Rand 3 Flashcards by Nick Peters

First screenwriter to find success as a director

Preston Sturges (Christmas in July)

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Largest island in the Philippines

Luzon Island

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Traditionally, Hanukkah celebrates a victory by this family led by Judah & the miracle of a small amount of oil lasting for 8 days

Maccabees

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Oblong block of red sandstone used in the coronation of Scottish monarchs until the 13th century, and thereafter in the coronation of English and later British monarchs.

Stone of Scone; returned to Edinburgh– now in Perth, Scotland

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Insulin inventor

Banting and Best at Univ of Toronto

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Mistreated Christmas Carol employee

Bob Cratchit

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Liza Minelli mom

Judy Garland

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Ghost of Christmas past

Marley, business partner of Scrooge

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Patron saint of Czechia

Wenceslas

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Eighth day of Christmas my true love gave to me

Eight maids a milking

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red & black checked pattern now popular at Christmas

Buffalo plaid

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Second to last

Penultimate

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Singing Cowboy

Jean Autry

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1980 Best Picture

Ordinary People (dir Robert Redford), ceremony was delayed b/c of Reagan assassination

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Wild daydream

fantasy

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Calendar of Romulus began in

March

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Winter Solstice in Northern Hemisphere

December 21

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December birth flower

Narcissus

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Other ship with Mayflower

Speedwell

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First governor Plymouth Colony

John Carver (succeeded by Bradford the MAIN one to know)

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Longfellow poem which begins “This is the forest primeval”

Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie (girl searching for Gabriel during Acadian explosion)

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Military leader of Plymouth Colony, not a Pilgrim

Myles Standish

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Los Angeles dirty realism writer, poet

Charles Bukowski

Veinte poemas, Chilean diplomat-poet

Pablo Neruda

Mexican poet

Octavio Paz

Japanese poet

Basho

Hokusai work

The Great Wave off Kanagawa

The Rape of the Lock poet

Alexander Pope (satirist, quotable, "damning with faint praise")

Killers of the Flower Moon author

Grann

"March", retelling of Little Women from father's perspective, US-AU writer

Brooks

Wide Sargasso Sea, retelling of Charlotte Bronte's "Jane Eyre" from Cosway (wife in attic) perspective

Jean Rhys

Get Shorty writer

Elmore Leonard

Wilder noir picture based on Cain novel-- first major film in genre

Double Indemnity

Cyberpunk author

Gibson (like guitar, used in punk music)

Polanski noir film with Nicholson

Chinatown (sequel= The Two Jakes)

King of Pulp

Mickey Spillane

Objectvist movement

Ayn Rand

Tarantino film Pam Grier

Jackie Brown

Tightrope walker

Funambulist

Johanna Spyri wrote

Heidi

Alphabetically first among world capitals in Asia

Abu Dhabi

Oldest world capital

Damascus

Last world capital alphabetically

Zagreb

2013 Best Actress Silver Linings Playbook (Eagles, Bradley Cooper)

Jennifer Lawrence

Dickens story about man who wants son, has daughter

Dombey and Son

Dickens character, always wears wedding dress

Miss Havisham, Great Expectations

Pip's benefactor in Great Expectations

Abel Magwitch (former convict)

Largest private employer in world

Walmart

Hells Canyon is along this river

Snake (deepest gorge in North America)

Africa tallest waterfall

Tugela, in South Africa

Glen Canyon Dam on Colorado created this reservoir

Lake Powell reservoir

Tom Jones author

Henry Fielding

In this Shakespeare play, Trinculo tells King Alonso, "I have been in such a pickle" (meaning drunk) "since I saw you last"

The Tempest

Nicknamed "The Pickle Dealer", this explorer who lent his name to continents first supplied ships with pickled goods

Vespucci

Lady Jane Grey became known by this nickname, after the brief length of her reign

Nine Day Queen

NASA mathematician of "Hidden Figures"

Katherine Johnson

This Greek scholar with an Egyptian dynastic name devised his theory of the Sun revolving around the Earth around 150 A.D.

Ptolemy