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Negev Desert In Isreal Flashcards

1
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A statue of this fictional Boxer stand near the steps of this museum

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Rocky at the Philadelphia art museum

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Derived from this vermilion is a shade of this primary color

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Red
Derived from cinnabar

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Marie curie famously equipped and drove mobile X-ray units on the front lines during this war

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Ww1

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The ruined Greek town of akrotiri can be visited on this island

Ack ruh tear e

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Santorini
Also Pompeii

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5
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We make movies better is the tagline for AMC theaters commercial featuring this star of being the Ricardo’s

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Nicole Kidman

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This French named cooking technique wqs originally an procedure for controlling water baths in a laboratory

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Sous vide
Sue v

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Mr potato head and playdoh are made by this Division of this company

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Playskool of hasbro

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This 1906 novel exposed the plight of workers in chicagos meat packing industry

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The jungle by upton Sinclair

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9
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Though it’s got no strings attached this pocket sized reed instrument is also called a harp

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Harmonica

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10
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Largest shark - at 40 feet
Also second largest

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Whale shark no 1
Basking shark 2

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11
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The ancient illuminated manuscript known as the book of kells is housed at this place of higher learninfn

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Trinity college

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Thr northern most point of mainland Australia
Also what state

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Cape York peninsula in Queensland

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Now a folk hero this Celtic queen led an uprising against the Roman’s in the middle of the first century

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Boadicea

Bo wEd? uh c uh

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Regarding 18 wheelers the length of a typical non permanent box trailer is almost always written on the top sides of thr trailer and is typically this many feet

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53
Also rosters limit of NFL team

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15
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This many countries are members of the UN
United Nations

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193

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This number in Chinese sound very similar to their word for prosper or wealth and is hence considered very lucky

A

8
Also number of movies in the Harry Potter series

17
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On this date - the 50th anniversary of Jackie Robinson breaking the color barrier his number was retired from all teams
Also who was the last player to wear

A

April 15 97
Mariano Rivera
Theme song enter sandman Metallica
Panama

18
Q

Jennie’s number
From a song

A

8675309
Tommy 2 tones

19
Q

This is the name of the magazine for teenage girls that has been the source of all things girl since 44

A

17

20
Q

On a standard dart board this number is at the top or 12 o’clock position
Bonus 3 6 and 9 o’clock

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20 at 12
6 at 3
3 at 6
11 at 9

21
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This 97 movie starred jack lemon George c Scott
James gandolfini tony danza
Courtney b Vance
Hume cron in

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12 angry men - TV movie
George c Scott won a golden globe and Emmy - played Cobb part last holdout
Lemon played Fonda
57 version starred lee J cobb Martin ball some EG Marshall and jack klugmen as well as Henry Fonda ? - main star

22
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Up to 2020 movie this many James Bond movies have been released
Bonus novels written by him

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Movies 25 eon (production company) which are canon
2 non eon so 27
Ian Fleming novels 12

Connery
Moore
Las en b
Dalton

2020 movie no time to die

23
Q

The Canadian $1 piece also known as this and thr susan b Anthony dollar have multiple sided inner borders- coin is round but inner border has this many sides

Also in the title of a 60 movie remade in 01

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Looney
(Oceans) 11
60 - rat pack
11 - Clooney and Pitt

24
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This many movies in thr Harry Potter universe released as of 2020

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8 in series - last book 2 movies
2 fantastic beasts
10 total

25
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As of 2020 this many elements on periodic table have been discovered or synthesized

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118 discovered
Infinity on the table

26
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Related to thr fib uh noch e sequence this is the common name for thr ratio with the value 1 + square root of 5 per ver 2 or about this number
Bonus Greek letter used to represent in formulas

A

1.618
The golden ratio
Greek letter is fi
Rick Flaired by a 19 year old

27
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This many pounds are in a stone
Where is this used

A

14
Same as number of days in a fortnight
Used in Britain - imperial measurement system

28
Q

This many gallons are in a barre of oil

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42
Also thr answer to ultimate question of life the universe and everything
And Jackie and Mariano

29
Q

NPR host Scott

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Simon
weekend edition Saturday

30
Q

Snowman who says, “Some people are worth melting for”

A

Olaf

31
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Romance novelist Leanne

A

Banks

32
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Comedian loni

A

Love

an American comedian, television host, actress, author, and former electrical engineer. While working as an electrical engineer in the early 2000s, she switched to music engineering, until later launching a career in stand-up

33
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Arts town east of her Ghost Ranch

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Georgia O’Keeffe’s
Taos

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