Study 5 Flashcards
In Acts 23 Saint Paul declares himself this, a member of a Jewish sect noted for its strict obedience to tradition
A Pharisee 
You’d have to be this not to know that meshugga means this Yiddish
Crazy
This wrestler and Minnesota governor served on a SEAL underwater demolition team in the Vietnam era
Jesse Ventura 
Super Bowl IX: this immaculate Steeler
Franco Harris 
On Jan. 12, 1975, the Pittsburgh Steelers captured their first ever Super Bowl championship with a 16-6 victory over the Minnesota Vikings.
In 2010s “Imperial Bedrooms”, Bret Easton Ellis follows up with characters from this 1985 novel of his
Less Than Zero
Student riots in Paris in 1968 threatened to bring down this French president’s government
Charles de Gaulle 
Brahms spent much of his creative life in Vienna, but was born in this port, today the second largest city in Germany
Hamburg 
Category: AFI life achievement awards
He was the recipient in 2009; his dad Kirk was honored in 1991
Michael Douglas
Category: coats of arms
Among the items featured on this Scottish city’s coat of arms is a salmon caught in the river Clyde
Glasgow
Category: coat of arms
The cities name is from the German for “monk “; it’s coat of arms to fix a monk dress in black, holding a book
Munich 
Category: scientists
Famous for an 1887 paper on supersonic velocity, he also found a function of the inner ear that helps with balance
Ernst Mach 
Category: scientists
Whose “the galvanic circuit, investigated, mathematically” received so much “resistance” he resigned his post at Cologne
Georg Ohm
Category: drummers for the band
Stewart Copeland
The Police
Category: drummers for the band
Tommy Lee
Motley Crue 
Category: Oscar winners on TV
This Oscar winner for “Ordinary People” leads a team of thieves and hackers on TNT’s “Leverage”
Timothy Hutton 
He is the youngest recipient of the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, which he won at age 20 for his performance as Conrad Jarrett in Ordinary People (1980).
A French word for a small briefcase, that bears the name of an embassy official
Attaché 
This south pacific island nation’s flag was based on an idea from King George Tupou I
Tonga 
George Tupou I (4 December 1797– 18 February 1893), was the first king of modern Tonga. He adopted the name Siaosi, the Tongan equivalent of George, after King George III of the United Kingdom, when he was baptized in 1831.
Angel who revealed the sacred laws of the Quran to Muhammad
Gabriel

Category: Number “one” hits
In 2019, “old town Road” broke this Mariah Carey / Boyz II Men song’s record for most weeks at number one
One Sweet Day
Category: non-musical theater
His acclaimed “Pittsburgh cycle” explores the black experience in 10 plays, including “Ma Rainey’s Black bottom” and “fences”
August Wilson 
Category: there’s an “app” for that
Hungry for some hard rock? Then fire up this 1987 Guns N’ Roses album that leads off with “welcome to the jungle”
Appetite for destruction

Construction began on the USA’s first Federal Highway known as this road after the town in which it originated
Cumberland Road 
Iowa’s flag features this bird holding a scroll in its beak
An eagle 
A EUROPEAN CAPITAL GOT ITS NAME AS A CONSEQUENCE OF FLOODING OF THIS RIVER
Amstel
Formerly a small fishing village, the city was founded on a dam built to control the Amstel river’s flooding in the 13th century known as the Amstel dam. By 1300, the area gained official city status as ‘Amsterdam’.”
THE 2 CLOSEST STATE CAPITALS, AT ABOUT 40 MILES APART, ONE WAS FOUNDED BY SOMEONE NO LONGER ALLOWED IN THE OTHER
WHAT ARE BOSTON & PROVIDENCE?
(Rhode Island founder Roger Williams had been banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony.)
Who were the first father and son to play on the same MLB team at the same time
Ken Griffey Sr. and Ken Griffey Jr.
Seattle Mariners
Category: world cinema
If I’m remembering correctly, this 1950 Kurosawa film is about contradictory versions of the same event
Rashomon 
Category: Shakespeare quotes
“All that glisters is not gold” says the prince of morocco in the Shakespeare play
The merchant of Venice

Category: road trips
take the Overseas Highway from Miami to its terminus in this city
Key West 
Category: oh, Captain!
He captained the Golden Hind during his circumnavigation of the globe in the late 1570s
Sir Francis Drake 
Category: great literary works
A veteran of the Crusades, this character tells the first story in Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales
The Knight
Category: four-word movie titles
13 year old Christian Bale started in this 1987 Spielberg film
Empire of the Sun 
Category: US currency
Since 1982 this metal—and not copper—has compromised 97.5% of each one-cent coin.
Zinc

