the Goths had helped bring about the end of the Roman empire Flashcards
They met for the first time in 1858 and she assisted John Brown by drawing from her geographical knowledge of the middle Atlantic region
Harriet Tubman
John Brown ask this orator and friend if he wanted to join the Harper‘s ferry raid , he declined and called the raid a steel trap
Frederick Douglas
Who is the boss starred him as Tony micelli and ex baseball player turned housekeeper
Tony Danza
A two-parter called what’s my line had this title character wondering about career choices if fate hadn’t made her a vampire slayer
Buffy
In the who shaves the barber episode of this FX series, Billy Bob Thornton, as Lorne Malvo does some shooting in the title town
Fargo
She played an amnesiac on the 2007 to 2009 sitcom Samantha who
Christina Applegate
Are you smarter than a celebrity is hosted by this man who’s maybe more famous as a BF then as a three time Super Bowl champ
Travis Kelce
Directions to the landmark
Up from Pike Place market take a left on first Avenue then a right on Broad Street this 600 foot landmark is hard to mess
Space needle
This dry brandy from the Black forest of Germany is made from the fermented juice of the black Morello cherry
Kirsch
Keer shh kiss
This nanny comes to work for the bank’s family at number 17 Cherry Tree Ln. in London
Mary Poppins
Goldie Hawn and Warren Beatty had some fun in this 1975 Hal Ashby comedy
Shampoo
As a verb, this four letter word means to search everywhere
Comb
In song, this person with a large wide maw or lack of discretion strikes again
Big mouth
This owner of a rental property maximize his profits while allowing the property to deteriorate?
Slumlord
What ship is believed to have passed by the Titanic, ignoring her distress signals?
Ss Californian
Most scientists believe that life appeared on Earth approximately how many years ago?
4 billion
law, a person who has been impaneled is about to do what?
Serve on a jury
In the 1890s, heroin was introduced commercially to the U.S. by Bayer as a remedy for what ailment?
Persistent cough
John a Copeland was captured at Harpers Ferry while trying to ford this river that shares its name with a Virginia national park
Shanandoah
Directions to the landmark
Hop over the Harbour Bridge, and soon hit Macquarie Street to sing the praises of this architectural Marvel on Bennelong point
Ben uh long
Muh quary
Sydney Opera House
go over the qasr qasr el nil Bridge head south past the Giza zoo and the three pyramids view and look for its 50 foot long front legs
The sphinx
A synonym for applaud begins the slang word for a well-timed retort
Clap back
Southeast of the Düsseldorf , it’s historical capital of the Rhineland
Cologne
So say this companies, kick scooters, hoverboards and rip sticks are a cut above
Razor
Is this 1904 play opens Mrs. Ranevsky and her daughter Anya arrive home from Paris
The cherry Orchard
check ov
At Columbus Circle hop on the one train downtown to Rector Street walk five minutes to Trinity Church yard and the 1804 grave of treasury secretary
Hamilton
It sounds like a bath for a pig, but it means nonsense
Hogwash
From Abbey Rose Studios swing by the Dorchester, Hotel and Buckingham Palace on your way to this 320 foot tower on the Thames
Elizabeth tower , more commonly called Big Ben
Ben and Jerry says it’s the first ice cream name for a rock legend and the most famous of our fan suggested flavors
Cherry Garcia
In 1966 federal law banned these fireworks because of the amount of explosives they contained
Cherry bomb
Osborne, P Anderson, the only raider to write a memoir compared brown to this ancient patriarch spoken of an exodus
Moses
Mary ellen Pleasant one of the richest people in this city during its gold rush era said she gave John $30,000
San Fran
The meteor kind of this usually takes the name of a constellation that would be overhead when viewing
Meteor shower
While he didn’t take home the Oscar, Johnny Depp won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actor for his performance in this 2003 film.
Guess: Shattered Glass
Answer: Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
What fruit-flavored candy brand introduced an alternate softer variety known as Airs Gummies in 2021?
Guess: Life Savers
Answer: Starburst
Winning by 2 strokes, this American golfer took home his second career Players Championship in 2013.
Guess: Jordan Spieth
Answer: Tiger Woods
At the end of his career, Tracy McGrady was on the bench for what team during a 2010’s NBA Finals?
