Organic Chemistry
You can breathe easy knowing photosynthesis causes plants to release this gas as a waste product
Oxygen
John Quincy Adams,
John F. Kennedy,
Jon Bon Jovi
Quincy Adams
This South American rainforest is said to be home to roughly 390 billion trees
Amazon
An oldie but goodie, this 1958 Chordettes hit features the line, "sweeter than candy on a stick"
Lolipop
Among some of its natives, this country's capital city is known as Baile Átha Cliath; we just call it "Dublin"
Ireland
Please be patient for a moment!:
H.Y.H.
Hold your horses
This element's "footprint" is everywhere: by definition, every compound studied by organic chemists contains it
Carbon
Sally Ride,
Coretta Scott King,
Florence Nightingale
Florence
In the 1984 film "The Karate Kid", Daniel asks Mr. Miyagi "How'd they get so small?" when he sees Mr. Miyagi trimming these trees
Bonsai
Jane's Addiction singer Perry Farrell got the name for this Chicago music festival from the Three Stooges
Lollapalooza
This countries flag is Green, white and red
Italy
You are in big trouble:
Y.G.I.C.
Your goose is cooked
Triglycerides are the most common type of this organic compound; healthy eaters steer clear of the saturated ones
Fats
Ferdinand Magellan,
Marco Polo,
Christopher Columbus
Polo
This Bay Area city has a tree on its official flag (it's the type of tree featured in the city's name)
Oakland
This word meaning "dawdle" is almost as much fun to say as "dillydally" & "shilly-shally", two of its other synonyms
Lollygag
This country is home to roughly 120 active volcanoes along the Pacific Ring of Fire
Indonesia
Don't forget how many other single people are out there in the dating pool:
T.A.P.O.F.I.T.S.
there are plenty of fish in the sea
In chemistry, it's the unit of measure equal to 6.02 times 10^23 of anything -- atoms, molecules... even mammals that burrow in your lawn
Mole
Coco Chanel,
Frida Kahlo,
Jane Austen
Jane Austen
Balsa, magnolia or sequoia: it's the tree that becomes the name of another tree when you add an "M" to its end
Balsa
The name for the study of flags
vexillology
An anagram of "Arabs", Basra is a port city in this country
Iraq
Make all the necessary preparations before you start:
G.Y.D.I.A.R.
Chemically speaking, they're molecules with at least one unpaired electron; true to their name, they can be, like, totally reactive
Radicals
Alexander the Great,
Attila the Hun,
Genghis Khan
Alexander
Meaning "to fall off" in Latin, it's the word used to describe non-evergreen trees & baby teeth
deciduous
This 1998 German crowd-pleaser is 80 minutes long; for most of that time, Franka Potente is out of breath
Run lola Run
Of the eight member states in the United Nations that begin with an I, it's the first one alphabetically
Iceland
You can do anything you wish or go anywhere you want in this life:
T.W.I.Y.O.
The world is your oyster