Study 14 Flashcards
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Studying galactic velocity curves, Vera Rubin helped to establish the existence of what mysterious stuff?
Dark matter
Coincidentally, Helmut Schmidt and Helmut Kohl were the last two chancellors of what nation?
West Germany
Who played Marion Ravenwood in the 1981 Spielberg film “Raiders of the Lost Ark”
Karen Allen
Capital of Serbia
Belgrade
“the three categories of galaxy shapes are”
spiral, irregular, and elliptical
it’s the capital, Bern is about 1/3 as populous as what largest city in Switzerland?
Zurich
Lucky cosmetics and GoldStar plastics merged in 1983 and started making radios, setting them on the path to become what modern conglomerate?
LG
Of the 55 largest companies headquartered in South Korea, 5 are just different arms of this 2-letter giant
Ouagadougou is the capital of what country
Burkina Faso
The Coen brothers set “Fargo” and “A Serious Man” in what home state that Joel calls “Siberia with family restaurants”?
Minnesota
After Stephen Hawking’s 30 years, string theoretician Michael Green spent just 6 in the Lucasian Chair of Mathematics at what university?
Cambridge
On a dive watch, the part around the dial is rotatable so you can see how long you’ve been sucking on that oxygen tank. What’s that B-word for that part?
Bezel
“Be Without You,” “Not Gon’ Cry,” and “Family Affair” respectively went to #3, #2, and #1 on the Hot 100, for what singer whose middle name is Jane?
Mary J. Blige
Salt fish is an everyday food on Anguilla, an island in what sea?
Carribean
Montevideo is the capital of
Uruguay
Also very near British Columbia, Waterton Lakes National Park in Alberta snugs up against what U.S. national park?
Glacier National Park
Named for the president when the U.S. bought the land from the Blackfeet, 10,466-foot Mt. Cleveland is the highest peak
Looking for the Greek word for “breasplate”: An early sort of armor made of linen was called linoWHAT?
thorax
The linothorax is a type of upper body armor that was used throughout the ancient Mediterranean world.
“also something you can be on metaphorically a Spanish sign that reads, hielo fino—-
What’s it warning you about?”
Thin ice
“What black educator known for his 1895 speech, Atlanta Compromise, served as a political advisor for presidents Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft?”
Booker T Washington
This word for a friend comes from the Latin for “with whom you would eat bread.”
Companion
He was born in Connecticut in 1800 and hanged for treason in Virginia in 1859.
John Brown
Within a 3 1/2 year period, he became mayor of Buffalo, governor of New York, and president of the U.S.
Grover Cleveland
On February 1, 1960, four students held a historic sit-in at a lunch counter in this North Carolina city in protest over segregation.
Greensboro
“comic created by cartoonist Johnny Hart in 1958, what newspaper comic strip set in prehistoric times was originally titled Suck Egg”
BC
Though they’re now made by a parent company (which will soon have another parent company), Eggo and Nutri-Grain still bear what brand name?
Kellogg
