Christinas World Andrew Wyeth Flashcards by Michael Kridla

Assassinated at Broadway and west 165th street
1965
Also name of building

Malcolm X
Audubon ballroom

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Largest borough in terms of area

Queens

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Only X rated film to win AA for best picture

Midnight cowboy - Dustin Hoffman
Story of survival in NYC
69
Jigilo
Prostitution homosexuality

Midnight Cowboy is a 1969 American drama film directed by John Schlesinger, adapted by Waldo Salt from the 1965 novel of the same name by James Leo Herlihy. The film stars Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight, with supporting roles played by Sylvia Miles, John McGiver, Brenda Vaccaro, Bob Balaban, Jennifer Salt and Barnard Hughes. Set in New York City, Midnight Cowboy depicts the unlikely friendship between two hustlers: naïve prostitute Joe Buck (Voight) and ailing con man Rico Rizzo (Hoffman), referred to as “Ratso”.

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Least populated NYC borough

Staten Island

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Built metal framework for Statue of Liberty

Gustav Eiffel of Eiffel Tower fame
French dude

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In 79 movie thr warriors this was the warriors home turf

Coney Island

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Who sang about Empire State of mind on this 09 album

Jay z ft Alicia keys a day
Empire State of mind

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Words always printed top left front page of NYT

All the news that’s fit to print

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Who sang about their New York State of mind on 76 album turnstiles

Billy Joel

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Smallest UN state

Monaco- like a street
European Micro state
Smaller than central park which is only 5th largest in NYC

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A 12 Norwegian historical Drama about a boat trip wqs nominated for an AA for best historical foreign language film
A Norwegian documentary with this same name and subject won thr Oscar for best documentary in 51
Also name the adventurer based on

High der doll
Khan tiki

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In pride and prejudice thr misters name
And yes both first and last

Fitz William Darcy

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Soap operas
General hospital on air April 1 63
13 daytime Emmy’s
How many episodes as of jul 19

14.3K

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Shakespeare
In this play the antagonist convinces his wife to steal treasures item from protagonist wife

Othello
Hanker chiefs with strawberries
Iago convinces his wife Emilia to steal
Desdemona to cause othello to doubt desdemona faithfulness

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Greek mythology
Messenger of Gods almost always wears these type of sandals with this defining feature

Her meees
Tuh lare e Uh - winged sandals

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MCU
Shared universe across tv and film
This character has had the most screen time by a very large margin

Agent Clark Greg portraying agent Colson
Over 100 episodes agents of shield 5 films

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NFL
In 18 season leading passer runner and receiver by yards

Ben Roth less berger 5129
Ezekiel Elliot 1434
Julio Jones 1677 Hopkins 2

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Members of the Religious Society of Friends are known as
Also who founded

Friends or Quakers. The Christian sect started in England in the 1640s, led by George Fox. The principal tenet at that point was that Christians could have direct experience of Jesus Christ without the mediation of clergy, a reflection of the increasing dissatisfaction with the established church at that time. The term “Quaker” is thought to have been used earlier in reference to foreign religious sects whose followers were given to fits of shaking during religious fervor. Somehow that term became used for members of the Religious Society of Friends.

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The dramatic tango dance originated in the late 1800s in this area area

along the border between Argentina and Uruguay. Dancers and orchestras from Buenos Aires in particular traveled to Europe and beyond in the early twentieth century and brought the tango with them. The tango craze first struck Europe in Paris in the 1910s, and from there spread to London and Berlin, crossing the Atlantic to New York in 1913

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The color is a grayish, yellowish brown. The word “” comes from French and means “raw, unbleached”. “

ecru

Ecru” has the same roots as our word “crude”.

Our word “beige” comes from the Old French “bege”, a term that applied to the natural color of wool and cotton that was not dyed.

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He received four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry. He was also Vermont’s first Poet Laureate, a position that he held from 1961 until his death in 1963.

