BANDS IN OTHER WORDS
(You'll have to name the 20th century band.)
TO THE EXOPLANETS!
HAIKU ABOUT THE POET
DEATH
ODD 4-LETTER WORDS
500

Walloping gourds

Smashing Pumpkins

500

NASA has found Earthlike planets within a "habitable zone"--the area in a star system where this could exist in liquid form

water

500

Born in Beatrice /
Worshiped a girl named Florence /
Oops, got that backwards

Dante

500

From Latin, it means "after death", when an autopsy would be done

post mortem

500

It means sad or listless; when tripled, it means "and so on"

blah

1000

American bomber planes introduced in the 1950s

the B-52s

1000

In 2013 Caltech scientists announced there are more than 100 billion planets in this alone--about one per star

the Milky Way

1000

"Queen Mab" was so fab / 

Was the groom of Frankenstein / 

Not waving, drowning

Shelley

1000

The Amanita genus of these includes some that are lethal to humans, including the death cap

mushrooms

1000

Led Zeppelin knows that this word refers to a concluding passage of a musical piece or a ballet

a coda

2000

Unused young goats for sale at an auction

New Kids on the Block

2000

The first Earth-size exoplanets were found by the NASA satellite launched in 2009 & named for this 17th c. German astronomer

Kepler

2000

American guy / 

"The Wreck of the Hesperus" / 

That's all you should need

Longfellow

2000

Docs recommend babies sleep on their backs or sides to ward off this, SIDS for short

sudden infant death syndrome

2000

A symbol of life in Egypt, it's also known as an ansate cross

an ankh

3000

.75 foot tacks

Nine Inch Nails

3000

In 1992 the first exoplanets were found orbiting one of these rotating stars that emit regular bursts of radiation

pulsars

3000

"Aurora Leigh", whoa! / 

19th century lady / 

Let me count the ways

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

3000

The London space called this "Green" has a memorial to those, such as Margaret Pole, who were beheaded there

Tower Green

3000

This word from Heinlein's "Stranger in a Strange Land" means "to communicate sympathetically"

to grok

4000

Communal foe

Public Enemy

4000

In 1995 astronomers confirmed the first exoplanet orbiting a sunlike star, in this "equine" constellation

Pegasus

4000

A joy forever / 

Big "into Chapman's Homer" / 

Tuberculosis

Keats

4000

Depression affects 121 million people worldwide. At its most severe depression can lead to suicide and is responsible for ... deaths every year

850,000

4000

This rhyming Latin term is used to describe a judgment or decree that is not yet final

nisi

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