World Capitals
This South Korean capital is said to be the world's most wired city, with around 95% of households having broadband
Seoul
Einsteinium was first found in the debris of a 1952 H-bomb explosion in this ocean
the Pacific
Checkpoint Charlie was a heavily guarded crossing on this symbolic & physical barrier
the Berlin Wall
To get this from brine, use the Dow process or insert 2 letters after the "br"
bromine
This former player and coach had the nickname "Head Ball Coach"
Steve Spurrier
The 2 main roads in this city are King Fahd Highway, running north-south, & Mecca Highway, running east-west
Riyadh
In 1957 scientists in Sweden proposed this name for No. 102, honoring a guy who knew how to blow stuff up real good
nobelium
In 1960 pilot Francis Gary Powers was shot down over the Soviet Union flying one of these spy planes
a U-2
In 1755 Joseph Black called it "fixed air"; today we call it a planetary problem
carbon dioxide
How many national championships do the Florida Gators have in football?
3
This European capital city is served by 3 main ports: Piraeus, Rafina & Lavrion
Double Jeopardy!
Athens
No. 100 on your Fm dial, this element is produced in nuclear reactors in very small amounts for research
fermium
The situation where neither side will start a war because of the cost to itself is mutual assured this, MAD for short
destruction
"Earth" used to refer to certain oxides; hence this term for samarium & friends
rare earth
Alumni found guilty in a 2013 murder case.
Double Jeopardy!
Aaron Hernandez
In 1957 urbanist Lucio Costa won a contest to design this new capital, which was dedicated 3 years later
Brasilia
Kazakhstan is the world leader in producing this explosion-producing element first found in pitchblende
uranium
The brief anti-communist period of liberalization in this country in 1968 was called the Prague Spring
Czechoslovakia
A 2021 Nobel Prize was awarded for developing organic versions of these substances that galvanize reactions
catalysts
This player's nickname is "____ of the River".
Luke Del Rio
2 African capitals, Brazzaville & this one, lie across the Congo River from each other
Kinshasa
These 2 radioactive elements were discovered in 1898
Double Jeopardy!
radium and polonium
Soviet leader Gorbachev initiated policies in the 1980s of glasnost, "openness", & this, meaning "restructuring"
perestroika
He invented the flasks seen here to hold liquefied gases
(Sir James) Dewar
This person is the first ever president of UF.
Andrew Sledd