MISC1 Flashcards
Which of the fireside poets was notably anti slavery and wrote the collection Snow Bound?
John Greenleaf Whittier
Which of the fireside poets is the long term editor of nyt
William Cullen bryant
1962 the woman in the dunes
Kobo abe
First female humanist
Issata nogorolo
Soviet writer of the Naked Year executed for plotting to kill stalin
Boris pilnyak
Maxim gorky aka
Alexei peshkov
Gorky most famous play
The lower depths
Protagonist of the Awakening
EDna pontellier
Sikh calendar
Nanakshahi
First month Sikh calendar
Chet
Arlo Guthrie best known song?
Alice’s Restaurant Massacree
November 11, 1904 – November 15, 1996) was an American government official accused in 1948 of having spied for the Soviet Union in the 1930s. The statute of limitations had expired for espionage, but he was convicted of perjury in connection with this charge in 1950.
Alger HISS
many well known and economically important members of this family include the cranberry, blueberry, huckleberry, rhododendron (including azaleas),
Ericacea
Leader of chartists
William lovett
Tobacco which genus
Nicotiana
The murder of which Ayyubid sultan of Egypt in 1250 led to the establishment of Mamluk rule?
Turanshah
San Sebastian aka
Donostia
Basque abstract sculptor, former goalie real sociedad
Eduardo chillida
Joint most appearances la liga
Zubizaretta
Joaquin
Joseph Schumacher popularised which 2 wotd term
Creative destruction
Which Austrian Duke was nicknamed The founder
Rudolph iv
Oldest university [1365] in German speaking world
Vienna
Directed ma raineys black bottom
George wolfe
Cousin of viola davis playes luke cage
Mike colter
Us driver won indy 500 23 and 24
Josef newgarden
Malcolm x
Thomas hagan
Stepsister of Tanya donnelly confounded throwing muses
Kristin hersch
Men at work first us number 1
Who can it be now
1983 us number 1 for Patti Austin and james ingram
Baby, come to me
1970s us number 1 locomotion
Grand funk railroad
Original of crossroads us number 1
Bone thugs n harmony
1967 us number 1 incense and peppermints
Strawberry alarm clock
1967 number 1 us. The letter
Box tops
1976 us number 1 disco lady
Johnny taylor
Wrote the novel Butter
Asako yazuki
Bulgarian pres. 54-89
Todor Zhivkov
Paraguay pres 54-89
Alfredo stroeesner
Holocaust survivor served as advise on novel schindlers list
Poldek pfefferberg
Written by Toni Wine and Carole Bayer Sager — and based on the ‘Rondo’ from a Muzio Clementi sonatina — ‘A Groovy Kind Of Love’ was a hit for both the Mindbenders and a UK Number 1 for Phil Collins, but was first recorded by which duo?
DIANE & ANNITA
Born in Jacksonville in 1934, which singer had Billboard Top 20 chart hits in 1956 with ‘Tutti Frutti’ and ‘Long Tall Sally’?
Patrick Charles Eugene BOONE
‘Nude’, ‘Reckoner’, and ‘Jigsaw Falling Into Place’ were all singles from which 2007 album by Radiohead — released for download via a revolutionary pay-what-you-want model?
‘IN RAINBOWS’
Taking its name from the Latin for “cover”, which trap-door-like structure closes the shell of a sea-snail or freshwater snail, when its soft tissues are retracted?
“OPERCULUM”
What surname links the Ohio-born poet who jumped to his death from USS ‘Orizaba’ in the gulf of México in 1932, and the New Jersey-born novelist whose story ‘The Open Boat’ relates his experience of the sinking of SS ‘Commodore’ off the coast of Florida in 1897?
“CRANE” (Harold Hart Crane; Stephen Crane)
In Germany, π is often known as “the Ludolphine number”, after which mathematician — who published a twenty-decimal value in his 1596 book ‘Van Den Circkel’, and had a thirty-five-digit expansion carved on his tombstone in Leiden?
Ludolph van CEULEN
Also known as “the Great Wall of Sindh”, which thirty-one-kilometre-long defensive structure in Pakistan — largely reconstructed by the Talpur dynasty in the early nineteenth century — is thought to be the largest fort in the world?
RANIKOT fort (accept RANNIKOT fort, or رني ڪوٽ قلعو)
Born circa 1141 in the third-largest city of present-day Azerbaijan, which Seljuk poet wrote ‘The Story Of Layla And Majnūn’ — which inspired two Eric Clapton-written tracks on Derek And The Dominos’ 1970 album ‘Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs’?
