Meteor In Earths Atmosphere Flashcards by Michael Kridla

First team to play in a super bowl hosted at stadium

Tampa bay Bucs
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In Harry Potter this is the name of thr tabloid published by luna’s father

The Quibbler

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is an aviator who has shot down a number of enemy planes during combat. The qualifying number of kills seems to vary, but five is common.

flying ace (also “air ace”)

The first use of “ace” was during WWI, when the French newspapers dubbed pilot Adolphe Pegoud “l’as” (French for “the ace”) when he shot down his fifth German plane.

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Speaker on a dais :

ORATOR
A dais is a raised platform for a speaker. The term “dais” comes from the Latin “discus” meaning a “disk-shaped object”. I guess that the original daises had such a shape.

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The whitish metal we know as this was given its name by Swedish mineralogist Axel von Cronstedt in 1754. The name he chose was an abbreviated version of, the Swedish for “copper-colored ore”.

Nickel

“kopparnickel”

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Copper metal was mined by the ancient Romans, mainly here .

in Cyprus
Because of its origin, the Romans called the metal “aes cyprium” (metal of Cyprus), a term that evolved into the Latin “cuprum”, which in turn became our “copper”. Copper’s element symbol “Cu” comes from the Latin “cuprum”.

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Gem State capital :

BOISE
Boise, Idaho is the capital and the largest metropolitan area in the state by far. There are a number of stories pertaining to the etymology of the name “Boise”. One is that French trappers called the tree-lined river that ran through the area “la rivière boisée”, meaning “the wooded river”. Boise is known today as “The City of Trees”.

Idaho has the nickname “Gem State”, mainly because almost every known type of gemstone has been found there. Idaho is also sometimes called the Potato State, as potatoes are such a popular crop in the state. I’d go for the potatoes over the gems, but that’s probably just me. Oh, and Idaho license plates have borne the slogan “Famous Potatoes” for decades …

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Heart 3 main conduit vessels

RCA right coronary artery
LAD left anterior descending ; Widow maker - if blocked
Circumflex

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This manufacturer has supplied the most school buses in U.S.

REV group
Bluebird 2nd?

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Original name of mr monopoly

Rich Uncle millburn pennybags
Modeled after JP Morgan

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Score this card game using a board with pegs

Cribbage

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Jenga name inspiration

Swahili word for build

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Wasps were introduced into Iceland in this year
Rumor has it

1977
Rumors album - Fleetwood Mac

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Game features the pop oh matic

Trouble
Known as frustration in UK

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Game with slogan “game of quick draw”

Pictionary

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Scrabble tiles worth the most points

Q and Z 10
X 8

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Highest official title for a chess player awarded by international chess federation

Grandmaster

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No of dice used in yazthee

5
Trying to get poker hands

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This popular childrens author was also co author of a well known English language usage guide

E B white
Strunken white usage guide

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This actress wqs born in British India but won 2 Oscar’s for playing southern American women

Viven leigh
Gone with the wind
Streetcar named desire Blanche dew bwah

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Most AA nominations for a German film

Das boot
the Boat
6 noms 0 wins

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Condiment with a successful ad campaign in 80s by marketing itself as one of life’s finer pleasures

Grey poo pon mustard
Pardon me would you have any
But of course

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In 86 NBC reduced the number of this and why

Feathers on a peacock from 11 to 6
Represent number of divisions

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Nebraska team name
Also previous name 1890-00
Bear grills
Protein filled

Cornhuskers
Bug eaters - previous

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Nebraksa 3 main exports

Known for a cow mascot holding up a sign telling people to eat mor chikin

Chick fill A

YouTube channel created by Canadian crafter and pop sockets collaborator Lauren riihimaki

First president born after 1960 :

OBAMA Despite rumors to the contrary, Barack Hussein Obama II was indeed born in Hawaii. Future US President Obama was born on August 4, 1961 at Kapi’olani Maternity & Gynecological Hospital in Honolulu.

This is the fruit of the blackthorn bush, and the main flavoring ingredient in a type of gin. It looks like a small plum, but is usually much more tart in taste.

sloe

These are plum-like fruit that are mainly grown in Britain and Ireland.

