Rick Springfield Jessie’s Girl Flashcards

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US presidents That have proven Irish ancestry

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2
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Bordered by Malaysia Laos Myanmar Cambodia

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Thailand

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3
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Smallest landlocked country in Africa

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east swantini - also a monarchy

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African country that borders both the Atlantic and Mediterranean and has a monarchy

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Morocco

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5
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African country that has a monarchy and has just 1 border

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Lesotho

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6
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If wishes came true song
90

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Sweet sensation

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7
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Twin bed that slides under another twin bed when not in use

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Trundle

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Type of Italian. Pasta shaped like rice

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Orzo

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9
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Hair covered cones on giraffes

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Oss uh cones

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10
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2 continents with smallest population

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Antarctica
Australia

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2 continents with smallest population

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Antarctica
Australia

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12
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Attempted to assassinate fOrd

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Sarah Jane moore

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13
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Said a tree is a tree how many more do you need to look at

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Regan

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14
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USA in nATO phonetic alphabet

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Uniform
Sierra
Alpha

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15
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Nautical expression shiver me Timbers what is Timbers

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Hill of the ship

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16
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A type of fundraising group that can raise and spend unlimited money

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Super pack

17
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Holds the record for touchdowns by a running back

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Emmit smith
Playing most of his career for cowboys
Also won dancing with stars

18
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this large desert in Asia, lies in northern China and southern Mongolia. It is growing at an alarming rate, particularly towards the south. This “desertification” is caused by increased human activity. The Chinese government is trying to halt the desert’s forward progress by planting great swaths of new forest, the so-called “Green Wall of China”.

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The Gobi
The name “Gobi” is Mongolian for “waterless place, semidesert”.

19
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The West Wing” creator

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Sorkin : AARON
The wonderful screenwriter Aaron Sorkin got his big break when his stage play “A Few Good Men” was picked up by a Hollywood producer. Since then Sorkin has written great films including “The American President”, “The Social Network”, “Charlie Wilson’s War”, “Moneyball” and the excellent “The West Wing” and “The Newsroom” television series.

20
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Comes from A Greek term meaning “naked”,

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Gym comes from “gymnos”

as that physical training was usually done unclothed in ancient Greec

21
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Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself” memoirist

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Alan : ALDA
“Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself” is a 2008 memoir by actor Alan Alda, his second (after 2005’s “Never Have Your Dog Stuffed: and Other Things I’ve Learned”). Alda narrated the audiobook version of the memoir himself, for which he earned a Grammy Award.

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Michael who plays Allan in “Barbie” :

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CERA
Michael Cera is a Canadian actor who played great characters on the TV show “Arrested Development”, and in the 2007 comedy-drama “Juno”. Cera is also quite the musician. He released an indie folk album titled “True That” in 2014.

The 2023 fantasy comedy movie “Barbie” stars Margo Robbie in the title role and Ryan Gosling as Ken. It was directed by Greta Gerwig, who also co-wrote the script with her partner Noah Baumbach. I highly recommend this one …

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Gas observed by Marie curie :

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RADON
[13A Physics and chemistry Nobelist Marie : CURIE]
The element radon (Rn) is a radioactive gas, and a byproduct produced when uranium decays naturally in the earth. Radon gas can collect and accumulate in buildings and rooms that are particularly well insulated with very little air exchange. The danger is very real, as radon is listed as the second most frequent cause of lung cancer after cigarette smoke.

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Wrote Don Quixote

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Miguel de Cervantes
Best selling book ever ?

25
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Published in 1936 how to win friends and influence people is one of the best and first self help books written by who

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Dale Carnegie
Better known for speaking skills - had Dale Carnegie speaking courses

26
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First published in 1967 100 Years of solitude wqs written by
has sold more than 50 M copies and translated into 46 languages

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Won 82 Nobel prize in literature

27
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Half a league half a league half a league onward is the first line of this poem

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Charge of the light brigade
Alfred lord Ten uh son
In the blind side

28
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Poem first line

Well, my daddy left home when I was three
Didn’t leave very much to my mom and me
Except this old guitar and an empty bottle of booze
Also who recorded as a song in 69

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A boy named sue (life ain’t easy)
Shell Silverstein
Johnny cash at San Quentin prison
Grammy for best male country vocal best country song

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Poem First lines
How do I love thee let me count thr ways

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Sonnet 43
Elizabeth Barrett browning

30
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O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done,
The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won
Also referred to who

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Walt Whitman
Abe Lincoln is the captain

31
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The flan uh mulls is a children book by this comedian
series depicts seemingly useless and inadequate fictional animals
04

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Ricky ger vais

32
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Famous book quotes

All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost;

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J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)

33
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Born in 1874 this inventor wqs the great grandson of Irish whiskey distillery founder John Jameson

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Guglielmo Marconi

Goo glee elmo

34
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Samin nosrat wrote this 17 NYT best seller
Also won this award
Nas uh rot??

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Titled salt fat acid heat ( river which are 4 essential elements of successful cooking)
Subtitled Mastering the element of good cooking
Also a 4 part Netflix series
James beard award

35
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Tina fey book sitcoms and movie

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Bossy pants -11 book not a memoir not an autobiography but a collection of essays that reveal nothing about her
Un breakable Kenny Schmidt 15-19
30 rock 06-13
mean girls
45 Emmy noms 9 wins