Power of belief
What did Roger Bannister sell?
His old leather shoes
To kill two birds with one stone is an English phrase that means
to achieve two goals with one action.
This is what Mark Twain once said about smoking
Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times
The word polyglot means
many tongues
The opposite side of something is called like this
flip side
Bannister’s running rival's name is
John Landry
This is a name of a terrorist group who kidnapped Patty Hearst
The SLA
What did the design of the cage allow Ibrahim Yucel to do?
he could drink through a straw and push small crackers between the bars of the cage, but it was impossible to smoke.
The definitions of a polymath is
someone who knows many things
The Earth Species Project are starting with recordings of the sounds of these animals
whales
What is the record that Bannister set?
He ran a mile in 3 minutes 59.4 seconds
Patty Hearst was the granddaughter of whom?
a very rich media mogul.
This is how Etta Mae Lopez got into prison
She waited outside of a local California prison and slapped the first police officer to walk outside the door in the face
This is skill and ability to do something well
Proficiency
These people were the reason why Britt quit his job
Bigots and xenophobes
John Landry said that it was not possible for him to break the 4-minute mile. Which expression did he use?
It is beyond my capabilities
Patty listed her occupation as what?
urban guerilla
Retired banker Geoff Spice also desperately wanted to quit, repeatedly tried to do what? (an idiom)
go cold turkey
This is what happens to the brain tissue of the children who had proficiency in languages
it shrinks
Aza is the creator of this innovation
infinite scroll
It was the place Bannister took in the Helsinki Olympics
The 4th
Stockholm Syndrome is this
a state when hostages who are completely dependent on their abusers for survival begin to have positive feelings for them like sympathy and loyalty
‘Desperate times call for desperate measures,‘ is a well-known English expression that means...
extreme circumstances or problems necessitate extreme responses.
This what Nelson Mandela said about languages
"If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart."
Infinite scroll wastes this number of human lifetimes a day
200,000