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Sept 30 random Flashcards

1
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Mr. Micawber, modeled after author’s father

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David Copperfield (villain was Heep)

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2
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A Room of One’s Own, Mrs Dalloway

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Virginia Wolf

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3
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Cry the Beloved Country author

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Paton

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4
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James Earl Jones won an EGOT with this honorary award

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Oscar

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5
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A back room & bar of Harry Hope’s saloon is the setting for this Eugene O’Neill play

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The Iceman Cometh (Desire Under the Elms, Long Day’s Journey into Night)

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6
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Neuromancer author

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Gibson

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7
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Richard Bachman pen name

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Stephen King

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8
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John Paul Jones ship need to honor Franklin

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Bonhomme Richard

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9
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First black American to win Nobel Prize for Literature

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Toni Morrison (she’s MORE important than others)

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10
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Haystacks and waterlillies

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Monet

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11
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Still life painter

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Cezanne, alt: Matisse

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12
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Postman Always Rings Twice– gas station murder; Double Indemnity

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James Cain

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13
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James Ellroy

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The Black Dahlia, LA Confidential

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14
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Atonement author

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McEwan

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15
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Last Pres served in War 1812

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Buchanan

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16
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Pepsi inventor

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Bradham in NC

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17
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Bosch creator and Lincoln Lawyer author

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Connelly

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18
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Flemish Baroque painter

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Reubens

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19
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Emmy best actor 2023, for Roman Roy on Succession

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Kieran Culkin

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20
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Longest tenured member of SNL

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Kenna Thompson

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21
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Alex Cross detective author

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James Patterson

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22
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Turco-Mongol conqueror; founded the empire around Afghanistan, Iran, and Central Asia in 14th c

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Tamerlane

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23
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Alexandria astronomer

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Ptolemy

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24
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

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Edward Gibbon

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25
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A Trip to the Moon

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by Melies

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26
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The Thief of Bagdad actor

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Douglas Fairbanks

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27
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doughnut-shaped region of icy objects beyond the orbit of Neptune

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Kuiper belt

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28
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most common igneous rock

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basalt

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29
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started out as some other type of rock, but have been substantially changed

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metamorphic rocks

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30
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held statue of Zeus (7 wonders/Phidias)and hosted Olympic games

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Olympia (nowhere near Mount Olympus, despite name)

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31
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lost the Peloponnesian Wars

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Athens

32
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Birth name Augustus

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Octavian

33
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Emperor when Christ crucified

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Tiberius

34
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Little Boot

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Caligula

35
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Conquered Britain

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Claudius

36
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Fiddled Rome

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Nero

37
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Greatest extent of Empire

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Trajan

38
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Last emperor

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Romulus Augustulus

39
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Raised by Lady of the Lake. Had an affair with Guinevere

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Sir Lancelot

40
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Writer who referred to Helen as “face that launched a thousand ships”

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Christopher Marlowe (Tamburlaine)

41
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Son of Odysseus

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Telemachus (mom was Penelope)

42
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Mother of Paris and Hector

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Hecuba (wife of Priam)

43
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Liquid rockets

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Goddard

44
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Nazi rockets

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von Braun

45
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Cubism creator

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Picasso

46
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Hastings in 1066 preceded by this battle

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Stamford Bridge (FORD was First)

47
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Russians and Alexander Nevsky def this order

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Teutonic Order

48
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William Wallace def English at

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Sterling Bridge (on the SILVER screen)

49
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King Henry V of England defeated the army of King Charles VI of France.

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Agincourt

50
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restored William’s Protestant ascendancy over Ireland (of William and Mary fame)

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Battle of the Boyne (near Drogheda) in 1690

51
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Argentine who liberated ARG and Chile from the Spanish

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Jose de San Martin

52
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Stoicism founder

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Zeno

53
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Earliest known civilization

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Sumer

54
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Def by Ramses II at Battle of Kadesh

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Hittites

55
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Led Achaemenid Empire that razed Athens but lost at naval battle Salamis

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Xerxes

56
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First battle of Revolution

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Lexington and Concord

57
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Gates def Burgoyne

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Saratoga

58
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Named Pacific Ocean

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Magellan

59
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First Sec Def

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Forrestal

60
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Translated Bible into English

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Wycliffe

61
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Nocturnes

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Debussy

62
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most common element on Earth

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Oxygen

63
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rarest element on Earth

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Astatine

64
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First explorer NYC Bay

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Verrazano (for FR)

65
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River Florence

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Arno

66
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American violinist who fled USSR

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Isaac Stern

67
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Second largest city in FR

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Marseille

68
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Greek measured earth

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Eratosthenes
ERA TOSSED A KNEES

69
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SPY WRITER IN from cold

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Le Carre (Car-ay)

70
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Third VP

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Burr. Killed Hamilton

71
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Ivan the Great

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III

72
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First Sec of War

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Henry Knox

73
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Point where one enters space is the

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Karman Line

74
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Dead astronaut

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Grissom

75
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he invented the first modern computer, the “Difference Engine”

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Babbage

76
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centaur who Heracles killed

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Nessus

77
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