The wonderful poet Robert Frost was a native of San Francisco, but lived most of life in New England. He also spent a few years in England, just before WWI. Frost was well recognized for his work during his lifetime

Robert Frost had a poem published in 1916 in which he describes the road he took in the last lines:

I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Because of these last lines, the poem is often assumed to be titled “The Road Less Traveled”. In fact, the poem’s correct name is “The Road Not Taken”. Quite interesting …

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8th amendment

Protects 3 things to US constitution
excessive bail shall not be required
Nor Cruel and unusual punishments inflicted
Nor excessive fines imposed

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Episode 8 of this miniseries is third in top 100 of most viewed non sports tv episodes

Roots
Last episode

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These 2 universities have a long running boating competition on the tems between open weight 8s - which refers to this

Oxford and Cambridge
8 - Number of rowers or oarsmen per boat
9 with Coxsin

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Imperial unit equals 1/8 of a mile

Furlong Old English term - length a team of oxen can plow before Rest

Measuring instrument got its name because its shapes consists of 1/6 of a circle

Sextant - primarily used for celestial navigation

Zurich and Geneva are cities in

Switzerland

First female to have a sole directing credit on a billion dollar film 23

Greta gerwig with Barbie

IN track and field 7 events

Heptathlon

Sean clown cran aka number 6 is only remaining founding member of this heavy metal band and known for wearing individual masks and matching jump suits

Slipknot

Nemonic for 6 most common elements in living matter % of average human is made up of these by mass

Chnops Carbon hydrogen Nitrogen Oxygen Phosphorus Sulfur 98%

Wives of Henry 8 Also name of musical comedy

Katherine of Aragon Anne Boleyn Jane Seymour Anne of cleaves Katherine Howard Katherine parr Six

Only cast members to be in all seasons of in living color

Jim Carey David Allen Greer Tuh key uh crystal key muh Tommy Davidson Not Kelly co field 5 seasons None way ins

Actor rose to pop idol Status as officer Tom Hanson on 21 jump street Original

Johnny depp Not Richard gree co - great value version

Theodore guy zull said about this book I am the proudest because it has something to do with the death of dick and Jane prim ers

The cat in the hat

This character wqs shelved for about 15 years after creator Paul Rubens was arrested in 92

P wee Herman

Keaton is a yellow 3 tailed fox creature also known as that ghost fox that appears in this video game series

Zelda

In American football split the up rights means to successfully what

Kick a field goal splitting the up rights can refer to kicking an extra point

David Bowie musical alter egos

Ziggy Stardust Aladdin sane the thin white Duke David Bowie also Real name, David Jones

Now vanilla what was the original flavor of Twinkie filling?

Banana The Twinkies flavor was switched to banana shortages during World War II

What city in Europe has nearly 2500 bridges more than Venice Amsterdam and London Combined

Hamburg Hamburg sometimes calls the Venice of the north

The first season of MTV ‘s the real world was set in which city

New York City real world season 10 was also shot in New York City and season 21 was shot in Brooklyn

Which car safety feature was developed first

Wiper blades before rearview mirrors, three point seatbelt and turn signals First wiper blades in invented in 1903 by Mary Anderson were operated by hand

This Delaware nickname proceeds Heritage park and urban Park without boundaries

First state

Explore warbler Road or woodpecker trail in the Kentucky State Park named for this 19th century artist

Audubon

New Year’s Day 1660 recording that his wife burned her hand preparing a meal and other events of that day this man makes his first diary entry

Samuel peeps

New Year’s Day 1990 he sworn as the first black mayor of New York City

David dinkins

New Year’s Day 1927 This football game is broadcast coast-to-coast on radio for the first time.

Rose Bowl

This maximum security correctional facility in New York was originally called Mount Pleasant prison

Sing sing

Arkansas’ crater of these state Park gave up uncle Sam later cut up and sold for $150,000 in 1971 dollars

Diamonds

New Year’s Day 1962 This US Navy special forces unit is established

Seals

Four letters with an X In 2015 CNN reported 30% of teens have broken up or been broken up with this way

Text

A brand of jeans, and a Jeep model both have this name that can also refer to someone who saddle horses

Wrangler

Talk about a dynasty the New York yacht club won this race 24 straight times from 1870 to 1980

America’s cup

Head to the 55,000 acre Missouri lake named for this president to see the dam and the state park name for him

Truman

A literal landmark race took place in November 1905 when a man named Forstier was the first to make it up to 729 steps of this

Eiffel Tower

This actress is behind a line of hair care products called Blake Brown

Blake lively

New Year’s Day 1877. She is proclaimed Empress of India.

