Study 13 Flashcards
I’m a Lakers fan. You like this Mark Cuban- owned NBA team. OK, but don’t ever take sides against the family.
The Mavericks
Gin, lime, and club soda: gin this guy
Rickey
This 4-syllable adjective can refer to non-canonical parts of the Vulgate bible or any documents of doubtful origins
Apocryphal
Who was the fourth and most recent governor of New York to become the president of the whole U.S. of A?
FDR
The Sonoran desert is on this continent
North America
The name of which dish is derived from a Medieval Latin phrase for “ink pot”?
Calamari
In human anatomy, what’s the five-letter name for the bony socket that holds the eyeball?
Orbit
In the final hours of June 1997, then-Prince Charles delivered a farewell address at the convention center of what city?
Hong Kong
The handover of Hong Kong from the United Kingdom to the People’s Republic of China was at midnight on 1 July 1997. This event ended 156 years of British rule in the former colony, which began in 1841.
A U.S. NAVY WEBSITE SAYS ITS JOURNEY FROM NEW LONDON TO NORWAY IN 1957 OPENED UP ARCTIC WATERS PREVIOUSLY RULED BY THE SOVIETS
USS NAUTILUS
U.S. Navy recruiters set up tables outside screenings of which blockbuster film upon its 1986 release?
Top Gun
Brad Bird wrote and directed “The Iron Giant” in 1998, before getting called up for what 2004 Pixar movie?
The Incredibles
“In the board games Headache and Trouble, what is the name of the device that is used to roll the dice?”
Pop-o-matic
Billy Connolly appears in the first act of “Muppet Treasure Island” as an alcoholic sea captain with what surname?
Bones
Zagreb is the capital of
Croatia
According to Webster, a squab is a four-week-old specimen of what bird?
Pigeon
IN THE ORENBURG OBLAST, A BRIDGE OVER THIS 1,500-MILE RIVER HAS MONUMENTS LABELED “ASIA” & “EUROPE”
Ural river
The Ural, also known as the Yaik /ˈjaɪk/,[note 1] is a river flowing through Russia and Kazakhstan in the continental border between Europe and Asia. It originates in the southern Ural Mountains and discharges into the Caspian Sea.
Quicksilver, Savor, and Venture are three rewards cards offered by what brand?
Capital One
In 1928 presidential candidate, Al Smith went against his party’s position by opposing this amendment
The 18th amendment
Three rivers, the Minho, the Douro, and the Tagus, divide this country into three distinct geographic areas
Portugal
In a 1996 movie it was “The People vs.” this Hustler magazine publisher
Larry Flynt
What is the name of Beyoncé’s debut solo album, released in 2003?
Dangerously in Love
Named as an alternate replacement, this Ravens QB made his first career Pro Bowl for his performance during the 2022 season.
Tyler Huntley
Older than Socrates, he is considered the first person to call themselves a “philosopher,” as he is credited with coining the term and using it to describe his own pursuit of wisdom
Pythagoras
According to an ancient tradition Pythagoras of Croton (born on the Greek island of Samos, c. 580 B.C.) coined the Greek word ‘philosopher’ meaning ‘lover of wisdom’ to contrast with ‘wise man’ (sophist), saying of himself that he was only a man who loved wisdom (a wisdom-loving man), not a wise man.
“Sight on Sound” was an interactive TV channel that became MTV; its sister channel “Pinwheel” became what other network?
Nickelodeon
Even the best fall down sometimes. Even the wrong words seem to rhyme. Out of the doubt that fills my mind. I somehow find you and I…” are lyrics from what 2004 Howie Day song?
Collide
According to an Oxford study, it takes about 130 pints of water to make 1 pint of what thirstiest plant milk?
Almond
“What fictional character who debuted in 1996 holds the Guinness World Record for most magazine covers for a video game character?
Lara Croft
of Tomb Raider fame”
Molly Ringwald wanted a movie based on her favorite Psychedelic Furs song. That’s how we got what 1986 opus?
Pretty in Pink
Steve Martin’s character even had the initials CDB in “Roxanne,” a 1987 adaptation of what romance-whisperer tale?
Cyrano de Bergerac,
a play by Edmond Rostand, is a classic work of French literature first performed in 1897. The play is a fictionalized account of the life of the real Cyrano de Bergerac, a 17th-century French playwright and duelist. Rostand’s play is a romantic comedy that follows the life of its titular character, a brilliant but self-conscious poet and swordsman, as he pines for the love of his life, Roxane.
