Danish Krone Flashcards
(70 cards)
ANYTHING GOES
Because they don’t build up tetrodotoxin from eating plankton in the wild, farm-raised versions of which fish are thought to be safer to eat?
Pufferfish
“What are the three official languages of Belgium?”
German
French
Dutch
“Question one, in what year did the very first Star Wars movie come out?”
1977
“What percentage of the Earth’s atmosphere is oxygen?”
21%
“what was the primary competitor to Sony Betamax?”
“Correct answer is VHS, created by the Victor Company of Japan”
“question one, who is the killer in the real ending of the movie Clue?
I think we’re just going to take a push on this one. The answer is everyone except Mr. Green. I believe there are five different endings.”
“Which quirky parody musician starred in and wrote the 1989 comedy UHF?”
Weird Al yank uh vick
ANIMALS & NATURE
Often praised for its sustainability as a construction material, which plant can grow as much as one foot in a single day?
Bamboo
GOES
Before getting his current name, Nintendo’s Mario appeared as the barrel-dodging protagonist Jumpman in which video game?
Donkey Kong
BIOGRAPHIES
Which performer turned to singing after failing to excel in barrel racing at rodeos?
Reba McEntire
MONEY & NUMBERS
Which restaurant chain filed for bankruptcy in 2024, prompting rapper Flavor Flav to say he’d do anything to “save the cheddar bay biscuits”?
Red lobster
GEOGRAPHY
Of Canada’s more than 52,000 islands, which is the largest, at more than 195,000 square miles?
Baffin Island
ARTS & CULTURE
Since 1984 London’s version of the Tony Award has been named for which acclaimed actor?
Laurence Olivier
SCIENCE & TECH
Approximately three-quarters of the elements on the periodic table are classified as what?
Metal
HISTORY & SOCIETY
Before founding the American Red Cross, who was nicknamed “Angel of the Battlefield” for attending to wounded soldiers during the Civil War?
Clara Barton
BIOGRAPHIES
Aspiring to be a doctor before playing one on TV’s St. Elsewhere, who was briefly a premed student at Fordham University?
+100
correct
Denzel Washington
HISTORY & SOCIETY
World War I German fighter pilot Manfred von Richthofen was known by what colorful nickname?
+100
correct
Red Baron
ARTS & CULTURE
In 1903 which character was revealed to have survived his apparent death at Reichenbach Falls 10 years earlier?
-1
Sherlock Holmes
ANYTHING GOES
For his trip to the Mir space station in 1993, cosmonaut Aleksandr Serebrov brought a Game Boy and which video game, the first played in outer space?
+100
correct
Tetris
SCIENCE & TECH
Able to accept donations of any variety, people with which blood type are called “universal recipients”?
+100
correct
AB positive
VOCAB
Derived from the name of a Greek god, zephyr describes a type of what?
+100
correct
Breeze
MONEY & NUMBERS
Media mogul Ted Turner estimated that he lost about $8 billion after the disastrous 2001 merger of Time Warner and what company?
+100
correct
America Online
GEOGRAPHY
A 64-mile highway loop surrounding which city led to the coining of the term “inside the Beltway”?
Washington DC
ANIMALS & NATURE
Spending most of their life in trees, which animals climb down to the ground to poop about once a week?
+100
correct
Sloths
