SCIENCE QUIZ
Despite a popular slander, these fish, Carassius auratus, actually have excellent memories
goldfish
Where performers are farthest from a theater audience, or to draw attention away from others to yourself
upstage
It's the "I" in DNI, a presidential advisory position created in 2004
intelligence
Its flag, the Taegukki, was outlawed under Japanese rule & restored under General MacArthur
South Korea
MGM's 1953 epic "Julius Caesar" featured Marlon Brando as Mark Antony & James Mason as this betrayer
Brutus
Atoms of this metallic element bond weakly with others of their kind, so it's a liquid as low as 72 degrees
mercury
The force of one object hitting another, or to have a direct effect on
impact
Now meaning a supremely smart person, in Roman times it referred to the attendant spirit of a person or place
genius
You can see the Angkor Wat temple complex in this country as well as on its flag
Cambodia
Paul Mescal is the fighter Lucius in "Gladiator II"; Russell Crowe is this super-sized fighter in the original
Maximus
The main asteroid belt is bounded by the orbits of these 2 planets
Mars and Jupiter
To abrade, or to feed in a field
graze
This 4-letter word can mean mentally sharp or physically sharp, like a blade
keen
The black, yellow & red flag of this country carries the color of the Duchy of Brabant
Belgium
Emil Jannings & Peter Ustinov both burned up the screen as this emperor in films based on Henryk Sienkiewicz' "Quo Vadis"
Nero
It's the Greek-derived name for the process of identical cell duplication
mitosis
Made clear or easier to understand, or when something is lit with bright lights
illuminated
Latin for "rude" or "rough" gives us this adjective that means scholarly
erudite
Covering a lot of ground, Mozambique's flag features an open book, a hoe & this weapon invented in the 1940s
an AK-47
In "Centurion", the ninth of these army units is on a mission to Scotland to wipe out the Picts; it doesn't go well
legion
Sometimes mistaken for diamond, topaz is not just beautiful but hard, making it a solid 8 on this scale
Mohs
To discover by intuition, or given by or proceeding from God
divine
From Greek for "having learned much", it's a person who knows about a lot of topics, not just every kind of algebra & calculus
polymath
The ship depicted on the flag of this British overseas territory commemorates a 1609 shipwreck on its shoals
Bermuda
Who can forget Jack Palance as this invader whose army threatened Rome in the 5th century & in 1954's "Sign of the Pagan"?
Attila the Hun