not a quadrilateral? Parabola Flashcards

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Do what you want, but you’re never gonna break me. Sticks and stones are never gonna shake me, oh, oh-oh…” are lyrics from what 2008 Natasha Bedingfield song?

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Guess: Unwritten
Answer: Pocketful of Sunshine

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After getting drafted 2nd Overall, this Dolphins RB totaled over 4,800 rushing yards from 2005-2010.

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Guess: Lamar Miller
Answer: Ronnie Brown

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After playing together at Kentucky, John Wall and DeMarcus Cousins were teammates on this Western Conference team during the 2020-2021 season.

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Guess: Sacramento Kings
Answer: Houston Rockets

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Originally a Top 10 pick by Nashville, Scott Hartnell totaled over 300 points for this Eastern Conference team from 2007-2014.

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Guess: Philadelphia Flyers

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Quito is the capital of this South American country.

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Guess: Ecuador

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silver wrappers, what chocolate bar has described itself before as a: “Whipped Up, Fluffy Chocolate on Chocolate Taste”?

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Guess: 3 Musketeers

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Clear Eyes, Full Hearts, Can’t Lose” is a mantra associated with this show that debuted on NBC in 2006.

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Guess: Friday Night Lights

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Do what you want, but you’re never gonna break me. Sticks and stones are never gonna shake me, oh, oh-oh…” are lyrics from what 2008 Natasha Bedingfield song?

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Guess: Unwritten
Answer: Pocketful of Sunshine

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After a 14-2 record during the 2005 regular season, this AFC team lost in the Divisional Round to the Steelers 18-21 after Mike Vanderjagt missed a game-tying field goal.

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Guess: Denver Broncos
Answer: indianapolis Colts

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Chris Kaman played for this Western Conference team from 2003-2011, averaged over 15 points and 9 rebounds per game over his final four seasons, and was an All-Star in 2010

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Guess: Sacramento Kings
Answer: Los Angeles Clippers

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This American golfer won his first major in 2016 by taking home the U.S. Open, then became the #1 golfer in the world in 2017, where he held the ranking for 64 consecutive weeks.

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Guess: Jordan Spieth
Answer: Dustin Johnson

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Barbie’s and Hot Wheels are both produced by what famous toy brand

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Mattel

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Now dwindling in locations, this East Coast chain of sit-down restaurants is known for their ice cream treats like the Jim Dandy, Monster Mash Sundae, and Fribble milkshakes.

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Guess: Friendly’s

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Before becoming an A-List celebrity, Chris Pratt had a supporting role as-him on this NBC sitcom from 2009-2015.

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Andy Dwyer

Guess: Parks and Recreation

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Later getting a 2009 sequel, Jason Statham plays a hitman who has to keep his adrenaline up to stay alive in this 2006 action film.

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Guess: The Transporter
Answer: Crank

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With lead vocalist Axl Rose, this hard rock band’s 1987 debut studio album Appetite for Destruction is one of the top-selling albums of all time.

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Guess: Guns N’ Roses
Answer: Guns N’ Roses

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BIOGRAPHIES
American Civil War general Ambrose Burnside popularized, and eventually lent a version of his name to, a specific type of which physical feature?

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Facial hair

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HISTORY & SOCIETY
Two letters from Roman author Pliny the Younger, dated 79 ce, provided historians a detailed account of which event?
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Eruption of Mount Vesuvius

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GEOGRAPHY
Freetown is the capital of which country, once a colony established by 18th-century British abolitionists to repatriate formerly enslaved people?

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Sierra Leone

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SCIENCE & TECH
Because it contains pockets of gas in its pores, which is the only type of rock that can float on water?

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Pumice

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ANIMALS & NATURE
Combining scientific classification and the name of a Canadian actor, the Vancouver Aquarium named which type of animal Ceph Rogen?

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Octopus

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Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1 is the proper title for the painting better known as what?
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Whistler’s Mother

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MONEY & NUMBERS
Aided by what CEO Alfred Sloan called “dynamic obsolescence,” in 1955 which company was the first in the United States to earn $1 billion of annual profit?

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General motors

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GEOGRAPHY
Representing progress because it has difficulty moving backward, the flightless emu appears on the coat of arms of which country?

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ANYTHING GOES
Which of these phrases, Italian for “to the tooth,” describes pasta that is cooked to a firm consistency?
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ANYTHING GOES
Which of these phrases, Italian for “to the tooth,” describes pasta that is cooked to a firm consistency?
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ANIMALS & NATURE
Often thought to be blind because it uses echolocation, which animal has keener eyesight than many humans do?

