Stop The Friday Procrastination Flashcards
His national memorial in Washington DC was unveiled in 2011
MLK
Journalist and activist ida b wells barnett helped found this civil rights org in 1909
NAACP
With justice RBG passing he became the second oldest member of the Supreme Court
Clarence Thomas
As this group was forming in 1945 Brazil and China asked for this other group
UN
WHO showed up in 1948
In 2021 the WHO recommended a promising vaccine for this disease that kills some 250K sun-Saharan children a year
Malaria
The title femme of this Flaubert novel is married to a country doctor named Charles
Madame bovary
In this novel a flight surgeon named doc daneeka explains a paradoxical army regulation about grounding fliers about grounding fliers to Yossarian
CAtch 22
The art of training a horse in precise movements perhaps to prepare for a competition
Dressage
Enriching a treasury is filling these; with the same derivation as a place to put the dead
Coffers
This type of chocolate has a set of double vowels and double consonants
Bittersweet
Stephan Lang played a character simply known as the blind man in this 2016 film & returned for its 2021 sequel
Don’t breathe
This Steinbeck work that s set In Monterey is dedicated to Ed rickets on whom the character of doc is partly based
Cannery row
In the 1970s Bernard and Murray Spain copyrighted what iconic image with The phrase have a happy day
Smiley face
In Russia what type of alcoholic beverage was classified as a soft drink until 2011
Beer
< 10%
What composer famously made a four note fugue motif out of the letters of his name
Bach
H the same as b flat
According to 2 way radio etiquette ehat word is typically used to signify the end of a conversation
out
What remote inland area of Australia shares its name with a chain of steakhouses
Outback
In the Bible who gets who to reveal that the source of his strength is his hair
Delilah gets Samson
What celebrity fitness expert hosted a home video workout series called sweatin to the oldies
Richard Simmons
NADSAT is the fictional language spoken by Alex and his droogs in what 1962 novel
A clockwork orange
Anthony burgess
The megatons to megawatts program had the US but what element in Russian bombs to use in nuclear reactors
Uranium
What Renaissance painter and sculptor famously said every block of stone has a statue inside it
Michelangelo
Scientific name for the coneflower
Echinacea eck uh nay shhhh
Lends its name to the herbal remedy believed to curb the common cold
What member of the Hindu trinity is known as the destroyer
Shiva
What term for being at the center of attention comes from the stage theaters use of quicklime for illumination.
Limelight
Since they switched to the Gregorian calendar Russian commemorates the October revolution in what month
November
When surveyed the Japanese selected this instant food as their country’s best invention of the 20th century
Raman
Ina. Book by jean de brunhoff what animal is Celeste who marries her cousin
Broon hoff
Elephant
Which white blood cells in the body can be either B cells or T cells
Lymphocytes
Originally what unit of measure was equal to one 10 millionth of the distance from the equator to the North Pole
Meter
