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Siam Thailand Flashcards

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Frequently washing up on Caribbean beaches in large brown, pungent masses, sargassum is a type of…

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Seaweed

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Who won a Tony Award in 2010 for her theatrical performance in Fences, then an Oscar in 2017 for the same role in the movie adaptation?

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Viola Davis

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Split between these 2 countries during colonial times, Hispaniola is an island divided politically into

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Spain and France

the Dominican Republic and Haiti

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First generally available in Japan and South Korea in 1988, the varicella vaccine protects against which disease?

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Chickenpox

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Designed to help practitioners push their limits, this type of yoga must be performed in a studio that is at least 105F

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Bikram Yoga

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The first name of which actor, born in Lebanon and raised in Canada, is a Hawaiian word meaning “cool breeze over the mountains”?

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Keanu reeves

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If a person’s boss has a reputation for being penurious, what might they expect as a holiday bonus?

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Nothing

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Lasting more than 700 years, the Reconquista was an attempt by European Christians to expel which group from Spain and Portugal?

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Moors

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When introduced in 2010, the Bitcoin logo was criticized for resembling the baht, the currency for which country?

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Thailand

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Because it’s tough for bacteria to grow in it what food can last thousands of years

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Honey
If it’s store properly, honey, can literally last forever scientists have found honey more than 5000 years old

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The coin pocket in jeans was originally meant to store what

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Watch
these pockets were introduced by Levi Strauss and company in 1879 and were meant to keep pocket watches safe and secure

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This NBA team shares its name with an old-fashioned type of baggy pants

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New York Knicks
Washington Irving coin the term Knickerbocker for New York socialites and the term gradually refer to their baggy pants and eventually to the NBA team

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Due to an old contract, the lead role of this action movie was offered to 70-year-old Frank Sinatra

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Die hard
Die hard technically has a prequel the detective a1968 film that was one of the biggest hits of Sinatra’s acting career

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Birds have hollow bones which allow birds to do what

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Store more oxygen
Bird skeletons aren’t any lighter than the same size mammal skeletons, but they do let birds store more oxygen, which helps them fly

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What came first moving stairs, called escalators or the verb to escalate

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Moving stairs
, the escalator was invented in 1900 but the verb to escalate wasn’t in regular usage until 1944

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Science
physicist, John Wheeler said he coined this term as a faster way to say completely collapsed objects

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Black hole
wheeler the father of modern relativity named black holes

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From Greek for beyond and heavy, it’s a type of chamber used to treat decompression sickness

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Hyperbaric

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Beastly rhyme time
an equitable Kodiak

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Fair bear

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Beastly rhyme time
A pocket burrowers slip on shoe

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Gopher loafer

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Beastly rhyme time

A plastered pole cat

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Drunk skunk

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Beastly rhyme time

A krait blunder
Crate

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Snake mistake
snake that’s what a crate is

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Beastly rhyme time
cease fire between ganders

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A goose truce
Or geese peace

23
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In a fairytale this title bird is brought to the Emperor of China, but eventually replaced by mechanical one

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The Nightingale

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Among the characters created by this beloved author, where Ramona Quimby and Henry Huggins

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Beverly Cleary

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Fast friends, Jess and Leslie create their own secret Kingdom in the woods, then tragedy strikes in bridge to this place

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Terabithia

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Is he a sailor or a genie? unclear but he’s fastidious and he reps the brand brand that makes magic erasers

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Mr. clean

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This big dude is a brand mascot whose name was inspired by a type of large pea

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The Jolly Green giant

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Oh yeah! Richard Burke was the original voice of the pitcher shaped mascot for this drink brand

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Kool-Aid

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Edward bear is this character’s more formal name

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Oh wow Winnie the Pooh

30
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Jamie Journals in Jim Benton’s alliterative best selling series, dear dumb this

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Diary

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The full name of this planters mascot is Bartholomew, Richard Fitzgerald, Smythe

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Mr. peanut

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The drum in a close dryer is an example of the basket type of this spinning device seen in many lab

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Centrifuge

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William Harvey attempted this process in 1628, but it wasn’t safe until the advent of donor compatibility tests in the early 1900s

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Blood transfusion

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Einstein, patented an innovative refrigerator, but couldn’t sell it after Dupont came up with this freezing stuff

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Freon

35
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A technique called somatic cell nuclear transfer is used in this process; in 1996 it resulted in a sheep named dolly

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Cloning

36
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Also a papal name

From Latin for good and fate, it’s an old timey word for an inn keeper
Also a papal name

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Boniface

37
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Also a papal name
As far as astrological signs go, this one fits the bill

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Leo

38
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A twin tailed mermaid is the mascot of this behemoth chain

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Starbucks

39
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When in comes before this word, meaning, merciful, it often describes nasty weather

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Clement
Also a papal name

40
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Also a papal name
It follows presumed in the title of a Scott turrow thriller

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Innocent

41
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It follows salt in the name of a gunpowder component

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Peter

Also a papal name

42
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Peoples Sexiest man alive
He was hunking it up on LA law when chosen in 1987 ; now he’s even sexier on in the kitchen with him am I right?

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Harry Hamlin

43
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Peoples Sexiest man alive
Two years after Creed 2 this actor was sexy man number one in 2020

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Michael B Jordan

44
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Peoples Sexiest man alive
Great Scott! in 1989 This actor was older balder and better. We only wished he’d really played celebrity Jeopardy.

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Sean Connery

45
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Peoples Sexiest man alive
He’s got the egot He’s a master musician. He’s married to Chrissy Teigen so why not also be the sexiest man alive in 2019

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John Legend

46
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Peoples Sexiest man alive

2016 covered duly reported this part-time pro wrestler was sweet, smart, and sculpted. If you smell what the Ken is cooking.

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Dwayne Johnson The Rock

47
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This archipelago about 60 miles off the coast of Morocco is Spain southernmost autonomous community

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The Canary Islands

48
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To show Columbus wasn’t first across the Atlantic in 1893 a Viking ship replica sailed from Norway to a big party in this city

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Chicago the Columbian expo was there 1893

49
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This great Sue leader often were tinted glass goggles as in 1881 portraits

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Sitting bull

50
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Early baseball star Harry Wright stands with his English born dad Sam a star in this sport

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Cricket

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