Marcus Garvey Jamacia Flashcards
Where’s my bowl?
The Red Box bowl
California
Santa Clara
Levi stadium
Where’s my bowl?
The cheez it bowl
Arizona
Phoenix chase field
Where’s my bowl?
The quick lane bowl
Michigan
Detroit at ford field
Where’s my bowl?
The camping world bowl
Florida
Orlando at camping world stadium
Where’s my bowl?
The NFL pro bowl
Florida
Orlando at camping world stadium
Still accurate?
Where’s my bowl?
The Reese’s senior bowl
Bonus who plays
Alabama
mobile at lad pee ble stadium
Since 1951
BestNFL prospects for players who have completed college eligibility
North vs south
Las Vegas is Spanish for
The meadows
For the abundant wild grass and desert spring waters that fed them
Largest resoviour in the US in terms of water capacity
Bonus location
Bonus this western river that also shaped the Grand Canyon also feeds into
Bonus how was this resoviour formed
Lake mead
24 miles from Las Vegas strip within borders of Nevada and Arizona
Colorado river
Formed by the Hoover dam
This eccentric and reclusive celebrity once purchased the entirety of the silver slipper casino in 68 reportedly because neon lights of its sign kept him awake
Howard Hughes
5.4 m to move a sign
Also paranoid about a photographer
established in 51 for the testing of nuclear devices this Nevada teat site in nigh county is an alarming 65 miles from Vegas run by this government cabinet department
Nevada national security site run by department of energy
Originally known as Nevada proving grounds
Tests caused severe health issues among local residents until 80s
Now testing underground
Las Vegas resides in this county
Clark (William Andrews Clark)
Named after a politician and copper
Baron not a delicious candy bar with crispy peanut butter and chocolate
Most casinos 🎰 In unincorporated paradise not Vegas- county likes to keep that way because get all the money
Daughter hugh get Clarke died at 104 in 2011 reclusive Airess ; left behind a fortune of 300 M
One of the most feared gangsters of his day that turned out to be the driving force behind the vegas strip ; he parlayed his gangster experience with murder incorporated and the extortion of Hollywood studios into supplying the best liquor food entertainment and gambling to lure high rollers and tourists
Bugsy seagel
Movie was movie bugsy Malone based on him
Number one casino win payout every year in vegas
Bonus most popular casino game worldwide is no 2 on Vegas strip but number one in James Bond’s heart
Slot machines
2 back uh rot - one of the lowest house edges ; after slots highest average win per unit per day
Oldest resort (hotel and casino )still in operation on the strip today with a flamboyant Miami meets Art Deco theme
Opened in 49
The flamingo - bugsy seagal financed
You might get a little pink thinking about it
Ken is Garfield
First resort on what is currently the strip is the el ranch o vegas
First vegas sports team
2nd vegas sports team - cities where previously resided under a more celestial nickname each time playing second fiddle to pro counterparts
First golden knights
Vegas aces when sold to MGM resorts previously Utah starzz until 2002 and San Antonio silver stars until 2013 and then just SA stars until 17
Lights were dimmed on the Vegas strip for these 6 performers and 1 sports personality
77 Elvis Presley
90 Sammie Davis jr
95 dean Martin
96 George burns
98 frank Sinatra
15 Jerry tar cane e in - UNLV basketball coach
17 - don rickels
Crazy train
Prom in Tory summit in this state wqs the location of the completion of the trans continental railroad in 1869 connecting these 2 railroads
Bonus what specific ceremonial item was manufactured engraved and installed at this site by him
Utah
Connecting the central pacific to the Union Pacific
Leland Stanford with the golden spike
November rain
Only receiving 23.2% of the popular vote this incumbent president was waged away from office in worst finish for presidental reelection in U.S. history and quipped no one candidate wqs wvwer elected ex president by such a large majority
Taft 27
Stuck in a bathtub
Split Republican vote with bull moose party candidate teddy and lost to Woodrow in 1912
Teddy wqs rhe only 3rd party presidental candidate to finish better than 3rd with 27% of national popular vote
Stairway to heaven
These two states can still execute people by firing squad
One is the home state of Neil Armstrong and William Jennings Bryan
The other is pretty salty
Ohio - lethal injection attempt didn’t work for one dude - couldn’t find a good vein
Utah salty
Enter sandman
He wrote the successful graphic novel series the sandman which tells the story of dream aka Morpheus who rules over the world of dreams
The author said I would rather see no movie made than a bad one although he did approve this fantasy police procedural tv series about a supporting character who was a supernatural being that got um bored and moves to LA to open a nightclub to take down criminals in 14
Neil gaymen who also wrote American gods
Lucifer on fox for 3 seasons and then moved to Netflix
Leaves hell to open an night club in LA
Sweet emotion
She released 15 studio albums including 18 caution over her 30 year career and has also dipped her toe into acting with this shiny 2001 film that flopped Terribly and wqs arguably the beginning of the end of her meteoric rise
Mariah Carey
Glitter Film Debuted 9/21- soundtrack actually on 9/11
Also stared da brat
Honey was Jessica Alba
flour-dredged, egg-dipped, sautéed chicken cutlets with a lemon-butter and white wine sauce
Chicken francaise aka wedding chicken
Actors in 1968 odd couple
For one it was Far from the first time he attempted to share his apartment
Walter math thou
Jack lemon the Everyman screen persona - the apartment with Shirley MacLaine film - a billy wilder film
Lemmon won for save the tiger and mister roberts
After seeing a cocktail shaker full of bubbling liquid on a stove top a British accountant created this fad item
Lava lamp
Wax inside gets heated up and moves through a water based substance
