BLOGS
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CHART TOPPERS
WORD ORIGINS
GEOGRAPHY
200
'The word blog evolved as a shortened form of this'
web log
200
'"Vive la" this, for which Augustin Cauchy introduced the delta symbol in the 19th century'
difference
200
'This Debby Boone hit was No. 1 on the Top 40 chart for 10 weeks, longer than any other song of the 1970s'
"You Light Up My Life"
200
'Whether it's a problem in the eye or a waterfall, it's from the Greek for "to dash down"'
cataract
200
'Buffalo & Cleveland are major ports on this Great Lake'
Erie
400
'Lawyer Lawrence Lessig started blogging after being thrown off the anti-trust case against this software giant'
Microsoft
400
'(Cheryl of the Clue Crew points to a blackboard.) By finding the value of the right side of the equation, we'll do this to the function'
integrate it
400
'His No. 1 R&B hits include "Papa Don't Take No Mess Part 1"'
James Brown
400
'From the Italian for "bench", it's a sumptuous feast given in someone's honor'
banquet
400
'This Atlantic "sea" is named for the seaweed that can be seen there'
the Sargasso Sea
600
'The Lycos blog posted a link to a job listing for an entertainment liaison in this newest Cabinet department'
Homeland Security
600
'On a graph, the derivative of a function is this, which all lines except vertical ones have'
a slope
600
'Her 1996 hit "Because You Loved Me" topped the adult contemporary charts for an amazing 19 weeks'
Celine Dion
600
'This large, triangular sail used on some racing yachts is said to derive its name from a yacht called the Sphinx'
a spinnaker
600
'One of the 2 South American countries trying to claim Graham Land, part of the British Antarctic territory'
Argentina (or Chile)
800
'blogforamerica.com was started to raise money for & awareness of his presidential campaign'
(Howard) Dean
800
'Often symbolized L, it's the value approached by a function as its variable approaches a given value'
a limit
800
'In 1995 she had 2 songs debut at the top of the charts; one was a duet with Boyz II Men'
Mariah Carey
800
'This Protestant group was named for its founders' strict & orderly approach to life & the Scriptures'
Methodists
800
'In 1951 Portugal allowed NATO to establish an airbase on the island of Terceira in this archipelago'
Azores
1000
'This notorious comedienne seen here blogs about such things as her potty mouth and the end of the world'
Margaret Cho
1000
'Related to the word "increase", it's a small change in a variable representing distance or time'
increment
1000
'He wrote Bread's only No. 1 hit, "Make It With You", as well as the title track to the 1977 film "The Goodbye Girl"'
David Gates
1000
'From the Latin word lampreda we get lamprey, as well as the name of this mollusk'
limpet
1000
'It's the capital & chief seaport of Trinidad & Tobago'
Port-of-Spain
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