Study 9 Flashcards
The largest peninsula on earth is mostly made up of this middle eastern country
Saudi Arabia
The Arabian Peninsula is the largest peninsula in the world, covering 1,250,006 square miles. It is located in the Middle East and includes Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and Yemen, as well as southern Iraq and Jordan. The Arabian Peninsula is connected to the Asian continent and is surrounded by the Persian Gulf, the Arabian Sea, and the Red Sea
Jacques Cartier’s exploration of this 800-mile-long river laid the basis for French claims on the region
St. Lawrence River (through Canada)
It’s the element whose magnetic properties have been known and studied the longest
Iron
Iron is a chemical element; it has symbol Fe (from Latin ferrum ‘iron’) and atomic number 26. It is, by mass, the most common element on Earth, forming much of Earth’s outer and inner core. It is the fourth most common element in the Earth’s crust, being mainly deposited by meteorites in its metallic state.
This 2012 reanimated dog movie is a longtime pet project of director Tim Burton
Frankenweenie
An old French dance from a German folk dance, or a square dance move
Allemande
Definition:
-any of a number of German dances, in particular an elaborate court dance popular in the 16th century.
-the music for an allemande, especially as a movement of a suite.
“the deep and moving Allemande which opens Suite No. 20”
-a figure in country dancing in which adjacent dancers link arms or join or touch hands and make a full or partial turn.
““Pass through, ends crossfold, left allemande.””
Category: songs from musicals (have to identify the musical)
“I Could have Danced All Night”
My Fair Lady
My Fair Lady is a musical with a book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe. The story, based on the 1938 film adaptation of George Bernard Shaw’s 1913 play Pygmalion, concerns Eliza Doolittle, a Cockney flower girl who takes speech lessons from professor Henry Higgins, a phonetician, so that she may pass as a lady. Despite his cynical nature and difficulty understanding women, Higgins grows attached to her.
Some blamed this president’s death on an Indian curse put on him because of the Battle of Tippecanoe
William Henry Harrison
9th president. Only served a month in office
He wrote his 1914 poem “Chicago” while working as a newspaper writer in that city
Carl Sandburg
“Chicago” is a poem by Carl Sandburg about the city of Chicago that became his adopted home. It first appeared in Poetry, March 1914, the first of nine poems collectively titled “Chicago Poems”. It was republished in 1916 in Sandburg’s first mainstream collection of poems, also titled Chicago Poems.
In religious writing, the symbol of the Greek letter Chi represents Christ
X
It’s the official language shared by Rwanda and Senegal
French
Vlad the Impaler, an inspiration for Dracula, was a prince in what’s now this country
Romania 
In 1878-79 Baron Nordenskjold became the first to traverse this route along Europe and Asia’s Arctic coast
The Northeast Passage
This Spanish conquistador served as governor of Peru from 1531 until his murder in 1541 
Francisco Pizarro (c. 1475–1541)
Pizarro was a Spanish explorer, soldier, and conquistador who is best known for conquering the Inca Empire and founding the city of Lima. Born in Trujillo, Spain to a poor family, Pizarro arrived in northern Peru in 1531 with a small force and took advantage of a civil war to overthrow the ruler, Atahualpa, in 1532. Pizarro defeated a 30,000-strong Inca force with fewer than 200 troops and claimed the Inca’s territories for the Spanish crown. Pizarro’s Spanish rivals assassinated him in 1541 in Lima, the city he founded in 1535.
Home state:
Kurt Vonnegut, David Letterman, Dan Quayle
Indiana
Spins performed in this include the sit spin, the camel spin, and the Biellman spin
Figure skating 
It’s highest peak is Slieve Donard, which rises 2796 feet in the Mourne Mountains of County Down
Northern Ireland 
Kiev remembers Khmelnitsky—a leader of these mounted warriors of Ukraine and Russia
The Cossacks
Close relative of the pig, though it’s name means “River Horse”
Hippopotamus 
Dickens novel with the line “it is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done”
A Tale of Two Cities 
This “guard” of Roman Emperors was abolished in the fourth century
Praetorian guard
Nathan Drake is the globe hopping treasure hunter in this series of video games
Uncharted 
He was the USA’s third vice president
Aaron Burr
This tabloid style paper from News Corp. was founded by Alexander Hamilton
New York Post 
Begun in 1788, this is at the western end of Berlin’s Avenue Unter Den Linden
Brandenburg gate 
This is the king depicted in Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s series of poems “Idylls of the King”
King Arthur 
This military leader took control of Panama in 1983
Manuel Noriega 
This notorious prison island is politically part of the Bronx but connected by bridge to Queens
Rikers Island
We hope you are not a loess for words & can tell us that loess is a type of this deposited by the wind
Soil
Telling the love story of two divorcees in 1988, what Nicholas Sparks novel is set at an Inn in a small coastal town in North Carolina?