NIẒĀMĪ Ganjavī (accept NIẒĀMĪ Ganje’i, NEẒĀMĪ Ganjavī, NEẒĀMĪ Ganje’i, JAMAL ad-Dīn Abū Muḥammad Ilyās ibn-Yūsuf ibn-Zakkī, or نظامی گنجوی)
Born in present-day Denmark in 1867 — and taking his surname from his birthplace — which member of Die Brucke was intensely-preoccupied with Van Gogh, and became an open supporter of Nazi Germany?
Emil NOLDE (accept Hans Emil HANSEN)
In November, 2024, Queensland’s Marineland Melanesia reserve announced the death of Cassius — estimated by Professor Graeme Webb to have been one-hundred-and-twenty years old. At five-and-a-half metres long, Cassius was certified by Guinness World Records as the world’s largest captive example of what ectotherm?
a saltwater CROCODILE (accept CROCODYLUS porosus)
Originating in Anatolia and led since 2011 by Baba Mondi, which darvīsh order of Ṣūfīy Islām takes its name from the byname of the thirteenth-century scholar, mystic, philosopher, and saint Sayyid Muhammad ibn Sayyid Ibrāhim Ātā — also known as “the Sultan of Hearts”, and “the Dervish of Dervishes”? In September, 2024, the Albanian prime minister Edi Rama proposed that the order’s twenty-seven-acre headquarters in eastern Tirana become the world’s smallest sovereign state — with a population of ten residents, five gardeners, and three cats.
the BEKTASHI order (accept BEKTASHIsm, urdhri BEKTASHI, Haji BEKTASH Veli, Ḥājī BAKTĀŠ Walī, Hacı BEKTAŞ-ı Veli; Haxhi BEKTASH Veliu, or حاجی بکتاش ولی)
Taking place on a square mat called a “gilem”, with competitors wearing jackets called “yaktaks” — men in green, and women in white — which five-thousand-year-old form of wrestling is named from the Sanskrit for “belt”? At the end of August, 2024, competitors from over sixty nations travelled to Dushanbe for its inaugural world championship.
GUSHTINGIRI
Born in Hải Dương in 1970, which man became — in March, 2023 — the youngest-ever president of a reunified Việt Nam, after his predecessor Nguyễn Xuân Phúc resigned amid the anti-corruption campaign of Communist party general secretary Nguyễn Phú Trọng? After landmark meetings with world leaders including Pope Francis, the campaign claimed his own presidency within thirteen months; making his the shortest term-in-office of any Vietnamese president — until that of his hard-line successor Tô Lâm, who left after five months to focus on his rôle as general secretary following Trọng’s death.
Võ Văn THƯỞNG
According to a 2024 pre-print of a paper by Ivan N Zheludev, Robert C Edgar, Maria Jose Lopez-Galiano, Marcos de la Peña, Artem Babaian, Ami S Bhatt, and Andrew Z Fire, which distinct phylogenetic class of viroid-like elements — which share their name with a form of man-made monolith — are defined by their apparently-circular RNA genome assemblies, rod-like secondary structures encompassing the entire genome, and open reading frames coding for a superfamily of proteins called “Oblins”?
OBELISKs
Espoused by Antauro Humala — who finished second behind Keiko Fujimori in a 2024 poll ahead of the 2026 Peruvian presidential election — which indigenous ultranationalist movement seeks to return to the borders of the Incan Empire, by absorbing parts of Chile, Ecuador, and Bolivia, from “Tucuman [Argentina] all the way to Pasto [Colombia]”?
the ETHNOCACERIST movement (accept el movimiento ETNOCACERISTA, ETHNOCACERISM, or el ETNOCACERISMO)
Both born with ocular albinism in the western suburbs of Paris, the swimming brothers Alex and Kylian — who finished third and second, respectively, in the men’s four-hundred-metres S13 at the 2024 Summer Paralympic Games — share their surname with which series of puzzle-platformvideo-games?
‘PORTAL’ (Alex and Kylian Portal)
Born in 1924 in the central-Gambian town of Barajally — and dying unusually-peacefully for a deposed leader, in 2019 — which man served as his country’s first prime minister between 1962 and 1970, and its first president between 1970 and 1994?
Dawda Kairaba JAWARA
Born in the 1970s in — respectively — Michigan and Kyiv, which two former employees of Yahoo! co-created WhatsApp?
Brian ACTON and Jan Borysovych KOUM (accept Yan Borysovych KUM, or Brian ACTON and Ян Борисович КУМ)
The Victoria falls is known locally as “Shungu Namutitima” — which means “boiling water” in the Tonga language — or “Mosi-oa-Tunya”, which means “the smoke that thunders” in which language?
LOZI (accept siLOZI, or ROZI)
Born in 1964 in Blackhall Colliery, county Durham, which body-builder — the only man to win Mr Universe on five consecutive occasions — was fined over fifty-thousand-pounds in 2022, for allowing the use of his gym during the Covid lockdown?
Eddy ELLWOOD
