Study 1 Flashcards
Capital of New Zealand and the Southernmost National Capital in the world
Wellington
This inspector mercilessly pursues Jean Alejandro in “Les Misérables”
Javert
Which US State is the “Land of Enchantment”
New Mexico
Author of the play Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf
Edward Albee
In 2013, American teen Sloane Stephen’s upset this older US female star at the Australian Open
Serena Williams
In the 400s BC Kings Darius and Xerxes of this empire were beat turned back trying to invade Greece
Persian Empire
This American General born in 1820 was called Cump by his siblings
William Tecumseh Sherman (Civil War Union general)
This actor’s first name is Hawaiian for “cool breeze over the mountains”
Keanu Reeves
First American writer to earn $1 million received in $2k for a 1903 novel set in the Klondike
Jack London (Call of the Wild)
In 1968 Gwendolyn Brooks succeeded this Poet Laureate of Illinois
Carl Sandburg
Commander Lloyd M. Bûcher was the last captain of this US ship
USS Pueblo
Attacked and captured by North Korea, 1968
The first inert gas discovered on Earth, it’s name is Greek for “without work”
Argon
A- without
Ergon- work
This company established its first village in 1950 in Alcudia on the island of Majorca
Club Med
French travel/tourism operator
Apsley House, the London home of this historic duke boasts an 11’4” nude statute of Napoleon
Duke of Wellington
This company’s “Infinity” allowed you to play characters from The Incredibles and Cars, to name a few
Disney
(Video game)
Make your future fighting Ghaul, leader of the Red Legion, in the second iteration of this Bungie game
Destiny
In Destiny 2, you fight the Red Legion, a sect of the militant Cabal race
HE & STEPHEN MERCHANT CREATED
THE BRITISH TV SHOW
“THE OFFICE”
Ricky Gervais
LENA ON “SPLITTING UP
TOGETHER” & PAM ON
“THE OFFICE”
Jenna Fischer
ESTABLISHING SOME BORDERS
Argentina and Bolivia are to its east
Chile
Poem name and author that includes the following: April is the cruellest month breeding Lilacs out of the dead land… stirring Dull roots with Spring rain
The Waste Land
By TS Eliot
For nearly 30 years, California’s Catalina Island was the spring training camp for this non-California Major League Baseball team
Chicago Cubs (island was owned by gum magnate and Cubs owner Wrigley)
In 1986 and again in 2001, people power protests in this nation pushed out male presidents and replaced them with females
Philippines
1986-92: Corazon Aquino
2001-10: Gloria Macapagel Arroyo
This Shakespeare character is described as “a howling monster,” “a most scurvy monster,” and “some monster of the isle”
Caliban (The Tempest)
Born in Kiev and later became a US citizen, this leader became prime minister of a country in 1969 of a country founded in the 20th century
Golda Meir (1947 Israel independence from Britain)
This Austrian physicists name is now synonymous with the speed of sound
Ernst Mach
Seeing young people competing on reality TV on one channel and fighting a war on the next gave this author an idea for a book.
Suzanne Collins (Hunger Games)
Category: shoe brands
This company was commissioned to make a Norwegian style shoes, hence its Weejuns
Bass
Rainforests in the basin of the 2,900-mile river have made Cameroon Africa’s leading timber exporter
The Congo
Thousands of gnus annually face a gauntlet of crocodiles while crossing the Mara River in this African country
Tanzania (or Kenya)
Category: Vans
A music composition named for him has been called “the most prestigious classical piano contest in the world”
Van Cliburn
Category: The Experience Music Project
In 2004, for the 40th anniversary of the Fab 4 in the US, EMP presents an exhibit titled this, like a 1977 Broadway show
Beatlemania
By definition, the Hashemites are either direct or collateral descendants of this prophet
Muhammad
Parashurama is the 6th avatar of this Hindu god
Vishnu
Category: “Lewis” & “Clark”
This 1984 gold medalist was booed when he didn’t try to break the long jump world record
Carl Lewis
Category: “Lewis” & “ Clark”
He had actually worked in an oil field before he drilled for oil in 1940 film “Boom Town”
Clark Gable
Minimum age for US Congressman
25
Laurens Hammond invented this instrument
Electric organ
Lenses of this shape correct farsightedness
Convex
Ilsa Land Laszlo was the heroine of this 1942 film classic
Casablanca
Measured by it’s shoreline, it’s the largest bay in the Western Hemisphere
Hudson Bay
Robert Louis Stevenson said it “goes in and out with me”
His shadow
Category: Geographical “Saints”
You might go to this resort in Cornwall to meet a man with 7 wives.