In “Cyrano de Bergerac,” when someone mentions a “whisper,” it usually refers to Cyrano’s act of secretly expressing his love for Roxane through another man, Christian, by whispering eloquent words to him which Christian then delivers to her, effectively allowing Cyrano to “whisper” his true feelings without revealing his own identity due to his large nose and insecurity about his appearance.
A raster image file is made of pixels, as opposed to what more svelte and scalable graphics type made of instructions for lines and curves?
Vector
We still talk about “Mendelian inheritance,” thanks to an Austrian monk’s 19th-century experiments with what plant?
Peas
Capital of Guyana
Georgetown
For making Jack Nicholson want to be a better man in “As Good As It Gets,” who won her only Oscar?
Helen Hunt
He won an NBA title ring in 1973 as a reserve forward with the Knicks and coached the bulls to six titles in the 90s
Phil Jackson
Four months before his fatal jet crash, this golfer known for his old-time outfits rallied to win the 1999 U.S. Open
Payne Stewart
Because it carries two sets of chromosomes, a zygote is this type of cell
Diploid
Nearly -80 Celsius, or -110 Fahrenheit, dry ice is just the solid form of what compound?
Carbon dioxide
Glasses in imitation of Buddy Holly, stage name from two of his former Bluesology bandmates. Who’s that Londoner?
Elton John
State behind Delaware, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey, what was the fourth state to be ratified?
Georgia
Island country whose name comes from the Arabic for two seas.
Bahrain
Small state consisting of two separate groups of islands in the Persian Gulf
The country’s chief city, port, and capital, Manama, is located on the northeastern tip of Bahrain Island
Known as Y Ddraig Goch, a red dragon appears on which country’s flag?
Wales
The Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls is in Meyerton, just south of what largest South African city?
Johannesburg
AT HIS TRIAL, REVOLUTIONARIES REFERRED TO THE DEPOSED LOUIS XVI WITH THIS LAST NAME, ONE USED PREVIOUSLY FOR A DYNASTY
Capet
At his trial, revolutionaries referred to the deposed Louis XVI as “Capet,” which was the last name used previously for a dynasty, specifically the Capetian dynasty that ruled France for centuries before the Bourbons took over.
Explanation: When Louis XVI was tried during the French Revolution, he was stripped of his royal title and addressed as “Citizen Louis Capet” because he was a descendant of Hugh Capet, the founder of the Capetian dynasty
Forty years before Nixon, who became the first Quaker elected to the U.S. presidency?
Herbert Hoover
This country star called her 2011 memoir “From this Moment On,” also the name of one of her hit songs
Shania Twain
Populus tremuloides is the scientific name for this “quaking” tree species
Aspen
Joe Boyd, real estate salesman, is watching the Washington Senators play baseball on TV as this musical opens
Damn Yankees
Invented in San Francisco, or New York, or maybe Guangdong, what meat-and-veggie pile is Chinese for “odds and ends”?
Chop suey
“In 2022, Anna Mae Wong, the first Chinese American movie star in Hollywood, became the first Asian American to be featured on what?”
Quarters
No Plan Like Yours To Study History Wisely
Is a mnemonic for:
British royal dynasties
From William the Conqueror in 1066 to today, the British royal dynasties are Norman, Plantagenet, Lancaster, York, Tudor, Stuart, Hanover, and Windsor.
Born in 1920, Karol Wojtyla was the O.G. I.D. of a man who became world-famous under what other name?
Pope John Paul II
(Polish)
Banjul is the capital of
Gambia
Three years before reclaiming Ted Kennedy’s seat, what former law professor was named the 2009 Bostonian of the Year?
Elizabeth Warren
Though they don’t look much alike, “King Kong” was inspired by a Far East expedition to find what big-ass lizards?
Komodo dragons
Every spring since 2009, folks have ridden old-timey bikes through London while wearing what woolen fabric?
This event is known as the tweed run
For inspiration, my dog listens to “Bark at the Moon”, the title track of a 1983 album by this metal man
Ozzy Osbourne
An octave higher than the flute, this instrument has the highest pitch of the woodwinds
A piccolo
This president has been on the front of the half dollar since 1964
Kennedy
In the 2015 April Fools update of “Minecraft,” you could unlock a playable version of what older, on-theme game?
Reversi got chucked out of Windows 3.1’s packed-in games list, in favor of what perennial favorite?
Minesweeper
“Endurance” and “Shipwreck at the bottom of the World” chronicle this Brit’s ill-fated 1914 expedition
Sir Ernest Shackleton
A Michael Jackson album title is “Off” this
The Wall
They represent the heads of Gemini, but these two stars are not twins; one is a giant, the other is a triple binary
Castor and Pollux
Ratified in 1971, this amendment gives 18-year-olds the right to vote
The 26th
Before singing with the big bands in New York, swing singer Helen Forrest grew up in what glitzy town 130 miles south of there?
