Swiss Franc Flashcards by Michael Kridla

How many spices are in allspice?

1
Allspice its technically, a berry and got its name from tasting a bit like cinnamon cloves and nutmeg

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A popular New Year’s Day resolution dry January is taking a month long break from doing what?

Drinking alcohol
In 20 2421% of US adults over 21 participated in dry January

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Who was the first writer to mention in the lost city of Atlantis?

Plato, according to Plato, Atlantis was located near the pillars of Gibraltar

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The big dipper is a grouping of stars within which constellation

Ursa major

Also known
as the great bear. The big dipper is found within Ursa major while the little dipper is Ursa Minor.

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Hypertension in the foot MTP joint is a sports injury better known by what name

Turf toe
First coined in 1976 turf toe became more common with the introduction of artificial playing surfaces in sports

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What is the world’s most reflective, natural substance?

Fresh snow scatters light evenly making it appear perfectly white to human eyes

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Karen Lynch is CEO of this three letter pharmacy chain that has a red heart as a symbol

CVS

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In 2024 for the first time in it’s 200 year history this nation elected a female president

Mexico
Claudia sheinbaum
Shane Baum

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You crave a sack of yummy original or 1921 sliders go to this chain

White Castle

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The movie, Heather’s popularized what is your this word instead of what is your problem?

Damage

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This pair of rhymingly named SNL bodybuilders said we want to pump you up

Hans und franz

Ooownd

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Pardon me, would you have any of this condiment, inquired a commercial actor from one Rolls-Royce to another?

Grey Poupon

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Holding a deadly weapon, Tony Montana in this movie made this six word introduction

Scarface
Say hello to my little friend

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Regarding bills, he’d be willing to veto President Reagan quoted “Clint Eastwood go ahead do this

Make my day

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2023’s blockbuster utopia was this rapper‘s first solo album in five years

Travis Scott

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The sea named companies, cruise ship utopia of the seas often takes it 5600 guests to a private island called Cococay

Royal Caribbean

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Utopia pluh knee shhh a boulder strewn lava plain on this planet was the landing site of the Viking two probe in 1976

Mars

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John Adams and Thomas Jefferson both died on this date exactly 50 years after the declaration of independence was adopted

July 4, 1826

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Speaking reversibly
A minor dispute or tiff and a military bugle call

Taps and spat

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You wanna see Tyler O’Neill play and maybe catch a home run ball off his bat to to this ballparks green monster seats

Fenway Park

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You wanna see all female Pembroke College, where grandma went go to this Rhode Island Ivy League school as they merged in 1971

Brown

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The theorem named for Daniel of the Swiss math and physics, dynasty, involves, pressure, velocity, and elevation in a moving forward

Ber new lee

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Not quite star material and actually appearing red these astronomical objects can’t reach stable luminosities

Browns dwarf

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This igneous rock often formed from lava flows is also the bedrock of most of the ocean floor

Basalt

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Indium is in the periodic table group named for this element

Boron group

In cetaceans it serves as an insulating layer to guard against hypothermia

Blubber

Before and after A truck with a trailer attached to haul the most ancient collection of Hindu sacred hymns

Big rig Veda Vay duh

Before and after A sophisticated fellow who frequents night spots and by day, shouts the villages news to the people

Man about the town crier

Lichtenstein gorge in this Alpine nation, not the principality has a staircase for great views and is not for the vertigo prone

Austria, which is on the other side of Lichtenstein

Nobel laureate, Annie er no has written intensely personal memoirs and melted her own history with France in les annees, i.e. these Ah nay

The years

This canyon sinks about 8000 feet below the rim to the snake river below on the Oregon Idaho border

Hells Canyon?

Peru’s Kolka Canyon is home to a number of villages and is advertised as the best place to see this largest raptor Cul cuh

Andean Condor

In 2010 Bruno Mars tossed out this number one hit that begins easy. Come easy go

Grenade

When it gets dark, I tow your heart away says this Beatles song

Lovely Rita

Forming part of the border between Serbia and Romania the Irongate is a 2 mile long gorge on this river

Danube

Kali gun duh key is a more than 3 mile deep gorge between Mount Annapurna and Mount doll uh giri in this range

Himalayas

Before and after A maybe not here tomorrow business that sends a region of zombies to attack a farmhouse

Fly by night of the living dead

Charles Darwin sailed around the world in the ship from 1831 to 1836

The beagle

Edgar Allan Poe describes this chasm as the Ultima Thule of all punishments Thew lee

Pit

Ariana Grande says Cinderella by this late alliterative rapper is about her

Mac Miller

10 S tennis supply sells all sorts of these items for balls, from baskets to mowers to tubes

Retrievers

1979 and bullet with butterfly wings are songs from their double album, called melancholy and the infinite sadness

Smashing Pumpkins

A type of movie falcon or an Arabic dialect using many Italian words

Maltese

Bah suh seh che Falls is a waterfall in this northern state of Mexico

Chihuahua

Before and after Kids way of saying I promise about literary Marlow’s search for Kurtz in Africa

Cross my heart of darkness

The 16th century French doctor author is a symbol of raunchy humor. Just add IAN.