This NYC borough was named after a Dutch Village
Brooklyn 
Category: name the year
Dole loses the election; Dolly, the sheep is born; Dallas wins the Super Bowl
1996 
Incumbent Democratic President Bill Clinton defeated former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, the Republican nominee
On March 14, take a moment to remember that this is the 16th letter of the Greek alphabet
Pi 
Category: 1980s music
He wrote the Bangles hit “Manic Monday” under the pseudonym “Christopher”
Prince 
This company trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol “HOG”
Harley Davidson 
Category: Pulitzer Prize winning novels
It begins, “a Green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy balloon of a head”
A confederacy of dunces 
The Parish Boy’s Progress was the alternative title to this Dickens work
Oliver Twist
Harry of Blondie
Debbie Harry
In 1814 the Norwegian parliament accepted this country’s King Charles XIII to rule Norway as well
Sweden
The center of this Nicaragua capital was almost completely destroyed in a 1972 earthquake
Managua 
This sitcom star who played Dr. Robert Hartley, said his stammer got him a home in Beverly Hills and he’s not correcting it
Bob Newhart 
The town of Yellowknife is located on the shore of this “Great” Canadian Lake
Great Slave Lake
Great Slave Lake is the second-largest lake in the Northwest Territories of Canada (after Great Bear Lake), the deepest lake in North America at 614 m (2,014 ft), and the tenth-largest lake in the world by area.
Category: “A” in literature
The oldest of the three musketeers, he was once married to the evil Milady de Winter
Athos 
Category: math words
An assertion that can be proven true often using axioms and postulates
theorem
The part of a cross shaped church that intersects the main aisle at right angles
Transept 
Category: plurals
Seraph: seraphs or this longer word
Seraphim 
angelic beings regarded in traditional Christian angelology as belonging to the highest order of the ninefold celestial hierarchy, associated with light, ardor, and purity
Category: “Sin”ful
Mexican state where you’ll find Mazatlan
Sinaloa
Sinaloa is the most prominent state in Mexico in terms of agriculture and is known as “Mexico’s breadbasket”.
In 1999, This American lighthouse was moved 2900 ft in 23 days, moving it 1500 ft back from the ocean
Cape Hatteras Lighthouse
Located in North Carolina, The Cape Hatteras Lighthouse protects one of the most hazardous sections of the Atlantic Coast. Offshore of Cape Hatteras, the Gulf Stream collides with the Virginia Drift, a branch of the Labrador Current from Canada. This current forces southbound ships into a dangerous twelve-mile long sandbar called Diamond Shoals. Hundreds and possibly thousands of shipwrecks in this area have given it the reputation as the Graveyard of the Atlantic.
Category: legendary comedians
His final film role was a cigar smoking mobster name “God” in the 1968 comedy Skidoo
Groucho Marx
This European banking dynasty’s properties include Château Lafite, which makes a pretty good Bordeaux
The Rothschilds 
Sarah Crewe is the little title character of this classic by Frances Hodgson Burnett
A little princess 
This inventor’s alleged last breath is sealed in a test tube with the Henry Ford Museum in Michigan
Thomas Edison 
In 1987 he became the first NFL player to say “I’m going to Disney world” after winning the Super Bowl
Phil Simms
Phil Simms is an American former professional football player who was a quarterback for 15 years, spending his entire career with the New York Giants. 
Category: World War II
Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill conferred in this middle eastern city in 1943
Tehran 
It’s national anthem has verses sung in English and Maori
New Zealand
Italy’s three active volcanoes, This is the tallest.
Mount Etna 
These sibling movie makers edited No Country for Old Men under the alias “Roderick Jaynes”
The Coen brothers 
Category: great Scot!
He was named People magazine’s “sexiest man alive” at age 59
Sean Connery 
Category: indoor sports
This cue game takes its name from British military, slang for an inexperienced soldier
Snooker 
It’s the largest of the Hawaiian islands by population, but only third largest by size
Oahu 
This African nation is the world’s most populous landlocked country
Ethiopia 
Oddly, Eric van Lustbader has written more of the Jason Bourne novel than this original author did
Robert Ludlum
Around 1890, Robert Louis Stevenson bought 300 acres in what’s now this country, where he was called Tusitala or “teller of tales“
Samoa

This is often called the clown of the orchestra, and is the lowest pitched of the standard orchestra woodwinds
The bassoon 
Category: “F” in science
This simple sugar is a sweetener in honey
Fructose
During the 1400s this German inventor printed the first Bibles using movable type
Johannes Gutenberg
Around 1850 George Boole devised a new take on this branch of math
Algebra
In one translation of “Beowulf” he is described as “a fiend out of Hell” and a “grim demon”
Grendel 
This mountain range runs from Morocco to Tunis
The atlas mountains
Poland and Lithuania are among the countries that border this sea
The Baltic Sea 
Types of this flower include the Cymbidium and cattleya
Orchids

