Stop The Friday Procrastination Flashcards

(30 cards)

1
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His national memorial in Washington DC was unveiled in 2011

A

MLK

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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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7
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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

A

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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12
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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

A

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

A

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

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

18
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In the Bible who gets who to reveal that the source of his strength is his hair

A

Delilah gets Samson

19
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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

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

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

25
What term for being at the center of attention comes from the stage theaters use of quicklime for illumination.
Limelight
26
Since they switched to the Gregorian calendar Russian commemorates the October revolution in what month
November
27
When surveyed the Japanese selected this instant food as their country’s best invention of the 20th century
Raman
28
Ina. Book by jean de brunhoff what animal is Celeste who marries her cousin Broon hoff
Elephant
29
Which white blood cells in the body can be either B cells or T cells
Lymphocytes
30
Originally what unit of measure was equal to one 10 millionth of the distance from the equator to the North Pole
Meter