WOMEN IN SONG
VICE PRESIDENTS
STATELY MUSEUMS
EPONYMOUS SCIENCE
"RO"MANIA
200
'In "West Side Story", Tony's smitten because "I've just met a girl named" this'
Maria
200
'In 1959 this vice-president participated in an impromptu "kitchen debate" at a U.S. exhibit in Moscow'
Nixon
200
'The Flag House & Star-Spangled Banner Museum, the National Cryptologic Museum'
Maryland
200
'This Scottish engineer coined the term "horsepower", & a unit of power is named for him'
(James) Watt
200
'Trademarked Minoxidil product for the follically challenged'
Rogaine
400
'Harold Hill sings, "I love you madly, madly, madam librarian..." her'
Marian
400
'In 1958 he was elected Governor of New York; he was reelected 3 times'
Nelson Rockefeller
400
'The Amelia Earhart Birthplace Museum, the Oz Museum'
Kansas
400
'Leave the driving to this German scientist who lent his name to a unit of frequency equal to 1 cycle per second'
(Heinrich) Hertz
400
'This French cheese that's exposed to a mold is called the "king of cheeses"'
roquefort
600
'Her "last dance" was the subject of a Tom Petty hit'
Mary Jane
600
'He's the only vice-president who was born in Minnesota; nope...Humphrey was born in South Dakota'
(Walter) Mondale
600
'The Liberace Museum, the Atomic Testing Museum'
Nevada
600
'Nobel, Lise Meitner & this man are the 3 non-Nobel Prize-winning scientists who have chemical elements named for them'
Dmitri Mendeleev
600
'The name of this order of mammals comes from the Latin for "gnawing"'
rodent
800
'Elvis sadly sang that this was "the name of his latest flame"'
Marie
800
'In 1864, while serving as vice-president, he spent 2 months in the Maine Coast Guard as a cook'
Hannibal Hamlin
800
'The Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture, the Experience Music Project'
Washington
800
'An electric current measuring device developed by Andre Ampere was named this after an Italian anatomist'
galvanometer
800
'Engine type with cylinders spinning around a fixed shaft at high speed'
rotary
1000
'A 1961 Ricky Nelson hit went, "Hello" her, "Goodbye Heart"'
Mary Lou
1000
'In 1812 this future VP lost reelection as Mass. governor after supporting an inequitable redistricting bill; how appropriate!'
Elbridge Gerry
1000
'Housatonic Museum of Art, Mystic Seaport'
Connecticut
1000
'The unit of magnetic flux abbreviated Mx was named for this physicist'
James Clerk Maxwell
1000
'Jean-Francois Champollion deciphered it in the 19th century'
the Rosetta Stone
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