One Paper Anniversary Flashcards
ANIMALS & NATURE
Helpful for gathering seeds for the winter, which animal’s cheek pouches can stretch to three times the size of its head?
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Chipmunk
SCIENCE & TECH
elements in the periodic table that is liquid at room temperature?
Other than bromine, which is the only
Mercury
ANYTHING GOES
A move he later regretted, Steven Spielberg digitally replaced guns with walkie-talkies in the 20th-anniversary re-release of which film?
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E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial
GEOGRAPHY
Which place is home to a large rainforest, second in size only to the Amazon, commonly called the “lungs of Africa”?
Congo basin
ARTS & CULTURE
Explaining that “living people can dance, the dead cannot,” composer Sergey Prokofiev wrote a happy ending for his ballet adaptation of which Shakespeare play?
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Romeo and Juliet
HISTORY & SOCIETY
In 1847 Samuel Colt supplied the U.S. Army with 1,000 of which newly designed firearm, used in the Mexican-American War?
Revolver
MONEY & NUMBERS
When choosing a scent in 1921, which fashion icon sniffed samples labeled 1–5 and 20–24, electing to keep the designation of the one picked?
Coco Chanel
BIOGRAPHIES
Which dictator released the romance novel Zabibah and the King in 2000, three years before he was overthrown?
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Saddam Hussein
Approximately how tall is the Great Sphinx at Giza in Egypt?
20 meters
In the 1950s, Tunisia achieved independence from which European country?
France
In Disney’s “Snow White”, which dwarf was completely bald?
Dopey
word is derived from the name of legendary Scandinavian warriors?
Berserk
What was the first name of the French composer Gounod, famous for his opera “Faust”?
Charles
Who was the youngest U.S. president at his inauguration?
Teddy
By definition, where would you most likely find an epicanthic fold?
Human face
What Roman emperor ordered the construction of a 73-mile-long wall across northern England?
Hadrian
What sport, invented in 1895 by a YMCA physical education director, was originally called “Mintonette”?
Volleyball
In what country did the dance known as the rumba originate?
Cuba
Renaissance men
In a letter he wrote on August 7 1501 we determined that the new land was not an island but a continent
Amerigo Vespucci
For Continent named after him
Time person of the year
1986 this Filipina
Corazon Aquino
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Time person of the year
1981 this electrician and union leader
Walesa
Vuh less uh
Time person of the year
1936 this twice divorced American woman
Wallis Simpson
Time person of the year
1968 The astronauts of this Apollo mission. The first man one to orbit the moon.
Apollo 8
Not the V but the IB version of this planetary rocket carried crews to Skylab
Saturn