GENERAL SCIENCE
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SHAKESPEAREAN PHRASES
A WHITE CATEGORY
MAMMALS
200
'This alliterative event happened 14 billion years ago'
the Big Bang
200
'Peter Fonda was in "Ulee's Gold"; "Fool's Gold" stars this daughter of Goldie Hawn'
Kate Hudson
200
'In this play, Casca says Cicero's speech "was Greek to me"'
Julius Caesar
200
'The London district of Whitechapel is associated with this infamous killer'
Jack the Ripper
200
'It makes sense that these proud & powerful mammals live in groups called prides'
lions
400
'A hydrate contains this compound weakly bound in its crystals'
water
400
'"First Blood" was a Rambo movie; this 2007 film had Daniel Day-Lewis searching for oil'
There Will Be Blood
400
'"She speaks yet she says nothing", pines one character for his unattainable love in this tragedy'
Romeo & Juliet
400
'The mass of a typical one of these stars is about 70% that of the sun'
white dwarf
400
'Common in Dixie, a razorback is a wild one of these'
hog
600
'Of the 3 main classes of rock, this one is further divided into plutonic & volcanic types'
igneous
600
'Ian McKellen was Gandalf in "LOTR"; Ian McEwan wrote the novel on which this 2007 Keira Knightley film was based'
Atonement
600
'It was actually Christopher Sly, not Kate, who says, "I'll not budge an inch" in this comedy'
The Taming of the Shrew
600
'(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the Steinway & Sons factory in New York.) Steinway stopped using this material in keys decades ago, & in 1993 the company patented a piano key material made of a substitute for it'
ivory
600
'The name of this order of mammals comes from the Latin verb "rodere", meaning to gnaw'
rodent
800
'The IRAS telescope, which revealed 5 new comets, made its observations in this part of the light spectrum'
infra-red
800
'"North Country" starred Charlize Theron; "No Country for Old Men" featured this Spaniard as a relentless killer'
Javier Bardem
800
'A wife tries to console her husband in this tragedy by telling him, "What's done is done"'
Macbeth
800
'This black & white dairy cow originated in an area of Holland'
Holstein
800
'The giant species of this "armor-plated" animal has more teeth than any other land mammal'
armadillo
1000
'This branch of medicine is devoted to the care & diseases of the elderly'
geriatrics
1000
'Everyone knows the "Chronicles of Narnia"; this 2008 film "Chronicles" the Grace family stumbling onto a world of fairies'
The Spiderwick Chronicles
1000
'In this comedy, Thurio says to Valentine, "If you spend word for word with me, I shall make your wit bankrupt"'
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
1000
'Anne Catherick is all dressed up as the title character of this Wilkie Collins novel'
The Woman in White
1000
'The African & Sumatran species of this animal have 2 horns; the Indian & Javan species have one'
rhinoceros
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