Snails can sleep for up to 3 years Flashcards

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81 Song that shares a name with the film that won the academy award for best picture

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Chariots of fire
Only piece by a geek artist to top the IS charts

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What award did Kevin love receive at the end of his third season
Ole luh d po 5th season
Tracy mcgrady
Kevin Johnson 3rd year

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Most improved player

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Who plays in the Ryder cup and president’s cup

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Golf
Ryder cup US and Europe (used to be just UK)
Presidents cup US vs anyone that is not in Europe

Won 3 Ryder cups (out of 8) and 3 president cups (out of 6) and tying once
Davis love 3

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Montreal CFL team

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Al o etts
A bird specifically a lark

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Jane Austen wrote anything is to be preferred or endured rather than marrying without affection which is exemplified by her character when initially rejecting a marriage proposal from him in this book

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Elizabeth Bennett
Mr Darcy (William )
Pride and prejudice
He was a jerk but them wooed her and she changed her mind

Colin firth in BBC series

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J gatsby became a multimillionaire are threw lavish parties to impress whom
Bonus who was the narrator of the novel

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Daisy
Nick caraway

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Shakespeare was a well known san uh tear publishing this they contained 154 sonnets
bonus traditional English sonnet contains how many lines
Double bonus what meter does a traditional English sonnet have

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Quar toe
14 lines - 3 qua trains and a couplet
Iambic pentameter
Sonnets had been typically about love but he made his more real about real people and people with flaws and were humorous

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This novel features a WW 2 nurse who travels back in time and falls in love with a Scottish klansman in the 18th century

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Outlander by Diana gabbeldon

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2nd longest river in South America

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Par uh nah

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2011 saw the premiere of part 2 of the final film in this franchise

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Harry Potter
And the deathly hallows part 2

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What economist the creator of his namesake school of thought was made a peer of the House of Lords in 1942

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John Maynard Canes
Economics Have enjoyed a resurgence in recent years following the Great Recession

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12
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How many faces on a standard soccer ball

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32
20 white hexagons
12 black pentagons

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First woman confirmed to the US Supreme Court

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Sandra day O’Connor in 1981 by Reagan

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The island of Java is home to the selling gun the first version of this animal shaped object commonly given to children

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Piggy bank
Translates to likeness of a wild boar

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3 tenors

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Pavarotti died in 07
Domingo
Cah rar as

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Difference between pawn shop and second hand shop

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Pawn shops offer loans

17
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Maximum number of colors to fill in a map without 2 adjacent areas having the same color

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4
Four color theorem proven in 76 despite being known for years

18
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In 1983 what famous rock band was banned from performing at the July 4th celebration by this interior Secretary because they attracted the wrong element

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Watt banned The Beach Boys
VP Bush invited them back to perform

19
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Ringo Starr played what instrument

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Drums

20
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Beatles formed in what English city locates on this river

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Liverpool
River mer z

21
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Beatles classic lineup

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Starr
McCartney
Lenin
Harrison died in 01

22
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Ringo is perhaps most closely associated with what 1966 song

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Yellow submarine
The title track of the album
Peached at number 2

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One of the only 2 Beatles song that ringo wrote solo was what song from abbey road
You might need the yellow submarine to visit it

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Octopus’s garden
Other sone pass me by - no one has ever heard of

24
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Harrison primarily played what instrument

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Guitar

25
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Growing up Harrison rode the. Us to school with whwt othe beatle

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McCartney

26
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One of Harrison’s contributions to abbey road was what song with a highly recognizable acoustic intro that is the most steamed song beatle song on Spotify

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Here comes the sun

27
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Paul McCartney primarily played what instrument

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The bass

28
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In 1971 Harrison played a pair of benefit concerts for what Asian nation which was attempting to gain independence from this country

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Bangladesh from Pakistan

29
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An admirer of Indian culture Harrison embraced the traditions of what religions

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Hinduism
Embraces the hair chrish nuh mantra

30
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Which former Australian PM was ousted in 2018 when the governing liberal party called for a leadership spill
Bonus who did he oust
Double bonus who did the ousting

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Turnbull ousted by Morrison. (Current)
Who ousted abbot