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Kansas Sunflower Flashcards

1
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This animal was used to bait a T. rex in 93 Jurassic park

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Goat

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2
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This architecture originated in France and England as an development of. Norman architecture
Bonus century

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Gothic architecture
12th century

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3
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The term gustation refers to which of the 5 senses

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Taste
From the Latin for to taste
Don’t confuse with gestation which refers to pregnancy

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4
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Famous for amateur night this Harlem landmark was originally called hurtig & seamon’s new burlesque theater

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The Apollo
Steve Harvey - live at the Apollo

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5
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Acting in movies since 75 he first onscreen kiss wasn’t until 90 in the third film of this trilogy

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Christopher Lloyd in back to the future
With Mary steenberger aka mrs Ted danson

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6
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Author Eleanor H Porter created this title character whose name now means an irritatingly cheerful person

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Pollyanna

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94 drama film based on a Stephen king novella wqs nominated for 7 academy awards and featured a prison escape scene via a sewage pipe

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The Shawshank redemption

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8
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This American gangster was dubbed Robin Hood by the media and escapeed prison twice before dying of gun shot wounds at 31
During what era

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Great Depression
John Dillinger fBI shootout
Captures at a hotel in Tucson; now a popular night club

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9
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This Mexican drug kingpin managed to escape prison twice
2001 by bribing guards
2015 via mile long tunnel

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Wha keem el chapo Guzman

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10
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After falling in love while working an inmate job together he managed to escape in route during a transfer only to return days later scooping up his fiancé Samantha Lopez using this type of aircraft

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Ronald Macintosh using a Helicopter

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Beginning with gangs of NY this respected film director has featured Leo DiCaprio in several projects

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Martin Scorsese

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Brrr it’s cold in here
Rihanna made her film debut in this straight to DVD film starring suh Lange Knowles and Hayden pan uh t air

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Bring it on all or nothing
Not the first one

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13
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Iowa model turned 70s star became the first Twitter user to have more than 1 mil followers

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Ashton Kutcher

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Facebooks first outside investor

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Peter teal also the founder of this major online payment system in 98
PayPal

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This English economist is best known for his theory that population growth will always tend to outrun the food supply

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Thomas Malthus

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16
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Now a December staple his messiah wqs originally conceived for this holiday

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Handel
Easter

17
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This whole number equals 10/5 cubed

A

8

18
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An annual award for the best short stories is named for this pseudonym of him

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William Sydney Porter
Nickname o Henry

19
Q

This nursery rhyme involves an o void and a barrier is also an apt illustration of the second law of thermodynamics and entropy

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Humpty Dumpty
Nursery rhyme doesn’t actually indicate he’s an egg
Second law of thermodynamics is entropy and the universe is gradually falling apart and we are all marching slowly towards our death

20
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In French versions of the Simpsons this insult is dubbed as sanj mal zhou duh flow maj

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Cheese eating surrender monkeys

21
Q

Barf is an Iranian line of soaps and laundry detergents; it mean snow in this Iranian language

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Far see or Persian
Is Arabic most common in Iran?

22
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Although we don’t think about this intentional landmark this way it’s also a 17th century mausoleum

A

Taj Mahal

23
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I have appeared in 50 movies in.mostly cameo roles making nearly 30B in international box office

A

Stan lee

24
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This movie star was elected to board of archaeological institute of America in 08

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Harrison ford

25
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Wonder women creator William molten mar stuh helped invent this device which happens to do the same thing as wonder woman’s lasso

A

Lie detector or polygraph

26
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Only Muslim majority city to have hosted an Olympic Games
Also summer or winter

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Sarajevo in Bosnia & herts go vina
Winter

27
Q

In final fantasy video game it produces dark magic
In futurama nibbler excretes it as fuel
In hitch hiker guide to the galaxy it is revealed to be the white styrene pellets that equipment is packed in
In reality it’s a mystery substance found throughout the universe

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Dark matter

28
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I want the hot Christmas toy
Robots in disguise
1984

A

Transformers

29
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I want the hot Christmas toy
Originally a non functioning prop from home alone 2
93

A

Talk boy

30
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I want the hot Christmas toy
Ty Warner collectibles
94

A

Beanie babies

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