Random Stuff You Should Know Flashcards

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Nearly 50 years before the first organization met at La Rotisserie Francaise restaurant, a young Jack Kerouac invented and played his own version of this popular game.

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Fantasy baseball

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Game Show Network’s Skin Wars is a competition focused on this art.

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Body painting

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Wade Winston Wilson is the name of this wisecracking, nearly invulnerable Marvel superhero.

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Deadpool

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Many legumes, including alfalfa and clover, have the ability to transfer this element from the atmosphere into their roots and, when the plant dies, the soil.

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Nitrogen

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Jackie Chan’s megahit Police Story 3 went by this name in the United States

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Super Cop

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Pointe du Hoc is a promontory that separates Utah Beach and this other code-named beach.

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Omaha

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This automaker has traditionally manufactured standard roadsters, but since 1910, it has also been famous for its iconic three-wheeler sports cars.

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Morgan

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The real name of this debonair star from the Golden Age of Hollywood was Archibald Leach.

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Cary Grant

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This is the largest moon in the solar system.

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Ganymede

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One point for each of the 12 franchise restaurants with the most locations in the world.

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Subway, McDonald’s, Starbucks, KFC, Pizza Hut, Burger King, Domino’s, Wendy’s, Taco Bell, Quiznos, Arby’s, Tim Horton’s

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