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Tyler None What? Flashcards

1
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In 80 4 students from the university of Georgia started a band whose first single radio for Europe is on Rolling Stones top 500 songs of all time list
Since then they have won 3 Grammys and 12 other nominations

A

REM

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European history
Until 1806 some German nobles included among their honors the title of elector for their role in selecting this personage

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Holy Roman emperor

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3
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Sports
In 2010 they introduced the 4 point shot, 35 feet from the basket

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Harlem globetrotters

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Responsible for greys anatomy and scandal what tv production company was named for its founder

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Shondaland
Shonda rhimes

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5
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Andorra is a landlocked Microstate that is located in this European mountain range

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Pyrenees

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Introduced the character Sam spade in this novel about a coveted object

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Dashell Hammett
Maltese falcon

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This plant is called the burn plant because of its anti inflammatory properties

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Aloe Vera

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8
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Mariano Martinez converted a soft serve ice cream machine into the first dispenser of this frozen cocktail

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Margarita

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9
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This Stanley Kubrick film had an alternate ending with a pie fight in the war room

A

Dr strange
love

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10
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This Ivy League school own more building than any other private entity in NYC

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Colombia university

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11
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Citing the need for steel in world leaders she didn’t mind being called this nickname

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Margaret thatcher the Iron Lady

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2 title characters of this 89 film have the last names burns and albrite

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When Harry met sally
Tom hanks
Meg Ryan
And I’ll be having what Neil’s having

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13
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This American novelist won the Pulitzer in 73 for the optimist’s daughter and also notably awarded the presidental medal of freedom in 80 and her home in Jackson Mississippi is designated a national historic landmark

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U door uh well tee

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14
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The vaporization of a liquid that is then condensed back into a liquid is an example of this scientific process

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Distillation

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The civil the divine and the king count are 3 calendars that work together in this ancient culture

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Mayan

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16
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Launched in the late 90s this fendi handbag shares its name with a thin loaf of French bread

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Baguette

17
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In 1922 Dublin castle was officially handed over from the British to this Irish revolutionary

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Michael Collins

18
Q

This 3 letter abbreviation is given to cameras that use a single lens for all viewing focusing and metering

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SLR

19
Q

Since 98 Williams Sonoma has specialized in this high end candy for the holiday season

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Peppermint bark

20
Q

Operation people United to save humanity merged with the rainbow coalition under whose leadership

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Rev Jesse Jackson

21
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Having a mall instead of mummies one of the worlds largest pyramids is in what Tennessee city with an Egyptian name

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Memphis

22
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Although used to refer to dinosaur raptors living today belong to this class of animals

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Birds

23
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Taco johns chain trademarked this tagline that pairs a day of the week with a food

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Taco Tuesday

24
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Annoyed that announcers wouldn’t use his nickname this boxer legally changed his name to include marvelous

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Marvin hagler

25
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From the French for push pull a sackbut is an early type of this side instrument

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Trombone

26
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In 2014 Zach brown went view when he created a kickstarter page with goal of $10 to make a batch of this popular picnic side dish
He definitely would have been able to afford a top of the line refrigerator after this stunt

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Potato salad
Received 55K
Kept making more elaborate versions

27
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In London’s saint pan crush church yard is an ash tree surrounded by 100s of overlapping weathered gravestones relocated there when Britain’s railroad expansion forced the exhumation. Of hundreds of remains in 1860s one of the workers tasked with this project was this English author who fittingly wrote far from the madding crowd and is now the namesake of this robust tree
Other famous book

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Thomas hardy
Hardy’s tree
Places gravestones into a circular pattern

Tess of the d’Urbervilles

28
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Who was sitting in the box with Lincoln First Lady and his fiancé Clara Harris at this theater on this night

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Major Henry wrathbone - attempted to apprehend booth but his arm was slashed with a dagger
April 14 1965
Commit the name to your trivia bank

29
Q

An analogy
A non functioning laser pointer is to eBay as fluid concepts in creative analogies computer models of the fundamental mechanisms of thought is to this

A

Amazon

30
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Originally the chamberlain’s men his acting troupe changed its name to this when he took the throne

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The king’s men
Shakespeare troupe

James 1

31
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Emissions of sulfer dioxide are a major contributing factor to this caustic wet weather event

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Acid rain

32
Q

Patrick Bateman is a narcissistic investment banker in this novel by who

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American psycho by Bret Easton Ellis

33
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In 2000 Canadians took umbrage with government bail out of several professional athletic organizations
Canadian tax payer federation urged taxpayers to express anger by not dropping gloves but by mailing this to them prime minister John cre t en

A

Hockey pucks

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