In Greek Uranus, (sky )and (Gaia )earth were father and mother of the Titans, who gave birth to the Olympic deities Flashcards

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Pollywog is an old Timey synonym for what?

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Tadpole
Polly wog comes from old English terms meeting head wiggle

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This actor has seven movies with a 0% critic rating on rotten tomatoes, including look who’s talking now

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John Travolta
One of Travolta 0% films is staying alive the sequel to Saturday night fever

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What psychological test has its origins in a popular kids game?

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Rorschach ink blots
Klecksography was a popular game in Switzerland in the 1800s in which kids would make ink blots

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The biggest selling stand up in history who built an act around a joke that ends you might be a redneck

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Jeff Foxworthy
Jeff Foxworthy, you might be a redneck bit led to millions of albums sales Grammy nominations and even several books

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The Japanese term tsundoku refers to buying books and then doing what

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Not reading them
If you practice tsundoku there’s still a chance you’ll read those books, but probably not

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At weddings, the phrase speak now or forever hold your peace was meant to guard against what crime

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Bigamy
If anyone knows of a reason, these two cannot be wed The specific reason would be if one person was already married.

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Three word phrase
An uneasy accord has been reached when you do this rhyming phrase, politely let go of a dispute without resolution (you’re still wrong)

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Agree to disagree

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To pine for someone or more literally to participate in a pre-Olympic ceremony

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carry a torch

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Three word phrase
It means doing everything right or getting a hit every time up, though the math doesn’t strictly work on that last one

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Batting a 1000

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In 2014 260 years after it’s founding this legendary golf club finally agreed to accept female members

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Saint Andrews

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On January 16 and 17th 1793 France national convention voted to sentence this man to death

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King Louis the 16th let’s go

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89109 is the ZIP Code for most of the hotels on this cities strip

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Las Vegas

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Better up and head to this Chavez Ravine ballpark that’s not in 90210 but in its anagram 90012
Cha

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Dodger Stadium

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The city of Schenectady has 11 ZIP Codes, the highest in number is this and it’s as easy as

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12345

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A symbol of turkey since Ottoman times this flower has inspired decorative motif on carpets clothing and ceramic

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Tulip

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Yagli gures one of the most popular sports in Turkey is a variety of this one, but with the grapplers covered in oil
Yale e gore esh

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Wrestling

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Made with molten glass a Nazar boncugu is a Turkish amulet used for protection against this negative force
Nuh zar bon jew

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Evil eye

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Producing more than 70% of the world supply turkey is the worlds largest grower of these nuts, a.k.a. Filbert’s

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Hazelnuts

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Before Turkey’s largest city was renamed Istanbul, it was Constantinople just before that known as this

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Byzantium
Buh zan t um

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When writing to this famous residence, use the ZIP Code 20500

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White House

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ZIP Codes go up to 99950 which belongs to a city in this state

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Alaska
Catch a can

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Frog by mo yan follows gugu a midwife during China’s implementation of this policy

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One child policy

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This Pulitzer prize winner by Vietnamese American author viet thanh Nguyen begins. I am a spy, a man of two faces.
Tahn win

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The sympathizer

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In 2024 Netflix adapted this Chinese sci-fi novel named for a conundrum involving a trio of celestial objects

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The three body problem

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And the Iraqi novel the president’s Gardens Abdullah spends two decades as a prisoner of war in this country after the 1980s war
Iran
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In the temple of a golden pavilion by Yukio mishima, a Buddhist monk burns down the title temple in this old capital
Kyoto
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This alliterative central American capital has been ruined multiple times by earthquake since 1854
San Salvador
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This body of water divides Maryland into two parts the eastern and western shores
Chesapeake Bay
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In 1873 Daniel Burnham and John Root started a firm to build together in this city two decades later Burnham built a fair there
Chicago
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Mughal histories say it had around 37 designers including Ustad Ahmad from Lahore and Turkish dome builder ismail afandi
Taj Mahal 
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In 1943 this art collector asked Frank Lloyd Wright to build a building for a museum, unlike any other in the world
Solomon R Guggenheim
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King Charles the second approved this man to repair Saint Paul’s Cathedral He went ahead and gave it a major dome
Sarah Christopher wren
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In the late 19 century eusebi guell became a patron of this architect leading to a pavilion, a park and a palace in Spain Al seb e gwell
Gaudi Gow D
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Maxing around 160 feet deep the relatively shallow Korea bay is the north eastern arm of this colorful sea
Yellow sea
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This forest that can be spelled with or without an S at the end is located in both France and Belgium
ArdenNes R den
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Here’s the straight dope :up in smoke was the first film starring this pair of comics
Cheech and Chong
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We’re still not too sure about a lot that happened on this ABC show but for sure the man in Black is also the smoke monster
Lore from Lost
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In 1964 the island of Zanzibar with its own subspecies of leopard became part of this east African country
Tanzania
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Set in Mississippi his play summer and smoke is about a repressed minister‘s daughter in love with the hedonistic boy next-door Heed uh nis tick
Tennessee Williams
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Robert L Kelly, began collecting arrowheads at 10 and is co-author of a standard text on this subject
Archaeology
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In middle March, Mr. Casaubon is writing a book on this and in debating the solar deities he had become indifferent to the sunlight Cas uh bun
Mythology
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At the University campus building with McDonald’s logo on it students work toward their degree in this subject
Hamburger ology
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The first three letters are an abbreviation some have discarded, but this is still the study of flying saucers and the like
UFology You follow uh ghee UF ology
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King James, I of England published a guide to witchcraft and devilry titled this ology
Demonology
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Official videos for this Deep Purple classic include an animated one and one live at montreux where the song is set Mon truuuue
Smoke on the water
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The Jerome kern-otto Harbach musical Roberta is best remembered for this classic song about a lovely flame.
Smoke get in your eyes
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This project was designed as a bridge between the mercury and Apollo programs
Gemini
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A Wall Street Journal post asked he couldn’t run a hamburger stand. How did Oppenheimer run this project’s Secret lab
Manhattan
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In project hail Mary by this author, the amnesiac Ryland Grace has to save the Earth and find out how he got beach bod buff
Andy Weir of the Martian fame Weeer
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The CIA called this project, the codename for a covert mind, control, and chemical interrogation research program
MK ultra
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Born ephraim Goldberg, this architect designed Seattle’s experience music project now named this E from
Frank gehry gare e Museum of pop culture
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US businesses In 2024 this company said only four of it 400+ locations will let Mr. Munch , Helen Henney, Jasper T jowls, and its namesake still perform
Chuck E. Cheese Animatronic named led by Charles entertainment cheese