DUTCH ROYALTY
THE SUPREME COURT
PHYSICISTS
SPEECH
COMPOUND WORDS
200
'Born in 1943, Princess Margriet was named for the Marguerite flower, a symbol of resistance against this group'
the Nazis
200
'In a 2001 book David Brock said he lied in a 1993 book slamming her, Clarence Thomas' nemesis at confirmation'
Anita Hill
200
'In 1804 Joseph Gay-Lussac went up, up & away in one of these to research the atmosphere'
balloon
200
'The roof of the mouth; a cleft one may lead to difficulty in articulation'
palate
200
'You can be "as dead as" this, a word combining a portal & a fastener'
doornail
400
'When Princess Laurentien studied at UC Berkeley, she wrote a thesis on "Street Prostitution in" this nearby city'
San Francisco
400
'Eisenhower said his 2 biggest mistakes as president were nominating William Brennan & this chief justice'
Earl Warren
400
'New data seem to confirm the "negative gravity" that this 20th century genius proposed & then abandoned'
Albert Einstein
400
'The national association for this disorder says not to fill in sufferers' words or tell them, "just relax"'
stuttering
400
'Meaning "to peddle", it attaches to iron or war'
monger
600
'Seen here, Prince William-Alexander, the heir to the throne, is the eldest child of this queen'
Beatrix
600
'This current Supreme Court justice's first & middle names have a papal sound'
John Paul Stevens
600
'Georges Lemaitre's idea of the explosion of a primeval atom gave rise to this theory'
Big Bang Theory
600
'Type of "stop" heard in a Cockney pronounciation of "little"'
glottal stop
600
'Meal to end a period of non-eating'
breakfast
800
'In 1980 she celebrated her 71st birthday by abdicating the Dutch throne'
Queen Juliana
800
'In 1778 he was president of the Continental Congress; 11 years later, he became chief justice'
John Jay
800
'In 2000 a group of physicists finally found evidence of the Tau type of this subatomic particle'
neutrino
800
'One "intonation contour" is the rising pitch at the end of a sentence that's the standard signal for this'
a question
800
'As an afterthought, P.S. is short for this'
postscript
1000
'This mother of Queen Wilhelmina had the same first name as a Jane Austen heroine'
Emma
1000
'The biography "The Judge from Beacon Hill" covers his life & his 3 decades on the Supreme Court'
Oliver Wendell Holmes
1000
'In the 19th century this 3-named British scientist established the kinetic theory of gases -- smart!'
James Clerk Maxwell
1000
'Read my lips -- the consonants M & B are phonetically this type of sound'
labial
1000
'Words meaning "academy" & "court" merge to form this place where me & Julio hung out'
schoolyard
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