Science Grab Bag
This element uses the symbol Pb because its Latin name is plumbum.
What is lead?
Made the 674-stair climb up to the second story of this Paris landmark.
What is the Eiffel Tower?
In a familiar phrase that judges good versus bad, you separate the wheat from it.
What is the chaff?
Of California's 3 state borders, its one with this state is the longest.
What is Nevada?
In 1813 this bloody, bloody future president avenged a Creek Indian attack with a slaughter in present-day Alabama.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
The pancreas secretes glucagon & this hormone to regulate the body's sugar balance.
What is insulin?
Gone to Pamplona, had a few too many & signed up for the encierro, or as we say in English, this.
What is The Running of the Bulls?
Ooh, this prickly seed pod is in a tricky, hairy place on Fido--scissors, comb & cooking oil, stat!
What is a burr?
A water border between these 2 states also surrounds Ellis Island.
What are New York and New Jersey?
A Union Gen., angry at Robert E. Lee's betrayal of the U.S., turned Lee's estate into what's now this landmark to ensure no return.
What is Arlington National Cemetary?
All free radicals have at least one unpaired this.
What is an electron?
Walked under a Redstone rocket & saw the Astronaut Hall of Fame at the visitor complex of this facility on a Florida island.
What is the Kennedy Space Center?
The "proxy" type of this can prevent malicious content from entering a system by inspecting & filtering traffic.
What is a firewall?
This state once bordered Pennsylvania, but after 1863, it no longer does.
What is Virginia?
Pierre Picaud, betrayed by friends & falsely imprisoned in the 1800s, inspired this, called "the ultimate revenge novel."
What is The Count of Monte Cristo?
This family name for some primates comes from the Latin for "man."
What are hominids (Hominidae).
Daily Double
Stayed up late in St. Petersburg, Russia to experience these colorful intervals that draw visitors every June & July.
What's all the this? It's a noisy commotion or a mid-'60s NBC rock 'n roll show.
What is a hullabaloo?
The only state it borders is New Hampshire.
What is Maine?
Leontius overthrew Justinian II, mutilating him with rhinokopia, this; Justinian returned & used Leontius as a footstool.
What is cutting off your enemy's nose?
NASA calls this the Sun's "outer atmosphere" & scientists are curious why it's hotter than lower layers .
What is the corona?
Explored the Goa Gajah or Elephant Cave on this Indonesian island better known for its beaches & resorts.
What is Bali?
It's the orbital point at which the Moon is farthest from the Earth.
What is the apogee?
Cornering the market on the U.S. Northwest, Washington State borders these 2 others.
What are Oregon and Idaho?
Are you unready for this English king? Massacring Danish settlers in 1002 set off invasions & 11 years later, a Dane had his crow?
Who is Æthelred the Unready?