OPERAS TEENS LOVE
MATH
WORD ORIGINS
BOOK LEARNIN'
NHL, NBA, NFL OR ALL 3
200
'Teens go ape over the opera in which this gigantic movie ape falls for Vermeer's "Girl with a Pearl Earring"'
King Kong
200
'(Cheryl of the Clue Crew shows the equation 5x/6 = 10/1 on the monitor.) To find the value of a variable in equivalent fractions, you perform this operation first'
cross-multiplication
200
'This highest natural singing voice for women is Italian for "what is above"'
soprano
200
'Her "Little Women" appeared in 1868; a mere 127 years later, her "A Long Fatal Love Chase" arrived'
(Louisa May) Alcott
200
'Highest average salary'
the NBA
400
'In a Menotti opera Madame Flora is a fake one of these psychics; Patricia Arquette plays a title one on TV'
a medium
400
'The minuend is the first number in this simple operation'
subtraction
400
'This wood-eating insect gets its name from the Latin for "wood-eating worm"'
a termite
400
'In addition to "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea", he wrote an 1887 story on the Civil War, "North Against South"'
(Jules) Verne
400
'Uses a center'
all 3
600
'You could say there's a lot at stake in "Giovanna d'Arco", Verdi's opera about this saint'
Saint Joan (of Arc)
600
'(Cheryl of the Clue Crew shows the mathematical equation (1+2) + 3 = 1 + (2+3) on a monitor.) The grouping of terms is irrelevant according to this property of addition as well as multiplucation'
associative
600
'This ground-meat sandwich gets its name from a German port city'
a hamburger
600
'"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others" in a 1945 book by this author'
(George) Orwell
600
'Has no teams based outside the continental U.S.'
the NFL
800
'The ghosts of Louis XVI & his court return to one of their favorite haunts in "The Ghosts of" this French palace'
Versailles
800
'No arguing with Euclid's fourth postulate, "All right angles are" this, meaning of equal measure in degrees'
congruent
800
'This word for a kind of land mass comes from a word meaning "to contain"'
continent
800
'In 1840 he hit a Bumppo in the road & penned "The Pathfinder"'
(James Fenimore) Cooper
800
'Plays its championship at a theoretically neutral site'
the NFL
1000
'A high school graduation party leads to romance in "The Tender Land" by this "Appalachian Spring" composer'
Aaron Copland
1000
'(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows another mathematical equation on the monitor.) It's the quantity x represents in the logarithmic equation
log10x = 2'
100
1000
'This term for a leading character of a literary work comes from the Greek for "first combatant"'
protagonist
1000
'In 1863 this Russian wrote "The Cossacks", a short novel based on his travels with the army'
Tolstoy
1000
'Has cancelled an entire season due to labor woes'
the NHL
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