Physics
The first shell around a nucleus can have a maximum of this many electrons
2
John V. Bouvier, a Southhampton, New York stockbroker
Jackie Kennedy
A direct popular vote, usually on a single issue
a referendum
In 2011 this U.N. organization, FAO for short, declared the first eradication of an animal disease, rinderpest
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
The Bionic Man & the newly famous Jimmy Carter turn up in Alan Jackson's song about this year
1976
It's the term for the minimum amount of fissile material needed to achieve a self-sustaining chain reaction
critical mass
Marvin Pierce, a Rye, New York magazine publisher
Barbara Bush
In a 1941 film, this circus performer is forced to join a clown act
dumbo
Answering its own musical question "Should I Stay Or Should I Go?", in 1986 this group went
The Clash
Type of title object in the songs "Ol' '55" & "Sweet Little '66"
an automobile
This massless subatomic particle sounds like an adhesive; it binds elementary particles together
a gluon (3x stumper)
Meatpacker John Doud
The World Trade Organization has an anti-this agreement
dumping
Richard LaMotta created this treat of vanilla ice cream between 2 cookies; Nestle bought the brand & phased it out
Chipwich (3x stumper)
"I got my first real six-string / Bought it at the five & dime", begins this reminiscing song by Bryan Adams
Summer of '69
In the 1930s physicist Ernest Lawrence developed this first circular particle accelerator
a cyclotron
Frederick Dent, a Missouri planter & merchant
Julie Dent Grant
AKA aluminum oxide, it's used as an abrasive
corundum (3x stumper)
This province made up the northeastern paart of South Africa until 1994
Transvaal
It's the subtitle of Eurythmics' "Sexcrime" & the title of the movie soundtrack it's on
"1984"
Meaning to neutralize a magnetic field, this term is derived from the name of a German scientist
to degauss
William Bolling, a Virginia judge
Edith Bolling Galt Wilson
3-word Latin phrase meaning to refute an argument by showing that its consequences are nonsensical
reducto ad absurdum
This large flightless bird of New Zealand was hunted to extinction by the Maori in the 17th century
the moa
"Justine never knew the rules, hung down with the freaks & ghouls" in this song by Smashing Pumpkins
1979