POP CULTURE
WHEN THEY WERE IN COLLEGE
COSMOLOGY
AMERICAN LIT
FOOD IN FRENCH
200
'Before making it big in the movies, Mike Myers & Eddie Murphy were regulars on this TV series'
Saturday Night Live
200
'This director spent "Happy Days" studying cinema at USC long before he won an Oscar in 2002 -- what "A Beautiful Mind"'
Ron Howard
200
'Big Bang Theory says these groups that may include a trillion stars mostly formed not long after the bang'
galaxies
200
'This classic by Harriet Beecher Stowe sold 300,000 copies in the first year that it was published in book form'
"Uncle Tom\'s Cabin"
200
'Chou can be an endearment or this cole slaw ingredient'
cabbage
400
'It's the product associated with the slogans "It Floats" & "99 44/100% Pure"'
Ivory soap
400
'(Hi, I'm Bill Clinton) I met my wife Hillary when we were both law students at this university'
Yale
400
'This element makes up about 1 percent of the mass of Earth but about 75 percent of the mass of the universe'
hydrogen
400
'Upton Sinclair said of this book, "I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach"'
"The Jungle"
400
'(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Paris) Oddly, in French, french fries aren't called french fries, but these'
pommes frites
600
'(Sofia of the Clue Crew reports, competing at a game with Jimmy) Popular in the 1970s, this game has made a big comeback'
foosball
600
'In 1974, when he was a university student, this future world leader was the judo champion of Leningrad'
Vladimir Putin
600
'In the 1920s Alexander Friedmann's math modified this 1915 theory to allow the universe to expand & contract'
Einstein\'s Theory of Relativity
600
'The name of this 1837 collection of Hawthorne "Tales" probably comes from a line in Shakespeare's "King John"'
"Twice-Told Tales"
600
'French for grape is raisin; French for plum is this'
prune
800
'Despite its name, you don't have to be a lawyer to enjoy this men's mag. full of wit, style & "Dubious Achievements"'
Esquire
800
'To prepare for his 1969 investiture, he spent a term at the University College of Wales learning to speak Welsh'
Prince Charles
800
'Lawrence Berkeley National Lab is studying the universe through the brightness of these "super" explosions'
supernovas
800
'"A Backward Glance" is the autobiography of this author of "Ethan Frome"'
Edith Wharton
800
'A ham in the theater is un cabotin; ham on a sandwich is this'
jambon
1000
'This sneakers & sportswear brand was named for its creator, Adolf Dassler'
Adidas
1000
'This "Cat's Cradle" author said of his time at Cornell, "I was enrolled exclusively in courses I had no talent for"'
Kurt Vonnegut
1000
'This particle whose name is Italian for "little neutral one" is a possible component of dark matter'
neutrino
1000
'This Quaker poet wrote, "For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: 'It might have been!'"'
John Greenleaf Whittier
1000
'Beurre is butter; this is butter de cacahouetes'
peanut butter
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