AP BIOLOGY
AROUND THE WORLD
HOMOPHONES
BOTTOM OF THE NINTH
Roy G. Biv
SHOW CARS
100
This process describes a caterpillar becoming a butterfly.
metamorphosis
100
Oktoberfest
Munich Germany
100
Refuse and Torso
waste and waist
100
Holes 10 through 18
Back Nine
100
These two congruent and parallel bases connected by rectangles“ break up” white light.
prism
100
Hazzard County was never the same after Bo and Luke drove this around it for years.
1969 Dodge Charger
200
This gas replaced “biting the bullet” for soldiers undergoing dreadful limb amputations.
ether
200
2028 Summer Olympics
Los Angeles, California
200
Duckling’s call and Clearance
cheep and cheap
200
Human gestation
9 months
200
This is the actual shape of a rainbow.
A circle-we only see half it in the form of an arc
200
This car and its driver were hired to escort a delivery of beer through "dry" regions of the nation without getting caught by law enforcement.
Pontiac TransAm driven by "Bandit" (Burt Reynolds)
300
This is where Charles Darwin did most of his work to create a theory that challenged the long-held belief in creationism.
Galapagos Islands
300
Overwintering monarch butterflies
Mexico
300
Rule and Precipitation
reign and rain
300
The very LAST day you could have visited New York’s twin towers of the World Trade Center.
9/10 (Sept. 11, 2001 towers crashed and >3000 lives were lost)
300
"Somewhere over the Rainbow” was made famous by Judy Garland in this fictional place.
Oz
300
This car featured in a 1968 Disney film got its character name from a routine about a ski instructor with a broken nose that looked like the car's hood.
1963 Volkswagen Beetle (Herbie the Love Bug)
400
This human organ regulates the production of red blood cells within the bone marrow.
kidneys
400
Papal conclave
Sistine Chapel in Vatical City
400
Smokey and a Streaker
bear and bare
400
Romans would have signified a nine o’clock meeting by these two letters.
I and X
400
High in the mountains of this city, a rainbow was observed for nearly 9 hours (8 hrs 58 mins) topping the previous record of 6 hours set in 1994 in Sheffield, England.
Taipei, Taiwan
400
The 1963 Aston Martin was first seen being driven by this English spy in the movie Goldfinger.
James Bond
500
This common personal hygiene product was named for the scientist instrumental in forwarding the germ theory.
Listerine (John Lister)
500
“Running of the Bulls” (most famous one)
Pamplona Spain
500
Quisp and Dexter Morgan
cereal and serial
500
In Dante’s epic poem The Divine Comedy, this is described as having nine levels.
HELL
500
Because of its liquid methane rainstorms, it is unlikely that enough sunlight passes through the methane drops to create a rainbow, however nearly 1,000 tons of diamonds rain from the sky every year on this planet.
Saturn
500
This car was featured in a 2008 film with a very significant Hmong-American cast.
1972 Gran Torino