Stop The Friday Procrastination Flashcards

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His national memorial in Washington DC was unveiled in 2011

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MLK

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2
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Journalist and activist ida b wells barnett helped found this civil rights org in 1909

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NAACP

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3
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With justice RBG passing he became the second oldest member of the Supreme Court

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Clarence Thomas

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4
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As this group was forming in 1945 Brazil and China asked for this other group

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UN
WHO showed up in 1948

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5
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In 2021 the WHO recommended a promising vaccine for this disease that kills some 250K sun-Saharan children a year

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Malaria

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6
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The title femme of this Flaubert novel is married to a country doctor named Charles

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Madame bovary

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In this novel a flight surgeon named doc daneeka explains a paradoxical army regulation about grounding fliers about grounding fliers to Yossarian

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CAtch 22

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8
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The art of training a horse in precise movements perhaps to prepare for a competition

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Dressage

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9
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Enriching a treasury is filling these; with the same derivation as a place to put the dead

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Coffers

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10
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This type of chocolate has a set of double vowels and double consonants

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Bittersweet

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11
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Stephan Lang played a character simply known as the blind man in this 2016 film & returned for its 2021 sequel

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Don’t breathe

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This Steinbeck work that s set In Monterey is dedicated to Ed rickets on whom the character of doc is partly based

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Cannery row

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13
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In the 1970s Bernard and Murray Spain copyrighted what iconic image with The phrase have a happy day

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Smiley face

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14
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In Russia what type of alcoholic beverage was classified as a soft drink until 2011

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Beer
< 10%

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15
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What composer famously made a four note fugue motif out of the letters of his name

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Bach
H the same as b flat

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16
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According to 2 way radio etiquette ehat word is typically used to signify the end of a conversation

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out

17
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What remote inland area of Australia shares its name with a chain of steakhouses

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Outback

18
Q

In the Bible who gets who to reveal that the source of his strength is his hair

A

Delilah gets Samson

19
Q

What celebrity fitness expert hosted a home video workout series called sweatin to the oldies

A

Richard Simmons

20
Q

NADSAT is the fictional language spoken by Alex and his droogs in what 1962 novel

A

A clockwork orange
Anthony burgess

21
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The megatons to megawatts program had the US but what element in Russian bombs to use in nuclear reactors

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Uranium

22
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What Renaissance painter and sculptor famously said every block of stone has a statue inside it

A

Michelangelo

23
Q

Scientific name for the coneflower

A

Echinacea eck uh nay shhhh
Lends its name to the herbal remedy believed to curb the common cold

24
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What member of the Hindu trinity is known as the destroyer

A

Shiva

25
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What term for being at the center of attention comes from the stage theaters use of quicklime for illumination.

A

Limelight

26
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Since they switched to the Gregorian calendar Russian commemorates the October revolution in what month

A

November

27
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When surveyed the Japanese selected this instant food as their country’s best invention of the 20th century

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Raman

28
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Ina. Book by jean de brunhoff what animal is Celeste who marries her cousin

Broon hoff

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Elephant

29
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Which white blood cells in the body can be either B cells or T cells

A

Lymphocytes

30
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Originally what unit of measure was equal to one 10 millionth of the distance from the equator to the North Pole

A

Meter