Torremelinos2 Flashcards
What Filipino socialite and current partner of Mario Vargas Llosa was married to Julio Iglesias in the 1970s and is Enrique Iglesias’ mother?
Isabelle PREYSLER
1363 MASSIVE CHINESE NAVAL BATTLE
LAKE POYANG
After losing the 1911 Los Angeles mayoral election, what American socialist established the utopian community of Llano, then the other community of New Llano in Louisiana after Llano’s creditors cut off its water access?
Job HARRIMAN
What Soviet cipher clerk’s defection to Canada is often held to have begun the Cold War? For decades after, he appeared in television interviews with a paper bag over his head.
igor gouzenko
What soap opera about the independence-era lives of a Damascus neighborhood’s residents is the Arab world’s most popular television show?
bab el hara
What Portuguese “queen of fado” became internationally famous for her song “Coimbra” and secretly donated to the Portuguese Communist Party while being used as a national symbol by Portugal’s fascist government?
Amalia RODRIGUES
What Ugandan scholar, husband of Mira Nair, and father of the Democratic Socialist winner of a recent New York State legislature primary elucidated the distinction between the titular Citizen and Subject in his most famous work?
Mahmood MAMDANI
What Indian-Pakistani author of “Toba Tek Singh” faced among the first obscenity trials in Pakistan for his stories “Thanda Gosht’, and “Khol Do”?
Saadat hassan MANTO
What French sociologist’s seminal work The Crowd
Gustave Le Bon
A plain between Venezuela and Colombia lends it names to what herders, famous for their musical tradition and their fighting during the Latin American Wars of independence? They were led in battle by Jose Antonio Paez.
LLANEROS
A July 1946 terrorist attack carried out by WHICH zionist paramilitary group Irgun
IRGUN
What 19th century Italian writer, whose scrapbook was published as Zibaldone de pensieri, wrote poems such as A Silvia and L’infinito collected in his Canti?
Giacomo LEOPARDI
What colonial Brazilian sculptor created the “Twelve Prophets”, a set of soapstone sculptures depicting prophets from the Bible?
ALEIJADINHO
Which Boston Bruins defenceman was named NHL MVP on 4 occasions during the 1930s? Only NHL legends Wayne Gretzky and Gordie Howe have won the award more often.
eddie shore
In 2018, which Norwegian centre-forward became the first winner of the Women’s Ballon d’or? In 2017 she decided to stop playing for the Norway women’s national team due to how they treat women’s football.
ADA HEGERBERG
