Study 4 Flashcards
Who served as secretary of commerce under Warren Harding before becoming President in 1928?
Herbert Hoover
Category: who’s on first?
Yankees, 1923-1939
Lou Gehrig
Category: who’s on first?
Mets, 1983 to 1989; “Seinfeld”beginning in 1992
Keith Hernandez
Category: who’s on first?
A’s 1987-1997; Cardinals 1998-2001
Mark McGwire
The blue mosque in this Turkish city gets its name from the 20,000 blue tiles that line it’s ceiling
Istanbul
Category: computer lingo
The HT in both HTTP an HTML stand for this
Hypertext 
Category: computer lingo
Send me that report as a PDF this “format “
Portable document format 
Category: wives of Shakespeare (name the husband)
Katharina
Petruchio 
In Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew, Petruchio, a mercenary (or money-hungry) suitor seeking a wealthy bride, proposes marriage to Katherine, a woman with a horrid temper (as described by Hortensio, Petruchio’s friend).
Category: wives of Shakespeare (name the husband)
Octavia
Mark Antony
The basic monetary unit and official currency of Poland
zloty
The word “zloty” means “golden” in Polish, as the old gold coins which were firstly called like that.
Category: G.I. Joes
This general dubbed “fighting Joe” briefly commanded the army of the Potomac
Joe Hooker
Category: movie directors
His voice is heard in the opening narrations for his films, Mean Streets and The Color of Money
Martin Scorsese 
Category: 60s music
Before founding Led Zeppelin, he was a session guitarist on such pop hits as Petula Clark’s “Downtown”
Jimmy Page
Category: digital music
In 2006, this bands “Speed of Sound”became the billionth song purchased on the iTunes store
Coldplay
Category: TV actors
Not believing his Star Trek character would use a weapon to knockout someone, he instead created the “Vulcan nerve pinch “
Leonard Nimoy
Category: the Oscars
He won a record 22 Academy Awards from the years 1932 to 1969
Walt Disney 
Category: Bridges
The Øresund bridge connects Sweden to this country
Denmark 
Category: politics
“Unbought and Unbossed” was her campaign slogan when she became the first black woman elected to US Congress
Shirley Chisholm 
Category: New York City landmarks
It open to the public on December 27, 1932 with a performance featuring Ray Bolger and Martha Graham
Radio city music Hall
Martha Graham was a dancer
Bolger was a dancer and actor- played the scarecrow in the Wizard of Oz
Category: southern food
Along with onions and bell peppers, it’s part of the holy trinity of Cajun cooking
Celery
Category: human anatomy
There are five metatarsal bones in this part of the human body
Foot 
Category: the military
Semper supra is the motto of this branch of the US Armed Forces
The space force 
Category: urban planning
He first presented his Broadacre City development concept in the 1932 book “The Disappearing City”
Frank Loyd Wright 
Category: jazz legends
He dropped out of Juilliard in 1945 and join Charlie Parker’s bebop quintet on trumpet
Miles Davis 
Category: explorers
He detailed the payments he believed the Spanish crown owed him in the 1502 work Book of Privileges
Christopher Columbus 
Category: “O” My!
It’s the 15th letter of the Greek alphabet
Omicron 
Category: world geography
This country claims Antarctica’s Queen Maud Land region as a dependent territory
Norway
Category: science
He wrote the Annus Mirabilis papers while living in a second-floor apartment in Bern
Albert Einstein
When JFK gave up his House seat to run for Senate in 1952, this man who said, “All politics is local” won and kept it until 1987
Tip O’Neill
Who wrote “Their Eyes Were Watching God”?
Zora Neale Hurston
Jade Dragon Snow Mountain overlooks Tiger Leaping Gorge, a canyon carved by this Chinese river
The Yangtze
In 1674 Anton van Leeuwenhoek’s obsession with lenses paid off; he discovered these from the Latin for “first animal “
Protozoa 
In 2005 and 2006, Tony Shalhoub won Emmys for this starring role
Monk
Fernando Sor was best known for his compositions for this instrument that would later be recorded by Andrés Segovia
The guitar 
It’s a large, two edged Scottish broadsword
A Claymore
Formed as a result of World War II this think tank took its name from “research and development “
The RAND corporation
In 1851 this company started using a logo with a man in the moon and 13 stars; now it uses its initials
Proctor & Gamble 
“Weekend” slang name for a cheap and easily obtained handgun
Saturday night special
Red Adair mastered extinguishing oil and gas fires by setting off these to suck the oxygen from the blaze
Explosions 
Also called the Isthmus of Panama, it connects the American continents within Central America, consisting of a large watershed, forest, and mountains in Panama and Colombia. This “Gap” interrupts the Pan-American Highway.
