Halley
It takes this long for Halley's comet to orbit the sun and reappear?
This often fatal disease consisted of fluid-filled blisters on the skin.
What is smallpox?
This is the liquid that Daniel Fahrenheit decided to use in his thermometers.
What is mercury?
When members of two different species reproduce making a completely new species.
What is a hybrid?
The number of points received for scoring a touchdown in football.
What is 6?
A comet often has this distinct feature in its appearance?
What is one or two bright tails?
This is where Lady Montagu moved to and discovered the practice of inoculation.
What is Turkey?
Fahrenheit chose to use mercury as the liquid in his thermometers for this reason.
What is because mercury expanded evenly when it got hot?
Thomas Fairchild's profession.
What is a gardener?
This is the reason she was called "Lady" Montagu.
What is because she was an aristocrat/nobel?
A comet needs to get close enough to this in order for us to see it?
What is the sun?
Lady Montagu's profession.
What is a writer/poet?
The temperature in Fahrenheit at which water freezes/boils.
What is 32/212 degrees Fahrenheit?
A man-made hybrid.
What is an artificial hybrid?
The number of players on the field for one team at a time in a football game.
What is 11?
Sublimation.
What is the process of a solid turning into a gas, without first becoming a liquid?
This is what Lady Montagu is known for doing.
What is that Lady Montagu wrote letters to the British government to promote inoculation?
Daniel Fahrenheit is most known for making this.
What is the Fahrenheit temperature scale?
The first artificial hybrid made by Thomas Fairchild where he created a hybrid of Sweet William and carnation.
What is Fairchild's Mule?
186,282 miles per second.
What is the speed of light?
Halley's comet got its name for this reason.
What is that Halley predicted when the comet would reappear and was right?
Inoculation positives and negatives/risk.
What is that it could prevent someone from ever catching a fatal case of smallpox (positive) and that it could be giving a healthy person a potentially fatal disease?
Fahrenheit decided that the average human body temperature was this number (and how did he get that number).
What is 96 degrees -- by multiplying the temperature at which water freezes (32) by 3?
This person's work inspired Thomas Fairchild in his work with plants and hybrids?
Who is Nehemiah Grew?
The names of the only TWO, non-silver-colored metals.
What is copper and gold?