Study 2 Flashcards
This bird is renowned for its unique courtship behaviour, where males build a structure and decorate it with sticks and brightly colored objects in an attempt to attract a mate.
Bowerbirds
This bird is in the bird family Ptilonorhynchidae.
Although their distribution is centered on the tropical regions of New Guinea and northern Australia, some species extend into central, western, and southeastern Australia. They occupy a range of different habitats, including rainforest, eucalyptus and acacia forest, and shrublands.
What was the name of the plane that Amelia Earhart used in the trans Atlantic flight that occurred in 1928 in which she was the first woman to make the voyage (as a passenger)
The chosen aircraft was a tri-motor Fokker F7 named “Friendship.”
Amelia had made it clear from the start that the role of mere passenger just for the purposes of publicity did not appeal to her and she requested an active role in the actual flight. She had no experience with multi-engine flying or with instrument flying, so it was agreed that, weather permitting, she would be allowed to fly part of the time.
Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean in 1928, but only as a passenger. Wilmer Stultz and Louis Gordon did the actual piloting. The trio made their crossing in a Fokker F.VII Tri-Motor named Friendship. Their successful flight took them from Trepassey Harbour, Newfoundland, to Burry Port, South Wales, in 20 hours and 40 minutes.
Category: Opera
We hope you don’t sleep through this Reginald deKoven folk opera based on an American story from 1820
Rip van Winkle
On June 6, 1892 he became the first president to attend the major league baseball game while in office
Benjamin Harrison 
A newspaper founded in London in 1855 was named for this, at time the hottest new communication technology
The telegraph
It could be the art of carving on whalebone, or the finished works themselves
Scrimshaw
In the 15th century, the emblem of the house of York was a white this Lancaster’s was red
Rose
Historically, reindeer herders in this group are free to move across Scandinavian borders
Sami
The Sámi people are the Indigenous people of the northern part of the Scandinavian Peninsula and large parts of the Kola Peninsula and they live in Sweden, Norway, Finland and Russia. There is no reliable information on the population of the Sámi people; they are, however, estimated to number between 50,000-100,000.
The Spanish name of these islands is Islas de Sotavento; their French name is Îles Sous-Le-vent
The Leeward Islands
a group of islands situated where the northeastern Caribbean Sea meets the western Atlantic Ocean. Starting with the Virgin Islands east of Puerto Rico, they extend southeast to Guadeloupe and its dependencies. In English, the term Leeward Islands refers to the northern islands of the Lesser Antilles chain. The more southerly part of this chain, starting with Dominica, is called the Windward Islands.
Essays making up this 1854 work include “reading”, “solitude” and “the pond in winter”
Walden
Book by Henry David Thoreau
Name of the Italian cruise ship that crashed on 13 January 2012 in the Tyrrhenian Sea just off the eastern shore of Isola del Giglio.
Costa Concordia
The evacuation of Costa Concordia took over six hours, and of the 3,229 passengers and 1,023 crew known to have been aboard, 32 died. Francesco Schettino, the ship’s captain at that time, was tried and found guilty of manslaughter, causing a maritime accident, and abandoning his ship.
In 1899 the Bloemfontein conference didn’t prevent this South African war
Boer war
The Waters of the Palk Straight separate India’s Tamil Nadu state from this island nation
Sri Lanka 
2011 the city of Savannah granted an exemption, allowing the sale of these items outside Juliette Gordon Low’s birthplace
Girl Scout cookies
The hair of Ötzi, the iceman showed high levels of this poisonous element, number 33, but that’s not what killed him
Arsenic
Where is Lady Bird Lake
Austin, Texas
This influential figure in tech, as CEO of OpenAI, played a key role in bringing technologies like GPT, revolutionizing chat interactions.
Sam Altman
In Japan, these succulent chicken skewers are grilled over a smokeless type of charcoal called Binchotan
Yakitori
Movie goers were snack-shamed for chewing popcorn too loudly during this mostly silent film directed by John Krasinski
A Quiet Place
A Quiet Place is a 2018 American post-apocalyptic science fiction horror film
Toni Morrison dedicated this masterpiece to “ 60 million and more” the number of African victims claimed by slavery
Beloved 
For their hit song, DNA, this K-pop band, released a video in which they dance and form a double helix
BTS
Category: Islands’ Countries
Komodo and Java
Indonesia
Category: by any other name
From 1963 to 1973 this cape on Florida’s space Coast was known as “Cape Kennedy “
Cape Canaveral
Category: mythological morals
Don’t get lost in the labyrinth are you encounter this half-man/ half-bull
The Minotaur
Category: baseball Hall of Famers
He got his first MLB hit on August 2, 1973 and his 3154th (and final) hit on September 29, 1993
George Brett 
an American former professional baseball third baseman who played 21 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Kansas City Royals.
Category: poets
Before they hit Broadway, Rum Tum Tugger and Bustopher Jones first appeared in a 1939 collection of his poems
TS Eliot 
Category: YouTube
These animals are seen in the background of “me at the zoo” the first video ever uploaded to YouTube
Elephants
Category: late night TV
He temporary quit as host of the Tonight Show in 1960 over a dispute with networks sensors
Jack Parr 
Category: social media
From 2006 to 2017, it was the character count limit on a tweet
140
Category: American authors
“ I had every detail clear in my mind before I sat down to the typewriter” she said of writing Gone with the Wind
Margaret Mitchell 
Category: the wild West
His brothers, Virgil, and Morgan were wounded in the gunfight at the OK corral, but he emerged unharmed
Wyatt Earp 
Category: Cuban Americans
Her song “Reach” was one of the two official songs of the 1996 Summer Olympics
Gloria Estefan 
During his speech, he joked, “ if I had have known that I would’ve put that patch on 35 years earlier”
John Wayne
The 1969 academy awards for the film “true grit”
Category: unusual casting
He played a young Colonel Sanders in the tongue-in-cheek Lifetime movie A Recipe for Seduction
Mario Lopez
Category: name the year
Happy Days premieres; Nixon resigns; Hank breaks Babe’s record
1974
Category: art
He painted Guernica in response to the 1937 bombing of a town in northern Spain
Pablo Picasso
Category: rock bands
This band’s name was taken from the names of two blues musicians found in Syd Barrett’s record collection
Pink Floyd
Injecting fluids into the body, or removing them often uses this type of needle, whose name means under the skin
Hypodermic
Category: big screen ballads
When she performed “Crazy for You” in the high school wrestling film “Vision Quest” this pop star was virtually unknown
Madonna
Vision Quest is a 1985 American coming-of-age romantic drama film starring Matthew Modine, Linda Fiorentino, Michael Schoeffling and Ronny Cox.
Organization whose symbol is a candle surrounded by barbed wire
Amnesty international