Guess: Houston Rockets
Answer: San Antonio Spurs
After his Broncos tenure, Brandon Marshall had two 1,000+ yard seasons for this AFC team from 2010-2011.
Guess: New York Jets
Answer: Miami Dolphins
follow-up to the original Carl Sagan series, the 2014 American science documentary television series Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey debuted with this astrophysicist as the host.
Guess: Neil Degrasse Tyson
With Boy George on lead vocals, this band released the 1983 song “Karma Chameleon”.
Guess: Culture Club
BIOGRAPHIES
Which movie star was given his name after kicking while inside his mother’s womb as she looked at art in Florence’s Uffizi Gallery?
Leonardo DiCaprio
ANYTHING GOES
Commonly associated with the sixth chakra, a bindi is traditionally worn where on the body?
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Forehead
link between Europe and Asia, which city served as the capital of both the Byzantine and Ottoman empires?
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Istanbul
ARTS & CULTURE
After reading The Scarlet Letter, Herman Melville befriended which author and dedicated Moby Dick to him?
correct
Nathaniel Hawthorne
GEOGRAPHY
About 200 miles north of Mount Kilimanjaro, the second highest mountain in Africa shares its name with which country, where it is located?
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Kenya
ANIMALS & NATURE
Which animal gives birth to undersized young, upward of 50 at a time, appropriately called “imps”?
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Tasmanian devil
SCIENCE & TECH
The process of one cell duplicating its chromosomes to create two identical daughter cells is called what?
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Mitosis
MONEY & NUMBERS
Worth an estimated $28 billion due to his country’s oil reserves, Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Muʿizzaddin Waddaulah has been better known by which title since 1967?
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Sultan of Brunei
noun
an unpleasant or harmful odor, secretion, or discharge.
ef·flu·vi·um
In a famous 1976 film Robert De Niro plays who and has what job
Robert De Niro plays Travis Bickel, who is a taxi driver
Dean, I received an academy award nomination for us for trial of Bickel in Scorsese’s taxi driver
What type of clothing get his name from being meant to be seen from a distance?
Blazer
The first blazers wear jackets worn by Oxford and Cambridge rowers and the St. John’s College Bright Scarlet jackets became known as blazers
Famous for is perfectly flat mirror like appearance where is the giant salar de Uyuni salt flat?
Bolivia
Visible from space the visually striking Bolivian salt flats are also home to about 70% of the world’s lithium
What’s the word for the distinctive shape of a blob of toothpaste in toothpaste ads
Nurdle
Nurdle is also a pallet of plastic common in production of plastic items
In the culinary world, a Trotter is the edible hoof of what animal
Pig
Trotters are a delicacy in many countries as the collagen is good for healthy skin and muscle strength
Godzilla’s original name, Gojira comes from combining the names of what two animals
Gorilla and whale
Gojira is a combination of the Japanese words gorilla (gorira) and whale (kujira) and Godzilla has his own star on the Hollywood walk theme
Highest grossing film of 2008
Dark Knight
This film tells the true story of a Pulitzer prize winning investigation
Spotlight
15 best picture
A nearly 4 hour long western one of Hollywood’s biggest bombs
Heavensgate
A 1986 Oliver Stone film
Platoon
Best picture winner
The Ted Bates ad agency came up with the slogan melts in your mouth, not in your hand for this candy
M&M’s
Don’t leave home without it as a classic slogan of this company that also says don’t live life without it
American Express
Call the east sea in South Korea this nationally name sea has practically no tides
Sea of Japan
This company yeah we’ve got that slogan was replaced in 2003
Staples
In 90s ads, parents just didn’t understand why kids liked this cereal the common response was we eat what we like
Apple jacks
In the 1980s, this investors newspaper built itself as the daily diary of the American dream
Wall Street Journal
Something’s reported on during this day: flying penguins Google translate for animals and trees that grow spaghetti
April Fools’ Day
A 2005 shop.org press release is said to be the first public use of this term for a shopping day a few days after Thanksgiving
Cyber Monday
In 2024 this restaurant chain partner with feeding America to feed America on national pancake day
IHOP
In 2022, the New Yorker honored a newish federal holiday with a cover painting of a black family called 157 years of
Juneteenth
In 2021 Joe Biden became the first US president to formally proclaim this holiday that coincides with another in the fall
Indigenous peoples’ day
One good “turn”
A recession is a prolonged one of these, a reduction in economic activity
Down turn
“turn”
Drop arm swing gate and tripod are types of these barriers often seen at subway or fair entrances
Turn style
As in the song closing time, it’s what bars do over every boy and every girl around last call
Turn the lights on
Usually for piano, it’s a short, dreamy composition suggestive of the evening
Nocturne
Knock turn
This adjective for one of few words is from Latin for silence
Taciturn
Tass uh turn
Exodus 20:8 commands remember this day to keep it holy
Sabbath
Bounded by the coast of Myanmar and Thailand to east the Andaman Sea is a marginal sea of this ocean
And duh min
Indian
The relatively shallow depths of the sea between the British Isles and Norway yields very dramatic waves
North Sea
The only one of Earth’s seas without a land boundary it gets his name from its native surface life
Sargasso
To the north, the Black Sea is connected to this smaller sea by the kerch Street
Sea of azov
The Bible
And the light shineth in this which comprehended it not
The darkness
The Lord is my shepherd I shall not want he maketh me to lie down in green these
Pastures
Why be holdest thou this four letter thing that is in my brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye
Mote
In the Lord God formed the man of the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils This phrase.
