Kingston Former Canada Capital Flashcards
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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
