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?
Tadpole
Polly wog comes from old English terms meeting head wiggle
This actor has seven movies with a 0% critic rating on rotten tomatoes, including look who’s talking now
John Travolta
One of Travolta 0% films is staying alive the sequel to Saturday night fever
What psychological test has its origins in a popular kids game?
Rorschach ink blots
Klecksography was a popular game in Switzerland in the 1800s in which kids would make ink blots
The biggest selling stand up in history who built an act around a joke that ends you might be a redneck
Jeff Foxworthy
Jeff Foxworthy, you might be a redneck bit led to millions of albums sales Grammy nominations and even several books
The Japanese term tsundoku refers to buying books and then doing what
Not reading them
If you practice tsundoku there’s still a chance you’ll read those books, but probably not
At weddings, the phrase speak now or forever hold your peace was meant to guard against what crime
Bigamy
If anyone knows of a reason, these two cannot be wed The specific reason would be if one person was already married.
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)
Agree to disagree
To pine for someone or more literally to participate in a pre-Olympic ceremony
carry a torch
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
Batting a 1000
In 2014 260 years after it’s founding this legendary golf club finally agreed to accept female members
Saint Andrews
On January 16 and 17th 1793 France national convention voted to sentence this man to death
King Louis the 16th let’s go
89109 is the ZIP Code for most of the hotels on this cities strip
Las Vegas
Better up and head to this Chavez Ravine ballpark that’s not in 90210 but in its anagram 90012
Cha
Dodger Stadium
The city of Schenectady has 11 ZIP Codes, the highest in number is this and it’s as easy as
12345
A symbol of turkey since Ottoman times this flower has inspired decorative motif on carpets clothing and ceramic
Tulip
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
Wrestling
Made with molten glass a Nazar boncugu is a Turkish amulet used for protection against this negative force
Nuh zar bon jew
Evil eye
Producing more than 70% of the world supply turkey is the worlds largest grower of these nuts, a.k.a. Filbert’s
Hazelnuts
Before Turkey’s largest city was renamed Istanbul, it was Constantinople just before that known as this
Byzantium
Buh zan t um
When writing to this famous residence, use the ZIP Code 20500
White House
ZIP Codes go up to 99950 which belongs to a city in this state
Alaska
Catch a can
Frog by mo yan follows gugu a midwife during China’s implementation of this policy
One child policy
This Pulitzer prize winner by Vietnamese American author viet thanh Nguyen begins. I am a spy, a man of two faces.
Tahn win
The sympathizer
In 2024 Netflix adapted this Chinese sci-fi novel named for a conundrum involving a trio of celestial objects
The three body problem