Random Trivia #2 Flashcards
Part of the brain that controls your Balance and Coordination
Cerebellum
This ancestor to the computer was invented in 1868 and first used the QWERTYUIOP layout
The First Typewriter
Cambodian polotician that became prime minister of cambodia creating the democratic kampuchea. ruled from 1976-1979.
Pol Pot
Materials you can’t see through because they absorb or reflect all light.
Opaque
Part of the brain that controls your, Auditory processing, Language comprehension, and Memory
Temporal lobe
Egyptian goddess of moisture (Lioness head)
Tefnut
Invented in 1511 with many wheels inside of it and didnt have a minute hand until 1670
The First Watch
This vehicle was crafted in 1775 and was called the Connecticut Turtle. It led a failed attack on a docked British ship
The First Submarine
Egyptian goddess of the sky (woman that streches across the sky)
Nut
This cartoon was made in 1928 and dipicted a mouse driving a boat
Steamboat Willie
The tendency of matter to resist change to its motion, whether it is moving or at rest.
Inertia
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
Mother
Divides the two cerebral hemisphers
Longitudinal fissure
wrote Behaviours of Organisms and put babies, rats, and other organisms into box and tried to condition them to do something
B.F. Skinner
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.
Anna Karenina
Egyptian goddess of love and joy (cow ears)
Hathor
set up the first pyschology labratory
Wilhelm Wundt
Part of the brain that controls your, motor control, Problem solving, and Speech production
Frontal lobe
Egyptian god of the air (man with a feather headress or a lion)
Shu
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Part of the brain that controls your sight and Visual reception/ interpretation
Occipital lobe
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.
Oliver Twist
Egyptian goddess of cats (cat head)
Bastet
An action by the Supreme Court to uphold a ruling by a lower court; that ruling is now the legally binding one.
Affirm
This very important Mathematical tool was invented 1954 for business use.
Calculator
Country to found The Red Cross
Switzerland
A positively charged particle emitted during the radioactive decay of some unstable atoms.
Alpha Particle
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
What is to be done?
Egyptian goddess of truth, justice and harmony (feather on head)
Ma’ at
Follow the research of 1 person, and can’t be replicated since they only study one person. Replication is the key to proving something
Case Studies
This incredible medicine was discovered by Alexander Fleming in 1928 and helped people worldwide by killing bacteria
Penicillin
Follows Ebenezer Scrooge as his late business partner Jacob Marley comes back to show him the ghost of Christmas past, present, and future.
A Christmas Carol
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
War and Peace
Chinese communist revolutionary, founding father of Peoples republic of China, ruled from 1949 to 1976.
Mao Zedong
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
Dead Souls
The nearest stars to Earth are in the Alpha Centauri triple-star system, about 4.37 light-years away
Proxima Centauri-closest star
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.
The brothers Karamazov
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.
Collision Theory
A state acting in cooperation with another state.
Bilateral
Part of the brain that controls your involuntary responses
Brainstem
In the year 1933, this common recreational item was shown to cause cancer by Ernest Kennaway.
Cigarette (Smoke)
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.
Oblomov
This boat was sank in 1915 by a german U-Boat
Luisitania
came up with the idea of talking to paitents with neurological disorders as a way to reduce symptoms
Sigmund Freud
Egyptian god of earth (Man laying under the arch of nut or a man with a goose head)
Geb
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.
Crime and Punishment
This drug was used as a medicine starting in 1898. It was specifically used as a cough suppressant
Use of Heroin as Medicine
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
A Hero of Our Time
First woman to circumnavigate the globe.
Louis Antoine de Bougainville “Bare”
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.
Minutemen
This british colony gained its independance in 1947 and Nehru was elected its president
India
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.
Great Expectations
Seperates the temporal lobe from the frontal & parietal lobes
Lateral fissures
Part of the brain that controls your, Touch perception, Body orientation/ sensory discrimination
Parietal lobe
Zimbabwean revolutionary and prime minister of Zimbabwe from 1980-1987.
Robert Mugabe
Egyptian god of choas, violence, deserts and storms (unidentified animal head)
Set
A heterogeneous mixture containing tiny particles that never settle out.
Colloid
Egyptian god of innundation (flooding of the Nile) (water plants on head and a pot belly)
Hapy
This book written by Ivan Turgenev, was widley considered contreversial and describes the inveitable conflict between different generations and the traditional vs intellectuals.
Father and sons
