Sept random Flashcards
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Philip K Dick (also– A Scanner Darkly)
Named for a president, it was the USA’s first transcontinental road for cars
Lincoln Highway (Hwy 30 now)
2022 Pulitzer Prize winning book about this Israeli family
Netanyahus (by Cohen)
2022 album of the year
Harry’s House by Harry Styles
Capital of Tajikistan
Dushanbe
First Queen of England
Mary I
Sec Treasury
Yellen
Speaker of House
Mike Johnson (LA)
Sen majority leader
Chuck Schumer (whip– Durbin)
Senate minority leader
McConnell (whip– Thune)
Most recent SCOTUS appointee
Brown-Jackson (just like MJ, she a THRILLER)
Gateway Arch National Park, Missouri
Smallest National Park
Tallest mountain Hawaii
Mauna Kea
Leper colony island Hawaii (Hansen’s disease)
Molokaʻi
Third largest Japanese Island of the big four
Kyushu (south of Honshu, which is south of Hokkaido)
Disputed Japanese islands with Russia
Kuril Islands
Tom Brown’s School Days author
Hughes
Lost Horizon and Goodbye Mr Chips author
James Hilton
2022 Best Animated Oscar
Pinocchio (Guillermo del Toro) – Collodi wrote original book
Civil rights murdered black teen
Emmet Till
Little Prince author
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Colorado peak named for an Army officer
Pike’s Peak
Left Hand of Darkness
Ursula Le Guin
Infinite Jest author
David Foster Wallace
Water music
Handel
Mentored Mozart and Beethoven
Haydn
This 19th c. German invented an engine that, unlike gasoline engines, achieves ignition with no external spark
Diesel
1 of the only 2 letters not found in the abbreviations of elements with atomic numbers up to 100
J or Q
Its mass 1 isotope is also called protium
hydrogen