The breath of life
This 264 lb Giants RB rushed for 15 TD’s in 2008.
Guess: Tiki Barber
Answer: Brandon Jacobs
Before a managerial career, Mike Matheny won 3 Gold Gloves while playing Catcher for this National League team from 2000-2004.
Guess: Kansas City Royals
Answer: St. Louis Cardinals
Sabrina Ionescu was a 3x All-American and AP Player of the Year while at this school from 2016-2020.
Guess: South Carolina
Answer: Oregon
After his lead role on House, Hugh Laurie had a supporting role as politician Tom James on this HBO show from 2015-2019.
Guess: The Newsroom
Double Dip Guess: Veep
Answer: Veep
Before Two and a Half Men, Charlie Sheen & Jon Cryer starred in this 1991 comedy that parodied Top Gun and other popular films.
Guess: Hot Shots!
With over 1 Billion Spotify streams, this European electropop duo is most known for their 2013 song “I Love It”.
Guess: Icona Pop
Answer: icona Pop
What is the state capital of Montana?
Guess: Helena
Nabisco describes this treat as: “Round graham crackers topped with marshmallow and covered in dark chocolate.”
Guess: Mallomars
Along with a 2019 HBO special, “Son of a Gary”, this stand-up comedian co-hosts The Bonfire podcast on Sirius radio and starred on The Showtime series Billions.
Guess: Brody Stevens
Answer: Dan Soder
After winning AP Player of the Year at Cincinnati in 2000, this PF got drafted #1 overall and helped the Nets reach the NBA Finals in 2002 and 2003.
Guess: Blake Griffin
Answer: Kenyon Martin
In 2023, this school out of New Jersey became the second 16-seed to defeat a 1-seed when they took down Zach Edey and Purdue.
Guess: Liberty
Answer: Fairleigh Dickinson
Jim Mora Sr. was the Head Coach of this team in 2001 when he gave his famous “Playoffs?” rant.
Guess: Atlanta Falcons
Answer: indianapolis Colts
From 1997-2010, this rock band consisted of husband & wife and later ex-husband & ex-wife Jack and Meg White.
Guess: The White Stripes
In 2007, this sandwich chain reportedly had over 4,600 locations in the United States, but as of 2024, they now have less than 200.
Guess: Quiznos
Tom Cruise played a young hot-shot stock car driver gets his chance to compete at the top level in this 1990 sports drama featuring Nicole Kidman, Robert Duvall, and Randy Quaid.
Guess: Days of Thunder
What 2000’s Cinderella school beat these teams en route to the Final Four: 6-seed Michigan State, 3-seed North Carolina, 7-seed Wichita State, and 1-seed Connecticut?
Guess: Virginia Commonwealth (VCU)
Answer: George Mason
In 2006, 14-seed Northwestern State pulled off a shocking upset of this 3-seed Big Ten school at the buzzer to earn its first tournament win in school history.
Guess: Ohio State
Answer: Iowa
This R&B singer is most known for his 2004 #1 hit song “Let Me Love You” but also had other hits in the 2000’s like “Just A Friend 2002” and “Break Up”.
Guess: Jeremih
Answer: Mario
