Bermuda island NOT in the Caribbean Flashcards
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Which substance led to the first Olympic doping disqualification?
Alcohol
What replaces pesticides in the aigamo method used in Japan to grow rice?
Ducks
What is the title of John Krasinski’s thriller that opened at theatres in 2021?
A quiet place part 2
Which is the only major city in Australia that has trams running on its streets?
Melbourne
Which of the following analytical techniques gives an “ion peak”?
Mass spectrometry
Which city in Ukraine was once the center of Vladimir I’s Viking state?
Kyiv
What is the name of the sugary substance that many insects get from flowers?
Nectar
MONEY & NUMBERS
A single from the album Life After Death, 1997’s “Mo Money Mo Problems” was a posthumous number one Billboard hit by which artist?
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The Notorious B.I.G.
HISTORY & SOCIETY
Although he was never stuck in one, which U.S. president had a specially sized bathtub installed on the ship he took to the Panama Canal in 1909?
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William Howard Taft
BIOGRAPHIES
What doctor invented cornflake cereal as food for his sanitarium patients?
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John Harvey Kellogg
ANIMALS & NATURE
Which animal produces up to four times its weight annually in dung that is used by some Tibetans as heating fuel and wall plaster?
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Yak
ARTS & CULTURE
Who declined further Emmy nominations after winning her fifth best actress in a comedy award for her role in Murphy Brown?
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Candice Bergen
ANYTHING GOES
Referring to the occupation of St. Peter, what name is given to the ring worn by the Pope?
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Fisherman’s Ring
GEOGRAPHY
Stretching for 600 miles along the Pacific, the Atacama Desert is one of the world’s driest places and is chiefly located in which country?
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Chile
SCIENCE & TECH
What name was given to the first nuclear submarine, which logged twenty-thousand leagues under the sea without needing to refuel?
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Nautilus
obstreperous definition
adjective
ob·strep·er·ous əb-ˈstre-p(ə-)rəs äb-
Synonyms of obstreperous
1
: marked by unruly or aggressive noisiness : CLAMOROUS
obstreperous merriment
an obstreperous argument
2
: stubbornly resistant to control : UNRULY
obstreperous
Seven American kennel club dog groups
Toy
herding
working
hound,
terrier,
sporting, and non-sporting
Famed artist Jane labowitch has re-created classic painting such as the mona Lisa using which kids toy
Etch a sketch
Now famous on TikTok, labowitch has sold more than $13,000 worth of etch sketch art on Etsy
What’s the name of the full moon that occurs closest to the autumnal equinox
Harvest Moon
The name, harvest moon dates back to the time before electricity when farmers needed to work by the light of the moon
What TV show’s blue product was actually rock Candy from the candy Lady a store in Albuquerque
Breaking bad
the candy lady is still in business and will sell you 100 gram bags of breaking bad candy for $10
Which countries’s official name is the Hellenic republic
Greece
Hellas was the ancient Greek name for the area currently known as Greece
Visors on NASA space helmets are coated with this precious metal to reflect solar radiation
Gold
The layer of gold on Ashna advisors is .000002“ thick
Trevor noah made this ultra low-cost airline carrier a particular butt of his jokes
Spirit
A TV show about this jet age airline with Christina Ricci and Margot Robbie what sort of mad men in the sky
Pan am