IT'S A FACT
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POP CULTURE
FIRE Z
LAB PARTNERS
WHAT'S IT CALLED?
100
One Japanese type of this tall hollow grass takes about 120 years to blossom; after that, it usually dies
What is bamboo?
100
Tommy Lee Jones, for doing the pursuing in this movie
What is The Fugitive?
100
Caroll Spinney was the original puppeteer for both Oscar the Grouch & this feathered resident of "Sesame Street"
Who is Big Bird?
100
Pop the Z off a pimple & get this Stephen King title
What is IT?
100
Marie gets a Nobel! Pierre gets a Nobel! Irene gets a Nobel! Frederic gets a Nobel! Everybody in this family gets a Nobel!
Who is Curie?
100
Lumps of charcoal for barbecuing
What are briquettes?
200
This tick-borne disease is named for a town in Connecticut where it was first observed in 1975
What is Lyme?
200
Jared Leto, as Rayon in this 2013 film
What is Dallas Buyers Club?
200
No Longer "Tortured", this popular singer is dating a player on the Kansas City Chiefs
Who is Taylor Swift?
200
Chisel the Z from an abundant mineral & it becomes this liquid measure equal to one-fourth of a gallon
What is quart?
200
Thomas Watson worked in the lab with this man & in 1876 was on the other end of a very important phone call
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
200
The offspring of a male lion and a female tiger
What is liger?
300
To convert inches to these, multiply by 2.54
What are centimeters?
300
This man, as Juan in "Moonlight"
Who is (Mahershala) Ali?
300
This playwright's "Biloxi Blues" came to Broadway in 1985
Who is Neil Simon?
300
Deny the Z of a ballroom dance & it becomes this first name of a 19th century U.S. poet
What is Walt?
300
Thomas Francis was the guy who tested Jonas Salk's vaccine against this vicious disease through the double-blind method in 1954
What is Polio?
300
A decorative pouch attached to the front of a man's breeches as a display of virility in the 15th & 16th centuries
What is a codpiece?
400
In 1927 he was the first recipient of the Distinguished Flying Cross
Who is Charles Lindbergh?
400
Martin Landau, as this real-life actor in "Ed Wood"
Who is Bela Legosi?
400
She's seen here around the time she released "Under the Pink", one the most influential albums of the '90s
Who is Tori Amos?
400
Take Z beer away from a word for a heavy drinker & get this person at a sporting event voicing their displeasure
What is a booer?
400
Howard Florey & Ernst Chain followed up Alexander Fleming's work on this antibiotic & they all shared a Nobel Prize in 1945
What is Penicillin?
400
4-letter word for an insect in a cocoon
What is Pupa?
500
Following the path of a civil rights march, the shortest national historic trail, 54 miles, extends between these 2 Ala. cities
What are Montgomery and Selma?
500
Jason Robards, as this newspaper editor in "All the President's Men"
Who is (Ben) Bradlee?
500
John Ford directed the Oscar-winning 1942 documentary "Battle of" this locale at which Ford himself was wounded
What is Battle of Midway?
500
Take the Z off the case in a type of mystery novel with little violence & it becomes this word for shy
What is coy?
500
In 1942 at the University of Chicago, Leo Szilard helped this Italian create the first nuclear reactor
Who is Enrico Fermi?
500
A structure that supports a highway overpass. from French for "end"
What is abutment?