Spicy Not A Taste Quality Flashcards
(72 cards)
ANIMALS & NATURE
Smaller than common chimps, which primate is also called a pygmy chimpanzee?
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Bonobo
SOCIETY
Recalling his years as an actor in westerns, name this U.S. president’s Secret Service code name
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Ronald Reagan was “Rawhide”
ANYTHING GOES
Hoping to make an authentic-looking product, Mattel hired a top Chevrolet designer to help create which line of toys?
Hot Wheels
BIOGRAPHIES
Famous for streaking in Old School, which comedian has run in both the New York City and Boston marathons?
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Will Ferrell
ARTS & CULTURE
Premiering on Broadway in 1946, which musical centers on a star of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show?
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Annie Get Your Gun
MONEY & NUMBERS
Once considered to be “too big to fail,” which company filed for bankruptcy in 2008 after accumulating $613 billion in debt?
Blockbuster Video
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Lehman Brothers
VOCAB
Why might a book critic describe a new biography as being mendacious?
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It has many exaggerations
ANYTHING GOES
Teen star Linda Blair fractured her spine while thrashing around her character’s bedroom during her performance in which acclaimed horror movie?
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The Exorcist
ANIMALS & NATURE
Carrying as far as five miles across the African plains, which animal’s vocalization has been measured at 114 decibels?
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Lion
GEOGRAPHY
Which city planted tens of thousands of palm trees in the lead-up to the 1932 Olympics?
LA
SCIENCE & TECH
Never actually achieved, the process of transmuting base metals into gold is known as what?
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Alchemy
HISTORY & SOCIETY
In 1989 an unidentified person, now commonly called Tank Man, stood in the way of a column of tanks near which location?
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Tiananmen Square
Beijing China
What does the French term déjà vu literally translate to
Already seen
The term déjà vu was coined by French philosopher emile boirac in 1876 but we still don’t know what causes it
Because it makes sound look more vibrant oranges are typically sold and mesh bags in what color
Red
Red mesh makes orange look more orange and therefore more appealing
Which of these is a real animal that kills its prey with deadly bubbles
Pistol shrimp
Pistol shrimp punch the water around them so powerfully that the sound is literally louder than a gun
Still in production after 4000 years, commandaria is the world’s oldest type of what
Wine
commandaria Is a sweet dessert wine made in Cypress and dates back to 2000 BCE
Because it used to be the start of the military season what month is name for the Roman god of war
March
originally Martius correspondended to the beginning of Rome‘s military campaign season, which ended in October
What word is an official unit of measurement equal to about 126 gallons
ButT
A butt is a specifically size task often to hold wine or other liquids. A hogshead is half a butt 63 gallons.
Number which represents the power to which a base is to be raised
Exponent
Bone up this element is alphabetically next after cadmium
Calcium20
It means to express a fraction in a more basic form like simplifying 365/730 to 1/ two
Reducing
This Werner Herzog documentary follows activist Timothy Treadwell, who lost his life to a bear in 2003
Grizzly man
The nine realms include alfheim home of the light elves nidavellir home of the dwarves, and this home to us puny ol mortals
Alf heim
Need uh viel r
Midgard
A jackobite force failed to take this castle in 1715
the ladder they brought out to be too short to scale the ramp parts
Edinborough Castle
