Turtles No Teeth Flashcards
Whose 1952 Topps baseball card sold for a record $12.6 million in 2022, roughly 12 times all the money he ever made as a Yankee?
Mickey mantle
Taking its title from the German word for “welcome,” “Willkommen” is the opening song to which Broadway musical?
Cabaret
At up to 70 wingbeats per second, which bird flaps its wings faster than any other type of bird?
Hummingbird
Who placed the crown upon their own head at their 1804 coronation, a task that had traditionally been done by the pope?
Napoleon Bonaparte
In 2008 Lebanon unsuccessfully petitioned the European Union for recognition that which food originated in its country, not in Israel?
Hummus
BIOGRAPHIES
An accidental burn from a hot comb prior to a show caused which singer to begin wearing her trademark gardenias in her hair?
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Billie Holiday
GEOGRAPHY
All points of the Bermuda Triangle?
With Bermuda and southern Florida anchoring two points, which island is considered the third
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Puerto Rico
SCIENCE & TECH
A barium swallow most frequently precedes which medical procedure?
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X-ray
A box office bomb with a 6% Rotten Tomatoes critics score, Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez starred in this 2003 romantic crime comedy.
Guess: Gigli
Shorty get down, good Lord. Baby got ‘em open all over town. Strictly biz, she don’t play around. Cover much grounds, got game by the pound…” are lyrics from what 1996 Blackstreet song?
Guess: No Diggity
On what network did the hit drama This Is Us air on from 2016-2022?
Guess: NBC
The Chocolate Lava Big Cup is a variety of what brand of candy?
Guess: Reese’s
The Mountain Dew formula, The Parthenon, Hailey Welch, Bridgestone Arena, Little Debbie Cakes, and Megan Fox are all people, places, or things that originate from this U.S. state.
Guess: North Carolina
Answer: Tennessee
Ranked by some as the #1 prospect out of high school, this North Carolina Tar Heels forward averaged over 16 ppg from 2010-2012, leading them to two Elite Eights, but no Final Fours.
Guess: Grant Hill
Answer: Harrison Barnes
James Paxton threw a no-hitter while pitching for this American League West team in 2018.
Guess: Seattle Mariners
2009 Top 10 pick, Defensive Tackle B.J. Raji played his whole career with this NFC team from 2009-2015, where he won a Super Bowl and made a Pro Bowl.
Guess: New York Giants
Answer: Green Bay Packers
The state is home to two of the five US military service Academy
New York is home to 2 to 5 service Academy, the US military Academy (army )in West Point and the merchant marine Academy in Kingspoint
Colorado is home to Air Force Maryland to Navy but. None of the five are located in Texas.
The first published recipe for s’mores was released by this organization
Girl Scouts
The 1927 Girl Scouts handbook contains the first published recipe though it tastes like some more they wrote one is really enough
An outdoor exhibition space called the neon boneyard commemorates lots of old this
Casinos
Featuring iconic signs for casinos that have closed like the Stardust and many that have modernized from the original classic look like New York, New York and Caesars. The neon boneyard is found in Vegas.
This beloved character has appeared in the most Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parades
Snoopy has floated above the parade 42 times since his debut in 1968
What made long-time law and order actor Jerry Orbach unusual on the show
He played two characters
Between his 12 season runners detective Lenny Briscoe Jerry Orbach played a very similar looking defense attorney named Frank Lehrman in season two of Law and order
This first name is the most common among US presidents
James
Six - James Madison, James Monroe, James Kay, Polk James Buchanan, Jimmy Carter, James Garfield
John is second s with five
Known for another series with Anastasia Steele, this author began her Mr. and Mrs. series in 2019
EL James
Fans of the best selling author of slammed and point of retreat are known as cohorts
Colleen Hoover
Iron age Nigerian, nok culture is known for this type of clay based art a term derived from Italian
Terra-cotta
An artifact from Mycenaean Greece is called the man of this king from the Iliad and is also known as the Mona Lisa of prehistory
My suh knee in
Agamemnon
Ag uh men non
This civilization that reached its height in the six century BC produced the cuh mare uh of arezzo now on display in Florence
Uh retz o
Etruscans
Greek for art originated part of the name of this process that made movies like gone with the wind glow
Technicolor
When Oedipus vows to find his father’s killer, who in fact is himself, that’s the situational type of this word
Situational irony
A mineral rich area called the ring of fire may have enough chromite to make Canada a centuries worth of this alliterative alloy
Stainless steel
Creator of the sex lives of college girls, Mindy Kaling love shooting and beautiful Poughkeepsie at this college
Puh kip c
Vassar
The Babylonian map of the world the oldest the map includes this river, but not the tye gris
Tigris
Euphrates
On display of the national Museum of American history, his hat includes a moruring band for his son Willie
Abraham Lincoln
In 1853 TS Elliot’s grandfather led the founding of Washington University in the city
St. Louis
During World War II, this New England school ran the radiation lab the nations leading center for radar development
MIT
