The Bolivar Flashcards

1
Q

At Paducah Kentucky the Tennessee river meets this other one named for a state

A

Ohio

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2
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The strait of promenthoux separates this large alpine lake into the grand lac and petit lac

A

Lake Geneva

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3
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This river bisecting Dublin was personified by James Joyce as Anna livia plurabelle

A

The River Liffey

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4
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This Canadian province shares the chiputneticook lakes with Maine

A

New Brunswick

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5
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This country’s longest river the Waikato winds north and west before entering the Tasman sea

A

New Zealand

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6
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In 1891 this European said perhaps my factories will put an end to war sooner than your congresses

A

Alfred Nobel
Name has become synonymous with peace

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7
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How many ghosts appear to Scrooge in a Christmas carol

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4
Past present future jacob Marley

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8
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What famous tv character comes from the planet malmac
Bonus what network

A

Alf
NBC

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9
Q

Poutine

A

Cheese curds
French fries
Brown gravy
French Canadian dish

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10
Q

Bleach sciency name

A

Sodium hypochlorite

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11
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SLR camera

A

Lens is detachable
Single lens reflex

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12
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Adding the sum of all sides on a typical dungeons and dragons die

A

210
20 sides

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13
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What brand did Corning introduce in 1915 to market heat resistant glass products

A

Pyrex

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14
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Title of Dominic dones fictionalized account of the OJ trial

A

Another city not my own

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15
Q

Movie subtitles
The last frontier

A

Star Trek

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16
Q

First popular calypso song

A

The Andrew sisters
Rum and Coca-Cola
Ww2
About the increase in prostitution drugs and crimes in Trinidad

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17
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Highest level of cricket

A

Test

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18
Q

What US Virgin Islander was one of the best NBA players of all time with a rookie of the year win in 98
5 championship wins and 3 Finals MVP wins
Bonus what did he do before basketball
Double bonus what island

A

Tim Duncan
Swimmer until hurricane Hugo destroyed swimming pool
St croix

19
Q

What Dominican pitcher won more games than any other in the 60s but never won a cy young award and only played in 1 WS game
Bonus what game was he a part of

A

Juan mar uh shal
The greatest game ever pitched against warren span of the brewers ;each pitched 15 scoreless innings until Willie Mayes homered in the 16th

20
Q

What 97 sequel starring Sandra bullock was nominated for 8 golden raspberry awards and featuring a very expensive scene in which a cruise ship collides with a town on the island of st Martian

A

Speed 2 cruise control

21
Q

1973 live and let die was filmed partly in Jamaica but was set in ehat fictional Caribbean nation

A

St Monique

22
Q

In what game do you have to vanquish great tiger bald bull and king hippo before taking on the incredibly difficult champion boss

A

Mike Tyson’s punch out

23
Q

Bowser is Mario’s archenemist except in this game
Where this villainous frog cursed the dreamland of subcon and its people

A

Wart in Super Mario brothers 2

24
Q

You see the bosses for this 80s arcade smash on every level and you must use cunning maneuvers to survive but beware inky is a beast
Bonus for each boss name

A

Pac-Man
Inky
Blinky
Pinky
Clyde

25
Q

The evil queen is the final boss in this 91 nes game but very few players got to face her probably because they couldn’t make it through the ridiculous treacherous turbo tunnel level

A

Battle toads

26
Q

Who’s the boss?
Mary tyler moore show

27
Q

Naval officer al cal uh v chee wouldn’t have been waiting in line for Black Friday deals on the Amazon echo or google home because he has ziggy a parallel hybrid computer you may recognize from what sci fi show

A

Quantum leap

28
Q

Talk about on screen chemistry Jason sudeakis and Jason Bateman each share 5 feature film credits alongside which actress

A

Jennifer Aniston

Bateman
The switch
The breakup
Office Christmas party
Horrible bosses 1 2

Sudeakis
The bounty hunter
We are the millers
Mothers day
Horrible bosses 1 2

29
Q

Sounding something like a portmanteau and sure to make gradeschool children giggle what is the small distinguishing mark you see over a lowercase I and J

A

Tiddle
Portmanteau of tiny and little

30
Q

Giraffes belong to ehat group of warm blooded vertebrates glands that produce milk for their young and have hair or fur

31
Q

Popular in the 19th century but later widely discredited, this attempted to predict character traits based on skull shape

A

phrenology

32
Q

If a stock priced at $25 increases by 200 percent, how much is that stock now worth?

33
Q

Which animal is the only non-primate to have fingerprints, thought to help them grip trees?

34
Q

Although visitors can buy bottles there, which liquor brand’s distillery is located in a dry county in Tennessee?

A

Jack Daniels

35
Q

Filled with animals like the viscacha and the guanaco, the Pampas is a 300,000-square-mile plains region in which country?

36
Q

A 2008 portrait of Barack Obama by street artist Shepard Fairey was emblazoned with which word?

37
Q

Famously visited by Marco Polo, the ancient capital city Xanadu (Shangdu) was established by which ruler?

A

Kublai Khan

38
Q

Which future pop star was the subject of a Facebook group called “Stefani Germanotta, you will never be famous,” created by some of her New York University classmates?

39
Q

Introduced in a 1920 play, which word is derived from a Czech word meaning “forced labor”?

40
Q

Scientist Dmitri Mendeleev correctly predicted the properties of three undiscovered elements by using which development he created?

A

Periodic table

41
Q

In 2015, which artist trademarked the phrases “This Sick Beat” and “Party Like It’s 1989”?

A

Taylor swift

42
Q

Multiple factions fighting for power are most likely trying to establish a…

43
Q

Selling at auction for a record $450 million, Salvator Mundi is a portrait of Christ thought to be painted about 1500 by which artist?

A

Leonardo da Vinci