Study 6 Flashcards
Category: you sit on it
First name of Ms. Hill, heroine of racy 18th century novel
Fanny
Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure—popularly known as Fanny Hill—is an erotic novel by the English novelist John Cleland first published in London in 1748. Written while the author was in debtors’ prison in London, it is considered “the first original English prose pornography, and the first pornography to use the form of the novel”. It is one of the most prosecuted and banned books in history.
“The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed Minds” a book by Michael Lewis is about these two Israeli psychologists who are sometimes referred to as the fathers of behavioral economics.
Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky
The longest serving speaker of the House who served for over 17 years (among his three separate stints). His tenure in the House representing Texas’s 4th congressional district as a Democrat was from 1913 to 1961.
Sam Rayburn
This author’s debut novel, “The Naked and the Dead,” was Hailed as one of the finest novels to come out of the Second World War
Norman Mailer
Nachem Malech Mailer (1923 – 2007), known by his pen name Norman Kingsley Mailer, was an American novelist, journalist, playwright, and filmmaker. In a career spanning over six decades, Mailer had 11 best-selling books, at least one in each of the seven decades after World War II.
Mailer is considered an innovator of “creative non-fiction” or “New Journalism”, along with Truman Capote, Joan Didion, Hunter S. Thompson, and Tom Wolfe, a genre which uses the style and devices of literary fiction in factual journalism.
This fabric-named 1989 revolution in Czechoslovakia began after police attacked a student demonstration
The Velvet Revolution
“town bully” who was shot in broad daylight in front of dozens of witnesses on July 10, 1981. not a single citizen of Skidmore, Missouri called an ambulance or said a word about the shooters to the cops.
Ken McElroy
What Pepperidge Farm cookie shares a name with the surname of an actress whose memorable TV roles include Samantha Micelli and Phoebe Halliwell?
Milano (Alyssa Milano in “Who’s the Boss?” and “Charmed”)
British car brand that uses the slogan: Above and Beyond
Land Rover
This “colorful” game from Rock Star follows former outlaw John Marston as he tames the West
Red Dead Redemption
a subregion of Oceania in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It extends from New Guinea in the west to the Fiji Islands in the east, and includes the Arafura Sea.
Melanesia
Melanesia is one of three major cultural areas of the Pacific Ocean islands, along with Micronesia and Polynesia.
The last wild wisent, also called the European variety of this plains animal, was killed in the Caucasus in 1927
A Bison
From 2001 on: Minerva McGonagall, one of Harry Potter’s professors, was played by this actress
Maggie Smith
Fastest fresh water fish
Rainbow Trout
Pea soup was a staple in the ships of this navy that beat the French & Spanish at Trafalgar
The British Navy
Pea soup was a staple in the British navy, which defeated the French and Spanish at the Battle of Trafalgar on October 21, 1805. During the Napoleonic era, the Royal Navy issued sailors two pounds of pork and peas on Sundays and Thursdays, which were usually boiled into pease pudding.
The British navy’s victory at Trafalgar established British naval supremacy for over 100 years. The battle was fought during the War of the Third Coalition, which was part of the Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815). The British navy had been blockading France since early 1805
These tropical eagles are named for a woman-bird hybrid of Greek mythology
Harpy
Category: American Artists
IN THE 1920s HE USED WIRE, STRING & OTHER MATERIALS TO FABRICATE “MODELS IN MOTION” FOR A MINIATURE CIRCUS SCENE
ALEXANDER CALDER
the two state capitals located on the Mississippi River
Baton Rouge, LA and St. Paul, MN
A Finnish word found in English. You may one of these at your gym.
Sauna
Musicians use this Italian term for a broken chord whose notes are played in succession
an arpeggio
His “Fun in Acapulco” included crooning “Bossa Nova Baby”
Elvis Presley
Not Mel Brooks’ wife but this explorer was the first woman to cross the ice to the North Pole
Ann Bancroft
1966 movie staring William Shatner filmed in the constructed language of Esperanto
Incubus
In an 1830 debate this senator said, “Liberty and union, now and forever, one and inseparable”
Daniel Webster
She sunk her teeth into the role of Jane in 2009’s “New Moon”
Dakota Fanning
Southern or giant cane can reach heights of 20 feet & is a type of this tall grass
Bamboo
BEFORE THE 1962 PEACE PRIZE, THIS CHEMIST WON A 1948 PRESIDENTIAL MEDAL FOR DEVELOPING ARMOR- PIERCING SHELLS
Linus Pauling
One person, Linus Pauling, has won two undivided Nobel Prizes. In 1954 he won the Prize for Chemistry. Eight years later he was awarded the Peace Prize for his opposition to weapons of mass destruction.