Nights in Rodanthe
Published in 2002
Category: peop”l”
Richard Nixon’s running mate in 1960, this republican lost his senate seat 8 years earlier to John F. Kennedy
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (July 5, 1902 – February 27, 1985) was an American diplomat and politician who represented Massachusetts in the United States Senate and served as United States Ambassador to the United Nations in the administration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower. In 1960, he was the Republican nominee for Vice President on a ticket with Richard Nixon, who had served two terms as Eisenhower’s vice president. The Republican ticket narrowly lost to Democrats John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson; Lodge later served as a diplomat in the administrations of Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Gerald Ford and was a presidential contender in 1964.
Who wrote the Tattooist of Auschwitz?
Heather Morris
The Tattooist of Auschwitz is a 2018 Holocaust novel by New Zealand novelist Heather Morris. The book tells the story of how Slovakian Jew Lale Sokolov, who was imprisoned at Auschwitz in 1942, fell in love with a girl he was tattooing at the concentration camp.
Category: “E” ography
Cast in a battle scene in “Lord of the Rings”, NZ’s army had to back out to keep peace in this Indonesian province
East Timor
East Timor was a Portuguese colony until 1975, when it declared independence. Indonesia invaded and occupied East Timor nine days later, and incorporated it as the province of Timor Timur in July 1976. In 1999, a UN-supervised referendum resulted in an overwhelming majority of the people of East Timor voting for independence from Indonesia. The United States recognized East Timor’s independence on May 20, 2002.
The first LOTR movie was the Fellowship of the Ring and came out in 2001
Category: businessmen
In 1913, he spent some of those nickels and dimes to build in NYC what was then the world’s tallest building
F. W. Woolworth
Frank Winfield Woolworth (April 13, 1852 – April 8, 1919) was an American entrepreneur, the founder of F. W. Woolworth Company, and the operator of variety stores known as “Five-and-Dimes”
The Woolworth Building is a 792-foot-tall (241 m) residential building and early skyscraper at 233 Broadway in the Tribeca neighborhood of Lower Manhattan in New York City. Designed by Cass Gilbert, it was the tallest building in the world from 1913 to 1930, and remains one of the 100 tallest buildings in the United States as of 2024.
Architectural style: Neo-Gothic
Word for a series of four connected works (such as operas or novels)
tetralogy
The original tetralogies were sets of four plays (three tragedies and a comedy) performed serially on the Athenian stages of ancient Greece. These sets of plays were similar to the “trilogy,” a group of three serial Greek tragedies. The word tetralogy is from the Greek combining form tetra-, meaning “four,” joined with the combining form “-logia,” which in turn comes from logos, meaning “word.” Other “tetra-“ words include “tetrahedron” (a solid shape formed by four flat faces) and “tetrapod” (a vertebrate with two pairs of limbs).
Category: 60s sitcoms
Senior counselor Spiffy at Camp Runamuck, Dave Ketchum was also agent 13 on this show
Get Smart
Camp Runamuck is an American sitcom that aired on NBC during the 1965–66 television season. The series was created and executive produced by David Swift, and aired for 26 episodes.
Get Smart is an American comedy television series parodying the secret agent genre that had become widely popular in the first half of the 1960s with the release of the James Bond films. It was created by Mel Brooks and Buck Henry, and had its television premiere on NBC on September 18, 1965. It stars Don Adams (who was also a director on the series) as agent Maxwell Smart (Agent 86), Barbara Feldon as Agent 99, and Edward Platt as The Chief. Henry said that they created the show at the request of Daniel Melnick to capitalize on James Bond and Inspector Clouseau, “the two biggest things in the entertainment world today”.
The name of this popular Italian dish of braised veal shanks means “bone hole”
Osso Buco
What does a millibar measure?
