THE COMICS
SCIENCE CLASS
RESPONSES IN THE FORM OF A QUESTION
STARTS WITH AN ANIMAL
MEGALITHS
100
2025 marked the 40th anniversary of this strip about a boy & his trusty stuffed tiger
What is Calvin and Hobbes?
100
"m" represents this in Einstein's equation E=mc2
What is mass?
100
Asked "Where is Abel thy brother?" in the King James Bible, Cain replies with this 5-word question
What is "Am I my brother's keeper"?
100
It's a beard trimmed to a point on the chin
What is a goatee?
100
One legend says that the tall stones in Carnac, France were Roman legions petrified by this Arthurian wizard
Who is Merlin?
200
Jeffy, seen here, is cartoonist Jeff Keane who has grown up & taken over this comic created by his dad, Bil, who died in 2011
What is The Family Circus?
200
There's an aid to navigation inside this force that raises an object in water, equal to the weight of the water it displaces
What is buoyancy?
200
The illustrator of this series thought "the reason why he was lost was... he was slightly idiotic & didn't know where he was going"
What is Where's Waldo"?
200
To bind all 4 of an animal's legs together
What is a hogtie?
200
Many of the giant stone figures on this island were quarried from the crater walls of the Rano Raraku volcano
What is Easter Island?
300
In the title of the comic strip, not the musical, these 2 words come before "Annie"
What is Little Orphan?
300
This climate event occurs in an unusually warm E. Pacific every 2 to 7 years & can change winds, currents & rain patterns
What is El Nino?
300
The next line Culture Club sang after this title was "Do you really want to make me cry?"
What is "Do you really want to hurt me"?
300
To crouch in fear
What is to cower?
300
This 5-letter word for a circle of stones is a back-formation from the name of a famous one on Salisbury Plain
What is henge?
400
Nothing seems to follow in this humorously absurd Latin-named strip from Wiley Miller
What is Non Sequitur?
400
It's the outer, smaller & alphabetically first of the 2 moons of Mars
What is Deimos?
400
On Oct. 13, 1962 this Edward Albee play debuted on Broadway with Uta Hagen as Martha
What is Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf"?
400
Bilirubin & carotene are these coloring agents
What are pigments?
400
The roof box in the 5,000-year-old Newgrange tomb in Ireland allows light to enter during this annual winter event
What is the solstice?
500
Debuting in 1897 & still running in 2020, this strip revolving around "Kids" Hans und Fritz is the oldest in syndication
What is The Katzenjammer Kids?
500
Also meaning a mark of disgrace, in botany, it's the part of a flower where pollination occurs
What is the stigma?
500
Romeo says, "But soft!", asks this question & continues, "it is the east, & Juliet is the sun"
What is "What light through yonder window breaks"?
500
It's the proud & historic region seen here
What is Catalan (Catalonia)?
500
These avian-named people of Montana have origin myths for large sacred medicine wheels, like the one in the Bighorn Mountains
What are the Crow?