Leo D 90s Role Romantic Tragedy Romeo Flashcards
I get around song
Beach boys
Swanky Vegas, hotel resembling an Egyptian pyramid
Luxor
Which fruit are grown in beds of layered sand, peat, gravel, and clay called bogs that are flooded during harvest?
Cranberries
The place with the lowest elevation on Earth
Also receives most of its water from what source?
the Dead Sea
The Jordan River
From Italian for jest or joke it’s a quick lively musical piece often making up the third movement of a symphony or sonata
Scherzo
Scar so
In act 2 of this opera, we learn how falk uh was once left drunk and asleep in a park dressed in a bat costume
Deflator mouse
At Christmas time one year The Simpsons adopted a greyhound with this three word name
Santa’s little helper
Sabrina the teenage witch had a talking black cat with this name
Salem a city anonymous with witches
Meaning from the very beginning beginning, ab ovo translates to from this natural product
Oh voooh
Egg
Right and left eye in Latin
Oculus sinister oculus Dexter
It’s the condition of the body after death when chemical changes caused stiffening
rigor mortis
A common sundial motto is this Latin one reminding us that time flies
Tempus fugit
Temp is few git
A law providing for a unique situation is this of its own kind
Sue I generous
Sui generis
Music played as King Charles and Camille left. The coronation included this March number four
Also name the composer
Pomp and circumstance by Elgar
The kinkajou is a pollinator of this tree noted for its extremely light wood. That’s often used in model airplane kits.
Bossa
If a Hawaiian woman wears this tropical flower behind her left ear, she’s taken behind the right she’s single
Hibiscus
Nickname the general Sharman, the world’s largest tree by volume Is this kind
Sequoia
Alex is the genius for this tree a source for an acid used in pain relievers
Willow
Salicylic acid
Sal uh sil ick acid comes from
Island chains
name for a Spanish queen this specific island chain was a starting point for famous explorations of 1960 and 2012
Mariana Islands
In 2012 James Cameron going down to the bottom of the Mariana Trench
Mar e Ahn uh
Traveling along the coast of South America from 1831 to 1836, which scientist served as the ship’s naturalist on the HMS Beagle?
Charles Darwin
In 1291, the glassmaking industry of Venice, Italy, moved to which nearby island that still produces luxury glass today?
Murano
Referring to John F. Kennedy’s secretary of defense, which conflict was sometimes dubbed “McNamara’s War”?
Vietnam War
If something is described as ineffable, that means it is
indescribable
Winston Smith found while he sat helplessly musing he had also been writing down with him in all caps FIVE times
Big brother
This dystopian novel opens as we sat in the korova milk bar, making up our rassoodocks what to do with the evening
A Clockwork Orange
One or some it matters none
Any
Two months before he lost his head in 1794 this leader established the cult of the supreme being in France
Robespierre
Before I watch 12th 1933 radio broadcast he portentously remarked I think this would be a good time for a beer
FDR repealing prohibition
In chapter one of this book mole, sees a river for the first time and sat on the bank while it chattered onto him
The wind in the Willows
The chapter down the rabbit hole opens with her beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank
Alice
In the 19 teens, he established a partnership with Edmond C Lynch
Merrill
His annual letter to the shareholders at Berkshire Hathaway is the investment world’s equivalent of a Harry Potter book release
Warren Buffett
In this 2009 movie gruff and bespectacled Carl Fredericksen is retired salesman of these
Balloons in Up
Use a flavor a certain ale its name is from the Sanskrit meaning horn body referring to the shape of its root
Ginger
Public these in Helsinki are literal hotspots; uusi and loyly are two in town that embrace the spirit of steam
Saunas
As a young man this 4 legends composer, studied law at what is now the university of Helsinki
Sibelius
Suh bell e Us
Temppeliaukio dealt directly into rock is a church of this protestant denomination, which is Finland’s largest religious group
Temple e ock e O
Lutheran
Ear O’s dad this Finnish American architect help design the national Museum in the national romantic style
Eliel sar uh nin
Eel e ul
It resulted in part from the merging of a version of of the flamenco and milonga a fast , sensual Argentina dance
Me looong uh
Tango
Using the displacement of water this Greek discovered that king hieron II gold crown wasn’t entirely gold
Hi rawn
Archimedes
In book 5 of the history of animals, this long time, pupil of Plato discusses in some detail, the sex lives of animals and insects
Aristotle
Around 150 A.D. this Egyptian astronomer recorded 48 of the 88 constellations in his book Almagest
Ptolemy
Tahl uh me
Nine letter word meaning to anticipate and prevent
Forestall
In 1972 routine vaccinations against this disease, were discontinued in the United States
smallpox
A government’s often one time tax on a companies excessive profits
Windfall tax OK OK OK
During a state visit in 1995, which world leader was found trying to hail a taxi outside the White House while drunk and in his underwear?
Boris Yeltsin
A traditional side dish in Puerto Rican cuisine, this is commonly made by mashing together pork cracklings and this other fruit?
mofongo
Plantains
In the world of finance, a start-up company valued at $1 billion or more is known as this
Unicorn
This mythical creature
Needing a prototype to “pop,” which designer created his first red-soled shoe using an assistant’s nail polish?
Christian Louboutin
According to legend, which flower sprung up from the ground wherever the Greek goddess of rainbows walked?
Iris