St. Ives
In 1973, 10 years after her death, she became the first female solo artist elected into the Country Music Hall of Fame
Patsy Kline
In track and field, the long jump was formerly called this
Running broad jump (broad jump)
He was “sitting at the receipt of custom” when Jesus asked him to become a disciple.
Matthew
An institue of physical sciences at the University of Copenhagen is named for this physicist
Niels Bohr
June 28, 1914 was the last day for this heir to a European throne
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Kate Bosworth and James Marsden star in the 2011 remake of the Peckinpah film
Straw Dogs
Category: Last Battle of the War
Battle of Bosworth
Wars of the Roses
From the Latin for “of the night” these pensive musical pieces were popularized by Chopin and Bartok
Nocturne
Category: ballet
Born Margaret Hookham in England, she made her professional debut in 1934 at the age of 15
Margot Fonteyn
Category: Mapmaker, mapmaker
Get out the blue ink for this sea immediately North of Poland
Baltic Sea
The Dominion of Canada was formed in 1867; this transplanted Scot became the country’s first prime minister
John A. MacDonald
Category: Caribbean
The Casals festival in this Puerto Rican city is one of the Caribbean’s best-known cultural events
San Juan
This Chilean poet wrote, “I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair”
Pablo Neruda
Category: I- 65
You’ll see Merrillville, IN & don’t forget/ this University in West Lafayette
Purdue University
Category: Yes-Vember
In Nov. 1975 the USSR said yes we have a second Sputnik; this passenger was unavailable for comment.
Laika (dog)
Category: King of Queens
Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, formally Duchess of York
George the VI
was King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth from 11 December 1936 until his death on 6 February 1952. He was also the last Emperor of India from 1936 until the British Raj was dissolved in August 1947
Category: Turtles and Tortoises
This third “T” word refers to turtles of brackish water, especially one in Genus Malaclemys in the Eastern United States
Terrapins
Category: Turtles and Tortoises
The Genus Kinixys includes the only turtles with a hinge on this, the upper shell
carapace
Category: Bond Movie for Bond girl
1962: Ursula Andress as Honey Ryder
Dr. No
Who was the first US Secretary of State under George Washington?
Thomas Jefferson
Took office March 1790
Ports on the Bay include Bilbao, Spain and Bayonne, France
Bay of Biscay
Category: pop culture
A 21 crunch salute to the late Arch West, the Frito-Lay executive credited with creating this brand of tortilla chips
Doritos
Category: Man Booker Prize
1989’s winner was this novel by Kazuo Ishiguro about a perfect English Butler, reflecting on his 30 year career
The Remains of the Day
Category: Fiction
Washington Irving wrote “A history of” this state “from the beginning of the world to the end of the Dutch Dynasty”
New York
German for “shape” gives us this name of a school of psychology
Gestalt
Category: name the city
The American Swedish institute
Minneapolis, Mn
Melting copper and zinc together is the traditional recipe for this alloy used since Neolithic times
Brass
This river Africa’s, third longest rises in the highlands of southern Guinea, near its border with Sierra Leone
Niger river
What does SCUBA stand for?
Self contained underwater breathing apparatus
Where is Antoni Gaudí, Catalan architect and designer from Spain, known as the greatest exponent of Catalan Modernism, buried?
La Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, Spain
Boxer nicknamed “the Brown Bomber” this heavy weight was champion from 1937 until his temporary retirement in 1949
Joe Louis
He is widely regarded as the first African-American to achieve the status of nationwide hero within the United States was also focal point of anti-Nazi sentiment leading up to and during World War II because of his historic rematch with boxer Max Schmeling in 1938. 
the oldest freshwater lake as well as the deepest, more than a mile down in some spots. It holds 20 percent of all the planet’s fresh water and is getting bigger
Lake Baikal. Located in Siberia.
This author asked for his birth name, Eric Arthur Blair, be used on his headstone
George Orwell
Play that won the 2023 Tony for best play
“Leopoldstadt”
Tom Stoppard’s epic semi-autobiographical play about three generations of a Viennese Jewish family before and after the Holocaust, won four of the six Tonys for which it was nominated, including best play.
These preferences in economics signify a preference for variety. Rather than consuming extreme amounts of one good, consumers with these preferences prefer a balanced mix or ‘average’ of goods, which brings them more satisfaction.
