BOTH MY X's
BASIC SCIENCE
LIVE IN TEXAS
EVERYDAY HEROES
A NATION OF VODKA BRANDS
200
'Apparently, diamonds are both forever & $75 when you land on this spot on a Monopoly board'
Luxury Tax
200
'This basic unit of heredity acts by directing the production of RNA'
a gene
200
'Population-wise, by 1980 it had become the fifth-largest city in the U.S.; no problem there'
Houston
200
'Denise Thornton founded Beacon of Hope to help restore N.O. after this 2005 event; see lakewoodbeacon.org if you want to help'
Hurricane Katrina
200
'Moskovskaya'
Russia
400
'This Fortune 500 company's headquarters are in Norwalk, Connecticut'
Xerox
400
'(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows some high-tech devices.) Both LCD TVs & mood rings use liquid crystals, however, the crystals in LCDs reflect color by using electricity & mood rings use this type of energy'
heat
400
'Check out the I.M. Pei-designed city hall at the south end of downtown in this city, cowboy; it's i-m-pressive'
Dallas
400
'Disadvantaged kids can learn to play music with this Maryland city's symphony thanks to Marin Alsop's $100,000 donation'
Baltimore
400
'Van Gogh'
the Netherlands
600
'This Fortune 500 company's headquarters are in Irving, Texas'
Exxon Mobil
600
'It's the 5-letter term for the transparent solid that disperses light into a spectrum'
a prism
600
'From 2001 to 2009 this town was home to "the Western White House"'
Crawford
600
'In 2003 firefighter Gary Carella & his team saved a man from a 170' fall over Horseshoe Falls, part of this landmark'
Niagara Falls
600
'Reyka'
Iceland
800
'2-word French term for a type of menu where the charge for a meal is set in stone'
prix fixe
800
'The name of this organ that stores fat may come from a word that means "fat"'
liver
800
'Spain officially founded this city known for its Paseo del Rio (River Walk) in 1718... remember?'
San Antonio
800
'2005 Natl. Teacher of the Year Jason Kamras did the math at a D.C. middle school named for this "March King"'
(John Philip) Sousa
800
'Skyy'
the United States
1000
'In Cartesian geometry, if you're flatlining, you're drawing this'
the x-axis
1000
'(Kelly of the Clue Crew rolls two ping-pong balls on the table.) The tack in a ping-pong ball shifts this 3-word directional term from the middle to the side, affecting its roll'
the center of gravity
1000
'You don't get much wester in Texas than this border city, incorporated in 1873 with 173 residents; now it totals 563,000'
El Paso
1000
'There are many heroes in our military; we picked Staff Sgt. Michael Keller, at Bagram AFB in this country in 2009... thanks'
Afghanistan
1000
'Grey Goose'
France
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