Suffragette City
She became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in 1903.
Who is Marie Curie?
2-word term meaning to make an unresponsive program set you free; on a Mac it's command-option-escape.
What is "force quit"?
On some journeys, this artificial waterway can save ships 8,000 nautical miles.
What is the Panama Canal?
H2O below 32 degrees Fahrenheit, it's considered a mineral if it's formed naturally.
What is ice?
Tumors can be malignant or this 2-syllable opposite.
What is benign?
Beginning next season, the College Football Playoff will include this many teams.
What is 12?
In 1917, she became the first female member of Congress.
Who is Jeannette Rankin (Montana)?
Meaning overhyped, this word suggests a grilled meat sandwich without anything inside.
What is a "nothingburger"?
Despite being renamed Acrisure Stadium, there is still at least one 35-foot-tall replica of a Heinz ketchup bottle at the stadium formerly known as Heinz Field in this U.S. city.
What is Pittsburgh?
Lodestone, a naturally magnetic rock, contains this elemental metal.
What is iron?
A lighthouse acts as one, from Old English for "sign."
What is a beacon?
This University of Texas coach once left coaching due to problems with alcohol before being offered a second chance by Nick Saban.
Who is Steve Sarkisian?
She was arrested for attempting to vote in 1872.
It's a less-than-chiseled paternal physique.
What is a "dad bod"?
Lieutenant Joseph Ives gave this name to a brilliantly colored Arizona desert, now partly within Petrified Forest National Park.
What is the Painted Desert?
Dreidel, dreidel, dreidel, I made it out of this 4-letter substance, particles of soil smaller than .002 millimeters.
What is clay?
Be cool daddy-o, this often satirized cultural group frequently wore black turtlenecks and played the bongos.
Who are beatniks?
This winningest team in college football history plays in the Rose Bowl tomorrow (against the team with the second most wins).
Who is Michigan?
Michigan has 1002 wins. Alabama is second with 965 wins.
She was the first American woman in space.
Who is Sally Ride?
This a 3-letter way of describing something as average or mediocre.
What is "mid"?
Freddy Cannon sang a 1962 hit about this New Jersey amusement park.
What is "Palisades Park"?
To make quartz, you need oxygen & this element--& lots of crystallization.
What is silicon?
This is a baseball colloquialism for deliberately hitting a batter with a pitch.
What is a "beanball" or "beaning"?
Fans of this undefeated ACC champion were outraged that their team did not make the 2023 College Football Playoff.
Who are the Florida State Seminoles?
David Bowie performed the song "Suffragette City" as this alter ego.
Who is Ziggy Stardust?
Oxford's 2023 Word of the Year is just 4 letters long and means “style, charm or attractiveness."
What is "rizz"?
The Rose Bowl is played in this city.
What is Pasadena, California?
Cerium (Ce), dysprosium (Dy), and erbium (Er) are three examples of this category of elements which, despite their name, are generally plentiful on Earth.
What are "rare-earth elements" or "rare-earth metals"?
8-letter word meaning to tarnish one's good name.
What is besmirch?
These two teams from this year's playoff will be playing in a different conference next season.
Who are Washington and Texas?
Washington is moving from the Pac-12 to the Big Ten.
Texas is moving from the Big 12 to the SEC.