Barometric or atmospheric pressure
This Canadian province has the longest border, including water, with United States
Ontario
Common bonds
Also a large city in Iowa, what name can refer to a type of desk and is used as a synonym for sofa or couch
Davenport
A Davenport desk is a small desk with an inclined lifting desktop attached with hinges to the back of the body. Lifting the desktop accesses a large compartment with storage space for paper and other writing implements
The first time African-Americans marched in the inauguration parade was at Lincoln’s second inauguration, in this year
1865 
This president enjoyed gambling on the ponies; he also bread race horses at his Hermitage home
Andrew Jackson
Nicknamed “handsome Frank“ he is the only president to affirm, not Swear to, the oath of Office
Pierce
Held during the fifth month of the Chinese lunar calendar, this festival began as a search for poet Qu Yuan, who drowned in a Yangtze tributary
Dragon boat festival 
Though it’s in the middle of the island, not a Port, Antananarivo, is this country’s capital
Madagascar 
In The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway uses this term to describe Santiago, an elderly fisherman who has not caught a fish in eighty-four days. The term foreshadows Santiago’s long battle with the marlin.
salao
Salao is a Spanish slang term that means “extremely unlucky” or “jinxed”. It comes from the Spanish word salado, which means “salty”. The term implies that the ocean is too salty to support life.
Now named for the family member who managed the business before and after prohibition, what famous bourbon brand was called Old Tub from 1880-1943
Jim Beam
Food stew of Marseille was originally cooked on the beach by fisherman
bouillabaisse
A 1968 scarefest: The title character made it a family of three for the Woodhouses
Rosemary’s Baby
AKA
Sir Percy Blakeney, a colorful fop with a sword
The Scarlett Pimpernel
If you win your first point of a tennis game, you have this number as your score
15
The Octobrists were formed in this large country in 1905 & quickly became its majority political group
Russia
Bond Movie by Bond Girl
2002: Halle Berry as Jinx Johnson
Die Another Day
The Borsa is Italy’s main this
Stock exchange
Category: magic words
The first part of this two word term used to make something transform comes from Italian for “soon”
Presto chango
What does erstwhile mean?
adjective
former; of times past:
Ex. erstwhile friends.
adverb
Archaic.
formerly; erst.
Category: Adventures of a British Novel Hero
There’s an important event as the barman ends the night at the pub by saying this, also a Booker Prize-winning novel by Graham Swift 
Last Orders
The voice of Marlin in “Finding Nemo” was born with the name Albert Einstein
Albert Brooks
What does USB stand for?
Universal Serial Bus
(Bus is short for omnibus)
October 3 is a day of unity celebration in this reunified European country
Germany 
Warren Beatty starred in this 1974 thriller about a reporter investigating a mysterious assassination
The Parallax View
The Parallax View is an American political thriller. Produced and directed by Alan J. Pakula, its screenplay is by David Giler and Lorenzo Semple Jr., based on the 1970 novel by Loren Singer. The story concerns a reporter’s investigation into a secretive organization, the Parallax Corporation, whose business is political assassination.
In 1940 this composer gave the Boy and Girl Scouts of future royalties from the song “God Bless America”
Irving Berlin 
Matt Smith’s roles include the Doctor on “Doctor Who” & this member of the royal family on seasons 1&2 of “The Crown”
Prince Philip
In Arabic this colossal sculpture is Abu Al-Hawl, “Father of Terror”
The sphinx
Ötzi was a 5,300 year old corpse found in the 1990s in the Tirolean Ötztal Alps, on the Italian-Austrian border. He was from this important age between the end of the Neolithic Age and the start of the Bronze Age
Copper Age
Category: presidents, this is your First Lady
Ida Saxton
William McKinley
Ida McKinley also served as the first lady of Ohio from 1892 to 1896 while her husband was governor of Ohio
Category: Presidential names
The last John alphabetically by last name
John Tyler
10th president, 1841-1845
Whig,
had 15 children
On February 10, 1763 France ceded this large territory to Britain
Canada
The Treaty of Paris, also known as the Treaty of 1763 was signed by the kingdoms of Great Britain, France, and Spain, with Portugal in agreement, following Great Britain and Prussia’s victory over France and Spain during the Seven Years War

The script had Indy going hand-to-hand against the man with the scimitar… But Harrison had food poisoning, so he just shot him
Raiders of the Lost Ark 
This English plot blew up in the faces of the plotters, many executed for treason in 1606
The Gunpowder Plot
The Gunpowder Plot was a failed attempt to assassinate King James I of England during the opening of Parliament in November 1605. The plan was organized by Robert Catesby, a devout English Catholic, who hoped to kill the protestant King James, and establish Catholic rule in England. 
