HAIKU D'ETAT
THINKERS
EXPERTISE OF AREAS
IN THE "RAW"
SANTA'S EIGHT TINY REINDEER
200
'Albert Canal, flow /
Twixt the Meuse & Scheldt Rivers /
Babble in two tongues'
Belgium
200
'Aristotle introduced the term hamartia, or a dramatic hero's "tragic" this'
flaw
200
'The formula for the surface area of this is the formula for the area of a circle, multiplied by 4'
a sphere
200
'A slow style of speaking, perhaps a Southern one'
a drawl
200
'A cleanser from Prestige Brands'
Comet
400
'Across the Andes /
Or the dry Atacama /
Our ribbon of coast'
Chile
400
'Thoreau wrote, "If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps... he hears" this musician'
a different drummer
400
'(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from a blackboard.) If the sides of these three squares are as indicated, this is the area of the unshaded region'
14
400
'Strong & muscular, like that paper towel dude'
brawny
400
'His Greek equivalent is Eros'
Cupid
600
'The rolling cane fields /
Lead the eye on to Haiti /
Or Washington Heights'
the Dominican Republic
600
'His 1830s work on democracy in America suggested giving it a try back home in France'
de Tocqueville
600
'If 2 sides of a cube total 50 square feet, this is the cube's total surface area'
150 square feet
600
'1,000-mile Burmese river'
the Irrawaddy
600
'Vulpine female'
Vixen
800
'The chickadee sings /
As he did for Frontenac /
I will name him Gord'
Canada
800
'In 1620's "Novum Organum" this Brit wrote that the way to truth is to work up from particulars to general principles'
Francis Bacon
800
'It's the area of a Major League Baseball infield (the part enclosed by the baselines)'
8,100 square feet
800
'Native American people who met Columbus in 1492'
the Arawak
800
'Arthur Murray by profession'
Dancer
1000
'To Maputo Bay /
Indian Ocean breezes /
Brought Pedro Cabral'
Mozambique
1000
'This man's incompleteness theorem says math is partly based on ideas that can't be proven within math'
(Kurt) Gödel
1000
'(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from a blackboard.) It's the area of the right triangle seen here'
525
1000
'Interim capital of Pakistan in the 1960s'
Rawalpindi
1000
'Lightning in Munich'
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