Damsons The word “” derives from the Latin “prunum damascenum” meaning “plum of Damascus”. The suggestion is that the damson originated in and around Damascus in Syria and was brought to Ancient Britain by the Romans.

This person of a boat is one in charge of steering and navigation.

coxswain The word “coxswain” is shortened to “cox”, particularly when used for the person steering and calling out the stroke in a competition rowing boat.

The Price is Right” game show hosts

The Price is Right” game show started airing in its current format in 1972, with Bob Barker hosting. Drew Carey took over as host in 2007. There was an earlier version of the show that had a somewhat different format, and it aired from 1956 to 1965. Apparently, “The Price is Right” is the longest running TV game show in the world.

Ras el hanout is a spice mix used in several North African cuisines. The Arabic “ras el hanout” translates as, this inferring that only the best spices available are used in the mix. As such, ras el hanout includes a varying mixture of spices, depending on the source.

“head of the shop”

is a game show that originally aired from 1983 to 1986. This was the show on which contestants had to press a large button in order to stop a light that was flashing around 18 squares in front of them. If the light stopped on a “Whammy”, then they lost their turn and any accumulated money. Famously, a contestant named Michael Larson used the stop-motion feature on a VCR player to memorize the pattern flashed out by the supposedly random light. On air, Larson pressed the button and avoided the Whammy 45 times in a row and amassed winnings of over $110,000, a record for a daily game show. After Larson’s big win, the show’s producers made the light sequence more complicated so they didn’t run into the same problem again.

Press Your Luck”

This is a meat that has been cooked and preserved in its own fat. “It’s ” is a French word meaning “preserved”.

confit

This instrument is also known by its French name “cor anglais” (and sometimes “alto oboe”). It is a double-reed, woodwind instrument.

English horn

Bite other animals and drink their blood

Vampire bats

Featured on haagen dazs cartons

Denmark Created in Bronx by Polish immigrants name was invented to sound danish

Fictional bird lends its name to the final part of hunger games series

Mockingjay Katniss Everdeen agrees to become symbol of revolution represented by mockingjay

Created by buildup of pressure im the eyes leading to light sensitivity and blindness

Glaucoma

On this show 20 years after being a one hit wonder the four surviving members of an all female group take a second shot at fame

Girls5eva

In 1915 Louis Adrian created a new metal one of these for combat based on those worn by Parisian firefighters

Helmet

A German defensive position begun in 1916 was known to the allies by the name of this man a name later used for a Zepplin

Hidenberg

Starts with H Beastly word for a fabric with a checkerboard pattern, traditionally black and white

Hounds tooth

Starts with H Drinks made from this plant include sorrel in Jamaica and Agua de Jamaica in Latin America Sore ewl

Hibiscus

On August 5, 1914 assault on this Belgian city was the first battle of world war 1 ; the Germans took it and marched into luttich Lou tick

Lee eh juh Liege

The tufts on the tips of the ears of this small African cat are thought to help make it easier for it to hear its prey

Caracal Kar uh cal

Their cats of the southeastern US in the genus puma; they’re also the 2024 Stanley Cup champions

Panthers

Sophia and Dorothy mother and daughter were half of the quartet of a certain age in this 1985 to 1992 sit com

Golden girls

A quartet, of female journalist cover the fictional walker versus Garrett presidential campaign in this 2024 Max series

Girls on the bus

Creator Leah Dunham starred as Hannah, one of a Brooklyn four some of friends in this series

Girls

A body organ begins this word for a hottie like the ones on the cover of tiger beat magazine

Heart throb

The curved steering rod of a bike, or a type of mustache

Handlebar

In 1970 it cost 35 million to build this Pittsburgh stadium and in 2001 five point one million to implode the structure in 19 seconds

Three Rivers Stadium Rip

Name for a loud sound it’s the “sheet” doing it’s thing in the percussion section

Thunder sheet

On July 1, 1940 a 23 kiloton atomic bomb exploded over unmanned aircraft carriers and battleships at this atoll