He followed up his “Pietà” by sculpting “Day”, “Dawn”, Dusk” & “Night” for the tomb of the Médicis in Florence
Michelangelo
Equal to -459.67°F, the lowest possible temperature that matter can reach is known by this two word term
Absolute zero 
Unlike most solids, dry ice doesn’t melt into a liquid, but turns directly into a gas, a process known as this
Sublimation 
As a consequence of his drug & alcohol problems, this jazz pioneer was confined to a mental hospital in 1946
Charlie Parker
short conical or columnar protuberances on the head of male and female giraffes and male okapis
Ossicones
Ossicones are composed of ossified cartilage covered by skin and hair
In 1997, Microsoft’s Deep Blue famously beat this chess grand master in a six game match, thereby becoming the first computer system to defeat a reigning world champion under standard chess tournament time controls.
Garry Kasparov
July 27, 1953: 3 years & 32 days of war between these 2 countries ends with the signing of an armistice
North Korea and South Korea
Turnabout is fair play–it seceded from a confederate state & joined the union in June 1863
West Virginia
It’s the term for a metal imitation coin used to fool a vending machine
A slug
IN 1942 SHE BECAME THE FIRST REIGNING QUEEN TO ADDRESS THE U.S. CONGRESS
Wilhelmina
Queen of the Netherlands from 1890 until her abdication in 1948. She reigned for nearly 58 years, making her the longest-reigning monarch in Dutch history, as well as the longest-reigning female monarch outside the United Kingdom. Her reign saw World War I, the Dutch economic crisis of 1933 and World War II.
Clergyman and Puritan thinker of the Great Awakening, the religious revival that swept America from 1730s to 1750, who wrote the sermon, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”(1741)
Jonathan Edwards ( 1703-1758)
From Massachusetts.
The PGA says that this sports term dates back to a 19th century song about a monster who cackled “catch me if you can”
Bogey
a score of one stroke over par at a hole
The narrator of David Foster Wallace’s “The Pale King” battles boredom at this agency’s Regional Examination Center
IRS
The Germans’ summer offensive of 1942 in this country was driven in part by a need to gain oil supplies from the Caucasus
The Soviet Union
Before playing agent Gibbs on “NCIS”, this Burbank native played quarterback for UCLA
Mark Harmon
Chicago’s Biograph Theater was the site of this gangster’s 1934 death
John Dillinger
Sakura cheese from Hokkaido is a soft cheese flavored with leaves from this fruit tree
Cherry
Author of “Rip Van Winkle” and “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” both were contained in the “Sketch Book” (1820) by this author
Washington Irving (1783-1859)
From New York City and Tarrytown, NY
Where is Wesleyan University located?
Middletown, Connecticut
Wesleyan University was founded in 1831 by Methodist leaders and Middletown citizens. Named for John Wesley, the founder of Methodism. It is now independent of the church.
Mascot is a cardinal
Took over in Cambodia in 1975
Pol Pot
This other word for the windpipe comes from the Greek for “rough” as it was the “rough artery”
Trachea
Ernest Hollingsworth, who died in 2019 at age 97, was a junior senator longer than anyone else— 36 years from this state
South Carolina
(Served with Strom Thurmond)
In One version of the legend, of King Arthur was offered Excalibur when Merlin brought him to this island
Avalon 
Like Truman, Carter had a sign with this motto in the oval office
The buck stops here
Category: non-profits
THIS INTELLECTUAL FORUM STARTED IN 1984, BRINGING TOGETHER PEOPLE FROM 3 DIFFERENT INDUSTRIES, HENCE ITS 3-LETTER NAME
TED (talks)
technology, entertainment and design
Category: 90s non-fiction
AROUND 3 YEARS ON THE BESTSELLER LIST, THIS BOOK IS SUBTITLED “AN OLD MAN, A YOUNG MAN AND LIFE’S GREATEST LESSON”
Tuesdays with Morrie
Mitch Albom
Category: opening musical numbers
“I Hope I Get It”
A Chorus Line
A Chorus Line is a 1975 musical with music by Marvin Hamlisch, lyrics by Edward Kleban, and a book by James Kirkwood Jr. and Nicholas Dante.
Set on the bare stage of a Broadway theater, the musical is centered on seventeen Broadway dancers auditioning for spots on a chorus line.
Brazilian author of the internationally best selling 1988 book, The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho
the book is a story of Santiago, a shepherd who leaves his native Spanish countryside in search of treasure.
Category: which president?
He got contract offers from the Lions and Packers to play in the NFL
Gerald Ford 
Lying at the junction of the Bow and Elbow rivers, this Alberta city was Canada’s first to host the Winter Olympics
Calgary 
1988
Category: numeric lit
“The Science of Deduction” is chapter 1 of this Sherlock Holmes story
The Sign of the Four
Color of NASCAR’s “one lap to go” flag
White
Several incarnations of this sci-fi show about an ancient space portal were filmed in British Columbia
Stargate 
On January 10, 1982, Dwight Clark made “the catch“ of this quarterback’s high throw and the 49ers were off to the Super Bowl
Joe Montana
One who has an I.E. degree works in this type of engineering
Industrial
In May a rally at this Ohio university turned tragic when 4 students were slain by National Guardsmen
Kent State
The Kent State shootings (also known as the May 4 massacre and the Kent State massacre were the killing of four and wounding of nine unarmed college students by the Ohio National Guard on the Kent State University campus. The shootings took place on May 4, 1970, during a rally opposing the expanding involvement of the Vietnam War into Cambodia by United States military forces as well as protesting the National Guard presence on campus and the draft.
