Gridley Flashcards

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Best actor and actress

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It happened one night gable Colbert
One flew over the cuckoos nest Nicholson fletcher
Network finch dunnaway
Coming home voight Fonda
On golden pond Fonda Hepburn
Silence of the lambs Hopkins foster
As good as it gets Nicholson hunt

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2014 movie about a freelance photojournalist who abandons ethics to get footage he can sell to local news stations

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Night crawler
Jake gyllenhall

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3
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Downfall is a 2004 German movie spawning a series of internet memes starring who
Bonus based on what book

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Hitler
For a while a new Hitler video every day
Based on the book the bunker

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76 movie about the watergate scandal
Bonus based on book by who
Double who wrote the screenplay

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All the presidents men
Woodward and Bernstein (same name as movie )
William Goldman wrote sp

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5
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William Goldman wrote the novel and screenplay for what post modern fairy tale

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The princess bride

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A night to remember is a 58 movie that strived to be an accurate telling of ehat event that occurred 46 years earlier

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Sinking of the titanic

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What major motion picture about the Vietnam war was the first to be directed by a Vietnam veteran

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Platoon by Oliver stone
Tom berringer? Out of character Played immoral character

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8
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Lead singer of the doors

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Jim Morrison?

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9
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Lead singer of the 80s band the smiths

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Morrisey

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10
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What simpsons character sports a leisure suit with rhinestones

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Disco Stu

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What Roman politician and general’s relationship with cleopatra wqs dramatized in a Shakespeare play

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Marc Antony
Antony and cleopatra was the play

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12
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Napoleon Bonaparte temporarily renamed what famous museum for himself

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The louvre

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13
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An authentic Greek cheese is made of milk from

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Sheep and goat

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14
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Seward’s folly refers to the purchase of what…

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Alaska

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15
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In 2014 what country elected Their New prime minister

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India

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In the peanuts comic strip Charlie browns dog snoopy is what breed of dog

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Beagle

17
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The penny farthing was a popular version of a

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Bicycle
3 wheels big wheel in front

18
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What British general is burried at fort necessity national battfield
Bonus location

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Edward Braddock
In Pennsylvania
Killed at muhnog uh hey luh
French and Indian war

19
Q

In what state would you find this largest cave system in the world

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Mammoth cave in Kentucky
Near Brownsville

20
Q

What species of bird lays the smallest eggs

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Hummingbird

21
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The Iraq war is the setting for what 2009 film that won the best picture Oscar

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The hurt locker

22
Q

After starring in pretty woman what actor marries Cindy Crawford

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Richard gere

23
Q

The most conductive metal on the periodic table

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Silver

24
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First asteroid

A

Ceres ?

25
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What is a period in the periodic table
Bonus how many periods

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Period are the rows - all elements ina. Row have the same number of electron shells
Each next element in a period has one more proton and is less metallic than its predecessor

7 total

Groups are the columns

26
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Movie based on accountant John. List who killed his family in 71 and disappeared under a pseudonym for 20 years

A

The usual suspects
So say a mcguffin

27
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Convicted of espionage in 51 what couple became the first civilians to be executed by the federal government for such charges

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Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
Recruited by a Soviet handler
Passed classified Manhattan project documents
Ethel involvement questioned

28
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William Goldman won academy awards for writing the screenplay for these 2 movies
Bonus 87 cult classic comedy

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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance kid
All the presidents men

The princess bride

29
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The J &R double arch ranch the long time vacation home of ehat fast food mogul

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Ray Kroc

30
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Who performs we shall overcome while 6 months pregnant at this 69 festival

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Joan baeZ

Bye ez

Woodstock