Nuclear Physics
One-Letter Responses
Traitorous Activity
At the Arcade
Frogger
400

The world's more than 400 nuclear power plants use this process of splitting an atom in 2 to create energy

fission

400

"The very existence of" this James Bond chief, "let alone his identity, was never admitted"

M

400

60 conspirators helped knock off Julius Caesar in 44 B.C., but as far as we know, only he got the "et tu" thrown at him

Brutus

400

You use paddles or mallets, not sticks, to score on the table used in this arcade classic

air hockey

400

Alaskan wood frogs can freeze for 7 months, in part by increasing their bodies' levels of this simple sugar

glucose

800

The diameter of the nucleus is a few femto-these or quadrillionths of that unit

meter

800

Niacin is part of this vitamin group

B

800

The going rate for selling out America in 1780? For him, 6,315 pounds, but it's not like his name was totally destroyed...oh wait

Benedict Arnold

800

Cut a rug or 2 playing this double-talk Konami game that sounds like a plea to overthrow the government

Dance Dance Revolution

800

Weighing up to 7 pounds, a West African frog with this Biblical name is the world's largest

Goliath

1200

A gamma particle is a high-energy one of these light particles emitted during radioactive disintegration

photon

1200

Rolling Stone's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time includes 2 by this L.A. punk quartet

X

1200

FBI Soviet analyst Robert Hanssen began spying for this overseas intelligence agency in 1985

The KGB

1200

Bally's 1975 Pinball Wizard machine featured Ann-Margret & this lead singer of The Who

Roger Daltrey

1200

You best look, but don't touch, these frogs of Central & South America, named because their skin secretes paralyzing alkaloids used in primitive weapons

poison dart frog

1600

This word once used by alchemists today means the changing of one element into another by a nuclear reaction

transmutation

1600

Einstein used it to denote the speed of light

C

1600

Last name of the couple who in 1953 were the first U.S. civilians to be executed for espionage

Rosenberg

1600

You roll 9 balls & score 10 to 100 in this arcade favorite, around since 1909

Skee-ball

1600

Frogs are in the class Amphibia & the order Anura, meaning lacking these appendages, unlike reptiles

a tail

2000

The sun is a fusion reactor; creating one on Earth would require creating this very hot, ionized state of matter

plasma

2000

In chess notation, this, not K, denotes a knight

N

2000

In 480 B.C. the traitorous Ephialtes helped the Persians outflank the Greeks at this mountain pass

Thermopylae

2000

This Atari game that shares its name with a Shakespeare play was known for its rotating dial used as a controller

Tempest

2000

To fool predators some species of frogs use thanatosis, this defensive behavior

playing dead

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