MOVIE MONSTERS
TRANSPORTATION TERMS
PHYSICS
WHAT'S BEING MEASURED?
MOUNTAINS OF ASIA
FEMALE FIRSTS
200
In this 1941 monster movie, Lon Chaney Jr. is transformed into the hirsute title character
Who is The Wolf Man?
200
It's inserted into the crankcase to check a car's oil level
What is a dipstick?
200
At Earth's surface the acceleration produced by this force is about 32 feet per second per second
What is gravity?
200
Bunders,
hectares,
jeribs
What is area?
200
These imposing peaks have a name meaning "abode of snow"
What are the Himalayas?
200
On July 1923 Italian actress Eleanora Duse became the first woman to grace the cover of this U.S. magazine (issue No. 22)
What is Time?
400
This Oscar-winning director's 21st century monster movies include "Pacific Rim" & "Pan's Labyrinth"
Who is (Guillermo) del Toro?
400
It's the term for weight placed low in a ship to make it more stable & seaworthy
What is ballast?
400
About 75% of all chemical elements are in this class of substances, all good conductors because of an abundance of free electrons
What are metals?
400
Knots,
Mach number
What is speed?
400
Rising to almost 13,000 feet, the Pontic Mountains of Northern Turkey bend along the southern shore of this body of water
What is the Black Sea?
400
Kathryn Bigelow became Oscar's first female Best Director for this film with only one named female character
What is The Hurt Locker?
600
In "The Conjuring" film franchise, a vintage doll with this title name serves as a conduit for evil
Who is Annabelle?
600
Landing a plane in this, an airflow that hits broadside, can be challenging as seen here
What is a crosswind?
600
Measured in hertz, it's the term for the number of complete waves passing a certain point in a unit of time
What is frequency?
600
The Rankine scale,
the Réaumur scale
What is temperature?
600
Mount Apo is the highest peak in this Asian nation & its name means "grandfather" in Tagalog
What is the Philippines?
600
250 years after Magellan's expedition, Jeanne Baret became the first woman to do this
What is circumnavigate the Earth?
800
The Gill-Man is a prehistoric beast from the Amazon in this 1954 movie
What is the Creature from the Black Lagoon?
800
A horse rented out for riding is known as this, also a slang term for a taxi driver
What is hack?
800
DAILY DOUBLE
Water seems to defy gravity in this "action": the molecules' adhesion to the walls of a tube is stronger than their cohesion
800
Grams per cubic meter
What is density?
800
Reaching almost 15,000 feet, the Zagros Mountains stretch along the western border of this nation
What is Iran?
800
In 1919 this "Lady", the former Nancy Langhorne of Virginia, was the first woman to sit in the British Parliament
Who is (Lady) Astor?
1000
"The Thing", about a shapeshifting alien menace crash-landing on Earth, takes place in this desolate region
What is Antarctica?
1000
This 7-letter activity is the K in the WKA, an association excited about going 100 mph, 1 inch off the ground
What is karting?
1000
A 1976 paper has one of the first mentions of this "Model" that accounts for 3 of the universe's 4 fundamental forces
What is the Standard Model?
1000
Barrels,
fifths,
pecks
What is volume?
1000
These continent-separating mountains stretch 1,550 miles from the Arctic Ocean to Kazakhstan
What are the Urals?
1000
The first woman in space was Valentina Tereshkova, riding into the heavens on the 6th launch in this Soviet space program
Who is Vostok?