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Queen, Victoria’s father Edward Duke Of Kent Flashcards

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During World War II, this author of the red pony served as a war correspondent for the New York herald tribute

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John Steinbeck

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This author of the accidental tourist is good friends with a fellow Baltimore resident Director John Waters

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Anne Tyler

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In 1992 this naked lunch author had a shaman performance exorcism on him to cast out what he called the ugly spirit

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Burroughs

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In a blink and you missed it cameo, he appears as vanisher in Deadpool too

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Brad Pitt

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The name of this water bird comes from the latin core vis mar nis which means sea Raven

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Cormorant
Core muh rant

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Irish is one form of this language also called erse

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Gaelic

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Tah mill (Tamil ) is the official language of this Indian state with Tamil in its name

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Tamil nadu
Tah mill nah do

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In 2011 Morocco made an official language of tahm uh zite the native tongue of this large ethnic group

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The berbers

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Japanese financial crisis was sparked in 1927 when a government minister mistakenly said that the Tokyo watanabe of these had gone bust
Wah tuh nah bay

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Bank

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Should rhyme

A trainee in a skill trade and to lure by arousing desire or hope

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Apprentice
Entice

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Should rhyme

A tremulous pulsating vocal effect and a russet Burbank

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Vibrato
Potato

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It seemed an unlikely go, but el e ez er ben yuh whoed uh made this biblical language spoken once more.

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Hebrew

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Should rhyme

Disfiguring skin disease once resulting in quarantine and a little too interested in the affairs of others

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Leprosy
nosy

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Should rhyme
To pay no attention to and an Italian version of Mr. heard in that’s amore

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Ignore
Signore

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Crisis that jumpstart the international crisis group; famine in this land where clans fought after Muhammad siad buh ray’s dictatorship

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Somalia

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Hard to find in its natural habitat, the e tour e rainforest the smaller giraffe relative was unknown to Western science until 1900

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Okapi
O cap e

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The leaves of a small shrub called the Egyptian privet produce this orange brown dye used to color hair

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Henna

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The Indian pipe plant is myco heterotrophic meaning it gets most of his food directly from this type of organism

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Fungus

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This author made appearances in the movies, rumble Fish and the outsiders both based on her novels

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SE Hinton

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Paul Rubin’s final film appearance was a cameo in this movie in which Aquafina plays the game show obsessed title, female

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Quiz lady

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After a burrito incident, Jack Black kicks this anchorman beloved dog Baxter off a bridge

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Ron Burgundy, in anchorman Will Ferrell

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That’s known for his Alaska base adventures one involving dogs call of the wild. He spent lots of time in Hawaii before his death in 1916

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Jack London

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The goliath bird eater a South American type of this spider makes a hissing sound when threatened

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Tarantula

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Crisis was sparked by this leaders 1958 demand that the US and it’s allies pull their troops out of West Berlin

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Khrushchev

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In the 1898 fashoda crisis, the British squared off with this countries, major marchand over rights to the Sudanese Nile

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France

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Should rhyme
A short life story of someone and three member musical act

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Bio
Trio

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Ming nah wen Voiced the title character in this 1998 film and made a cameo in the 2020 live action remake

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Mulan

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A 21st-century humanitarian crisis was caused by the Islamist insurgency of this group also called Nigerian Taliban

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Boko Haram
Bo co hu rahm

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This legendary guitar appeared as Captain Jack sparrows pop in pirates of the Caribbean at world end

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Keith Richards
Rolling Stones

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Landmarks
At dedication, Senator John Sherman said simple in form it rises into the sky higher than any other work of human art

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Washington monument
Highest building on earth when was completed

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In 2007she made history as the first woman elected to serve as speaker of the house

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Nancy Pelosi

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An early example of a “first-person shooter,” which video game was the first to receive an M (mature) from the Entertainment Software Rating Board?

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Doom

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If you are a hedonist, your primary goal in life is…

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Pleasure

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Several scenes of which holiday film were shot on location at the 1946 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade?

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Miracle on 34th street

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Actually an iron sulfide that’s worth a fraction of real gold, which mineral is known as “fool’s gold”?

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Pyrite

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Which actor narrated the Hall of Presidents attraction at Disney World from 2009 to 2017, more than a decade after portraying a president in Deep Impact (1998)?

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Morgan freeman

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Along with winning 73 singles titles, who’s won $94 million during her career—more than twice as much as any other female tennis player?

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Serena Williams

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Known to drill wells in more than 1,000 types of trees, the yellow-bellied sapsucker is which type of bird?

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Woodpecker

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Because of its many islands and fjords, which country has the longest coastline in Europe—63,000 miles in total?

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Norway

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In his day Abraham Lincoln was known to be excellent at what sport

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Wrestling
Abraham Lincoln was 64 huge for the time that helped him become a feared wrestler when he was young

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This US state has only two escalators

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Wyoming
Good news if you want to visit them both located in the town of Casper

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Camels primarily use their humps to store what

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Fat
Camels can go a long time without drinking water, but they need energy which they store as fat in their homes

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Jeffy, Froot Loops and cup O’ noodles are all examples of this effect - widely spread misremembering

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Mandela

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She has reached the top and nine different billboard categories

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Beyoncé
Including Country Gospel Latin

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This Philadelphia student is credited as inventing graffiti

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known as cornbread
distinctive graffiti style of art can be traced back to this one high school student in 1967

Hendricks Grover 1884 Democrat (12 decks)

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