Before spreading joy around New England, Bill Belichick played tight end at this religious named school in Middletown, Connecticut
WesLyean
Wez lee in
Subtract ism from this skeptical philosophical attitude to get this Latin for nothing
Nihil
Knee hill
In federal court witnesses are asked to solemnly swear their testimony will be these 10 words
The truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth
Chemical compound that makes up limestone and is found in mineral water
Calcium carbonate
The second hardest, natural material is this gemstone producer, a form of aluminum oxide
Corundum
Cuh run dum
We brainwash believe this Richard Condon novel was adapted starring Sinatra in 1962 and Denzel in 2004
The Manchurian candidate
Big stars like Marlon Brando didn’t help the famously doomed shoot of the 1996 adaptation of this island set HD Wells work
The island of Dr. muh row
Note from James Baldwin on how to make this novel into a film helped Barry Jenkins do just that
If Beale Street could talk
Great movie says ken
In math, it’s the set with the elements represented by a zero with a line through it
Null set or empty
This Shakespeare play begins as Don Pedro’s victorious Army returns to Messina
Much ado about nothing
Anthony Burgess wrote the words slide into the slots ordained by this the set of rules for constructing sentences
Syntax
This mineral whose crystals can be used to keep accurate time precedes crisis in the history of 1970s Swiss watchmaking
Quartz
Observers of the anti-consumerism buy nothing day make no purchases on the Friday following this holiday
Thanksgiving
Accepting the Oscar for writing sense and sensibility she said she had gone to Jane Austin’s grave for respect and to tell her the grosses
Emma Thompson
From 2013 to 2017 Tom mi son kept his head during some rough situations as this TV character in sleepy Hollow
Ichabod crane
200 BC Chinese chemist could burn the mineral Cinnabar HgS to get this metal then mix that with ore to extract gold
Mercury
Baylor claims the title of Oldest continuously operating university in this state
Texas, Texas
Many stubby little every day words are from Anglo-Saxon, but Greek pix os gave us this meaning a container or to fight with fists
Box
In the early 1900s, the makers of a new vacuum flask with a metal casing held a competition to name it and this won
Thermos
That’s why they call it the thermos
Poetry and places
It’s the geographic word in the title of a Robert Burns poem about the mountains, covered with snow, the straths and green valleys below
My heart’s in the Highlands
Hurricanes do it to trees people do it when they leave a long time home and move away
Uproot
In the Bible, the first line of Job explains that he was from uz and that he was perfect and
Upright
Makers of the 2024 IONIQ 5 (ionic) with an electric 300 miles of range
Hyundai
Makers of assassin’s Creed and all it’s many forms, but you knew that
Or something Ubisoft
U knew that
Makers of Americone dream and boom Chocolatta cookie core
Ben and JerryS
In a game of Scrabble Qs and Z have the highest value this many points for each
10
Imitating larval and intermediate forms, nymphs and emergers are two of the main types used in this variety of angling
Fly fishing
A winter Olympic sports since 1998. It uses what was originally called a snurfer when invented in 1965.
Snowboarding
Earn points by collecting cards of the same rank into groups, called melds in this card game with a name from Spanish for basket
Canasta
The highest social class or the top most layer of the earths lithosphere
Upper crust
Roentgenogram Is another name for an image produced with the use of these?
Rent ghen o gram
X-rays
Watch your step at the Cayman Islands resort city names for these animals
stingray city
Emmanuel rad nit ski was the real name of this photographer, painter and filmmaker who had key rolls and dada and surrealism
Man ray
Makers of Neosporin and paxlovid
Pfizer
It’s about three hours by car from Pocatello to Sun Valley in this state but what the heck let’s fire up the Piper cub
Idaho 
Usually proceeded by one it’s outdoing or keeping ahead of a friend arrival
Upsmanship
If you fly west out of Columbia, Missouri to Denver basically above I 70 you’ll cross the state in its entirety
Kansas
“who is the author of the popular children’s book, Stuart Little and Charlotte’s Web?
That author is EB. White.”
“question number ten, first published in 1942 as one of the first 12 books in the Little Golden Book series, What Children’s Book by Jeanette Sebring Lowry is one of the all-time best-selling hardcover children’s books in the US.?
This book that has sold a bunch of copies is The Pokey Little Puppy. The Pokey Little Puppy.”
“Number eight, what 1985 children’s picture book, one described as a circular tale illustrating a slippery slope, involved one character asking another for things such as nail scissors, a napkin, and a glass of milk?
That book giving us life lessons is, if you give a mouse a cookie. If you give a mouse a cookie.”
“Question number seven, Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cottontail are characters from what 1902 children’s book by Beatrix Potter? Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cottontail are the main characters’ sisters in
The Tale of Peter Rabbit. The Tale of Peter Ra”
“Question five, what 1969 children’s picture book incorporates elements that contribute to early childhood education, including counting, days of the week, and food, and ends with an emerging butterfly?
This educational picture book is the very hungry caterpillar. The very hungry caterpillar.”
