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Random Trivia #2 Flashcards

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Part of the brain that controls your Balance and Coordination

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Cerebellum

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This ancestor to the computer was invented in 1868 and first used the QWERTYUIOP layout

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The First Typewriter

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Cambodian polotician that became prime minister of cambodia creating the democratic kampuchea. ruled from 1976-1979.

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Pol Pot

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Materials you can’t see through because they absorb or reflect all light.

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Opaque

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Part of the brain that controls your, Auditory processing, Language comprehension, and Memory

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Temporal lobe

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Egyptian goddess of moisture (Lioness head)

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Tefnut

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Invented in 1511 with many wheels inside of it and didnt have a minute hand until 1670

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The First Watch

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This vehicle was crafted in 1775 and was called the Connecticut Turtle. It led a failed attack on a docked British ship

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The First Submarine

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Egyptian goddess of the sky (woman that streches across the sky)

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Nut

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This cartoon was made in 1928 and dipicted a mouse driving a boat

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Steamboat Willie

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The tendency of matter to resist change to its motion, whether it is moving or at rest.

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Inertia

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This book, written by Maxim Gorky, is one of the most important and one of the first socialist works in Russia. It describes the absurdities of the czarist regimies in the early 19th century. It is based on the life of his grandmother and she the change of Russian life throughout the bolshevik revolution

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Mother

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Divides the two cerebral hemisphers

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Longitudinal fissure

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wrote Behaviours of Organisms and put babies, rats, and other organisms into box and tried to condition them to do something

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B.F. Skinner

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This book, written by Lev Tolstoy, describes the life of this main character, who has an affair with Count Vronsky. This book describes the shunning and further isolation of the main character whom this book is named after.

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Anna Karenina

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Egyptian goddess of love and joy (cow ears)

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Hathor

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set up the first pyschology labratory

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Wilhelm Wundt

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Part of the brain that controls your, motor control, Problem solving, and Speech production

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Frontal lobe

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Egyptian god of the air (man with a feather headress or a lion)

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Shu

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Description

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Term

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Part of the brain that controls your sight and Visual reception/ interpretation

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Occipital lobe

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Charles Dickens second novel about an orphan by the same name as the book who was sold into apprenticeship as a workshop. After escaping, he meets the “Artful Dog” a memeber of a juvenile pickpocket gang.

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Oliver Twist

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Egyptian goddess of cats (cat head)

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Bastet

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An action by the Supreme Court to uphold a ruling by a lower court; that ruling is now the legally binding one.

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Affirm

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This very important Mathematical tool was invented 1954 for business use.

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Calculator

26
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Country to found The Red Cross

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Switzerland

27
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A positively charged particle emitted during the radioactive decay of some unstable atoms.

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Alpha Particle

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This book, written by Nikolay chernychevsky, tells the life of Pera Pavlona who yerns to be free from conservative opression of a czarist regime. Lenin proclaimed it as his favorite novel

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What is to be done?

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Egyptian goddess of truth, justice and harmony (feather on head)

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Ma’ at

30
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Follow the research of 1 person, and can’t be replicated since they only study one person. Replication is the key to proving something

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Case Studies

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This incredible medicine was discovered by Alexander Fleming in 1928 and helped people worldwide by killing bacteria

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Penicillin

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Follows Ebenezer Scrooge as his late business partner Jacob Marley comes back to show him the ghost of Christmas past, present, and future.

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A Christmas Carol

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This book, written by Lev Tolstoy, describes the lifes of the 5 main characters with many subplots. It takes place during the failed Napolenonic invasions

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War and Peace

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Chinese communist revolutionary, founding father of Peoples republic of China, ruled from 1949 to 1976.

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Mao Zedong

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A book written by Nikolay Gogol and is about a landowner who tries to trick landowners into buying their dead serfs, who are technically still alive for the next Russian census

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Dead Souls

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The nearest stars to Earth are in the Alpha Centauri triple-star system, about 4.37 light-years away

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Proxima Centauri-closest star

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This book, written by Fyodor Dostoevsky, describes the murder of the father by one of the 4 brother, and questions the existence and purpose of God.

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The brothers Karamazov

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Theory that states for a reaction to occur, the particles in the reactants must come together and collide with enough energy to break the bonds and form new bonds.

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Collision Theory

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A state acting in cooperation with another state.

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Bilateral

40
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Part of the brain that controls your involuntary responses

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Brainstem

41
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In the year 1933, this common recreational item was shown to cause cancer by Ernest Kennaway.

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Cigarette (Smoke)

42
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A book written by Ivan Gontcharov and the name of the book is the name of the main character. Gontcharov uses satire to describe the life of the main character who can’t seem to make any desicions and he doesn’t move at all. It takes the first 50 pages of the book for the main character to move from his bed to a chair.

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Oblomov

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This boat was sank in 1915 by a german U-Boat

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Luisitania

44
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came up with the idea of talking to paitents with neurological disorders as a way to reduce symptoms

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Sigmund Freud

45
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Egyptian god of earth (Man laying under the arch of nut or a man with a goose head)

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Geb

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This book, written by Fyodor Dostoevsky, describes how the main character named, Raskolnikov, who is a former student of Napoleonic ideals of superiority, decides to cimmit murder against and old pawnbroker.

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Crime and Punishment

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This drug was used as a medicine starting in 1898. It was specifically used as a cough suppressant

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Use of Heroin as Medicine

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A book divided into 5 short stories, and centers around Pechorin, a young Russian officer serving in the Caucasus. It is written by Mikhail Lermontov

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A Hero of Our Time

49
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First woman to circumnavigate the globe.

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Louis Antoine de Bougainville “Bare”

50
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Volunteer soldiers who were ready to take up arms at a minute’s notice, who fought in the American colonies against the British during the Revolutionary War.

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Minutemen

51
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This british colony gained its independance in 1947 and Nehru was elected its president

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India

52
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Pip is a young orphan who lives with his sister and her husband but meets an escaped convict, Magwitch, and helps him. He then meets an elegant lady, Estella, also Magwitchs daughter, and vows to become a gentlemen to try and get Estella. He gets no money from Miss Havisham but strangely recieves a fortune. One day Magwitch pops up and says he gave the money. Evil Orlick traps Pip but Pips friends save him and the story ends with Magwitch going to prison, his partner dying, Pip losing his fortune, and Estella leaving hand in hand with Pip.

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Great Expectations

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Seperates the temporal lobe from the frontal & parietal lobes

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Lateral fissures

54
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Part of the brain that controls your, Touch perception, Body orientation/ sensory discrimination

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Parietal lobe

55
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Zimbabwean revolutionary and prime minister of Zimbabwe from 1980-1987.

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Robert Mugabe

56
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Egyptian god of choas, violence, deserts and storms (unidentified animal head)

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Set

57
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A heterogeneous mixture containing tiny particles that never settle out.

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Colloid

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Egyptian god of innundation (flooding of the Nile) (water plants on head and a pot belly)

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Hapy

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This book written by Ivan Turgenev, was widley considered contreversial and describes the inveitable conflict between different generations and the traditional vs intellectuals.

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Father and sons

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