Rab uh lay Rab uh laze e in

The movie time regained is about this memory obsessed French novelist

Prust Memory obsessed French novelist

This infamous author of Justine and Juliet was a prisoner in the Bastille

Marque duh sod

Before and after Spooky ghost filled dwelling that’s England’s current reigning dynasty

Haunted house of windsor

This song by Olivia Rodrigo says, but you made me look so naïve the way you sold me for parts as you sunk your teeth into me

Vampire

Artifacts Roughly 180 on these were made in 50 remain the man who created them was given a pension by the archbishop of miii ntz in 1465

Gutenberg Bible Gutenberg Bible Doug as a teacher how’s that happen

In 2014 physicists sped up lithium l ions to measure time, dilation and gave new confirmation of this special theory

Relativity

Literally meaning “lightning war,” which term refers to a German military tactic used in World War II?

Blitzkrieg

MONEY & NUMBERS Denominations of which paper currency had images of scientists Alessandro Volta and Guglielmo Marconi?

Italian lira

Robert De Niro improvised his oft-quoted “You talkin’ to me?” monologue in which film? +100 correct

Taxi Driver

A factory that is run-down and abandoned would be called what? +100 correct

Derelict

BIOGRAPHIES Enamored by a military convoy on his way to film Kindergarten Cop, who persuaded automaker AM General to make Hummers for civilian use?

Arnold Schwarzenegger

ANIMALS & NATURE A vixen is a female of which animal? +100 correct

Fox

GEOGRAPHY With thousands of orange torii gates leading up a mountain path, Fushimi Inari Taisha is a Shintō shrine in which city?

Kyōto

ARTS & CULTURE Opening on Broadway in 1991, which musical featured a life-size, 1,700-pound helicopter that landed onstage? +100 correct

Miss Saigon

ANYTHING GOES The name of which video game character comes from a Japanese term for the sound a mouth makes while eating? +100 correct

Pac-Man

ARTS & CULTURE Riverside, Iowa, whose motto is "Where the Trek begins,” calls itself “the future birthplace" of which fictional character? +100 correct

James T. Kirk

MONEY & NUMBERS Which luxury auto brand was founded in 1963 by an Italian manufacturer who previously used surplus war machinery to make farm equipment? +100 correct

Lamborghini

GEOGRAPHY The city of Budapest has two parts, Buda and Pest, located on opposite sides of which river? +100 correct

Danube

SCIENCE & TECH Used to store bile that aids in digesting fats, which organ has a capacity of about five tablespoons? +100 correct

Gallbladder

In an act of civil disobedience, who was jailed for refusing to pay taxes because of the government’s endorsement of slavery and the Mexican-American War? +100 correct

Henry David Thoreau

SOCIETY Thought to have been commissioned by William I’s half-brother Odo, the famed Bayeux Tapestry depicts which historic conflict? +100 correct

The Norman Conquest

ANIMALS & NATURE Only males and queens of which insect species fly, and typically only during an annual mating ritual?

Ant

In the movie "Back to the Future", what speed must the DeLorean reach in order to travel through time?

88mph

Winning most recently in 2013 for Lincoln, who is the only three-time Academy Award winner for best actor?

Daniel day lewis

Which of the following is most likely to engage in usury?

Loan shark

The entire year’s supply of which wine brand is made over one week known as the “kosher crush”? +100 correct

Manischewitz

HISTORY & SOCIETY During his 1998 grand jury testimony, which U.S. president famously questioned the meaning of the word “is”? +100 correct

Bill Clinton

GEOGRAPHY The music of which country’s national anthem was composed by Joseph Haydn, who lived in neighboring Austria? +100 correct

Germany

MONEY & NUMBERS The Sea of Galilee appears on a banknote of which currency? +100 correct

Israeli new shekel

SCIENCE & TECH Often seen in the American West, a butte is a rock formation with which of the following characteristics? +100 correct

Flat top

BIOGRAPHIES As a struggling actor years before earning millions on films such as Dumb and Dumber, who wrote himself an aspirational $10 million check postdated 1995? +100 correct

Jim Carrey

ANIMALS & NATURE Varying from 0.04 inch to 54 inches in length, bivalves are which type of animal? +100 correct

Mollusk

Aphrodite from which mythology

Greek

Which of these longest rivers flows in the Iberian Peninsula, flowing into the Atlantic Ocean near Lisbon?

Thousands of sheep pass through which capital every autumn, a city established by a treaty in 1418?

Madrid

Why was a live frog placed in fresh milk in Russia in past centuries?

To prevent spoiling

what is the official state motto of California?

Eureka, which means I have found it has been on the great seal of California since 1849 Referring to Discovery of gold

Because saying the actual name is bad luck actors often called what Shakespeare play the Scottish play

Macbeth, according to legend a coven of witches cursed Macbeth, because they objected to Shakespeare’s use of incantations

Mr. Matt, New York’s most famous sports mascot has a giant head that’s what

Baseball debuting in 1964 Mr. Met and lady met were the first two live action mascots in Major league baseball history

In the 2024 biopic better man British popstar Robbie Williams appears as a singing dancing what

Chimpanzee Williams claims this is because for his whole life he’s been called a cheeky monkey

Snack food that’s actually flammable

Flaming hot Cheetos Cheetos, combination of corn, vegetable oil and salt allows them to burn

Largest city in Missouri

Kansas City confusingly

Largest city in Kansas

Wichita state or area?

Law of the conservation of energy is considered the first law of the three laws of this 14 letter science

Thermodynamics

The ruins of the Iron Age city called great this live south of Harare in the country of the same name Huh rar A

Zimbabwe

Pylons bring energy from the power grid to you, but the voltage is too high so these devices make the voltage usable

Transformer

Push out of Dacia by the Huns in 376. They moved into Roman land did some attacking of their own and went on west. Day she uh

Vis uh goths

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