Darién Gap
While the Darién Gap has been considered to be essentially impassable, in the 2010s thousands of migrants, primarily Haitian—and in the 2020s, thousands of Venezuelans—crossed the Darién Gap to reach the United States. There have been numerous fatalities.
Company whose slogan, “the beer that made Milwaukee famous”, was introduced in 1895
Schlitz
Category: we’ve hit bottom
July 1932 was a good time to buy stocks low. This market indicator bottomed out at 41.22.
A Dow Jones 
Category: it happened in the 1200s
This English king died the year after he granted the Magna Carta
King John 
Category: 4-letter “K”ross world clues
Narcotic herb of the Middle East
Kaht
Category: it happened in the 1200s
This family gained sovereignty over Austria, beginning a dynasty that would last in Europe until 1918
The Habsburgs 
The vagrant species of this tiny mouselike insectivore uses echolocation to find its prey
A shrew
Category: classic jazz songs
The title of this 1959 instrumental is a synonym for “time out” the album on which it first appeared
Take Five
“Take Five” is a jazz standard composed by Paul Desmond. It was first recorded in 1959 and is the third track on Time Out by the Dave Brubeck Quartet. Frequently covered by a variety of artists, the track is the biggest-selling jazz song of all time and a Grammy Hall of Fame inductee.
Actor Rodolfo Pietro Filiberto Raffaello Guglielmi di Valentina d’Antonguella (May 6, 1895 – August 23, 1926), was known professionally by this name and nicknamed The Latin Lover.
Rudolph Valentino
an Italian actor based in the United States who starred in several well-known silent films including The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, The Sheik, Blood and Sand, The Eagle, and The Son of the Sheik.
Category: plays
In act II of this Chekhov play, Treplev enters, carrying a dead bird
The Seagull
Category: poetry
Robert Browning poem about him, contains the line “rats! They fought the dogs and killed the cats”
The Pied Piper 
The worlds tallest building from 2004 to 2010 the, Taipei 101 is located in this country
Taiwan
Category: geograph-“e”
This country’s capital and most populous city is Asmara
Eritrea
It’s the only great lake located entirely within the United States
Lake Michigan 
The United States was one of 65 countries to boycott when this city hosted the 1980 Summer Olympics
Moscow 
He was the only member of Apollo 11 crew not to walk the moon
Michael Collins 
This bank was founded by and named after the two founders of American Express
Wells Fargo 
Drottningholm Palace is the private residence of this country’s royal family
Sweden
Nearly 1/3 of interstate 10 is located in this US state
Texas
He was the first “Weekend Update” anchor on Saturday night live —-and you weren’t
Chevy Chase
He drew the inkblots for his original psychological tests by hand
Herman Rorschach 
In 1860 this man released his first board game hit, The Checkered Game of Life, which was the first ever board game for his own company
Milton Bradley
Later called The Game of Life, also known simply as Life, was sold by the Milton Bradley Company. The Game of Life was US’s first popular parlour game.
Jaipur is the capital of India’s Rajasthan state. It is also known by this colorful nickname
“Pink City”
“Pink City” due to its distinctive pastel-pink buildings. This nickname originated in 1876 when Maharaja Sawai Ram Singh II had the entire city painted pink as a symbol of hospitality to welcome Prince Albert of England.
