PEOPLE IN AMERICAN HISTORY
This future presidential assassin made his acting debut in an 1855 Baltimore staging of "Richard III"
John Wilkes Booth
P stands for pressure & V for this in the ideal gas law, PV=nRT
volume
A single processor sharing multiple jobs is doing this, like when Mom tries to drive & put on makeup
multitasking
The classic version incorporates real streets in Atlantic City
Monopoly
To satisfy one's thirst
(6)
quench
In 1908 he rolled out the first car affordable for most Americans, the Model T
(Henry) Ford
The lightweight plastic rocket flies far above the drop point, while the more massive launcher barely bounces--a textbook example of this man's second & third laws of motion
Newton
A class in school, or a record of where you've gone in a web browser
history
Use all 7 of your tiles on one turn & get a 50-point bonus
Scrabble
William Penn's religion
(6)
Quaker
In 1927 he made aviation history aboard a plane called the Spirit of St. Louis
Lindbergh
To double the stretch of a spring, you have to double the strength of the pull per "Hooke's Law of" this property
elasticity
Before a game's release, Joe Gamer may be asked to play a pre-version usually referred to by this Greek letter
beta
Water on the knee is one challenge
Operation
small,short-tailed game bird
(5)
quail
FBI headquarters is housed in a building named for this man who was director from 1924 to 1972
J. Edgar Hoover
The First Law of Thermodynamics is AKA the principle of conservation of this
energy
You may have worked with a newfangled cash register called a POS terminal, the POS standing for this
point of sale
Use letter tiles to build words in this a-peeling game with a fruit in its name
Bananagrams
A sticky situation or boggy ground
(8)
quagmire
After his first wife Miriam died in 1832, this religious leader wed as many as 56 more times
Brigham Young
Snell's Law, or the law of refraction, is a major law of this branch of physics
optics
imgur.com has a button to make this four-letter cultural reference that often spreads online
a meme
It takes some math skills & strategy to win in this ancient African family of games, often using flat marbles in modern versions in place of stones, beans, or seeds
mancala
Wharf
(4)
a quay