Puccini Tosca Flashcards

1
Q

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

A

China

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2
Q

This potato like snack is less than 50% potato

A

Pringles
42%
Cannot be marketed as potato chips instead
Crisps

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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

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4
Q

A burner is someone who makes and sells this

A

Wine

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5
Q

Early Hollywood star Bella Lugosi was appropriately buried in this costume

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Dracula
Holy cross cemetery in Culver City California

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6
Q

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

A

Wampanoag

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7
Q

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

A

Jack Harlow

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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

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9
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1 on billboard hot 100
2020: savage and wap

A

Megan thee stallion

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10
Q

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

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Drake

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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

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12
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Scottish parliament and the royal residence of Holyrood palace are in this city

A

Edinburgh

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13
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These Scottish geographic features include rannoch lomond and ness

A

Lochs
Locks

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14
Q

From
The Yiddish it can mean chicken fat or excessive sentimentality

A

Schmaltz

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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

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16
Q

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

A

Trichinosis
Trick uh no sis

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

18
Q

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

A

Lice

19
Q

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

A

Highlands

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

21
Q

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

A

Langston Hughes

22
Q

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

A

Emily Dickinson

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

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
Q

Norwegian for sloping track

A

Slaw lum
Slaloms

26
Q

This Italian diminutive word applies to works like 1890s Robin Hood featuring the tune brown October ale

A

Operetta
Op uh ret uh

27
Q

Before slipping into a coma in Jan 57 he told Lauren Bacall goodbye kid hurry back
Buh call

A

Humphrey bogart

28
Q

Passed away on Halloween 26 ; widow bees held annual seances to make contact

A

Houdini

29
Q

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

A

Frida Kahlo

30
Q

After this presidents death in 08 his wife Frances would become the first First Lady to remarry

A

Grover Cleveland
22 24

31
Q

Sadly an assassins bullet took civil rights activist medgar from this wife June 12 63 In Mississippi

A

Merlee Evers-Williams

32
Q

1960s America
Helping draft an executive order in 61 Hobart Taylor jr almost used the word positive but instead chose this alliterative phrase

A

Affirmative action
Executive order establishing presidents committee on Equal employment opportunity

33
Q

The shot heard round the world goes off in the third line of this states official
Song

A

Massachusetts
Lexington and concord

34
Q

4 of first 5 presidents born in

A

Virginia
Only not John Adams

35
Q

Face cards

A

Jack
Queen
King

36
Q

Seven dwarves

A

Bashful
Doc
Dopey
Grumpy
Happy
Sleepy
Sneezy

37
Q

Italian dish made by putting espresso over ice cream

A

Affogato
Italian for drowned

38
Q

Group of barracudas

A

Battery
15-20 usually

39
Q

Term
Big Ben specifically refers to this part of the famous London monument

A

Bell
Largest bell in clock tower after boxer Benjamin caunt