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Rand 3 Flashcards

1
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First screenwriter to find success as a director

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Preston Sturges (Christmas in July)

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2
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Largest island in the Philippines

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Luzon Island

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3
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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

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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.

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

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5
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Insulin inventor

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Banting and Best at Univ of Toronto

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6
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Mistreated Christmas Carol employee

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Bob Cratchit

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7
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Liza Minelli mom

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Judy Garland

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8
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Ghost of Christmas past

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Marley, business partner of Scrooge

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9
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Patron saint of Czechia

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Wenceslas

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10
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Eighth day of Christmas my true love gave to me

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Eight maids a milking

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11
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red & black checked pattern now popular at Christmas

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Buffalo plaid

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12
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Second to last

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Penultimate

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13
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Singing Cowboy

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Jean Autry

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14
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1980 Best Picture

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

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15
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Wild daydream

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fantasy

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16
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Calendar of Romulus began in

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March

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17
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Winter Solstice in Northern Hemisphere

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December 21

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18
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December birth flower

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Narcissus

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19
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Other ship with Mayflower

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Speedwell

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20
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First governor Plymouth Colony

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

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21
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Longfellow poem which begins “This is the forest primeval”

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

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22
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Military leader of Plymouth Colony, not a Pilgrim

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Myles Standish

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23
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Los Angeles dirty realism writer, poet

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Charles Bukowski

24
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Veinte poemas, Chilean diplomat-poet

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Pablo Neruda

25
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Mexican poet

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Octavio Paz

26
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Japanese poet

27
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Hokusai work

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The Great Wave off Kanagawa

28
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The Rape of the Lock poet

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Alexander Pope (satirist, quotable, “damning with faint praise”)

29
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Killers of the Flower Moon author

30
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“March”, retelling of Little Women from father’s perspective, US-AU writer

31
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Wide Sargasso Sea, retelling of Charlotte Bronte’s “Jane Eyre” from Cosway (wife in attic) perspective

32
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Get Shorty writer

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Elmore Leonard

33
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Wilder noir picture based on Cain novel– first major film in genre

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Double Indemnity

34
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Cyberpunk author

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Gibson (like guitar, used in punk music)

35
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Polanski noir film with Nicholson

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Chinatown (sequel= The Two Jakes)

36
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King of Pulp

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Mickey Spillane

37
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Objectvist movement

38
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Tarantino film Pam Grier

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Jackie Brown

39
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Tightrope walker

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Funambulist

40
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Johanna Spyri wrote

41
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Alphabetically first among world capitals in Asia

42
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Oldest world capital

43
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Last world capital alphabetically

44
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2013 Best Actress Silver Linings Playbook (Eagles, Bradley Cooper)

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Jennifer Lawrence

45
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Dickens story about man who wants son, has daughter

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Dombey and Son

46
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Dickens character, always wears wedding dress

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Miss Havisham, Great Expectations

47
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Pip’s benefactor in Great Expectations

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Abel Magwitch (former convict)

48
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Largest private employer in world

49
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Hells Canyon is along this river

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Snake (deepest gorge in North America)

50
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Africa tallest waterfall

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Tugela, in South Africa

51
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Glen Canyon Dam on Colorado created this reservoir

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Lake Powell reservoir

52
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Tom Jones author

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Henry Fielding

53
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In this Shakespeare play, Trinculo tells King Alonso, “I have been in such a pickle” (meaning drunk) “since I saw you last”

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The Tempest

54
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Nicknamed “The Pickle Dealer”, this explorer who lent his name to continents first supplied ships with pickled goods

55
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Lady Jane Grey became known by this nickname, after the brief length of her reign

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Nine Day Queen

56
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NASA mathematician of “Hidden Figures”

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Katherine Johnson

57
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This Greek scholar with an Egyptian dynastic name devised his theory of the Sun revolving around the Earth around 150 A.D.

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