Rio Former Brazil Capital Flashcards
Oldest of tennis, four grand slam tournaments and the only one played on grass
Wimbledon
What color are snowflakes?
Clear
snowflakes are totally clear, but the way they scatter light makes them look white
They hit film and musical. Mamma Mia was based on the songs of this band.
ABBA
Originally a live stage musical the film adaption of Mamma Mia used ABBA music and grossed over 61 million worldwide
The fourth estate is a very old nickname for this field of work
Journalism
The traditional European three states of the realm were the clergy commoners and nobility. The free press is the fourth estate.
Shia and Sunni are two branches of this religion
Islam
Shia and Sunni are the two main sects of Islam though there are further variants around the world
The NFL’s Baltimore Ravens took their team name from
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
What is it hard to do while sneezing
Keep your eyes open
Closing your eyes while sneezing as in autonomic reflex meeting your body does it automatically
Leveraging the success of The Blind Side, which actress reportedly earned more than $70 million for her role in Gravity (2013)?
Sandra Bullock
Joel Gray welcomed both Tony and Oscar for playing the Cabaret character who went by this job description
Master of ceremonies
MC
And Bancroft scored a ton and an Oscar for playing her in the miracle worker
Annie Sullivan
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
Zorba
At the 2024 Summer Olympics, Australian athlete Raygun was widely mocked for imitating which animal during her breakdancing routine?
Kangaroo
Use in optics at least since Newton this word with ERR within, it refers to the failure of rays to come to a focus
Aberration
Rusting and photosynthesis are basic examples of these reactions a word, combining oxidation and reduction
Redox reactions
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
Spontaneous
A 1952, Tony and a 1956 Oscar went to Yule Brenner for a monarch in this beloved musical
The king and I
José Ferrer got the inaugural best actor Tony in 1947 and an Oscar in 1951 for playing this swashbuckling character
Cyrano duh Bergerac
Sear no
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.
Victoria
Renowned for fearlessly doing his own stunts during his six decades of acting, which action star is terrified of needles?
Jackie Chan
Inventor James Dyson revolutionized the household cleaning industry in 1983 by introducing the first vacuum that was…
Bagless
Despite repulsive, electrical forces atomic nuclei keep it together thanks to the force described with this adjective
Strong force
A reverie du jour
Rev we e do jour
Daydream
A storymaker like Aesop or just a liar
Fabulist
Fab u list
We’re the same four letters as a word for lack of knowledge it means personal humiliation
Ignominy
Ig nuh Minnie
Toxic bacterial poisoning often from improperly canned foods
Botulism
Scientifically a prism separates white light into the colors of this
Spectrum
A known known he was definitely secretary of defense under Republican presidents in the 20th and 21st centuries
Rumsfeld
Before William Rogers was Nixon Secretary of State he was attorney general in this administration. Nixon was also part of.
The Eisenhower administration
President cabinet
She did hard labor in 2001 and motored over to transportation in 2017
Elaine Chow
The Martin D 18 E guitar that this late front man used on MTV unplugged was bought in 2020 for $6 million
Kurt Cobain
In 2016 the anti mag nuh trek ref 4113 watch from this Geneva based company timed out and went for 2.5 million
Rolex
Let’s have a side of this British painter ;his three studies of Lucian Freud fetched 142 million
Loo see in froyd
Bacon
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
Lisbon
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
Louisiana purchase
By George, he was Nixon’s man at treasury as well as labor and Reagan’s at state
George Schultz
James Schlesinger was defense secretary for Nixon and Ford and Carter named him the first secretary of this new department
Department of energy
19th century Americans
Among those who attended his 1864 funeral, where Ralph Waldo Emerson, Bronson Alcott and Franklin Pierce
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Franklin Pierce was Bowden college schoolmate
Choosing to remain anonymous, which author published her first novel, Sense and Sensibility, with the byline “By a Lady”?
Jane Austen
Once home to Benedict Arnold, this was the official residence of George Washington in which former capital of the United States?
the President’s House in Philadelphia
The only territory where gambling is legal in China, which city regularly generates more gaming revenue than all of Nevada?
Macau
Along with being a source of food and clothing fiber, which animal’s dung was used as heating fuel by Andean people?
Alpaca
Define demure
reserved, modest, and shy (typically used of a woman).
“a demure young lady”
modestly dressed woman might be described as