Where the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum is located
Cooperstown, NY
Onions, bell peppers and this vegetable are considered the holy trinity of Cajun cooking
Celery 
Category: sports homophones
NHL team that left Hartford in 1997 or Bob Marley’s band
The Whalers 
Category: books in the series
Philip Pullman: “The Golden Compass”; “The Subtle Knife”; “the Amber Spyglass”
His Dark Materials
Though not in the constitution these four words are typically spoken at the end of the presidential oath of office
So help me God 
According to “Le Morte D’Arthur” by Sir Thomas Malory, this group was required to take what we know as the Pentecostal oath
Knights of the round table 
Tetanus is an infectious bacterial disease also known as this seven-letter “L” word
Lockjaw 
Uranus was first discovered in the 18th century; Shakespeare wrote Coriolanus in the century
17th century
Portland Maine’s historic Abyssinian meetinghouse was a hub for this secret 19th century network
The underground railroad 
The Agojie, an all female army corps in the kingdom of Dahomey is at the center of this Viola Davis film
The Woman King 
Galileo’s name is repeated in a hit by this band, whose guitarist Brian May is an astrophysicist
Queen 
Category: tiny desk concerts
This singer opened her 2020 tiny desk concert with “Show me Love”; she closed it with “Fallin’”
Alicia Keys 
Category: know your -ologies
If your PhD is in the similarities of folk songs from Bhutan and Cameroon, you’re an expert in “ethno” this
Musicology 
Her 2019 Oscar win and 2021 Emmy win were both for portraying a British queen
Olivia Colman
For her portrayal of Anne, Queen of Great Britain in the period black-comedy film The Favourite (2018),
Queen Elizabeth II from 2019 to 2020 in the Netflix period drama series The Crown
James Madison’s two vice presidents
- George Clinton 1809-1812
- Elbridge Gerry - 1813-1814
Gerry was former MA governor who signed a bill that created a partisan district in the Boston area that was compared to the shape of a salamander. Gerrymander is a portmanteau of his name and salamander
Produced by the Ford Motor Company from the 1958 to the 1960, this product had the most expensive advertising promotion of any product up to that time but sold poorly and was considered a failure
The Edsel
Category: who’s on first?
Cubs 1898 - 1912, the third of this famous trio 
Frank Chance
With Joe Tinker and Johnny Evers, Chance formed a strong double play combination, which was immortalized as “Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance” in “Baseball’s Sad Lexicon”, which is a 1910 baseball poem by Franklin Pierce Adams
Category: wives of Shakespeare (name the husband)
Calpurnia
Julius Ceasar
A Harvard professor, this brother of novelist Henry is known as the “father of American psychology“
William James 
This brother-sister duo’s 1978 million-selling LP “Christmas Portait” featured “Merry Christmas, Darling”
The Carpenters
This holiday is celebrated from December 26 to January 1, since 1966:
Kwanzaa
Ted Koppel anchored this late show for 25 yeas
Nightline
Check out the glistening dunes at White Sands National Monument in this state
New Mexico
Category: D- day
The deepest ground penetration on June 6 was not by Americans or Brits, but by this country’s forces at Juno Beach
Canada 
A traditional Portuguese drink made from maidenhair’s leaves, with a touch of orange blossom essence, and served with cold water, ice and lemon peel.
Capilé
Maidenhair is a fern
Category: names in American lore
Known as “the king of the Keelboatmen” he was a leading pilot on the Mississippi River
Mike Fink
On September 2, 1945, as Supreme Commander for the allies, he accepted Japan’s surrender
Douglas MacArthur
Category: royal weddings
“as marriage must sooner or later come to pass” this King chose Princess Charlotte sight unseen and wed her September 8, 1761
King George III
Although 500 miles from the Pacific, Lewiston, Idaho is an ocean port thanks to this river’s connection with the Columbia
Snake river 
Dubuque, Iowa lies at the junction of three states: Illinois, Iowa, and this one
Wisconsin 
Category: director’s big screen farewell
His second and last talkie 1931’s “The Struggle”
DW Griffith 
Category: director’s big screen farewell
The epic “A Passage to India”
David Lean
Category: director’s big screen farewell
Filmed in the 40s about a fellow Russian “Ivan the terrible part two “
Sergei Eisenstein
Category: Russian history
Launched October 1, 1928, it was brought to a premature end in 1932 amid growing hunger
The five year plan 
What is the river that flows through the Grand Canyon?
The Colorado river 
Introduced in 1964, the Xerox LDX was the first commercial version of what technology
Fax machine
He played Shakespearean title characters four times, receiving best actor nomination for each one
Laurence Olivier
“Henry V”
“Hamlet”
“Othello”
“Richard III”
Aaron Copeland’s “Appalachian Spring” had the working title “Ballet for Martha”, Martha being this dancer
Martha Graham
TIME magazine named Martha Graham “Dancer of the Century,” and People magazine named her among the female “Icons of the Century.” As a choreographer, she was as prolific as she was complex. Graham created 181 ballets and a dance technique that has been compared to ballet in its scope and magnitude.
