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Rio Former Brazil Capital Flashcards

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Oldest of tennis, four grand slam tournaments and the only one played on grass

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Wimbledon

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What color are snowflakes?

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Clear
snowflakes are totally clear, but the way they scatter light makes them look white

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They hit film and musical. Mamma Mia was based on the songs of this band.

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ABBA
Originally a live stage musical the film adaption of Mamma Mia used ABBA music and grossed over 61 million worldwide

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The fourth estate is a very old nickname for this field of work

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Journalism
The traditional European three states of the realm were the clergy commoners and nobility. The free press is the fourth estate.

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Shia and Sunni are two branches of this religion

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Islam
Shia and Sunni are the two main sects of Islam though there are further variants around the world

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The NFL’s Baltimore Ravens took their team name from

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A poem by a Edgar Allan Poe
In a pole readers of the Baltimore Sun overwhelmingly voted for their football team to be named the ravens

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What is it hard to do while sneezing

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Keep your eyes open
Closing your eyes while sneezing as in autonomic reflex meeting your body does it automatically

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Leveraging the success of The Blind Side, which actress reportedly earned more than $70 million for her role in Gravity (2013)?

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Sandra Bullock

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Joel Gray welcomed both Tony and Oscar for playing the Cabaret character who went by this job description

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Master of ceremonies
MC

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And Bancroft scored a ton and an Oscar for playing her in the miracle worker

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Annie Sullivan

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2 decades after winning an Oscar Lila Kedrova got a 1984 Tony for the same role in this play without the Greek in the title

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Zorba

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At the 2024 Summer Olympics, Australian athlete Raygun was widely mocked for imitating which animal during her breakdancing routine?

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Kangaroo

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Use in optics at least since Newton this word with ERR within, it refers to the failure of rays to come to a focus

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Aberration

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Rusting and photosynthesis are basic examples of these reactions a word, combining oxidation and reduction

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Redox reactions

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Term for a process with no assistance like gas, expanding into a vacuum or for one who does crazy things on the spur of the moment

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Spontaneous

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A 1952, Tony and a 1956 Oscar went to Yule Brenner for a monarch in this beloved musical

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The king and I

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José Ferrer got the inaugural best actor Tony in 1947 and an Oscar in 1951 for playing this swashbuckling character

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Cyrano duh Bergerac
Sear no

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Don’t get those knickers in a twist in 2015 The Royal undies of Elizabeth the second’s great great grandma this woman fetched $16,000.

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Victoria

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Renowned for fearlessly doing his own stunts during his six decades of acting, which action star is terrified of needles?

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Jackie Chan

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Inventor James Dyson revolutionized the household cleaning industry in 1983 by introducing the first vacuum that was…

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Bagless

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Despite repulsive, electrical forces atomic nuclei keep it together thanks to the force described with this adjective

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Strong force

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A reverie du jour
Rev we e do jour

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Daydream

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A storymaker like Aesop or just a liar

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Fabulist
Fab u list

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We’re the same four letters as a word for lack of knowledge it means personal humiliation

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Ignominy
Ig nuh Minnie

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Toxic bacterial poisoning often from improperly canned foods

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Botulism

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Scientifically a prism separates white light into the colors of this

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Spectrum

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A known known he was definitely secretary of defense under Republican presidents in the 20th and 21st centuries

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Rumsfeld

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Before William Rogers was Nixon Secretary of State he was attorney general in this administration. Nixon was also part of.

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The Eisenhower administration

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President cabinet
She did hard labor in 2001 and motored over to transportation in 2017

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Elaine Chow

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The Martin D 18 E guitar that this late front man used on MTV unplugged was bought in 2020 for $6 million

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Kurt Cobain

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In 2016 the anti mag nuh trek ref 4113 watch from this Geneva based company timed out and went for 2.5 million

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Rolex

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Let’s have a side of this British painter ;his three studies of Lucian Freud fetched 142 million
Loo see in froyd

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Bacon

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This European city has only been a national capital since the 1250s before that you visited the king in co Im bruh or ghee muh rishhhh

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Lisbon

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In 1803 we liked the neighborhood and the square footage 530,000,000 acres so the US paid 15 million to make this real estate deal

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Louisiana purchase

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By George, he was Nixon’s man at treasury as well as labor and Reagan’s at state

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George Schultz

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James Schlesinger was defense secretary for Nixon and Ford and Carter named him the first secretary of this new department

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Department of energy

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19th century Americans
Among those who attended his 1864 funeral, where Ralph Waldo Emerson, Bronson Alcott and Franklin Pierce

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Nathaniel Hawthorne
Franklin Pierce was Bowden college schoolmate

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Choosing to remain anonymous, which author published her first novel, Sense and Sensibility, with the byline “By a Lady”?

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Jane Austen

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Once home to Benedict Arnold, this was the official residence of George Washington in which former capital of the United States?

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the President’s House in Philadelphia

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The only territory where gambling is legal in China, which city regularly generates more gaming revenue than all of Nevada?

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Macau

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Along with being a source of food and clothing fiber, which animal’s dung was used as heating fuel by Andean people?

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Alpaca

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Define demure

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reserved, modest, and shy (typically used of a woman).
“a demure young lady”

modestly dressed woman might be described as

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