INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF CHEMISTRY
The celebratory year 2011 marks 100 years since this radiant scientist's Nobel Prize for Chemistry
Marie Curie
In "Kiss Me, Kate", the characters, as actors, perform this Shakespeare play at Ford's Theatre in Baltimore
The Taming of the Shrew
While director of scientific affairs for this company, Joyce Kilmer's father invented its baby powder
Johnson & Johnson
In UFO, possibly an alien craft
unidentified
This word for "nothing" precedes "and void" to mean "not valid"
null
You exhale this gas first identified by British scientist Joseph Black in the 1750s
carbon dioxide
With Glenn Close starring as Norma Desmond, it opened in 1994 with the greatest advanced sales in Broadway history
Sunset Boulevard
The state song "On the Banks of the Wabash, Far Away", was written by the brother of this "Sister Carrie" author
(Theodore) Dreiser
In SCUBA
underwater
Something that is in vain is "all for" this, from the Old English for "nothing"
naught
A chemical known as an anhydride is one that removes this from substances
Water
"Tornado Ballet", "Mean Ole Lion" & "Funky Monkeys" were songs featured in this 1975 musical
The Wiz
This "Naked Lunch" author was named for his paternal grandfather, who invented the adding machine
(William) Burroughs
In the government department HUD
Urban
In "Casablanca" Rick says, "It doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to" this
a hill of beans
Chemist Frederick Soddy came up with this term for atoms having the same nuclear charge but different masses
isotopes
This triple Tony-winning show bears the name of Nigerian musician Kuti
Fela!
This acting son of British Poet Laureate Cecil won Oscars in 1990 & 2008
Daniel Day-Lewis
In the ACLU
Union
This man's "choice" is the absence of a real alternative--you take that which is offered or nothing
Hobson's choice
A solid can be finely analyzed using the EELS technique, which studies energy loss in these particles
the electrons
When this musical was tried out before moving to Broadway, it was known as "The Princess and the Pea"
Once Upon a Mattress
His father Nathaniel was a successful writer & his grandfather Robert was a noted humorist & drama critic
Peter Benchley
In the committee known as HUAC
Un-American
In math, a solution to an equation in which the value of every variable is equal to zero is called this, like certain "pursuits"
trivial