GEOLOGY
TRANSPORTATION
OPERA
AWARDS
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
200
'This precious stone is crystalline carbon'
Diamond
200
'From a French phrase for "mobile hospital", it's a vehicle for transporting the sick or injured'
Ambulance
200
'Robert Guilliaume appeared in a 1965 production of this Gershwin work at the Vienna Volksoper'
Porgy and Bess
200
'In 1977, Edwin Land and this Kodak camera developer entered the National Inventors Hall of Fame'
George Eastman
200
'While Illinois is the "Land of Lincoln", this state is his birthplace'
Kentucky
400
'This aluminum ore was discovered at Le Bau, France'
Bauxite
400
'The corous triumphalis was one of these vehicles that victorious Roman generals rode into the city'
Chariot
400
'Title shared by the Puccini and Leoncavallo operas about Mimi, a poor seamstress'
La bohème
400
'Named for John Chapman, this award is given to pioneers in agriculture'
Johnny Appleseed Award
400
'He was the only president to obtain one of these; it was for a hydraulic device to lift ships over shoals'
Patent
600
'You'll find stalactites and stalagmites in caverns made of various types of this sedimentary rock'
Limestone
600
'In 1994, British Airways found and repaired hairline cracks in the wings of these jets that crack the sound barrier'
Concorde
600
'This "Lohengrin" composer's first opera, "Die Fein", wasn't performed until 1888, five years after his death'
Richard Wagner
600
'In 1895, Louis Pasteur received this country's Leeuvenhoek Medal for microscope research'
The Netherlands/Holland
600
'In 1858 Lincoln ran against this man for the U.S. Senate, but lost by a vote of 54 to 46'
Stephen Douglas
800
'Since it doesn't transmit an eathquake's S-waves, scientists believe this must be partly liquid'
Earth\'s Core
800
'Add two letters to the end of sled and you get this synonym'
Sledge
800
'"Savitre", by this composer of "The Planets", is based on an episode in "The Mahabarata"'
Holst
800
'In 1974 this company was recognized by the Fragrance Foundation for its new "Charlie" perfume'
Revlon
800
'In 1832 during Lincoln's brief service in this Indian conflict, he was elected captain of his volunteer company'
Black Hawk War
1000
'The process of coalification runs from peat to this type of coal'
Anthracite
1000
'It's a streetcar or bus that runs on electricity supplied by an overhead wire'
Trolley
1000
'Hedwig Lachmann translated an Oscar Wilde play into German for this Richard Strauss opera'
Salome
1000
'In 1975 this physicist became the first citizen of the Soviet Union to win the Nobel Peace Prize'
Andrei Sakharov
1000
'It's the play Lincoln was attending the night he was assassinated'
Our American Cousin
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