Manfred Von Rick Tove In Red Baron Flashcards
Once the seat of thr ottoman empire this is the modern name of thr turkish city once called Byzantium
Istanbul
This famed insult comic was given thr ironic nickname mr warmth
Don Rickels
Son of Venus and cousin of hector
Aeneas- namesake of Virgil’s epic poem
Uh knee is
Leading a team of 20 surgeons this South African doctor successfully performed thr first human heart transplant in a 67 operation
Christiaan Barnard
When shale experiences a certain level of heat and pressure it becomes this type of rock used in roofing
Slate - metamorphic rock
In thr iconic movie die hard this British actor played the iconic scene stealing villain
Alan rick man played hans gruber
This Elizabethan playwright is credited by Oxford university press as Shakespeare co-writer for 3 plays about him
Christopher Marlowe
About Henry VI
Worldwide this brown of frito-lay corn chip has been made in cool ranch and Peking duck flavor
Doritos
The geographic center of South America is located in this country
Brazil
Starting in the 1880s the first artificial Christmas trees in Germany used this specific material to simulate the needled branches
Feathers
He wasn’t just a dynamite sculptor he used dynamite to create this national memorial
Gutzon Borglum
Borg lum
Guts zon
Mount Rushmore
When he stepped down as cbs news anchor after 25 years this woman followed him from 06 to 11
From Dan rather to Katie Couric
Most people know her as the singing voice of mulan and princess jasmine but before that she was only 18 when originated thr lead in this musical earning an O live e a and tony award
Lea suh Lang uh in mrs Saigon
Spectacular voice
This composer has won the most Tony’s
Steven Sondheim with 8
Company - music and lyrics
Follies - score
A little night music
Sweeney Todd
Into thr woods
Passion
Lifetime achievement
Of the Pulitzer Prizes that have been awarded as of 21 - 89- how many for musicals
10 which is ~11%
Weird because skip years and award multiple some years
Sunday in the park with George and next to normal won Pulitzer but not Tony for best musical
This child actor is a featured character in musical avenue Q
Gary Coleman
What a Wild show it is
The witch tasks the baker with finding four specific things in this musical
Bonus things
Into the woods
The cow as white as milk
The hair as yellow as corn
The cape as red as blood
The slipper as pure as gold
Whore cruxes ? What it takes to kill jack before finding beanstalk?
His Rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead tells a sort of parallel narrative of this Shakespeare drama
Tom Stoppard
Hamlet
Good joke on Frazier ? - roz working at a retirement home for community service where old people keep dying Rosencrantz and golden stein are dead
Also Works well as a movie - Stoppard directed
Only tie for best musical in tony history
1960
One has a well known Classic movie
Thee o rell o tied
With the sound of music - weird children nominated as a group for best actress under Laurie Peterson and the children
Gypsy lost
In 1919 and 20 at the very start of his career this writer worked on the staff of thr Oxford e flush dictionary
J RR Tolkien
Worked on the letter W
With over 20 mil of these pets in thr US researchers taught these animals to make video calls to each other
Parrots
After seeing eraser head this legendary parody filmmaker hired David lynch to direct the elephant man
Mel brooks
WNBA team that plays it’s home gems in the northern most arena
Seattle Storm
Not Chicago sky Or Connecticut sun
This effect refers to how people tend to value an object more if they make it themselves
IKEA effect - flat pack furniture
Ingvar Kamprad
In his lesser known musical in the heights thr characters find out that the local bodega has sold a winning lottery ticket worth this much
Lin Manuel Miranda
1 2 3what would you do with 96Gs
This rock star duo more famous for their work in a band wrote the music and lyrics for the ginormous flop that was spider man turn off the dark
Bono and the edge aka U2
60M to make and People got hurt making - like what are you doing
Explorers
Perhaps inspiring a line 2 centuries later he wrote that he was headed farther than any other man has been before me
James Cook
Inspired captain James Kirk
Where no man has gone before Star Trek line
At the mountains of madness is a novella set in Antarctica written by this US author
Also inspired in part by who
HP love craft
Inspired by poe - the narrative of Arthur Gordon pim of Nantucket his only complete novel
In motor sports the driver with the fastest qualifying time is awarded this
Bonus formula 1 drivers who have earned the most
Pole position
1 Lewis Hamilton -UK
Michael shoemaker - Germany
Er tin sen uh - Brazil
If you’ve ever been delighted at the sight of green fireworks you owe the ka to this chemical element
Barium ba? Bar e um
Featured prominently in breaking bad title cards
With credits on ET Jurassic park Indiana Jones and thr most recent stars wars movies she can claim the title of most successful women film producer
Kathleen Kennedy
Also Benjamin button
Head honcho ins Star Wars
Sounds presidential
