GROUP NAMES OF ANIMALS
TIME ZONES
1950s PEOPLE
SPACE "EX"
ON THE BEACH
100
Part of this creature is seen here; its group names include a muster of them & an ostentation
peacocks
100
Egypt has adopted Daylight Saving Time, but suspends its use during this Muslim month
Ramadan
100
Israel offered this physicist the presidency in 1952; feeling he didn't have the personality for the job, he declined
Einstein
100
We've yet to get a call from one of these otherworldly beings
an extraterrestrial
100
This sport became an Olympic event in 1964; the beach version had to wait until 1996
beach volleyball
200
Look quickly–it's called a coalition of these fastest felines
cheetahs
200
Markets Fyr, an island in the Gulf of Bothnia, follows 2 time zones because it's split between these 2 countries
Sweden & Finland
200
In 1950 this sen. said there were 205 Communists in the State Dept. but in Sen. testimony gave no proof of a single card carrier
Joe McCarthy
200
A spacewalk is more formally called an EVA, this kind of "activity"
extravehicular
200
Gold Beach was at the center of the 5 designated landing areas during this 1944 military operation
D-Day (or the Invasion of Normandy)
300
It's a murder of crows & an unkindness of these related birds
ravens
300
The International Space Station is on this time zone measured from the British Isles
Greenwich Mean Time
300
William M. Gaines wasn't worried when he launched this irreverent humor magazine in 1952
Mad
300
To astronomers, this isn't the end of a species but the atmospheric dimming of a star when it's low on the horizon
extinction
300
There's a Barbie doll based on this 1990s TV show about beautiful & fit lifeguards on L.A. County beaches
Baywatch
400
A group of gorillas can be a troop or one of these; who's on bass?
a band
400
In the Mountain Time Zone, it's when the Times Square ball drops
10 p.m.
400
This famous scientist began testing for a polio vaccine in 1952
Jonas Salk
400
39 light-years from our sun, a red dwarf star called TRAPPIST-1 has 7 Earth-size these, whose orbits are seen here; 3 of them are firmly in the habitable zone where liquid water could most likely exist
exoplanets
400
Making up the sand on most beaches is this compound, chemical formula SiO2, in the form of tiny crystals of the mineral quartz
silicon dioxide (or silica)
500
A group of owls is a wisdom or one of these legislatures
parliament
500
France has the most time zones, 12, if you count Pacific possessions & this saintly island off Newfoundland near Miquelon
Saint Pierre
500
In 1954 he ran unopposed for president of Cuba
(Fulgencio) Batista
500
The speed of expulsion of a rocket's gas or other propellant is this "velocity"
exhaust
500
Sanibel Island on this U.S. state's west coast has great beaches to collect shells or just stroll the sand
Florida