Random Flashcards
Flip the names: one wrote “An Essay on Man”; the other was a Holy See-er during the 100s.
Alexander Pope, Pope Alexander
British actor Peter Lawford was nicknamed “Brother-in-Lawford” because what famous person was his relative by marriage?
John F. Kennedy
What is the last name shared by the French-Italian astronomer who studied the division in Saturn’s ring system that now bears his name, and the French-born American fashion designer largely responsible for what became known as the “Jackie Look”?
Cassini
Give the names of the two men who previously held the position that has been held since 2014 by engineer and business executive Satya Nadella.
Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer
Charles Duke, David Scott, and Harrison Schmitt are three of the last four surviving men in a very elite fraternity. Who is the fourth and final member? (Card created October 30th, 2018)
Duke, Scott, and Schmitt are all in their mid-80s, and they all walked on the surface of the Moon. The fourth survivor, Buzz Aldrin, is at age 88 the oldest lunar visitor still with us.
Sterling Marlin received hate mail and death threats for the slight contact that led to the February 2001 death of what man?
Marlin was the other NASCAR driver in the incident that led to Dale Earnhardt’s fatal crash in the 2001 Daytona 500.
Who published four revolutionary articles on four different topics during his 1905 “year of miracles,” or Wunderjahr?
Albert Einstein figured out the photoelectric effect, Brownian motion, special relativity, and E=mc² in the same year.
