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RAGING HORMONES
SCOUTING BADGES
200
'Author who sent Alice down the rabbit hole into Wonderland'
Lewis Carroll
200
'For the last few years N. Korea has been suffering from one of the worst of these natural disasters in the 20th century'
Famine
200
'Mondale, Bush, Quayle...'
Al Gore
200
'Hypoglycemia can be caused by excess production of this hormone in the pancreas'
Insulin
200
'A Boy Scout wearing this badge knows when a bee sting is life-threatening'
First aid
400
'Title piece of furniture C.S. Lewis had the kids go through to reach Narnia'
Wardrobe
400
'A new program installed to improve this internet auction site shut it down June 10-11, 1999'
eBay
400
'Aries, Taurus, Gemini...'
Cancer
400
'Also called epinephrine, this hormone that's released in emergencies has been used to treat asthma'
Adrenaline
400
'A boy must describe 4 kinds of tents to earn the merit badge named for this activity'
Camping
600
'You should tumble to the fact she wrote "Rumble Fish" & "Tex"'
S.E. Hinton
600
'On July 17, 1998 3 of these, one of which was estimated at over 30 feet high, hit Papua New Guinea'
Tidal waves/tsunami
600
'The book of Mark,
the book of Luke,
the book of John...'
Acts
600
'Parathormone keeps up the level of this mineral in blood by stimulating its release from bone'
Calcium
600
'The Brownie patch seen here is called "Me and my" this'
Shadow
800
'He's the evil captain in Jules Verne's "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea"'
Captain Nemo
800
'In July 1999 Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines was fined $18 million for doing this at sea'
Dumping hazardous waste at sea
800
'Deux,
trois,
quatre...'
Cinq
800
'It's the organ that produces gastrin'
Stomach
800
'Girls with the badge seen here have thought of better methods to sell these'
Cookies
1000
'In a Walter Farley tale, Alec Ramsay is stranded on an island with this title animal'
"The Black Stallion"
1000
'A strain of this virus, named for a river in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, killed over 240 people in 1995'
Ebola virus
1000
'9 ladies dancing,
10 lords a-leaping,
11 pipers piping...'
12 drummers drumming
1000
'Some athletes have taken androstenedione to boost levels of this male hormone'
Testosterone
1000
'A boy must have the badge named for this vehicle before he earns the whitewater badge'
Canoe
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