Puccini Tosca Flashcards

1
Q

Country that spans over 3K miles east to west and only one time zone

A

China

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
2
Q

This potato like snack is less than 50% potato

A

Pringles
42%
Cannot be marketed as potato chips instead
Crisps

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
3
Q

Now Americas third largest shoe brand this company was created to distribute doc martans

A

Skechers
Founder Robert Greenberg created LA gear then Skechers - original boots grunge era 90s

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
4
Q

A burner is someone who makes and sells this

A

Wine

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
5
Q

Early Hollywood star Bella Lugosi was appropriately buried in this costume

A

Dracula
Holy cross cemetery in Culver City California

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
6
Q

At first thanksgiving in 1621 British settlers ate together with members of this tribe

A

Wampanoag

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
7
Q

1 on billboard hot 100
22 :First class with the fergie sample

A

Jack Harlow

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
8
Q

1 on billboard hot 100
Artist formerly known with a dollar sign
In 2010 we r who we r and tik tok

A

Kesha

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
9
Q

1 on billboard hot 100
2020: savage and wap

A

Megan thee stallion

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
10
Q

1 on billboard hot 100
18: gods plan and nice for what

A

Drake

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
11
Q

Woman we know as this submitted her first great work renascence for a prize under the gender hiding name e Vincent muh lay

A

Edna st Vincent Millay

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
12
Q

Scottish parliament and the royal residence of Holyrood palace are in this city

A

Edinburgh

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
13
Q

These Scottish geographic features include rannoch lomond and ness

A

Lochs
Locks

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
14
Q

From
The Yiddish it can mean chicken fat or excessive sentimentality

A

Schmaltz

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
15
Q

A Member of the communist power structure in Russia it’s come to mean the loyal subordinate of a political leader

A

Apparatchik
App uh rah chick

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
16
Q

Parasitic worms in undercooked pork
Can cause this disease so cook those bbq ribs 137

A

Trichinosis
Trick uh no sis

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
17
Q

You give me fever the hard type of this parasite
Texas cattle fever
Hemorrhagic fever hem or ag ick
Q

A

Ticks
Ew

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
18
Q

In truly a hairy situation these parasitic insects have biting types and sucking types

A

Lice

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
19
Q

Inverness is is the center of this elevated region, the most northerly mainland Scottish region

A

Highlands

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
20
Q

A major industrial burgh in the west Dundee is the principal city of this former county that shares its name with a cattle breed

A

Angus

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
21
Q

In 81 this poets home on East 127thnstreet wqs declared a NYC landmark

A

Langston Hughes

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
22
Q

Some too fragile for the winter winds is a poem from this belle of Amherst

A

Emily Dickinson

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
23
Q

Louis the father of this beat generation figure was also a poet but wrote more traditional verse line in morning in spring

A

Ginsberg

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
24
Q

Sparing him a treason trial this poet was declared insane in 46 and spent the next 12 years in a hospital

A

Ezra pound

25
Norwegian for sloping track
Slaw lum Slaloms
26
This Italian diminutive word applies to works like 1890s Robin Hood featuring the tune brown October ale
Operetta Op uh ret uh
27
Before slipping into a coma in Jan 57 he told Lauren Bacall goodbye kid hurry back Buh call
Humphrey bogart
28
Passed away on Halloween 26 ; widow bees held annual seances to make contact
Houdini
29
A grandson of Diego Rivera has suggested that Diego may have helped end the life of this suffering wife as a final Act of love
Frida Kahlo
30
After this presidents death in 08 his wife Frances would become the first First Lady to remarry
Grover Cleveland 22 24
31
Sadly an assassins bullet took civil rights activist medgar from this wife June 12 63 In Mississippi
Merlee Evers-Williams
32
1960s America Helping draft an executive order in 61 Hobart Taylor jr almost used the word positive but instead chose this alliterative phrase
Affirmative action Executive order establishing presidents committee on Equal employment opportunity
33
The shot heard round the world goes off in the third line of this states official Song
Massachusetts Lexington and concord
34
4 of first 5 presidents born in
Virginia Only not John Adams
35
Face cards
Jack Queen King
36
Seven dwarves
Bashful Doc Dopey Grumpy Happy Sleepy Sneezy
37
Italian dish made by putting espresso over ice cream
Affogato Italian for drowned
38
Group of barracudas
Battery 15-20 usually
39
Term Big Ben specifically refers to this part of the famous London monument
Bell Largest bell in clock tower after boxer Benjamin caunt
40
A seventh century BC bronze pendant shows Etruscan women warping and weaving cloth on a double story one of these.
Loom
41
Etruscan Weavers were using this checkered pattern in the seven century BC long before those darn Scotts and their tartans
Plaid
42
In the non-jungle world by right of inheriting his father’s title Tarzan of literature was also this lord
Greystoke
43
Abbreviated FSM this airborne creature began as a deity of the parody religion the pastafarians Pasta fare e ins
Flying spaghetti monster
44
The Etruscan tebenna was this type of loose garment that sounds like a fireplace shelf Tah ben uh
Mantle
45
The main canal of Venice stretching in an ass shape of about 2 miles with one end at Saint Mark’s Basilica
Grand canal
46
PT Barnum’s pachyderm Pack uh
Jumbo
47
This four letter word said with a New York accent is a standard element of a Donald Trump impression
Huge
48
Name the league The Saskatchewan Roughriders
CFL
49
Similar to an aubade a mattinata is a piece of music meant to be played during this time period O bawd Mat uh not uh
Morning
50
Where the West begins is a slogan of this city just a bit west of Dallas
Fort Worth
51
Name the league The Wolverhampton wanderers
English Premier league
52
Name the league The New York liberty
WNBA
53
His body preserved this leader still looks pretty much like he did at his death on January 21, 1924
Lenin embalmed at the Kremlin
54
OnLookers claim that after this royal was beheaded in 1536, her lips continue to move as if trying to say something
Anne bo lyn
55
In the strait , American and Russian islands are separated by about 2 1/2 miles
The Bering strait
56
Name the league The Vegas Golden Knights
NHL
57
Most Etruscan clothes were made from a thick, heavy form of this animal fiber
Wool
58
Rich in this stimulant, the cola nut is mainly used in soft drinks and medicine
Caffeine you’re correct