Tirana Albany Flashcards
This NFL season wqs shortened by strike
Who won super bowl, QB and won MVP of SB
87
Redskins
Doug Williams - first black QB to win SB
In 89 Jim abbot garnered headlines when debuting on this team
Born with no right hand
Didn’t play in minors
California angels
Fahn hall is most associated with
Iran contra
Secretary to Oliver north
This famous event was televised on July 29 81
Charles and princess Diana wedding
750 M people watched
In December 2012 Chinese scientists use the phase lag of thr earths tides during full and new moons to calculate the speed of this
Thr speed Gravity (which is the speed of light )- tides caused by moons gravitational pull
Coco bowl O is not a place you get there fast and take it slow but Dave cool E A would tell you it is in fact a variety of this commodity
Wood
Ranger Joe had a woodchuck
What do I measure
Jubilee
Time - 50 years ?
What do I measure
Olympiad
Time - 4 years
This Virginian created thr machine for this staple pasta eaten daily in US today
Jefferson
Macaroni
He demonstrated the first version of a machine designed to increase the productivity of farms in 1831 at steels tavern Virginia
Cyrus McCormick
Mechanical reaper
In 23 mikaela shiffrin wqs declared this sports winningest athlete ever
Alpine skiing
She finally became a mother of nations when giving birth to her son - him - at age 90
Sarah mother
Abraham - father
Isaac
Settled as losantiville the name of this current Ohio city was inspired by a Roman officer and the society named for him
Low Santa ville
Cincinnati
This tennis legend Was born in Richmond Virginia and first African American to win the us open and Wimbledon tennis championships
Arthur Ashe
One of the most important people in scientific history albeit unwittingly is Henrietta lax who is famous for this contribution to research
Cancer cells
She had cancer
Tumor biopsied while alive - cervical cancer
Have kept line of cells alive since then -
Hela cells -
genetically identical cells that they can continue to test in
Virginia Minnesota is the home to this guardians of thr galaxy actor
Chris pratt
Rocky raccoon?
Newport News Virginia is the birthplace of this historically noteworthy Olympic gymnast
First African American to be an Olympic all around champion
Gabby Douglas
Virginia Beach is the hometown of this happy singer
Pharrell Williams
.5 of Neptune’s
1/3 of NERD
He was a Burmese nationalist and the first Prime Minister of Burma, ruling from 1948 to 1962. He was a devout Buddhist who sought to make Buddhism the state religion. He was deposed by General Ne Win in a 1962 coup d’etat.
U Nu (1907-1995)
Locale of Snowbird and Alta
Utah
2023 Nobel Peace Prize winner
Also country
Narges Mohammadi
the vice president of the Defenders of Human Rights Center
Iran
Tech giant that purchased Gateway
Acer
Total red and white stripes on the American flag
13
7 - red
Decorated with a rhinestone charm glow is a fragrance from her
J Lo
In music this is the eight note interval between one C note and the next
Octave
This American statesman defended Aaron burr against charges of treason
Henry clay
The name of this athletic event comes from the Greek words for five and contest
Pentathlon
Although mostly set in alabama this southern food related film wqs filmed mostly in Georgia
Fried green tomatoes
Top 3 peach producing states
California - by a wide margin - more then everyone else put together
South Carolina
Georgia - distant third
Love is alive song
Gary Wright
First recorded visual depiction of this object in space whose existence has been known since at least thr 3rd century BCE not receiving current name until 1705
Millennials may know what object looks like outside depictions but Gen Z hasn’t directly seen
Haley’s comet on the Bayou tapestry
Last seen 86 and 87
According to lyrics of a union favorite song that wqs later rewritten to be battle hymn of the republic this is the name of the controversial 19th American whose body remains amoldering in the grave
John brown
Bleeding Kansas
Harpers ferry
His truth is marching on
David st hubbins Nigel tough nell and Derrick stalls are the canonical lewd singer guitarist and bassist for this music act whose name is d
Properly stylized with a dotless lower case I and a umlaut over N
No drummer as disastrous history with percussionists
This is spinal tap
Craziness with the drummer including being eaten by a pet python spontaneous combustion explosion
Used in 3 different contexts tbis word can mean
Revolutionary means of converting energy into work
Revolutionary distribution service launched in 03
Revolutionary concept in education serving to prepare for need and demands of 21st century
Steam
Industrial revolution- steam engine
Steam - video gaming development
Stem + arts
The chicken ranch in a town called luh Grange inspired thr titular setting of this 78 bRoadway musical
Same establishment inspiration for a ZZ Top song nAmed for the town released 5 years earlier which borrowed its opening guitar part and certain lyric from boogie blues legend John lee hooker
Best little whore house in Texas
Uh nof uh lees is among the several genera of this living creature with the said genus being particularly maligned for exclusive connection to specific malady that caused over 600K deaths In 2020
Not malicious but in a mal uh fish ul symbiotic relationship with other such species as humans
Mosquito
Malaria
