SCIENTIFIC TOOLS
Electronic versions of this medical technology have made the potentially dangerous mercury-filled versions obsolete.
Thermometer
A song intended to put babies to sleep.
Lullaby
This is the best-selling oven cleaner in the US.
Easy-Off
This semiconducting element, a crucial ingredient in computer technology, is one of the most abundant substances on earth, making up nearly 30% of the earth’s surface.
Silicon
Buddy Holly sang, "If you knew" this girl "then you'd know why I feel blue"
Peggy Sue
Tissue viewed under this instrument is often stained with color, so that tiny details can be better seen.
Microscope
Sleepy Hollow, a little village in Tarrytown, New York, was made famous by this early 19th century author, who placed characters such as Rip Van Winkle and the Headless Horseman there.
Washington Irving
The Roomba is a robotic version of this cleaning implement.
Vacuum
Most everyone has sodium chloride in the kitchen … but what do we call it?
Salt
In a song from 1959, it's where Paul Anka wanted you to "put your head"
On my shoulder
This old-fashioned tool (technically two tools) is occasionally still used in laboratories to grind solids into powders.
Mortar and pestle
He not only co-wrote, directed, and starred in Sleeper, he also composed the musical score.
Woody Allen
The white version of this common salad dressing ingredient is a great glass cleaner.
Vinegar
Both coal and diamonds consist of this basic chemical element.
Carbon
He wrote "Your Cheatin' Heart"
Hank Williams
Isaac Newton used this transparent object to study the refractive nature of light. (Perhaps he took it from a chandelier.)
Prism
It’s no wonder that we see this animal, the only marsupial native to North America, so rarely — it averages over 18 hours of sleep per day.
The Opossum
“Nothing can hold a can” to this scouring powder that gets its name from a celestial body.
Comet
Take your pick to answer: What type of alcohol is used as a household antiseptic also called rubbing alcohol? Or: What type of alcohol is used in alcoholic beverages?
Rubbing alcohol contains Isopropyl alcohol (or propan). Alcoholic beverages use ethyl alcohol (or ethanol).
In 1956 Gogi Grant sang about "The Wayward" one
Wind
An “olfactometer” is a specific instrument that measures the intensity of … what?
An odor or smell
In “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” this poet wrote: “I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.”
Robert Frost
Sodium bicarbonate, which is another name for this cooking ingredient, is also good for cleaning stainless steel sinks.
Baking Soda
All substances on earth, from copper to water to oxygen, can be classified into one of these three states.
Solid, liquid, or gas
He "calls the English teacher 'Daddy-O'"
Charlie Brown