Category: Shakespeare
A misplaced handkerchief leads to murderous suspicion in this play
Othello

This five letter capital city of Senegal is the westernmost capital on the African mainland
Dakar 
Category: the Civil War
The union was victorious in the September 17, 1862 Maryland battle
Antietam (accepted: Sharpsburg)
Plastics are this type of chemical compound composed of large molecules formed from smaller ones
Polymer
This nation is surrounded by Myanmar on the west and Laos on the north and east
Thailand
These devices are for upping the speed of particles that may be linear or cyclic
An accelerator
DURING AN OUTBREAK OF THIS DISFIGURING DISEASE IN 1764, PAUL REVERE & HIS FAMILY QUARANTINED AT HOME: OTHERS WERE SENT TO PEST HOUSES
Smallpox
IN 1579, DURING
HIS CIRCUMNAVIGATION
OF THE WORLD, HE DROPPED ANCHOR NEAR SAN FRANCISCO & CLAIMED THE REGION FOR ENGLAND
Sir Francis Drake
HISTORICALLY A JUNCTION
BETWEEN EAST & WEST, THIS CAPITAL OF OMAN LIES ON A STRATEGIC WATERWAY BORDERING SOUTHEAST ARABIA
Muscat
Category: who came first?
Ferdinand Magellan, Marco Polo, Christopher Columbus
Marco Polo
Marco Polo (1254 – 1324) was a Venetian merchant, explorer and writer who travelled through Asia along the Silk Road between 1271 and 1295.
Christopher Columbus (1451 – 1506) was an Italian explorer and navigator from the Republic of Genoa who completed four Spanish-based voyages across the Atlantic Ocean sponsored by the Catholic Monarchs,
Ferdinand Magellan (1480 – 1521) was a Portuguese explorer best known for having planned and led the 1519 Spanish expedition to the East Indies across the Pacific Ocean to open a maritime trade route, during which he discovered the interoceanic passage thereafter bearing his name and achieved the first European navigation to Asia via the Pacific
Category: Kurt Russell films
Kurt has said that his most iconic character is “Snake” Plissken, the antihero of this film, set in a dystopian Big Apple
Escape from New York
Grammy winning sisters, Ruth , Anita Bonnie and June kept fans so excited performing as this foursome
The Pointer Sisters 
LA Union Station would be the likely point of departure for this train, the title of the 1973 hit for Gladys Knight & the Pips
The midnight train to Georgia
Category: Bond Bombshell
When you were young and your heart was an open book, you knew Jane Seymour was Solitaire in this classic Bond film
Live and let die
Live and Let Die is a 1973 spy film. It is the eighth film in the James Bond series, and the first to star Roger Moore
Bateman island about 300 miles from the Pacific, was the farthest Lewis and Clark traveled upstream on this river
The Columbia 
Shannon Hoon fronted this alternative rock band
Blind Melon 
It was started on the orders of de Gaulle in 1944 to provide a respected voice
Le Monde 
Since 2009, the Mercury, Storm, and Lynx have been championship teams in this league
The WNBA 
Minnesota Lynx (plays at Target Center in Minneapolis)
Phoenix Mercury
Seattle Storm
You’ll find the University of Missouri’s main campus in this city—-the one in Missouri, not in South Carolina 
Columbia  (capital of SC)
An 1875 hearing resulted in this ex first lady being committed to a sanatorium for months
Mary Todd Lincoln
Once a large Quaker community, this California city, bears the last name of Quaker poet John Greenleaf
Whittier 
known as the father of the periodic table
Dmitri Mendeleev
1834-1907
Russian chemist who developed the periodic classification of the elements. Mendeleev found that, when all the known chemical elements were arranged in order of increasing atomic weight, the resulting table displayed a recurring pattern, or periodicity, of properties within groups of elements.
Category: Broadway, Baby
Let’s paint the picture; Jake Gyllenhaal worked Sundays on Broadway in this revival
Sunday in the Park with George
Sunday in the Park with George is a 1983 musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine. It was inspired by the French pointillist painter Georges Seurat’s painting A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte. The plot revolves around George, a fictionalized version of Seurat, who immerses himself deeply in painting his masterpiece, and his great-grandson (also named George), a conflicted and cynical contemporary artist. The Broadway production opened in 1984.
What is a baby pterodactyl called?
Flapling
Pterodactyl, or Pterodactylus antiquus, is actually a specific type of pterosaur in the group Pterosauria,
which encompasses the entire group of prehistoric flying reptiles.
Category: Bond movie by Bond girl
1971: Jill St. John as Tiffany Case
Diamonds are Forever
This floppy haired Giants ace pitcher started the 2010 World Series winning game
Tim Lincecum
LIN-sə-kum
