Study 6 Flashcards
Category: you sit on it
First name of Ms. Hill, heroine of racy 18th century novel
Fanny
Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure—popularly known as Fanny Hill—is an erotic novel by the English novelist John Cleland first published in London in 1748. Written while the author was in debtors’ prison in London, it is considered “the first original English prose pornography, and the first pornography to use the form of the novel”. It is one of the most prosecuted and banned books in history.
“The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed Minds” a book by Michael Lewis is about these two Israeli psychologists who are sometimes referred to as the fathers of behavioral economics.
Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky
The longest serving speaker of the House who served for over 17 years (among his three separate stints). His tenure in the House representing Texas’s 4th congressional district as a Democrat was from 1913 to 1961.
Sam Rayburn
This author’s debut novel, “The Naked and the Dead,” was Hailed as one of the finest novels to come out of the Second World War
Norman Mailer
Nachem Malech Mailer (1923 – 2007), known by his pen name Norman Kingsley Mailer, was an American novelist, journalist, playwright, and filmmaker. In a career spanning over six decades, Mailer had 11 best-selling books, at least one in each of the seven decades after World War II.
Mailer is considered an innovator of “creative non-fiction” or “New Journalism”, along with Truman Capote, Joan Didion, Hunter S. Thompson, and Tom Wolfe, a genre which uses the style and devices of literary fiction in factual journalism.
This fabric-named 1989 revolution in Czechoslovakia began after police attacked a student demonstration
The Velvet Revolution
“town bully” who was shot in broad daylight in front of dozens of witnesses on July 10, 1981. not a single citizen of Skidmore, Missouri called an ambulance or said a word about the shooters to the cops.
Ken McElroy
What Pepperidge Farm cookie shares a name with the surname of an actress whose memorable TV roles include Samantha Micelli and Phoebe Halliwell?
Milano (Alyssa Milano in “Who’s the Boss?” and “Charmed”)
British car brand that uses the slogan: Above and Beyond
Land Rover
This “colorful” game from Rock Star follows former outlaw John Marston as he tames the West
Red Dead Redemption
a subregion of Oceania in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It extends from New Guinea in the west to the Fiji Islands in the east, and includes the Arafura Sea.
Melanesia
Melanesia is one of three major cultural areas of the Pacific Ocean islands, along with Micronesia and Polynesia.
The last wild wisent, also called the European variety of this plains animal, was killed in the Caucasus in 1927
A Bison
From 2001 on: Minerva McGonagall, one of Harry Potter’s professors, was played by this actress
Maggie Smith
Fastest fresh water fish
Rainbow Trout
Pea soup was a staple in the ships of this navy that beat the French & Spanish at Trafalgar
The British Navy
Pea soup was a staple in the British navy, which defeated the French and Spanish at the Battle of Trafalgar on October 21, 1805. During the Napoleonic era, the Royal Navy issued sailors two pounds of pork and peas on Sundays and Thursdays, which were usually boiled into pease pudding.
The British navy’s victory at Trafalgar established British naval supremacy for over 100 years. The battle was fought during the War of the Third Coalition, which was part of the Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815). The British navy had been blockading France since early 1805
These tropical eagles are named for a woman-bird hybrid of Greek mythology
Harpy
Category: American Artists
IN THE 1920s HE USED WIRE, STRING & OTHER MATERIALS TO FABRICATE “MODELS IN MOTION” FOR A MINIATURE CIRCUS SCENE
ALEXANDER CALDER
the two state capitals located on the Mississippi River
Baton Rouge, LA and St. Paul, MN
A Finnish word found in English. You may one of these at your gym.
Sauna
Musicians use this Italian term for a broken chord whose notes are played in succession
an arpeggio
His “Fun in Acapulco” included crooning “Bossa Nova Baby”
Elvis Presley
Not Mel Brooks’ wife but this explorer was the first woman to cross the ice to the North Pole
Ann Bancroft
1966 movie staring William Shatner filmed in the constructed language of Esperanto
Incubus
In an 1830 debate this senator said, “Liberty and union, now and forever, one and inseparable”
Daniel Webster
She sunk her teeth into the role of Jane in 2009’s “New Moon”
Dakota Fanning
Southern or giant cane can reach heights of 20 feet & is a type of this tall grass
Bamboo
BEFORE THE 1962 PEACE PRIZE, THIS CHEMIST WON A 1948 PRESIDENTIAL MEDAL FOR DEVELOPING ARMOR- PIERCING SHELLS
Linus Pauling
One person, Linus Pauling, has won two undivided Nobel Prizes. In 1954 he won the Prize for Chemistry. Eight years later he was awarded the Peace Prize for his opposition to weapons of mass destruction.
He followed up his “Pietà” by sculpting “Day”, “Dawn”, Dusk” & “Night” for the tomb of the Médicis in Florence
Michelangelo
Equal to -459.67°F, the lowest possible temperature that matter can reach is known by this two word term
Absolute zero 
Unlike most solids, dry ice doesn’t melt into a liquid, but turns directly into a gas, a process known as this
Sublimation 
As a consequence of his drug & alcohol problems, this jazz pioneer was confined to a mental hospital in 1946
Charlie Parker
short conical or columnar protuberances on the head of male and female giraffes and male okapis
Ossicones
Ossicones are composed of ossified cartilage covered by skin and hair
In 1997, Microsoft’s Deep Blue famously beat this chess grand master in a six game match, thereby becoming the first computer system to defeat a reigning world champion under standard chess tournament time controls.
Garry Kasparov
July 27, 1953: 3 years & 32 days of war between these 2 countries ends with the signing of an armistice
North Korea and South Korea
Turnabout is fair play–it seceded from a confederate state & joined the union in June 1863
West Virginia
It’s the term for a metal imitation coin used to fool a vending machine
A slug
IN 1942 SHE BECAME THE FIRST REIGNING QUEEN TO ADDRESS THE U.S. CONGRESS
Wilhelmina
Queen of the Netherlands from 1890 until her abdication in 1948. She reigned for nearly 58 years, making her the longest-reigning monarch in Dutch history, as well as the longest-reigning female monarch outside the United Kingdom. Her reign saw World War I, the Dutch economic crisis of 1933 and World War II.
Clergyman and Puritan thinker of the Great Awakening, the religious revival that swept America from 1730s to 1750, who wrote the sermon, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”(1741)
Jonathan Edwards ( 1703-1758)
From Massachusetts.
The PGA says that this sports term dates back to a 19th century song about a monster who cackled “catch me if you can”
Bogey
a score of one stroke over par at a hole
The narrator of David Foster Wallace’s “The Pale King” battles boredom at this agency’s Regional Examination Center
IRS
The Germans’ summer offensive of 1942 in this country was driven in part by a need to gain oil supplies from the Caucasus
The Soviet Union