This language has three main dialects: Connact, Munster, and Ulster
Gaelic (or Irish)
In the field of statistics, there are at least two broad approaches. The first is “frequentist statistics,“ which approaches learning about relationships and data using only the data we have. The second is “______ statistics” which tries to learn about relationships by starting with a prior belief about the truth and using data to update it.
Bayesian
Bayesian statistics (// BAY-zee-ən) is a theory in the field of statistics based on the Bayesian interpretation of probability, where probability expresses a degree of belief in an event. The degree of belief may be based on prior knowledge about the event, such as the results of previous experiments, or on personal beliefs about the event.
Category: Secretaries of State
Dwight Eisenhower and JFK both attended the 1962 dedication of the airport named for him
John Foster Dulles
Carl Friedrich Gauss solved a math puzzle by constructing a regular-sided heptadecagon, a figure with this many sides
17
On Christmas Day, 1066 he became King of England
William the Conqueror
In 1829, this Italian wrote his famed opera “William Tell”
Gioachino Rossini
She wrote the play “A Raisin in the Sun”
Lorraine Hansberry
Dhaka is the capital of this country whose population is more than 140 million
Bangladesh
Meaning “great ballet” this company was known for its “Moscow Style”
Bolshoi
“The Last Leaf” is a 1907 story by this American author known for his twist endings
O. Henry
Located in Madrid, it’s Spain’s national museum of painting and sculpture
Prado
Vinson Massif it’s the largest mountain on this continent
Antarctica
The one Italian-born member of the “the three tenors”
Pavarotti
The Three Tenors were an operatic singing trio, active between 1990 and 2003, and termed a supergroup (a title normally reserved for rock and pop groups) consisting of Italian Luciano Pavarotti and Spaniards Plácido Domingo and José Carreras. The trio began their collaboration with a performance at the ancient Baths of Caracalla in Rome, Italy, on 7 July 1990, the eve of the 1990 FIFA World Cup Final, watched by a global television audience of around 800 million. The image of three tenors in formal evening dress singing in a World Cup concert captivated the global audience. The recording of this debut concert became the best-selling classical album of all time[4] and led to additional performances and live albums.
The Brooklyn Bridge spans this river
East River 
It comes between phylum and order in the scientific naming of animals 
Class
kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, and species.
Something pinnate is shaped like this (it’s what “pinna” means in Latin)
Star
Number of RBIs credited to a batter who hits a grand slam
4
Around 447 BC this group led by the “Scourge of God” devastated the Balkans and drove south into Greece
The Huns
In 1986 this Philippine woman left more than a thousand pairs of shoes behind when she fled to Hawaii
Imelda Marcos
Act one of this opera opens at Pinkerton’s house in Nagasaki
Madame Butterfly
Madame Butterfly is an opera in three acts (originally two) by Giacomo Puccini
AFTER JOINING THE ARMY AT 16 IN 1906 FOR A BRIEF STINT, HE RECEIVED A MUCH HIGHER HONORARY RANK FROM THE GOV. OF HIS STATE 29 YEARS LATER
COLONEL SANDERS
Botticelli’s 1481 fresco of Saint Sixtus II is at this landmark, part of the Vatican museums
The Sistine Chapel 
Category: book people
Charles Dickens: “The Mystery of ___ ____”
Edwin Drood
originally published in 1870.
On March 21, 1973 this White House counsel said that “we have a cancer within, close to the presidency, that is growing”
John Dean 
This “Moll Flanders” author started a business career, but went bankrupt and turned to writing
Daniel Defoe
Defoe is most famous for his novel Robinson Crusoe, published in 1719 
“If you were skiing the Dolomites, what European country would you be visiting?.”
Italy
“Cinnabar is the most common source for what metal?”
Mercury
FRANK C. GAYLORD II SCULPTED THE FIGURES FOR THE MEMORIAL TO THIS, DEDICATED JULY 27, 1995
Korean War
Who was the first woman to receive a medical degree in the United States?
Elizabeth Blackwell
Nora Ephron is humorously self-deprecating in her memoir called “I Feel Bad About” this part of her body
Neck
In the 60s Ford named a fastback after this newly opened Alabama speedway
Talladega
