1980: The Year Hair Reached the Heavens
Be careful flying around this peak that blew its top in 1980; the USGS ranks it the No. 1 volcanic threat to aviation
Mount Saint Helens
Losing her nose, lips & chin in a dog attack, a woman in France underwent the first partial one of these in 2005
What is face transplant?
One theory suggests this yuletide salutation goes back to a letter sent by a 16th century English bishop
What is Merry Christmas?
In his "Principia", Newton laid out his foundational 3 laws of this as related to the effects of force & mass
What is motion?
Ming Emperor Chengzu moved the capital of China from Nanjing to this city & built a 30-foot wall surrounding it
What is Beijing?
Hollywood makeup artist John Chambers received the CIA's Intelligence Medal of Merit for helping an escape from this capital in 1980
What is Tehran?
We wonder if James Hardy held his breath as he performed the first transplant of one of these on a human in 1963
What is a lung?
The covert Cold War-era MK-Ultra program sought to develop means of using this technique on human subjects
What is mind control?
Produced in the disintegration of radioactive atomic nuclei, these rays have the shortest wavelength & highest energy
What is gamma?
Cannons helped decide the outcome of 1453's Battle of Castillon, the last major clash of this conflict
What is the Hundred Years' War?
Founded in 1980, it's recently gotten companies to stop offering camel & horse rides at the Giza pyramids due to animal abuse
What is PETA?
In 1866 Dr. Thomas Allbutt was all brain when he invented a 6-inch one of these; safer fluids have replaced mercury
What is a thermometer?
Around 1930, these tests were entrenched in the American school system; Scantron sheets came later
What is multiple choice?
It's the measure of the randomness, or molecular disorder, of a system; the universe's is said to be increasing
What is entropy?
Itzcoatl allied with neighboring states in 1428 & made this empire the dominant force in Central Mexico
What is the Aztec Empire ?
In 1980 George Bush (he didn't need "H.W." yet) decisively defeated this Minnesotan
Who is Mondale?
DAILY DOUBLE!!!!
Eye blinking & mild facial tics are often the first sign of this disorder, followed by vocal tics & sometimes swearing
Now used to describe any product in tip-top shape, this term stems from the world of numismatics
What is mint condition?
A radium nucleus that emits a particle & becomes a radon nucleus undergoes the "alpha" type of this process
What is decay?
The philosophical & political "ism" named for this 15th & 16th century man reflects his characteristic unscrupulousness
Who is Machiavelli?
You could've bought this stock at $22 a share when it went public December 12, 1980, & why didn't you, mom & dad?
What is Apple?
In 1943 Dr. Willem Kolff's artificial kidney pioneered this treatment of removing, purifying & returning blood
What is dialysis?
This child star got his first on-screen kiss in "My Girl"
Who is Macaulay Culkin ?
DAILY DOUBLE! Don't be scared...
Fluid dynamics can be divided into hydrodynamics, the study of fluids in motion, & this study of gases in motion
This country's oldest institution of higher learning, the University of Uppsala, was founded in 1477. (Hint Wally Walrus)
What is Sweden?