"IE" Times 2
Revolutions & Ruptures
Fun With Science
Deep-Sky Objects
Cartographic Oddities
100

This rhyming handheld communications device was developed originally in WWII.

Walkie-Talkie

100

This Chinese rebellion led by Hong Xiuquan established the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

Taiping Rebellion

100

It's annoying when you walk across carpet & touch metal but helpful when Xerox machines use it to make copies.

Static Electricity

100

These rapidly rotating neutron stars emit lighthouse-like beams of radiation.

Pulsars

100

Spain’s Llivia is an exclave completely surrounded by this country.

France

200

"Religious" precedes this 3-word term for Quakers

Society of Friends

200

Portugal’s nearly bloodless 1974 revolt was named for flowers placed in rifle barrels.

Carnation Revolution

200

Stick two forks together, insert a toothpick into the tine & you'll find that you can balance it on the side of a glass; it's a method of finding the center of this & it looks cool.

Mass or Gravity

200

M1, the remnant of a supernova observed in 1054, is better known by this crustacean name.

The Crab Nebula

200

The Wakhan Corridor gives Afghanistan a narrow border with this country.

China

300

A form of instrumental blues, or the "Bugle Boy of Company B".

Boogie-Woogie

300

Russia’s 1825 officer-led uprising took its name from the month in which it occurred.

Decembrist Revolt (or Uprising)

300

One method to show movies this way divides the image into red & blue parts that your brain combines.

3-D

300

The first discovered pulsar was initially jokingly labeled with these initials suggesting extraterrestrial origin.

LGM (Little Green Men)

300

This African river crosses the Equator twice.

Congo River

400

In the "Nibelungenlied", he's the son of Siegmund & Sieglinde.

Siegfried

400

This 1618 act of throwing imperial governors from a castle window helped ignite the Thirty Years’ War.

Defenestration of Prague

400

Have fun with the over 300-year-old "3-body problem", determining the motions of these 3 bodies based only on mutual gravity.

Sun, Earth and Moon

400

This dwarf planet has an exceptionally elongated (eccentric) orbit, taking roughly 11,400 years to complete a single trip around the Sun, and gets it's name from Inuit mythology.

Sedna

400

The Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic is an exclave of this country.

Azerbaijan

500

In 1954 this Vietnam village was the site of the decisive battle of the First Indochina War.

Dien Bien Phu

500

The 1952 Egyptian coup was led by this organization, whose members included Nasser and Naguib.

The Free Officers Movement

500

Defined as a system of particles uniformly distributed in a gas, it's used in spray paint.

Aerosol

500

The boundary around a rotating black hole within which spacetime is dragged by the spin is called this region.

Ergosphere

500

The world’s largest sand island, K’gari, lies off this Australian state.

Queensland

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