Cheeky Day 1 Flashcards

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The Vardar river divides this capita of north Macedonia into old and new sections

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Skopje

Skow pee uh

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Grant woods sister and dentist posed as the Midwestern farmer and daughter in this iconic painting

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American gothic

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Edvard Munchs diary entry describing flaming clouds and shivering with anxiety inspired this iconic 1893 work

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The scream

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News coversge of the horrific bombing of a Spanish basque City by the Germans in 1937 led this painter to create this huge anti-war painting

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Guernica

Picasso

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5
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A restaurant on green which ave innNYC wheee 2 streets meet inspired this Edward hopper painting

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Nighthawks

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This American exhibited her children playing on the beach at the final impressionist exhibition in 1886

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Mary Cassatt

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Awkwafinas time growing up in this big apple inspired her character ina. Comedy Central series

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Nora from Queens

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Tig notaro got some laughs playing a feisty helicopter pilot in this zack Snyder zombie flick

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Army of the dead

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B is for this frank comedian who palys frank Murphy on the animated hit f is for family

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Bill burr

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This comedian who was nicknamed fluffy was the voice of speedy Gonzales in space jam a new legacy

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Gabriel Iglesias

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In a 2018 film kevin hart attends the title night school and this female comic is his teacher

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Tiffany had dish

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Known as the year without a summer

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1816
Eruption of mt tambore uh
Caused a nuclear winter
In Indonesia

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13
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Earth has seasons not because of distance from the sun but …

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Tilt of the earth relative to its orbital plane
23.5

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What landmark can grow up to 6” in the heat

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Eiffel Tower
Because of heats effect on iron

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First modern summer Olympics

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1896

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16
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5 new sports for 2020 Olympics

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Skateboarding
Surfing
Baseball/Softball
Karate
Sports climbing

Says the IOC

17
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Cities that have hosted the summer Olympics 2 or more times

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Paris 1900 1924 2024?
LA 1932 1984
Athens 1896 2004
London 1908 1948 2012
Tokyo 1964 2020

18
Q

Longest amount of time between summer olympic games

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12 years
36-48
40 Helsinki/Tokyo
44 London

19
Q

Which of these statesmen won the Nobel peace prize in literature but was reportedly disappointed it wasn’t for peace

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Winston Churchill

Literature for history of the English speaking peoples

20
Q

Won the World Series during a global pandemic in 2020

21
Q

Won the World Series during the 1918 global pandemic

22
Q

Fashion designer Thomas Burberry invented and patented what material to protect people from British weather

A

Gabardine
Coats are made of

23
Q

Camp crystal lake

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Friday the 13th
Kevin bacon!
Make the podcast connection

24
Q

Camp north star
Starring bill Murray

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History Intimately familiar with world war 1 Churchill considered this war from some 150 years before the First World War
Seven years war Global war between England and France French and Indian war was the North American arena
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Women in history The orphaned future Queen Elizabeth I was devoted to this stepmother Who died 2 days before her 15 th birthday
Catherine parr
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King Henry wife one
Catherine of Aragon
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King Henry second katherine wife
Catherine Howard
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It’s a light greenish blue
Aqua
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A woodwind instrument with a double reed
Oboe
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In this means instead
Lieu
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Academy award In 2019 he won his first competitive Oscar 36 years after a student academy award for a film about a Brooklyn barbershop
Spike lee Blackklansmann
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World literature Befitting th title Antoine galland the first western translator of this collection worked on it only “after dinner”
Arabian nights 1001 nights into European languages
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Showing great steadfastness in 2021 NASA landed this 2.7 b rover on Mars a mere 127 million miles away
Perseverance
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Old maps depicting what’s now this 125K square mile country labeled the area with the French word for teeth
Ivory Coast or coat de vware Cote de dents Coast of teeth Named for for elephant tusks found there
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On the internet This website launched in 2015 with offerings form James Paterson Serena Williams Dustin Hoffman
Masterclass