Kingston Former Canada Capital Flashcards
This part of your body regrow roughly once per month
Skin
Weighs about 6 pounds and you regrow all of it roughly every 27 days
This award is given to college football’s most outstanding player
Heisman Trophy
with its iconic stiff arm pose the Heisman Trophy has been awarded to stand college football players since 1936
The civilization constructed Machu Picchu
Inca
Machi Pichi was created by Incas in the 1400s and is found in the Andes mountains in modern Day, Peru
Because of a shape and location, this country is nicknamed the teardrop of this other country
Sri Lanka teardrop of India
Sri Lanka lies off the south coast of India and is also sometimes referred to as the pearl of the indian ocean
In a single day who sang and play drums at both the US and UK 1985 concerts
Phil Collins at live aid
Live aid was in Philadelphia and in London in 1985 and Phil Collins managed to be alive on TV at both the same same day
To signify the US is still growing this item on a US one dollar bill is deliberately incomplete
Pyramid
The purpose of the eye above the one dollar pyramid isn’t clear, but is thought to reference the all seeing eye of God
First director to win a Golden Globe BAFTA and Directors guild award without a best director Oscar nomination
Ben Affleck
Company sponsors, a blimp frequently seen about major sporting events
Goodyear as America’s oldest airship based near Akron, Ohio and has flown blimp since 1925
Protractor measures what?
Angles
In the shape of a semicircle protractors, use both to measure and to draw angles in math
Latin term for allowance given to employees to cover food and lodging
Per diem
Latin for each day, a Per diem is usually a flat rate outside of normal salary
Second largest freshwater lake in the world
Also, what countries does it border
Lake Victoria
BOrdering Uganda Tanzania and Kenya lake Victoria is the second largest freshwater lake in the world
A tale of Two cities is about what two cities
London and Paris
Set during the French revolution Dickens’ story compares two different cultures during a time of societal upheaval
In the treasure of the Sierra Madre, this walt tells his compadre good medicine men are born, not made
Walter Houston
Sweetness was the nickname of this Chicago Bears running back who said tomorrow is promised to no one
This is Walter Payton
On the show, Walton Goggins as Boyd tells Raelynn givens, if a book could only be judged by his cover, you’d be a bestseller
Justified
This knicks guard and broadcaster also known as Clyde once called center Chris Kay men 265 pounds of fiasco.
Walt Frazier
This city on the island of Hispaniola was found in 1498 by Christopher Columbus’s brother Bartholomew
Santo Domingo
This word can refer to an idealized concept of a loved one formed in childhood or the final development stage of an insect
Uh mego
Imago
Moved by an exhibit about his life and work Linda bierds wrote he was halfway between the wars last enigmas and the cyanide apple
Alan Turing
Cracked the enigma code and died with a cyanide apple
Longfellow sonnet about this power it begins the young n dim e uhn sleeps the n dim e uhn’s sleep
Keats who wrote n dim e uhn
In losers, Carl Samberg mentions him I who have fiddled in a world on fire. I am ho have done so many stunts not worth doing.
Nero
In Paradise Lost, he wrote, as when by night the glass of this man observes imagined lands and regions in the moon
Galileo
By Milton
Say keep is and enjoy lonkero a drink made with grapefruit soda, and this spirit from Finland juniper berries
Lon cuh row
Gin
In a commemorative poem of 1623 Ben Johnson was the first to refer to him as the sweet swan of Avon
Shakespeare
A comedy genre, his girl, Friday and bringing up baby for example
Screwball
The network security device that can block incoming data traffic
Firewall
Greek physician, Prax ag uh rus noted that pulsation is found in these not veins. He did, however, believe they carried air.
Arteries
The name of this West African antelope can also refer to one of a set of connected hand drums
Bongo
In this 1968 film Walter Mathau as Oscar says he as Felix wears his seatbelt in a drive-in movie
Jack lemon in the odd couple
Democritus believed these tiny particles were inert solids that interact mechanically
Atoms
Meniere’s disease sufferer Dr. Carl Foster has developed a home method to stop the state of dizziness
Many air’s
Vertigo
20th century America
In a state of shock on November 27, 1978, she announced that both Mayor Moscone and supervisor Harvey milk have been shot and killed
Future senator Diane Feinstein Who was at the time president of the San Francisco board of supervisors
Ascended to Mayor after the assassination
Fine stein
An animal observed in the wild is said to be here as in, we’ll see the rhinos in their
Natural habitat
Psychological term for a child’s unconscious attraction to a parent of the opposite sex
Ed uh piss complex
Both a bit old-fashioned they are polite behavior, and a bended knee gesture the second word derived from the first
Courtesy and curtsy
This George newspaper that debuted in 1883 merged with the constitution in 2001
Atlanta journal
Basically plaid in only two colors. This fabric pattern was rocked by early 20th century women but Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm gets sick of it.
Gingham
This author of the Jeeves stories also wrote book and lyrics for Jerome Kern, vector Herbert and George Gershwin
Woodhouse
Wodehouse
Plain tales from the hills is a collection of short stories by this English author, born in India
Kipling
Actresses who are blind were cast, to play the blind Marie lore in the 2023 miniseries based on this Anthony doerr novel
Door
All the light we cannot see
He reflects on his 2022 stabbing in his aptly , titled memoir knife
Salmon rush D
In 1938 he moved to a Maine farm where he kept animals some of which got into his book Charlotte‘s Web
EB White
The Sony, PlayStation headset and the meta quest 2 promise a seamless immersion into this simulated environment
Virtual reality
This cold dessert salad with oranges coconut and marshmallows doesn’t seem so divine to pallets today
Ambrosia Ken likes it
In 2020 he led the National League in batting average with .351
Juan Soto
Flip phones are making a comeback after two decades of being outmoded, and this brand has even revived its razor model
Motorola
Her career was in the opposite of its twilight when she played a ring toss girl in the Flintstones in viva rock Vegas
Kristen Stewart
