AVIATION
MATH
MUSEUMS
ALASKA
THE "LAST" FRONTIER
200
'During this war, U.S. helicopters such as the Sea Knight landed more than 750,000 tons of supplies a month'
the Vietnam War
200
'If you got a trapezoid for your birthday, you got a figure with this many sides & a crummy gift'
four
200
'The Rijksmuseum is an art museum in this city'
Amsterdam
200
'One of the 2 astronomical images found on Alaska's official license plate'
the Big Dipper (or the North Star)
200
'It took place in June 1876 at the Little Bighorn River'
Custer\'s Last Stand
400
'(Cheryl of the Clue Crew presents from Nellis Air Force Base in Las Vegas, Nevada.) To accelerate a plane, this force must be greater than the drag. Luckily, the F-16's engines provide 27,000 pounds of it'
thrust
400
'In our number system, it's 10;
in a triangle,
it's the lowest side'
the base
400
'The Museum of the American West in Los Angeles is part of the complex named for this singing cowboy'
Gene Autry
400
'An extreme snowboarding competition held at Valdez, Alaska, or a Fox show featuring Hank & Bobby'
King of the Hill
400
'Sarah Michelle Gellar could have used some of Buffy's moves in this 1997 slasher flick'
I Know What You Did Last Summer
600
'Despite the Spruce Goose's nickname, most of the wood used in its making is from this tree that has white & paper varieties'
birch
600
'1/15 + 1/45 = this'
4/45
600
'In 1902 the Egyptian Museum moved from this "pyramid" city to nearby Cairo'
Giza
600
'The U.S. used a 48-star flag for 47 years until Alaska gained statehood in this year'
1959
600
'One week after a full moon, when half the moon's disk is illuminated by the sun'
last quarter
800
'Toronto's airport is named for this Nobel Prize-winning prime minister'
Lester Pearson
800
'It's any system of geometry not based on the system in "Elements", a book from around 300 B.C.'
non-Euclidean
800
'Ceremonial robes of these onetime highest Venetian officials are displayed in Venice's Museo Correr'
the doges
800
'The only 2 "national" regions of this type in Alaska are Chugach & Tongass'
forests
800
'It's the famous description used as a slogan of Maxwell House coffee'
"good to the last drop"
1000
'In aviation, FBN is this--the literal meaning, not the "shady" or "transient" figurative one'
fly by night
1000
'From the Latin for "agreeing", it describes 2 figures that coincide when superimposed'
congruent
1000
'Last name of paleontologist Richard, who was director of the National Museums of Kenya from 1968 to 1989'
Leakey
1000
'The largest oil reserves in the U.S. were found in 1968 near this bay on the Arctic coast'
Prudhoe Bay
1000
'After Biagio da Cesena complained about this painting in the Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo added him to it'
The Last Judgement
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