Old Mug Auld Americas Cup Flashcards
This term for a period of supposed stagnation beginning 500 ad is based on a 14th century passage by Petrarch
Dark ages
MCU actor who made Film debut in 95 national lampoons Senior trip
Oscar nominated in these movies ray fines guy Pearce
Other movie John hamm Ben afleck
Jeremy renner
The hurt locker
The town
Oklahoma Sooners retired no 10 in honor of this nba player selected 12th in draft
13 year career with nets hawks warriors
Led League In steals 97 98
Mookie blaylock
LA outfielder named after him
Signatures on Declaration of Independence
56
Justices on Supreme Court
9
Fabric originated in Manchester England in 19th century
Still known as Manchester in parts of the world
Peaked in 70s?
Curdory
Ed Jeff Mike Matt stone
5 members of this band
Pearl Jam
Ed
Tattoo artist rose to fame as a fashion designer in every aughts with clothing and perfume lines
Only fans may be gym rats and jersey shore fans
De moins Iowa
Ed hardy
Brother Tom who played bane?
Streak for most consecutive reality shows host emmy wins
7 years
Rue Paul - It’s all the same to me for drag race
Jeff probst previous who won first 4 starting in 08
Longest word in NATO phonetic alphabet
November
U is uniform
What’s in a whiskey stone sour
OJ whiskey sour
22 MLB no 1 draft pick with this father who played 15 seasons 7 X all stsr won World Series in 21
07 NLCS mvp
Matt holiday
Not what Madonna was singing about
Longest interstate
Highway in US
I-90
Seattle to Boston
Memoir about a long road trip through South America
Thr motorxyxle diaries
Shay guh var uh
Ernesto middle ?
Almaty wqs a stop on the Silk Road and wqs once thr capital of this country
Also Current capital
All mot E
Kazhanstan
Moved to ack mole uh them to
Astana
Ahs tahn ah
Then to ner shul tan to honor president
Then back to ahs tahn uh
Capital of Mongolia
Ew lahn buh tar
I know his name I think about him everyday
Main body of an airplane which gets its name from old French for spindle
Few suh loge
First airplane flight
City State
Island
hill
Kitty hawk NC on Bo D island
Big kill Devil hill
This aircraft created at MIT holds
Record for total distance powered by humans
Day tuh lis - father of Icarus who flew too close to sun wax wings
Famous aviator and his passenger a humorist died in a plane crash in alaska in 35
Each have different airport in this city bearing name
Plus sea plane port in Washington and airport in alaska bearing both names
Will Rodgers
Wiley post - aviator discovered jet stream helped develop pressure suit ; aircraft in national air and space museum in DC
Oklahoma
Least populated African country
Has the highest per capita gdp
Seychelles
30% of work force in tourism
In Indian Ocean
Other in Indian Ocean
Co muh ros
Madagascar
Muh rih shis
This British overseas territory consisting of 2 groups of islands southeast of Bahamas and north of Hispaniola has organized a group of concerts to boost tourism in late summer
Turks and Caicos
Cayman Islands - own country
St kits and Nevis - own country
Bora bora is one of best known of 121 islands of this non self governing territory meaning part of another country
French Polynesia
Tahiti also there
Island nation in Indian Ocean is about 750 KM
Southwest of India made up of f 26 atolls Smallest Asian country by land Area
Maldives
I know I’m wrong I’m out
Tahiti is not in Indian ocean
First national park and year
Yellowstone
1872
Grant ?
Largest national park east of the Mississippi
Everglades
Longest known cave system in the world is in this park
Mammoth cave national park
In Kentucky
Not Carlsbad caverns
2 smallest national parks
Gateway arch Missouri smallest
Hot springs national park in hot springs Arkansas
No 1 spot on vacation list is also home to europes # 3 airport behind these other 2
Paris - Charles duh gall
1 Istanbul
2 Heathrow in London
This island southern part of Thailand is known for beautiful beaches and inexpensive amenities
Fu ket
Don’t mispronounce or we’ll have to put an explicit tag
Quotes
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants
Isaac Newton
1675
Quotes
Just as Genes propagate themselves in gene pool…so memes propagate themselves in the meme pool by leaping from brain to brain
Richard Dawkins
76
Invented word meme and concept in his book thr selfish gene
Meme is reading or writing or making weapons
Richard Dawson show me
Memes
Quotes
The nitrogen in our dna the calcium in our teeth the iron in our blood were made in thr interiors of collapsing stars
We are made of Star stuff
Carl say gin from cosmos
1980
Quotes
When according to habit I was contemplating the stars in a clear sky i noticed a new and unusual star surpassing the others in brilliancy there had never been any star in that place in the sky
Ty co brah he describing a supernova one of the very few
1572
Susan b Anthony Vince arrested for
Voting for president
In 1872 grant
File jpg is typically used when
Compressing this
Images
Joint photographic experts group - created standard for digital compression
First commercial film to use stereo sound
Fantasia
Created by bell labs in 37 used by Disney 3 years later
Queen Elizabeth had more than 30 of this pet in her lifetime
Corgi dog starting with dookie
Plus a few dorgis corgi-dachshund mix
City in a state east of California that is west of LA
Reno Nevada
In Washington one of the largest arsenals of nuclear weapons north a guarded by this animal
dolphin
Naval base kitsap in Washington puget sound
Contains 1/5 of nuclear arsenal
Trained dolphins