Bikini

A brocade is a fine lace effect in the sky, and a Saturn shell produces a ring around an inside ball of stars in this display

Fireworks

The long and flexible, spine of this big cat acts like a coiled spring, allowing it to reach speeds up to 70 mph

Cheetah

It can mean to have a plan boomerang badly on you or an explosion in a car’s exhaust pipe

Backfire

A lot of the ocelots remaining in this US state prowl around in the shrub lands of the lower Rio Grande Valley

Texas

Geography Jebel Musa in Morocco and Mount hacho near Ceuta are candidates for the southern half of this pair Say ew tuh

Highpoints on either side of the strait of Gibraltar Ancients called those the pillars of Hercules Rock of Gibraltar in the north

In the movie adaptation, Kate Blanchett played the title Ms. Fox who goes missing before a family trip in where’d you go her?

Bernadette

His novels, dear John and the longest ride were made into films

Nicholas Sparks

Use the power of now to name this German, born author of the power of now

Eckhart tolle Stumped Ken too

This actress who was crowned at the 2000 miss . India pageant and went on to be Miss world.

Priyanka Chopra

This Bay state senator who said if you don’t have a seat at the table, you’re probably on the menu

Elizabeth Warren

This editor and chief of Vogue magazine, who has been called the most influential woman in fashion

Anna Wintour

The feet of these common lizards are covered with tiny hairs that help them to climb even very smooth surfaces

Geckos

This singer who makes up her poker face using cosmetics from her haus labs brand House

Lady Gaga

This woman honored with December 1 holiday in Alabama that commemorates the day in 1955. She refused to give up her bus seat.

Rosa Parks

This pitcher for whom an award is named pitched his first game with the Cleveland spiders in 1890 winning 267 games through 1899

Cy young

The first running of this stakes race was in 1867 at Jerome Park in New York’s Westchester County ; a filly named ruthless one

Belmont

In 1859 British tea planners in Assam India formed the first European club for this equestrian sport

Polo

Swap a vowel Title of respect for a male and to summon the soldiers

Mister and muster

Swap a vowel Squander away and a small pool of rainwater

Piddle and puddle If it’s Ken’s dog, sometimes both ?

Swap a vowel A subatomic particle and a peculiar behavior

Quark and quirk

ANIMALS & NATURE Ancient Greeks delivered results of the first Olympics in 776 BCE to city-states via which type of bird? +100 correct

Pigeon

SCIENCE & TECH South Korean researchers spent several years and millions of dollars making which dish safe for an astronaut to bring to space? +100 correct

Kimchi

ANYTHING GOES Spending more time at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 than any other Disney song, “We Don’t Talk About Bruno” was featured in which film? +100 correct

Encanto

HISTORY & SOCIETY Napoleon’s 600,000-soldier army dwindled to 100,000 largely from disease and weather during his failed 1812 campaign against which country?

Russia

BIOGRAPHIES Now retired and living at the Center for Great Apes in Florida, Bubbles the chimp toured Japan with which singer in 1987? +100 correct

Michael Jackson

GEOGRAPHY Selling more than 800 tons a year, which city’s airport claims to be the world’s top-selling chocolate outlet? +100 correct

Brussels

ARTS & CULTURE Plácido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti are singers in which range, the highest male singing voice in an opera? +100 correct

Tenor

MONEY & NUMBERS Before producing luxury cars, which company manufactured high-powered engines for German planes during World War I? Volvo +100 correct

BMW

The earliest necktie was less like a modern tie and more like what?

Scarf

Which capital was destroyed by an earthquake and volcanic eruption in 1917?

San Salvador

What vitamin group is mostly required for blood coagulation?

Vitamin K

What was the name of the small helicopter James Bond piloted in "You Only Live Twice"?

Little nellie

M.C. Hammer had which hit single in 1990?

U cant touch this

In 1920, which author published "The Age of Innocence"?

Edith Wharton

The Norfolk Giant and the Lloyd George are types of what fruit or vegetable?

Raspberry

What is the second most abundant element in the air?

Oxygen

The Taj Mahal was constructed with which material?

White marble