Season 34 Flashcards
The last survivor of this battle that started a war died in 1854 and more men marched at his funeral than fought with him
the Battle of Lexington
Almost 100 when he died in 2018, this North Carolina man became just the 4th private citizen to lie in honor at the U.S. Capitol
Billy Graham
In 1990 the Yalu River Bridge was renamed the “Friendship Bridge” between these 2 nations; one is the other’s best friend
North Korea and China
Debuting in 1946, it was deemed “four triangles of nothing”; some critics even found it sinful
Bikini
Paramnesia is another term for this French-named phenomenon–sound familiar?
déjà vu
Fear of the social reorganization represented by an auto tycoon’s innovations inspired this 1932 novel
Brave New World
Earning its director the first of many Oscar nominations, this 1977 film had the working title “Watch the Skies”
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
The last election in which both major party candidates were former state governors was in this year
1980 - Jimmy Carter against Ronald Reagan
The unfinished Victory over America Palace and the rundown Victory over Iran Palace are in this city
Baghdad
In 1513 the son of a local chief told this man, when you cross the mountains, “You shall see another sea”
Vasco Núñez de Balboa
This slang term for an environmentalist is literally true of groups that used passive resistance vs. deforestation, as in India in 1973
tree hugger
The author of this novel thought of calling it “Silence in the Water”
Jaws
“Son of a Witch” and “A Lion Among Men” are sequels to the book that inspired this musical
Wicked
Turkey is the world’s largest producer of these fruits; its town of Cerasus was famous for them
Cherries
Of the presidents who served more than 4 years, but less than 2 full terms, he served the longest:
7 years, 9 months, 8 days
Harry Truman
Promising “value”, which partly gives it its name, this Pennsylvania-based retailer did $7,400 in sales on its opening day in 1986
QVC
Her 1896 New York Times obituary called her “the writer of probably the most widely read work of fiction ever penned”
Harriet Beecher Stowe
25 years after these 3 men played a huge festival, they went to play again and ended the set with a tune about the 1st show
Crosby, Stills and Nash
Like UNESCO, the EU has heritage sites; 2 of the first 4, a WWII internment camp and a Peace Palace, were in this occupied country
Netherlands
In a 1989 novel, Jing-Mei Woo says, “My father has asked me to be the fourth corner” in this title group
the Joy Luck Club
Researchers in London and Vienna now speculate that his 1791 death was due to a strep infection, not poisoning
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
The prologue of this tragedy is a sonnet whose rhymes include dignity and mutiny; scene and unclean; and life and strife
Romeo and Juliet
This annual event first held in 1934 includes play in areas named Pink Dogwood, Flowering Peach and Azalea
the Masters Tournament
Getting its nickname from a capital, Dhallywood is the name for the film industry in this Asian country
Bangladesh
Though this state doesn’t have “island” in its name, it’s named after a European island
New Jersey
Vestibular rehabilitation is one treatment for a condition that is also the title of this 1958 suspense film
Vertigo
Australia’s fourth-largest city, it’s at the southern end of the road called Indian Ocean Drive
Perth
Not in the initial score, the feature giving this symphony its byname was a whim added by the composer close to its 1792 debut
the “Surprise” Symphony
On Nov. 3, 1948 he sent a congratulatory telegram, then told reporters, “I was just as surprised as you”
Thomas Dewey
This toy was patented in the 1960s as a “liquid filled die agitator”
Magic 8-Ball
A Portuguese explorer gave this name to an island he sighted off Africa’s coast 40 days after Easter
Ascension Island
This Zodiac constellation includes 2 lines (or strings) that terminate in a star called Alrescha, the knot
Pisces
Though it draws elements from “Hamlet”, Disney says this was their first all-animated feature based on an original story
The Lion King
In 2017 the Maine farm and barn that inspired this classic 1952 novel were put up for sale
Charlotte’s Web
In playing this instrument whose early version was called a sackbut, it’s about 6” from A to B, about 7” from C to D
trombone
Ashdown Forest in Sussex inspired this fictional setting for a 1926 collection of stories for children
the Hundred Acre Wood
13th c. Emperor Frederick II’s “De Arte Venandi cum Avibus” was the first work written about this -ology
ornithology
Names used in other languages for this chess piece include malka, rainha and rouva
Queen
He got a real N.Y. Times obit in 1975; it said he wore “false mustaches to mask signs of age that offended his vanity”
Hercule Poirot
In a 1789 letter, Benjamin Franklin relates the durability of the new constitution to these 2 things
death and taxes
Born the farthest west in the continental U.S. of any president, he would later die farthest from his birthplace
Richard Nixon
20-euro notes available in 2015 fittingly feature this mythological mother to some of Zeus’ kids
Europa
His works are the only ones in the National Recording Registry that are preserved on piano rolls
Scott Joplin
Of the 16 Commonwealth nations with Queen Elizabeth II as head of state, this one is farthest from the United Kingdom
New Zealand
This author whom Helen Keller could identify by his cigar scent was the first to call Anne Sullivan a “miracle worker”
Mark Twain
He was nominated twice for playing Oscar winners–a real one in a 1992 biopic and a fictional one in a 2008 combat comedy
Robert Downey Jr. in:
Chaplin and Tropic Thunder.
