STEM

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Food & Drink Retronyms
100

What is created when sound waves bounce off a solid object?

An echo

100

A female parent & an inconvenience

A MOTHER & A BOTHER

100

The art of producing formal lettering with a brush or a pen

CALLIGRAPHY

100

A four-in-hand is one method of securing this fashion item.

A TIE

100

The first vegetables called potatoes were actually what we now call these potatoes.

SWEET POTATOES

200

In the car industry, what do the initials BMW stand for?

Bavarian Motor Works

200

To close & open the eyes; free from marks or writing

BLINK & BLANK

200

It used to mean the writing of books; now it's a list

A BIBLIOGRAPHY

200

Sarah Burton became world-famous in 2011 as the designer of this duchess' wedding gown. 

KATE MIDDLETON

200

When the kernels are not removed corn is described with this 3-word prepositional phrase.

ON THE COB

300

Which was invented first, the telephone or the light bulb?

Telephone

300

A tailed primate & a mule's father

A MONKEY & A DONKEY

300

The science of mapmaking

CARTOGRAPHY

300

Back in 1991, before he was a household name, Brad Pitt did a TV ad for this brand of jeans. 

LEVI'S

300

Before polishing began most of the rice people ate was this color variety; now the term is used for a whole-grain type

BROWN

400

What year did Bill Gates graduate from Harvard?

He never graduated from college.

400

A surgical device that compresses objects & a compact mass of an item like dirt

A CLAMP & A CLUMP

400

Emmanuel Lubezki has won 3 Oscars in this category

CINEMATOGRAPHY

400

These wide & loose pants were named for a 19th-century social reformer & feminist

BLOOMERS

400

Due to the emergence of the vodka type, the original martini now has this liquor in front

GIN

500

The word “engineer” comes from the Latin word for what?

ingeniare

500

French-speaking people of Belgium & to swell out

WALLOON & BALLOON

500

The T in CAT scan it's a method of using electromagnetic waves to produce an image of an internal structure

TOMOGRAPHY

500

This fashion company famous for its plaid patterns & trench coats outfitted the ill-fated Robert Scott expedition

BURBERRY

500

The black type of this is the original type made from a plant; the black part was added when candy-like Twizzlers came along

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