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Oliver Stone Screwnplay Scarface Flashcards

1
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Popular modern day actress who shares a name wirh Shakespeare only wife

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Ann Hathaway

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Shakespeare romcom features this money lender who grants a loan with the condition that he will be paid with a pound of this if loan is not repaid in due time

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Jewish Shylock in the merchant of Venice

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The fault in our stars author and what was the inspiration

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Play Julius Caesar
Author John green
Shakespeare play with cash is and Brutus

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4
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Shakespeare in love (98) academy award winners
Bonus what other oscars

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Gwyenth Paltrow
Judy French

Best picture
Bear oriignal screenplay

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5
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Amealuhphobia
Popular in the 20s and 30s

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Fear of starch

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Former girl group member that released single coffee with a steaming hot music video

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Kelly Rowland

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7
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What type of bread requires a starter
An art not a science

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Sourdough

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8
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2 of the most commonly grown coffee plants

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Arabica
Robusta

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9
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Begins with the line who is John galt

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Atlas shrugged
Popular ode to capitalism
Ayn rand

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Greek mythological horse adopted by the United Kingdom paratroopers in WW2

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Pegasus

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Awards presented by the academy is science fiction fantasy and horror films

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Saturn awards previously golden scrolls

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12
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Top 10 busted national parks

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Great Smokey mountains
Yellowstone
Zion
Rocky Mountain
Grand Teton tee taaaan
Grand Canyon
Ki o guh valley
Acadia
Olympic
Joshua tree

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13
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Tells the story of the family who fled dust bowl in Oklahoma for a new life in California
April 14 1939

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Grapes of wrath
Joad family

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The completion of the Illinois and Michigan canal transformed what city into a major transportation hub

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Chicago
Not Michigan state but lake

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15
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Had to be removed from Andrew Jackson’s funeral in 1845 for swearing loudly

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His Pet parrot poll

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16
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Pawg uh nology is the study of

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Beards

17
Q

Titanic was one of 3 Olympic class ships built for what British shipping company
Bonus other 2

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White star line
Olympic
Brr tanic

18
Q

Fredrick fleet was the first to spot an iceberg while on the titanic on this date

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April 14 1912
At 11:39 pm

19
Q

Severe shortage of this resulted in over 1500 dying aboard the titanic

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Lifeboats
Mainly were only filled to 1/2 capacity
2200 people but only room for 1200

20
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Surviving passengers of titanic were picked up thr next morning by what ship

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Car pay thee uh
Carpathia
Not the loose uh tann yuh which sank 3 years later by a German uBoat which was one of the causes of the US getting involved

21
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Surviving passenger of the titanic whose life was later with what Broadway musical

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Margaret brown
The unsinkable molly brown.

22
Q

Abe was assassinated by what actor
Bonus date

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John Wilkes boo the
April 14 1865

23
Q

Abe’s assassination occurred at what dc theater
Bonus what farsical play

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Fords theater
Our American cousin by Tom Taylor

24
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Other targets in the Lincoln assassination plot

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VP Andrew Johnson at suh rot
Powell and herald to kill Secretary of State william sue Erd

25
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Among the tributes to Lincoln include o captain my captain and when lilacs last in the door yard bloomed written by this poet

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Walt Whitman

26
Q

main north south interstate in Texas that connects the Dallas ft worth metroplex with Austin and San Antonio

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35

27
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What general infamously changed sides in this war after his plot to hand over West Point to the British was exposed

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Benedict Arnold in the revolutionary war
Actually was having breakfast with Washington when he learned British major John Andre who had the plans was captured

28
Q

Bird with the largest brain

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Hummingbirds
4.2% of body weight

29
Q

Consistently most performed opera in the world
Bonus Main characters

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Verdi’s la tra vee at uh
Main characters
V o let uh and Alfredo
Tragic opera

30
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Mussolini was known in Italy by what title which is Latin for Leader

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Ill do che

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