located
Australia
Apollo gave her the Gift Of Prophecy
Cassandra
Swashbuckling Gilbert And Sullivan operetta set in a town in Cornwall, premiered in 1879
The Pirates of Penzance
Actor who played title role in What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?
Johnny Depp
Ginger Ale & grenadine mocktail
a Shirley Temple
Girl Scouts founder
Juliet Gordon Lowe
According to song lyrics, these are a “Girl’s Best Friend”
Diamonds
Glacier National Park is located in this state
Montana
Gladys Knight & the Pips’ first number one hit
Midnight Train To Georgia
Gladys Kravitz was the most neighbor on this classic TV show
Bewitched
Glass Container used for indoor garden
Terrarium
Glass Slipper owner
Cinderella
Glen Campbell number one hit
Rhinestone Cowboy
Glengarry Glen Ross playwright
David Mamet
“Glinda Of Oz” author
L. Frank Baum
Gloria Gaynor hit song
I Will Survive
Glory Days singer
Bruce Springsteen
Author of the 1953 novel “Go Tell It On The Mountain”
James Baldwin
He is given credit for coining the phrase, “Go West, young man”
Horace Greeley
Goat Island Is located in this body of water
Niagara Falls (separates the American Falls and Horseshoe Falls)
Gobi Desert location
Mongolia
This singer played the Goblin King in “Labyrinth”
David Bowie
Her Armistice Day rendition of “God Bless America” in 1938 introduced the song to the world
Kate Smith
“God Bless You Mr Rosewater” author
Kurt Vonnegut
She started in 1956’s “And God Created Women”
Brigitte Bardot
This 19th century philosopher declared “God Is Dead”
Nietzsche
“God’s Little Acre” author (1933 novel)
Erskine Caldwell
A Gold Coin of Spain
Doubloon
This company operates Gold Crown stores
Hallmark
“Gold Digger” singer
Kanye West
She won the 1984 All-Around Olympic Gold Medal in gymnastics
Mary Lou Retton
This mythological hero fetched the Golden Apples
Hercules
Golfer nicknamed the “Golden Bear”
Jack Nicklaus
Golden Gate Park location
San Francisco
Golden Gate University is located in this city
San Francisco
Golden Poppy is this state’s official flower - the only state whose flower is a poppy
California
Before starting his own chain, he managed several Golden Rule stores
J.C. Penney
The Golden Temple in Amritsar is the holiest shrine of this religion
Sikhism
This U.S. city’s downtown is known as the Golden Triangle
Pittsburgh
Goldie Hawn played the title character in this 1980 film; Lorna Patterson took over the role when it became a tv show
Private Benjamin
Golf Club here became the sole authority on the rules of the game in Great Britain
St. Andrew’s
Strong but light metal used to make Golf Clubs
Titanium
Scottish city known for its Golf Course
St. Andrew’s
“Gone With The Wind” author
Margaret Mitchell
In a nursery rhyme, he exclaims, “ what a Good Boy am I!”
Little Jack Horner
Good Eating
Gastronomy
Good Golly
Little Richard
Good Gray Poet
Walt Whitman
Good Grief
Charles Schulz
Good Hands
Allstate
Good King
Wenceslas
Good Looks
the Hansom Cab
Good Morning, Vietnam
Robin Williams
Good Night And Good Luck
George Clooney
Good Riddance
Green Day