FUN WITH THE PERIODIC TABLE
GREEK LETTER HOMOPHONES
QUOTES ABOUT PLACES
BEFORE & AFTER AT THE MOVIES
ONCE THERE WERE NO COMPUTERS
200
'If all the elements were onstage with us, only bromine & this other element would be liquid'
mercury
200
'One way to propel a boat'
row
200
'The first word of "Bleak House" is this city; the next paragraph begins, "Fog everywhere"'
London
200
'Han Solo meets up with Lando Calrissian while time-traveling with Marty McFly'
The Empire Strikes Back to the Future
200
'Before computer games, this "happy" term referred to a control rod used by pilots'
a joystick
400
'By atomic number, this noble gas, number 10, is the first whose symbol matches a state postal abbreviation'
neon
400
'Feline vocalization'
mew
400
'(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Mont St. Michel, France.) Mont St. Michel's most dramatic natural feature is the arrival of the tide; this French romantic novelist described it as "coming in as swiftly as a galloping horse"'
(Victor) Hugo
400
'James Bond fights the Soviets while trying to romance Ali MacGraw before she dies'
From Russia with Love Story
400
'"The Victorian Internet" is a book about pioneers of this communication device'
the telegraph
600
'Element 107, named for this man, has the symbol Bh'
Niels Bohr
600
'More advanced, or recently created'
new
600
'A Byron poem says, "I stood in" this city, "on the Bridge of Sighs; a palace and a prison on each hand"'
Venice
600
'The president's plane is hijacked by terrorists & taken to a mental institution run by Nurse Ratched'
Air Force One Flew Over the Cuckoo\'s Nest
600
'In the Klondike variant of this card game, spaces in the tableau can only be filled with kings'
solitaire
800
'In the center of the table are the "transition" these, including nickel & iron'
metals
800
'A trademark brand of format for VCR tape'
Beta
800
'In "The Third Man" Orson Welles said it "had 500 years of democracy & peace, & what did that produce? The cuckoo clock"'
Switzerland
800
'Gene Kelly croons & dances while taking his brother Dustin Hoffman on a road trip'
Singin\' in the Rain Man
800
'Before items like the HP Color LaserJet 2600N, this term referred to people like Gutenberg'
a printer
1000
'The temporary symbols given to elements 113-118 all begin with a double this vowel'
U
1000
'Lao-Tzu's ultimate principle of the universe'
Tao
1000
'It was of Oakland, California, her girlhood home, that she wrote, "There is no there there"'
Gertrude Stein
1000
'John Belushi & the boys set up their fraternity in the museum where crazy Vincent Price turns people into figurines'
Animal House of Wax
1000
'A nonexistant domain error on a failed e-mail is kind of the new version of this 1962 Elvis song'
"Return To Sender"
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