SCIENCE CLASS
WELCOME TO MIAMI
A LATIN BESTIARY
SOUNDS LIKE FOOD
WORLD OF BARBIE
100

In natural form a mixture of 3 isotopes, this element is the most abundant in the Earth's crust & in the human body

What is oxygen?

100

The Gold Coast Railroad Museum boasts the train from which this pres. held a paper telling of his 1948 election "defeat"

Who is Truman?

100

This creature puts the leap in Lepus, its Latin name

What is the hare (jackrabbit)?

100

Types of these include http-only, session & zombie, but none of them go very well with a glass of cold milk

What is a cookie?

100

In 2023 she & Ryan Gosling were the leads for a big-screen live-action "Barbie" adventure

Who is Margot Robbie?

200

Used as a common medical treatment in the 19th century, laudanum is a tincture of this narcotic dissolved in distilled spirits

What is opium?

200

Miami has the USA's largest cruise terminal, serving this cruise line named for a nearby sea

What is the Royal Caribbean?

200

That Bubo, this avian, was making noise all night & I couldn't sleep

What is an owl?

200

Related to Old Norse "hvina", it's a complaining cry or sound

What is a whine?

200

Creators Ruth & Elliot Handler named Barbie & Ken for their children & also co-founded this company that still makes the dolls

What is Mattel?

300

Sedimentary deposits near Lake Superior produce the largest U.S. annual yield of hematite, the main ore of this metal

What is iron?

300

Don't look to crash with this Miami Heat legend & wife Gabrielle Union--they sold their mansion for $22 million

Who is (Dwyane) Wade?

300

Instead of its deadly moniker, you can call the creature seen here by this 4-letter Latin name

What is an orca?

300

Not so great with peanut butter on a sandwich, Vaseline has been a brand of this since the 1870s

What is petroleum jelly?

300

In an immersive & interactive experience, you can enter the World of Barbie & visit this iconic home of hers, brought to life

What is her dreamhouse?

400

Alfred Nobel invented dynamite by mixing kieselguhr, a type of chalky earth, with this liquid explosive

What is nitroglycerin?

400

The Brickell Section of town has one end of the Tamiami Trail; 264 miles away, the other end is, naturally, in this city

What is Tampa?

400

A horse is this, also a Peter Shaffer play title

What is Equus?

400

While playing, Ginger Baker would hold one of these in each hand, but he'd get little nutrition from them

What are drumsticks?

400

In 2016 Barbie got 3 new & diverse body types in addition to her original: tall, petite & this 5-letter adjective

What is curvy?

500

Around 1908, geneticist Thomas Morgan began using this insect to help establish the chromosome theory of heredity

What is a fruit fly?

500

Calle Ocho, or Southwest 8th Street, is the main thoroughfare of this area, home to many exiles

What is Little Havana?

500

Pullus, "chicken", gives us this English word for a young & yummy hen

What is a pullet?

500

It sounds like you're making pasta when engaging in this activity that involves catching catfish with your bare hands

What is noodling? 

500

In 1989 Barbie became an ambassador for this U.N. agency that helps children around the world

What is UNICEF?

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