Monaco Second Smallest County Flashcards

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Prince had his famous dispute with this record label
Caused him to stop
Recording for a bit

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Warner bros
Did Batman soundtrack with

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20th century literature
Thomas Pynchon wrote that this novelist in 1948 understood that despite the axis defeat…fascism had not gone away

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Orwell
1984 ?

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3
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Small light boat for one person

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Skiff

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4
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French town famous for a 24 hour race

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Luh man (also a start)

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Thr 8 tanks in this 8 letter biological classification system start with domain and end with species

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Taxonomy

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6
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A nose is a brood of these birds perhaps the ring necked one

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Pheasant

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7
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Thr Chinese this many years zodiac circle begins and ends with these 2 3 letter animals

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12 years
Pig
Rat

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Thr bulls of this African animal can weigh more than 6 tons

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elephant

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Zora and me by Victoria bond and TR Simon is a mystery series loosely based on the life of this early 20th century writer

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Zora neal Hurston
Her son

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In white butterfly PI east Rawlins said jazz cats came by Cadillac and bluesmen by bus or by thumb to watts in this west coast city

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LA

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11
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Russian circuses have often featured these animals a national symbol trained in thr art of juggling with their feet

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Bears

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12
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Also a term for architectural drawing it’s the fuel saving practice of one car closely following another

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Drafting

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13
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Prince full name

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Prince Rodgers Nelson

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14
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Primary a vegetarian but eats seafood
Prince claimed

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Pescatarian

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15
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Prince first top 10 hit

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Little red corvette
81
I wanna be your liver peaked at 11 -first album that charted ?

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16
Q

In 01 prince was baptized in this religion

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Jahovas witness
Larry Graham of sky stone grand central station converted him
Watch tower ?

17
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Symbol prince used during his dispute with record company

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Love symbol number 2
With Warner bros - had to send out a special floppy disk

18
Q

After prince death this global color authority named a deep shade of purple in his honor

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Pantone
Love symbol number 2

19
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In 85 this prince song was one of thr songs that caused this future second lady to create the parents music resource center

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Darling Nicky song
Tipper gore - became in 93

20
Q

Sequel to purple rain

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Graffiti bridge

21
Q

Prince cause of death

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Accidental fentynol overdose

22
Q

In 92 she became the first African American woman to go into space
Stanford
Cornell
peace corps
Alvin Ailey dance theater

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Mae jem uh son

23
Q

George Washington carver is well known for this product but his records also contain recipes for items made from this root vegetable

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Peanuts

Other is sweet potato

24
Q

Alice ball was the first woman and African American to earn a masters at this university in 1915 and developed a treatment for Hansen’s disease which is more commonly known as this

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University of Hawaii
Leprosecy
Large leper colonies in Hawaii
London school of hygiene and tropical medicine added her name along with marie curie and Florence nightingale to building (freeze of)

Eating armadillos cause leprosecy

25
Q

Lonnie Johnson went to Tuskegee university and worked at Air Force and jet propulsion laboratory contributing to gaileo mission to Jupiter and stealth bomber but is best known for this project with over 1 B in sales
Pvc pipes
O rings
Plexiglass

A

Super soaker
Also invented nerf gun

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Jan 7 55she became first African American to perform at the metropolitan opera

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Marian Anderson

27
Q

First rap song to win Grammy for song and record of the year
19

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This is America
Childish gambino

28
Q

In 79 this president dedicated this month as black musix month

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Jimmy carter
June why?

29
Q

This singers beauty brand has made her the wealthiest female musician with net worth of 1.7 B

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Rihanna with fenty

30
Q

First African American to win an academy award (39)
Also second to win 25 years later

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Hattie McDaniel gone with the wind
Sidney pwah T A Lillies of the field as homer - won Honary same night as Denzel - “I’ve been chasing him “

31
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The British national anthem

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(“God Save the Queen/King”) technically is a hymn, and so it came to be described as “the national hymn” and later “the national anthem”. The use of the word “anthem” extended from there to describe any patriotic song.

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Indira Gandhi’s father was him , Prime Minister of India. Indira herself became prime minister in 1966. She was assassinated in 1984 by two of her own bodyguards as she was walking to meet Peter Ustinov, who was about to interview her for Irish television.

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Jawaharlal Nehru

33
Q

I ♥ Me”, i.e. “I Love Me”, is a 2020 song co-written and recorded by her . She performed a live version of the song from her home during the COVID-19 panic, on an “At Home” edition of “The Tonight Show” hosted by Jimmy Fallon.

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Demi Lovato

34
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was a Roman orator and writer who lived through the reigns of Roman emperors Augustus, Tiberius and Caligula.
Son was a tutor to Nero

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Seneca the Elder

All art is but imitation of nature

Seneca the Elder is perhaps best known as the father of Seneca the Younger, who was tutor to emperor Nero.

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This French mathematician was also a physicist, and is often described as a polymath. Notably, he contributed to the “three-body problem” of classical mechanics. That phrase became familiar to the non-scientific community when Netflix started airing the TV series “3 Body Problem”.

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Henri Poincaré

36
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Othello” villain :

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IAGO
Despite being portrayed as a villain in William Shakespeare’s “Othello”, Iago is one of the most complex characters in the play. He is known for his Machiavellian tactics, manipulating the other characters to achieve his selfish goals.