For a link between oceans, the U.S. signed an 1859 treaty with Mexico giving us rights to this 2-syllable strip of land “of Tehuantepec”
isthmus
This pair who accompanied their father into battle were called Timor and Formido, “Fear” and “Terror”, by the Romans
Phobos and Deimos
In November 1836 this writer got a letter naming him to the Most Serene Order of Cuckolds; in February 1837 he was dead
Alexander Pushkin
In 1794 George Washington selected this spot, where today 3 states meet, for the site of a new armory
Harpers Ferry
230 miles long, it defined a boundary between a colony founded by Quakers and one founded by Catholics
Mason-Dixon line
Adding “P” to a word for a chronic back condition gets you this synonym for graphite or pencil lead
plumbago
Ulysses and Menelaus were among those who emerged from the “womb” of this, called “tall as a mountain, ribbed with pine”
the Trojan Horse
Of the 6 official U.N. languages, it’s the one that is written in a cursive form only
Arabic
In “Gone With the Wind”, Rhett Butler says this city named for a monarch “is the South, only intensified”
Charleston
President Madison is credited with the 1st of these 2-word actions; he didn’t sign an 1812 bill after Congress had adjourned
pocket veto
On her 2012 passing this Oscar nominee was described as “an essayist and humorist in the Dorothy Parker mold” (but funnier)
Nora Ephron
A 12-minute piece of music from this opera depicts Alpine dawn, a storm and the calm, and ends in a section called a galop
William Tell
Built in the 1990s, it’s the only permanent structure permitted in London with a thatched roof since the Great Fire of 1666
the Globe Theatre
This city, also the title of a film that won 2 Oscars, was named for a businessman known for 19th c. transportation
Fargo
Passepartout, whose name means “go everywhere”, is the fittingly named aide in an 1873 tale by this author
Jules Verne
The New York premiere of this film was on Thanksgiving, 15 days after the liberation of its title place
Casablanca
On July 10, 1804 he wrote a letter of goodbye, just in case, to “my dearest Theodosia”; he lived until 1836
Aaron Burr
Translated from Roman numerals, “55” appears in luggage and watch product names from a company founded by this man
Louis Vuitton
Whitman said this man’s poetry has “a propensity toward nocturnal themes, a demoniac undertone behind every page”
Edgar Allan Poe
Leodegrance, king of Cameliard, gave the newlyweds a piece of furniture on the marriage of this daughter
Guinevere
This athlete lost a 1931 lawsuit against the Curtiss Candy Company
Babe Ruth
In 1871 the official addition of this as a province gave Canada coasts on both the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans
British Columbia
Markers for this geog. designation are on Lake Victoria’s Lwaji Island and at Mbandaka in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Equator
Congress met in June 1778 to sign these but found errors in the official copy; it had to reconvene with a new set in July
the Articles of Confederation
He declares that one of the people he is trying to emulate is a medieval knight known as Amadís of Gaul
Don Quixote de la Mancha
Its official seal includes the year 1864 for when it was established, a folded flag and a scroll inscribed “our most sacred shrine”
Arlington National Cemetery
In Latin Jesus says, I am “via et veritas et vita”–in English, these 3 words
way, truth, life
This work was over 50 years old and excerpts had been popularized when it had its first full U.S. performance on Christmas Eve 1944
The Nutcracker
In one version Thetis killed 6 of her children in her attempts to make them immortal; this warrior was her seventh
Achilles
It’s the only state named for a woman and whose capital is also named for a woman
Maryland
In 1546 architect Pierre Lescot began rebuilding King Francis I’s palace, which is now this museum
the Louvre
The deepest part of the Mariana Trench and a submersible that went there share the name of this space shuttle
Challenger
