PHYSICS
PRESIDENTS
STARTS WITH "P"
POETIC TERMS
NEPAL
200
'A shotgun's powerful recoil is an example of his third law of motion'
Isaac Newton
200
'General whose Presidential campaign song was written by Irving Berlin'
Dwight Eisenhower
200
'The word "pram" is short for this'
parambulator
200
'The sonnet originated in this country with such poets as Guitoni D'Arretzo'
Italy
200
'It consists of two red triangles outlined in blue with white symbols of the sun and the moon'
the flag of Nepal
400
'The term horsepower came about when James Watt compared work done by a horse to work done by this'
steam engine
400
'All elected Presidents who are members of this party died in office'
Whig
400
'Movie that featured the following music'
Picnic
400
'These funny five-line verses often end with the name of a place; or, a place in Ireland'
Limerick
400
'At Lumbini, you can visit the birthplace of this "Enlightened One"'
Buddha
600
'If it were not for the retarding influence of this, raindrops would attain bullet-like speeds'
the atmosphere
600
'This Iowan was the first President born west of the Mississippi'
Herbert Hoover
600
'This extinct early man is known from fossils found at Chukutien'
Peking Man
600
'A deliberate violation of the rules of rhyming or grammar, not a little piece of paper from the DMV'
poetic license
600
'This Sherpa who went to the top of the world with Edmund Hillary died in 1986 at the age of 72'
Tenzing Norgay
800
'Pulling the cloth off a table without disturbing the dishes is the principle of this'
inertia
800
'The last President to sport a moustache or beard while in office'
William Howard Taft
800
'As being of great price purchased with all she had, Hester Prynne named her child this'
Pearl
800
'16th century poet who perfected in "The Faerie Queene" the stanza named for him'
Edmund Spenser
800
'"Wooden temple", the meaning of this city's name, refers to the 400-year old one in its central square'
Katmandu
1000
'Term for the speed of a body in a specified direction'
velocity
1000
'The "54ยบ40' or Fight" fever over Oregon helped elect this president, the only one ever to be speaker of the U.S. House'
James K. Polk
1000
'The small cogwheel that engages a larger cogwheel'
pinion
1000
'It's an echoic term for words like hiss that imitate an actual sound'
onomatopeia
1000
'Told to jump from 600 feet, these tough Nepalese soldiers, not knowing they'd get chutes, said 300 feet was easier'
Gurkhas
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