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MONEY & NUMBERS
One of the wealthiest women in the world, MacKenzie Scott became a 4 percent stakeholder in Amazon following her 2019 divorce from whom?
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Jeff Bezos

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SCIENCE & TECH
With a name inspired by a member of the Wu-Tang Clan, Ghostface Chillah is the mascot for which app?
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ARTS & CULTURE
After five previous nominations and losses for the best director Oscar, in 2007 Martin Scorsese finally the award for his work on which film?
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The Departed

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At age 16 which illusionist taught a course on magic at New York University, a decade before making the Statue of Liberty “disappear”?

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David Copperfield

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HISTORY & SOCIETY
Which term refers to the 4,000-mile trade route that connected China to the Roman Empire, named for a good primarily sent westward?

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MONEY & NUMBERS
After two years of continuous employment, workers at which company can turn all the “Bean Stock” they’ve earned into actual stock shares?

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ARTS & CULTURE
After the TV series finale in 2013, the Albuquerque Journal printed an obituary for which fictional character who had resided in that city on the show?

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Walter White

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ANYTHING GOES
A ventriloquist doll named Slappy the Dummy is a recurring villain in which book series?

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Goosebumps

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BIOGRAPHIES
Gifting them to the likes of Winston Churchill and Theodore Roosevelt, Alexander Fleming made medallions containing samples of the mold used to create which medicine?

Aspirin

Morphine
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Penicillin

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SCIENCE & TECH
Though better known for his philosophy, who studied more than 500 animal species and is considered to be the “Father of Biology”?
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HISTORY & SOCIETY
The lyrics to which song were inspired by Katharine Lee Bates’s 1893 trip from Massachusetts to Pikes Peak?

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America the beautiful

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ANIMALS & NATURE
Lacking buccal muscles to draw in water, which animal must constantly swim with its mouth open to push water through its gills to breathe?

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Great white shark

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GEOGRAPHY
Which landmass connects Africa to Asia?

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Sinai Peninsula

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A photo of Albert Einstein inspired the look of this Star Wars character

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Yoda
Yoda‘s creators directly incorporate aspects of Einsteins look to make the character appear older and wiser

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During the US Civil War, what sign marked the home as a spot on the underground railroad

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Red door,
red doors have different meetings around the world in Scotland. They mean you’ve paid off your mortgage.

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Thanks to it appearance what pasta shape translates to barley

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Orzo, despite its name orzo contains only semolina flour and zero barley

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Which of these was a dramatic group who fought against Roman rule in the fourth and fifth centuries

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Goths
By the early 400 A.D., the Goths had helped bring about the end of the Roman empire and the start of Europe’s medieval period

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In a sport of cricket, the three steps protected by the batsmen are called a what

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Wicket three
sticks make up a wicket and on top of a wicket is a bail - another stick that the bowler tries to knock off by throwing a ball at it

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What country generates the most nuclear power?

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United States
in relative terms, France produces the most nuclear power nearly 70% of the energy they use is nuclear

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19th century lit
All introduced in the same chapter of a novel Grimaud, mousqueton and Bazin are the servants of these men
Gruh moe
Mooose key ta
Buh zan

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The Three Musketeers
one servant for each of them
Dew mah
Athos porthos Aramis

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This word originally meant the happy time at the start of a marriage perhaps lasting for just one lunar cycle

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This amendment forbade the manufacture sale or what of intoxicating liquors

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18th
Transportation
auto racing has origins in roots of running illegal whiskey

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GEOGRAPHY
The site of the Wright brothers’ first flight, Kitty Hawk is a town on the more than 175-mile-long Outer Banks island chain off the coast of which state?

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North Carolina

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SCIENCE & TECH
The name of which bone can be traced back to the Latin verb meaning “to chew”?

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BIOGRAPHIES
Publisher McGraw-Hill was sued for a 1970 book that claimed which woman faked her death in 1937 and assumed the name Irene Bolam?
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Amelia Earhart

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ARTS & CULTURE
The Kiss is considered the final painting of which artist’s Gold Period?

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Gustav Klimt

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ANYTHING GOES
Which game was originally titled “Pretzel” until Milton Bradley determined the name wasn’t available?

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MONEY & NUMBERS
Decorated with its flag’s checkerboard pattern, which country’s 10-, 20-, and 50-cent coins feature Nikola Tesla?

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ANIMALS & NATURE
Platypuses and echidnas are this classification , and are the only mammals to do what?

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monotremes

Lay eggs

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HISTORY & SOCIETY
Purchased by the United States in 1898 through the Treaty of Paris, which country achieved independence in 1946?

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Philippines