Convex preferences
This satisfies the core economic principle of utility maximization.
In the context of economics, the idea of convex preferences means that a consumer values variety. Convex preferences imply that a consumer would rather have a mix or average of goods rather than extreme amounts of one good and none of the other
Example: buffet
Category: Potent Potables
For a Greyhound combine 1 1/2 ounces of gin with 5 ounces of this
Grapefruit juice
A language that is a mix of Tahitian and 18th century English is official on this remote island, home to the bounty mutineers
Pitcairn Island
This largest brass instrument is also the one with the lowest pitch
Tuba
The world’s northernmost national capital. It has a name meaning “Smoke Bay,” because of all the geysers and hot springs
Reykjavik
How many hearts does an octopus have?
3
The Most Serene Republic of __________ adopted its constitution in 1600, making it the worlds oldest surviving republic
San Marino
British Honduras was a Crown colony on the east coast of Central America, south of Mexico, from 1783 to 1964
An independent nation now called
Belize
Its capital is Belmopan, and its largest city is Belize City.
Which two countries have square shaped flags?
Switzerland - red background with white cross, The white cross is known as the Swiss cross or the federal cross.
and
Vatican City - with yellow and white vertically divided on each side of the flag. There is an emblem on the white side of it which features two keys crossed, one silver and one gold symbolising that the Pope has dominion over all spiritual matters on Earth.
Which geographical imaginary line is drawn to pass through Greenwich, England?
The prime meridian
The prime meridian separates the eastern hemisphere from the western hemisphere. Halfway around the world, at 180 degrees longitude, is the International Date Line.
Alphabetically, what’s the first of the four US states that meet at Four Corners Monument?
Arizona
Four Corners Monument, marking the only spot in the United States where four states (Arizona, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico) come together
The world’s sixty tallest volcanoes are all in what mountain range?
The Andes
The Andes Mountains extend over seven countries: Argentina (Mount Aconcagua), Bolivia (Huayna Potosi), Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela, known as Andean States.
Two word term for a circle of mushrooms comes from the folktale, belief that it’s where magical beings cavorted
Fairy ring
Category: Playground games
A standard croquet course may have six or nine of these metal hoops
Wickets
Category: Oscar Winners on TV
This Oscar winning daughter of an Oscar winning director plays producer Eileen Rand on “Smash”
Anjelica Huston
Smash is an American musical drama television. It ran two seasons from
February 6, 2012 –
May 26, 2013
Category: 1990’s #1 albums
This band’s “Monster” album included “Crush with Eyeliner”
REM
Category: Name that war
The three battles of Ypres
WWI
The Belgian city of Ypres is synonymous with the First World War. Ypres gave its name to three major battles: First Ypres (19 October - 22 November 1914), Second Ypres (21 April - 25 May 1915) and Third Ypres (31 July - 10 November 1917). The severe casualties suffered in the area made Ypres a focus for post-war remembrance.
Of the worlds five largest islands by area, the two with territory of more than one country are Borneo and this one
New Guinea
Category: Quick History
In 1756 this city’s “black hole” made news
Calcutta
The Black Hole of Calcutta refers to a prison cell which was used to hold 146 mostly British prisoners captured after the Nawab of Bengal had taken over the city from the East India Company. Interred on 20 June 1756 in a tiny cell in Fort William, 123 of the prisoners died of dehydration and suffocation.
Category: two people, same position
Baseball’s Mariano Rivera and TV’s Kyra Sedgwick (by the show’s title)
Closer
Mariano Rivera (born November 29, 1969) is a Panamanian-American former professional baseball pitcher who played 19 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees, from 1995 to 2013. Nicknamed “Mo” and “Sandman”, he spent most of his career as a relief pitcher and served as the Yankees’ closer for 17 seasons.
If you cross any of Lesotho’s borders you can only end up in this other county
South Africa
Herr Bismarck’s doctrine of practical diplomacy
Realpolitik
Realpolitik (German: real ‘realistic, practical, actual’, and Politik ‘politics’) is the approach of conducting diplomatic or political policies based primarily on considerations of given circumstances and factors, rather than strictly following ideological, moral, or ethical premises.
His essay “On the decay of the art of lying” was “Read at a Meeting of the Historical and Antiquarian Club of Hartford”
Mark Twain
Category: State of the Mall
Neonopolis & The Forum Shops
Nevada
