Never President
This vice president starred in an Oscar-winning documentary & won a Nobel prize, but missed out on the White House
Al Gore
At about 840,000 square miles, this island near Canada is the world's largest
Greenland
He observes, "Obi-Wan has taught you well. You have controlled your fear. Now... release your anger"
Darth Vader
Rudimentary, or a type of school for young students
Elementary
Your 7 cervical vertebrae stiffen this part of your body where they're found
neck
Carl Albert, holder of this House of Representatives leadership job, crept 1 heartbeat closer in 1974
Speaker of the House
In July 1913 this appropriately named California valley recorded the highest temperature ever in the U.S., 134°
Death Valley
We wouldn't blame this "Wizard of Oz" villain if she had a severe case of hydrophobia
The Wicked Witch of the West
Term for a movie based on a novel or another written work
Adaptation
This word can be a synonym for number or finger
digit
In 2012 Jill Stein received 470,000 votes as the nominee of this "colorful" party
Africa's highest mountain is this one whose "snows" were made famous in a short story
Kilimanjaro
This "X-Men" character turned 2 D.C. landmarks into 1 when he dropped a stadium around the White House
Magneto
The skill of choosing a path for a ship or aircraft to its destination
Navigation
About 4 inches long, these blood filters sit below your diaphragm
She was a popular 20th century First Lady, & in a different era, might have eventually offered a new deal for America and run for the job.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Africa's Kariba Dam created the largest by volume of these man-made water-storing lakes, capacity 180 billion cubic meters
a reservoir
This masked man tells Bruce Wayne, "When Gotham is ashes, then you have my permission to die"
Bane
A person with his or her thumb out, once more common on our highways than today
hitchhiker
This nerve carries impulses from the retina to the brain
optic nerve
Henry Clay, who ran for president 5 times unsuccessfully, was a longtime senator from this state
Kentucky
The longest river in southeast Asia, it flows 2,700 miles through Laos, Cambodia & Vietnam
This leader of the Decepticons: "Humans don't deserve to live...join them in extinction!"
Megatron
Like the tails of certain monkeys, a giraffe's tongue is said to be this, adapted for seizing & grasping
prehensile
You can see from its shape why a Latin word meaning "pipe" or "flute" gave us the name for this long front bone of the shin
the tibia