Atlantic City
STILL AROUND TODAY, THIS STREP INFECTION THAT CAUSES A RASH HAS TERRIBLE EFFECTS IN “LITTLE WOMEN” & “LITTLE TOWN ON THE PRAIRIE”
Scarlet Fever
Dating to the 1870s, Japan’s oldest beer brand is named for what largest city on the island of Hokkaido?
Sapporo
In 1972 it was the first city outside of Europe and North America to host the Winter Olympics
A statue of Nicolaus Copernicus stands in front of the Staszic Palace, in what European capital?
Warsaw
The 1989 Chemistry Nobel went to the folks who discovered that some RNA molecules catalyze reactions just like what class of proteins?
enzymes
The musical about this English boy’s dream of going to the Royal ballet school hit Broadway in 2008
Billy Elliot
Body part in French
Le foie
Liver
Video Games
Arthur Morgan and the Van Der Linde gang are at the heart of the follow up to this western from rockstar games
Red Dead Redemption
This European capital is nicknamed “The Eternal City“
Rome
Ravi Shankar was world famous for playing this Indian instrument
Sitar
“Freedom and Unity” is the motto of what place that became a U.S. state in 1791?
Vermont
YALE TAKES CREDIT FOR STARTING A COMMENCEMENT TRADITION WHEN IT GAVE THIS COMPOSER AN HONORARY DOCTORATE IN 1905
SIR EDWARD ELGAR
Palikir is the capital of what country?
Federated States of Micronesia
East of the Philippines, it consists of 607 islands. The flag is light blue with four white stars arranged like the points of a compass
Meaning “higher” or “ever upward” this Latin word is New York’s state motto
Excelsior
The first election for governor took place between Philip Schuyler and George Clinton in 1777. Clinton won and served as governor for the next 18 years.
This “guard” of Roman emperors was abolished in the fourth century
Praetorian guard
Tony Soprano’s daughter spent very little time eating grass, but she was nonetheless named for what sort of grazing area?
Meadow
Less than four years after the Wright Bros. did their thing, Frenchmen named Breguet and Cornu successfully tested what other conveyance?
Helicopter
Though it’s used in Asian staples like natto and tempeh, the U.S. and Brazil dominate production of what legume?
Soybeans
“What iconic 1992 music video by Guns N Roses, known for its high production cost, features a dramatic wedding scene and Slash’s famous guitar solo in the desert.”
November Rain
“Movie star Samuel L. Jackson has his own line of what brand of caps that is an abbreviation of knitted Angora wool.”
Kangol
In 1922, Cal beat USC 12-0 at the first football game in what big, big venue?
The Rose Bowl
Snugged up against Thailand geographically, Vientiane’s 150-foot golden Pha That Luang is at the spiritual center of what Mekong nation?
Laos
The 2017 film “First They Killed My Father” was directed by what star of “Changeling”?
Angelina Jolie
For “Working On A Dream” he was once again backed by the E Street Band
Bruce Springsteen
Month of National Teacher Day and Kentucky Derby Day
May
The national dish of Ethiopia is a spicy stew called doro wat, where “doro” translates to what protein?
Chicken
This element, with the atomic number 79, is highly valued for jewelry and currency.
Gold
This is the only team in the NFL to go undefeated in both the regular season and the Super Bowl.
Miami Dolphins—they went undefeated in the 1972 season, including the Super Bowl.
Founded in Italy in 1961, Parmalat is one of the world’s biggest purveyors of Ultra-High Temperature … what?
Milk
He was the lead Stooge and had a bowl haircut
Moe
Some “general” info—this military man died in London on June 14, 1801, unpopular in two countries
Benedict Arnold
Starts and ends with O
It’s another word for migraine
Oleo
Of the top 5 Canadian cities in population, it’s the one closest to the Pacific Ocean
Vancouver
Barry Goldwater served as a United States senator from 1953 to 1965 and 1969 to 1987 for this state
Arizona
was the Republican Party’s nominee for president in 1964.
Before the printer accidentally resurfaced the stone, Edvard Munch printed about 50 copies of “The Scream” in what art form?
Lithography
Doha is the capital of what country
Qatar
A PAIR OF DISCOVERIES BY HIM IN 1787 ARE NAMED FOR STAGE CHARACTERS, A NEW PRACTICE IN HIS FIELD
WILLIAM HERSCHEL
He discovered the planet Uranus, hypothesized that nebulae are composed of stars, and developed a theory of stellar evolution. He was knighted in 1816.
