General Knowledge
In the DC universe, they're the dynamic duo
Batman and Robin
When exposed to electricity, this mineral vibrates at regular intervals, so it's used in wristwatches to keep accurate time
Quartz
In the 1890s Dmitri Ivanovsky discovered these infectious little organisms, from the Latin for "poison"
Virus
In Genesis God asks Abraham to do it to Isaac; in baseball, a manager asks a pitcher to do it with a bunt to move a runner
Sacrifice
A 2018 cheating scandal rocked the wine world, causing 23 people to lose the title "master" this wine steward
Sommelier
Appropriately, it's the 3-letter symbol of the company that makes Scotch tape & Scotch-Brite products
MMM
The largest one of these ever recorded was 1,720 feet high & slammed into the Alaskan panhandle in 1958 following an earthquake
Tsunami
By replacing the boiling of cane juice with vacuum refining, Norbert Rillieux turned this from a luxury to a common table item
Sugar
On Dec. 8, 1975 WR Drew Pearson was full of grace & the last-minute recipient of a bomb that came to be known as this
Hail Mary
This filmmaker has a line of wines called Director's Cut
Coppola
At 969, this son of Enoch was the Bible's longest-lived person
Methuselah
These objects that collide with the earth are divided into 3 major types: stone, iron & stony-iron
Meteorites
Joseph Gliddens' invention of this, which made it easy to enclose livestock, helped end the era of the big cattle drive
Barbed wire
Rickey Henderson broke the commandment, "Thou shalt not" do this, a league-leading 108 times in 1983
Steal
You say shiraz, I say this French name for a red wine & a red wine grape from the Rhone region of France
Syrah
In 2011 a newly revised 11th edition of this book on parliamentary procedure was published
Robert's Rules of Order
2.54 million light-years away, the nearest major galaxy to ours is this one named for a mythological maiden
Andromeda
In the 1830s a Frenchman discovered how to preserve an image on a plate, inventing this "type" of old-timey photo
Dagurreotype
It's a hoops term for a successful free throw & a religious one for a change to a different faith
Conversion
Kathryn Borel's wine trip memoir is titled this, a term for wine that has the taint of the stopper
Corked
With this kitchen gadget that sounds more like a musical instrument, you can slice up a potato, paper thin, in seconds
Mandoline
This structure in the respiratory tract forms the Adam's apple in males & is used in making sounds
Larynx
In the 1950s researchers discovered that progestin could prevent ovulation, leading to the 1960 introduction of this
Birth control pill
In 2010 Tracy Porter came marching in with a 74-yard pick 6 off Peyton Manning that sealed a Super Bowl win for this team
Saints
A type of glass is named for this white wine-making French region near Germany whose name rhymes with "glass"
Alsace