Oman Muscat Flashcards
Poetry
A colossal head of Ramses II brought to the British museum inspired this 1818 poem
Ozymandias
Ozy man d is - Greek name for pharaoh Ramses II
By Shelly
USA
Opened in 1909 and less famous than an older neighbor it connects Brooklyn and China town
The Manhattan bridge
Less glamorous neighbor of the Brooklyn bridge
As the husband of VP Kamala Harris he got this official title
Douglas emhoff is second gentleman
M hoff
Landmarks
For more than a millennium a huge embroiled work known as the kiswa has been used to adorn and protect this structure
Kiss wah
Kaaba
Shrine in Mecca that’s the destination of the Muslim hajj
Not spelled with a Q
Is there no one else
What did Paul orfalea call his copy shop chain reflecting a nickname he got for his curly hair
Or fail yuh
Kinkos
This French confection is made of pruh feed or als or cream puffs piled into thr shape of a cone and covered in thin threads of caramel and often served at weddings baptisms and first communions and translates as something they crunches in thr mouth
Croak en booshhh
This tiny middle eastern island nation is located in the Persian gulf and is the 4th most populous dense sovereign nation trailing only these others
300sq miles pop 1.5 M
Also capital
Monaco
Singapore
Vatacin city
Mah nam ah is thr capital of Ba’ath rain
You’ll hear the following terms in this sport
Haircutter
Death spiral
Shoot thr duck
Twizzle
Ice skating or ice dancing
Shoot thr duck - squat on one leg with other leg held out
This rebooted Disney cartoon features Danny pooty of community fame Bobby moin uh han from SNL and Ben Schwartz from parks and Rec voicing 3 bros with David tenet as their uncle
David tenet is Scrooge in ducktales whoo who
68 hit with the following lyrics
How well I remember thr look that was in his eyes
Stealing kisses from me on the sly
Taking time to make time telling me they hes all mine
Son of a preacher man by dusty Springfield
This test created by neurologist zee ahd nas red uh Dean in Montreal in 96 is used by medical professionals to asses cognitive impairment and used as a screening tool for Parkinson’s and other forms of dimentia testing multiple cognitive
Domains including short term memory concentration and language
You might hear being ordered in your local coffe house
MOCA
Montreal cognitive assessment
Trump - they invented a new score for me it’s the best score
This waterfall is classified as the worlds largest waterfall as it has the largest sheet of falling water
Height 354 ft
Width 5 604 ft
In thr native lowlize language known as mo suh eye uh toon yuh or smoke that thunders
Victoria falls
South central Africa on the Zambezi
This coach wqs assiatant and the head coach of knicks and rockets however most notably known for breaking up fight between these 2 players during 98 playoffs clinging to a leg
Jeff van gundy
Alonzo morning and Larry Johnson.
This scandal was involved thr transfer of 2 important oil reserves from department of navy to interior after which Interior secretary Albert fall proceeded to lease reserves to private oil companies making bank off these shady dealings
Bonus president
Teapot dome scandal - Named after one of the reserves involved Wyoming
Or elk hills (California
Harding one of the worst presidents
Movie scores
Tara’s theme
Gone with the wind
Movie scores
Nothing but zither music
Orson wells the thrid man
Movie scores
The exorcist
Tubular bells
Movie scores
Van guh lease ?
80s sci fi
Blade runner
This is a 30 min crime drama that began airing on CBS in 2015
Unique because airs on Saturday morning and funded by this government agency
The inspectors funded by USPS
This 85 song by mister mister was inspired by a 1912 book with the same name written by khu leal juh braht
What other song from 68 by this iconic group was based off this relatively obscure Arabic novel
broken wings
Blackbird by the Beatles
This weather phenomenon involves the rapid deepening of barometric pressure
At least 24 millibars over 24 hours that leads to an explosive strengthening of a storm when a cold air mass collided with a warm air mass leading to extreme rain and snowfall and hurricane force winds
Bomb cyclone
Beginning and ending for video game Oregon trail
Ford thr river
Die of disentere
Wil uh met valley Oregon final
Starting independence Missouri real life patriotically named town with a pop of 100K and satellite city of Kansas City
Triple mashup
Montreal Canadian who was the first to score 50 goals in a season first to 500 and has the regular season leading foe scorer awarded named after him combined with the group behind 74 you ain’t seen nothing yet and you’ll get this author who wrote the running man thinner and the long walk
Maurice rocket Richard
Bachman turner overdrive
rocket Richard
Bachman turner overdrive
Farley granger was in these 2 Hitchcock films
1 48 college grad Philip Morgan who regrets helping roommate murder former classmate
2 52 played guy Haines a professional tennis player who was blackmailed into commiting a murder and making a great case why you shouldn’t talk to anyone while taking public transportation
Rope - simulated 1 take
51 strangers on a train
In Greek mythology this musically talented son of Apollo travels to the underworld to rescue his wife who sided on wedding day charming these 2 allowing for him to take his wife back to the world of the living with condition he not look back at her until reaching f upper world but he turned back to lion at her before reaching the threshold
Bonus play on Broadway
Hades and his wife pro seph uh knee
Orpheus and his wife u rid uh see
Hades town based on this story
90 novel good mens was written by these 2 British fantasy writers
One well known for disc World Series
Other coroline the graveyard book and American gods
Gayman Neil
Terry pratchet- disc world
4 evangelists and symbols representing
All depicted having wings although only 1 is ordinarily winged
Synoptic gospels writers
Matthew winged man or angel
Mark is depicted by a winged lion
Luke is depicted by a winged ox or bull
John is depicted by eagle
5 of 6 Gates at notre dame stadium are named after these head coaches who led school to at least 1 of 11 championships
Newt rock knee - the gipper himself
Frank lay he
R uh par seeg e in
Dan Devine
Lou holt z
