Lake Itasca Flashcards

1
Q

North American winter games that was the first to use artificial snow

A

1980 lake placid

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2
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Coldest super bowl on recorded was SB 6 in 1972 in which temp was 39 degrees
What city
Bonus who played

A

New Orleans
Dallas vs Miami
Tulane stadium?

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3
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A face in the crowd is a 1957 film by Ilya ka zhan about a drifter who was discovered and rises to prominence with a national tv show only to fall from Grace after he is caught mocking his idiot audience
This is the first feature film for what folksy comedian

A

Andy Griffith
Starred in 2 major tv show
One in the 60s
Other in mid 80s to 90s

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4
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Iberian peninsula

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Shared by Spain and Portugal

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5
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In which 1974 film does jack Nicholson spend much of the movie with a bandage on his nose

A

Chinatown

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6
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President before Putin

A

Yeltsin

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7
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Leaders of Soviet Russia

A

Lenin
Rykov
Molotov
Stalin
Malenkov
Bulganin
Khrushchev
Brezhnev
Andropov
Chernenko
Gorbachev

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8
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New Year’s Eve in 88 in soldiers field

A

Fog bowl
Bears beat the Eagles
Visibility of 10 -15 yards

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9
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What type of weather event interrupted an sec tournament game at the Georgia dome in 2008

A

Tornado

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10
Q

Act 1 scene 1
A desert place
Thunder and lightning
Enter 3 witches
Witch 1: When shall we 3meet again in thunder lightning or rain

A

Macbeth

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11
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The grapes of wrath tells the story of this farming family that moves from where to where
Why
Family name

A

Oklahoma to California
To escape the drought
Joad

Joeddd

Lot of songs about
Guthrie
Bruce album
Rage against the machine

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12
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ONe of the Most famous opening line in literature
Bonus who wrote in what novel
Double what other famous phrase

A

It was a dark and Stormy night
Litton in novel Paul Clifford
The pen is mightier than the sword

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13
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This 1978 children’s book about very unusual weather was turned into 09 animated movie starring who

A

Cloudy with a chance of meatballs
Hader
Anna Ferris

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14
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I think this movie about the brat pack investigating a weather phenomenon which luminous plasma is creating by a coronal discharge from a sharply pointed object in a strong electric field in the atmosphere

A

St. Elmo’s fire

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15
Q

Who are in the brat pack

A

Rob Lowe
Emilio estevez
Molly ringwald
Andrew McCarthy
Ally shee dee

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16
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It only took 7 years for the title of this 2000 movie about the andrea gale to be on the list of phrases that should be banned on the list of phrases that should be banned from the English language for overuse
Bonus name some actors

A

The perfect storm
George Clooney
Mark whalberg

17
Q

Cow used in the movie twister was actually a copy and tweak of this animal that was from a movie from the previous year
Industrial light magic

A

Zebra from jumanji
Ran out of time /unprepared for amount of special effects required

18
Q

Traditionally how is a monte cristo sandwich cooked and what s on it

A

Fried
Trucker or ham
Cheese
Dipped in fried egg
Sprinkle some sugar on top

19
Q

In 2007 who became the first hip hop act inducted into the rock and roll hall of fame

A

Grandmaster flash (and the furious five ?)

20
Q

The 6K year old skeltons known as the lovers of valdaro were found just 25 miles from which romantic city

A

Verona

21
Q

After an online poll dubbed it boaty mcboatface a British research vessel was named for what nature documentarian

A

David Attenborough

22
Q

Ansel adams most famous work

A

Monolith the face of half some Yosemite valley

23
Q

What is the name of the music battle series created by Swizz beatz and timbland they launched in March 2020 on Instagram live

A

Verses

24
Q

What is the term of the first volume in Mary Norton’s classic children book series about tony people who secretly live beneath the floor in peoples homes

A

The borrowers

25
Q

Which of the 3 main types of rock is formed when lava or magma cools

A

Igneous
For example Basalt or
Granite

26
Q

A tangent to a circle is a straight line that touches the circle at how many points

A

1

27
Q

WW2 officially began when what country invaded what country in what year

A

Nazi German invaded Poland in 1939

28
Q

Singer who was previously a model and a great speller

A

Dua lipa

29
Q

Supreme Court justice that graduated from Lincoln university in Pennsylvania

A

Thur good Marshall

30
Q

The 1935 work the present situation of quantum mechanics saw the first mention of this scientists theoretical cat

A

Schrodinger ger