Queen Victoria

Cephalalgia is a medical term for this take a couple of aspirin or ibuprofen and call me in the morning Seph uh looow juh Rhymes with ow

Headache

Ulcerative or otherwise it’s an inflammation of the large intestine

Colitis Colitis

From Greek for a knot of tissue, this type of cyst often appears along the tendons or joints of the hands or wrist

Ganglion Gang lee in

It may ring a bell that this is the medical term for ringing in ears, though it can be other noises like buzzing or hissing

Tinnitus

During a tumor, this suffix follows lymph sarc and blast

-Oma

17 letter German words our child’s play for Jane, who tells in Navy that unterwasserbomben are these two words anti-sub weapons

Depth charges

Lesotho minus LE gets you the sotho people the western sotho are called these another country minus BO Luh sue 2 Sue 2

tswana From Botswana

Ethiopia two largest ethnic groups are the triple O, oRomo and this triple a group whose name recalls a local language

Amhara ahm har uh Like Amharic

The hutu people are the majority group in this country and Burundi Buh roon d

Rwanda

Cattle are a big deal to the nuer of the Nile region. A man is often called by the name of his prize this a castrated bull

Ray finds made his director debut with a modern battle gear adaptation of this play of ancient Rome with a one word title

Coriolanus Core o lahn is

Lady Macbeth thinks her husband is not ruthless enough to full of this item not actually in the dairy case

Milk of human kindness

Published in 1597 this Shakespeare play looks back a bit over a century to the winner of our discontent

Richard the third

Matthew Weiner use an instrumental version of RJD2 a beautiful mind for the opening of this period drama that he created

Mad

Everywhere you look was the theme song to this show that ran until 1995 Carly Rae Jepsen’s cover was used for the Netflix sequel

Full house

Polonius saying I hear him coming let’s withdraw my Lord is the cue for this immortal line

To be or not to be Hamlet ends in a thoughtful vein

I use three initials Confederate cavalry Officer James ewell Brown Yule

JEB Stuart

I use three initials William Edward burghardt unafraid to edit things down Burg heart

WEB duh boise

Jane explains this word solo is a Japanese toast but after tenno heika a war cry mean may the emperor live 10,000 years

Banzai Bahn zigh

Jane doesn’t know it will somebody be a TV streaming platform, but she is aware that this means six in Japanese

Roku

Tocca ferro or touch iron Jane clarifies the Italian version of this superstitious saying

Knock on wood

This classic comedy used the haunting instrumental theme Suicide is painless.

Mash

I use three initials Avatar and the shield actress, Carol, Christine Hilaria

CCH pounder

I use three initials 18 century composer, Carl Philip Emmanuel, no relation to 20 century composer PDQ

CPE bach

A song called nemesis sets up the undercurrent of mistrust on this drama starring Reese Witherspoon, and Jennifer Anderson

The Morning show

Joe Raposo wrote C is for cookie and co wrote the theme to this series that used it

Sesame Street

Early 20th century King njoya of the bah moom defied colonial cartographers with his own map of his land; this at the top denotes west Joy uh

The Setting sun That’s why it’s west

Her first line to Antony is if it be love, indeed, tell me how much

Cleopatra

I used three initials John Ronald reuel which would’ve taken up waaay too much of a book cover Rew L

JRR Tolkien

Jane knows this is the German equivalent of wonderful down to the three letter adjective suffix

Wunderbar Voon der bar

US Presidents According to his son, Fred, this man first tried smoking just because it was against the rules at West Point

Grant famous cigar smoker Not Eisenhower

Christinas World Andrew Wyeth Flashcards

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