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