What common surname refers to a craftsman who makes and repairs wooden barrels?
Cooper
Definition of foppish
concerned with one’s clothes and appearance in an affected and excessive way (typically used of a man).
“he is foppish and vain”
In 1929, Sacramento resident, G.A. Burns, won a $100 contest when he came up with this nickname for Reno, NV
The Biggest Little City in the World
Located roughly 1,200 miles west of Angola, what British island is most famous as the site of Napoleon’s death
St. Helena
The Asp was an aid to this comic strip character
Daddy Warbucks
Famous for its running of the bulls, this city was founded by and named for Roman general Pompey
Pamplona 
In 2012, this 1972 presidential candidate passed away at age 90 in South Dakota
George McGovern 
This Norwegian’s “pillars of society“ debuted in Denmark in 1877
Henrik Ibsen
Name the Team:
1977: Golden Richards, Billy Joe DuPree, Roger Staubach…all were offensive minded
Dallas Cowboys
psychological phenomenon in which high expectations lead to improved performance in a given area and low expectations lead to worse.
Pygmalion Effect
It is named for the Greek myth of Pygmalion, the sculptor who fell so much in love with the perfectly beautiful statue he created that the statue came to life
the capital and largest city of Croatia
Zagreb
South American revolutionary leader and first Chilean head of state (“supreme director,” 1817–23), who commanded the military forces that won independence from Spain.
Bernardo O’Higgins
Asian hardwood tree of the family verbenaceae
Teak
The Amtrak Adirondack route hits NYC, Albany & this second-largest Canadian city
Montreal
Montreal is in the province Ontario. The largest city In Canada is Toronto
“Thespis,” the first collaboration by this pair opened in London in December 1871 and ran for two months; they’d do better later
Gilbert and Sullivan
Gilbert and Sullivan refers to the Victorian-era theatrical partnership of the dramatist W. S. Gilbert (1836–1911) and the composer Arthur Sullivan (1842–1900)
The two men collaborated on fourteen comic operas between 1871 and 1896, of which H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance and The Mikado are among the best known.
Category: NYC mayors
George Opdyke was mayor during the Civil War and quashed this related NYC event of July 1863
Draft riots
Mount Rushmore is carved into a cliff made of this coarse rock
Granite 
Native son Christopher Columbus embodies the maritime tradition of this city
Genoa, Italy
This statesman graced the 50-cent piece for 15 years beginning in 1948
Benjamin Franklin
The fight song of this New Orleans school begins “Green wave, green wave hats off to thee”
Tulane 
Scotland’s Picts people were most likely named for the custom of doing this to their bodies
Tattooing (painting also an acceptable answer)
Last name Kilcher, she restyled herself as a country singer in 2008 with the album “Perfectly Clear”
Jewel
Despite its size, Jupiter is made up almost entirely of these 2 lightest elements
Hydrogen and helium
Between August 9 & December 19, 1974, the USA had no vice president, then he got the job
Nelson Rockefeller 
Former governor of NY and VP under Gerald Ford.
Now considered an environmental hazard, this refrigerant gas was discovered in the 1930s by Dr. Thomas Midgley
Freon
The ball that drops on NYE in NYC is a permanent fixture on the roof of this building
One Times Square
Toad, Mole, Ratty, and Badger are the 4 main characters of what children’s novel
The Wind in the Willows
(1908)
By. Kenneth Grahame
This Motown star was shot and killed by his father April 1,1984, the day before his 45th birthday
Marvin Gaye
She had bit parts on “McHale’s Navy” & “Bewitched” before her bust-out part in “1 Million Years B.C.”
Raquel Welch
In 1678, drama critic Thomas Rymer first described what type of fitting justice that later named a Janet Jackson / Tupac movie
Poetic Justice
Category: football
Your choice: do or don’t name this play in which the QB runs the ball and can choose to pitch it back to another
Option play
This botanist is in the U.S. Inventors Hall of Fame for a variety of peach he developed, not his potato
Luther Burbank
Until 1937, Burma was a province of this big neighboring current country
India
This 19th century British novelist asked to be buried on Mount Vaea in Samoa “under the wide and starry sky“
Robert Louis Stevenson 
Category: islands
Inagua in this nation just east of Miami is home to more than 80,000 flamingos, the national bird
The Bahamas 
In 759 this “diminutive” father of Charlemagne extended his rule into the Pyrenees
Pepin the short 
The First section of this Willa Cather novel is called “the Shimerdas”
My Antonia 
Published in 1918
Category: American Plays
The latitude and longitude given by the narrator of this 1938 play would set it in Massachusetts, not New Hampshire
Our Town
Our Town is a three-act play written by Thornton Wilder. The play is set in the fictional New England town of Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire, between 1901 and 1913.
