Center-tainment
2-Minute Drill & Top 10 are segments on this ESPN show.
What is Sportscenter?
Hold a toothpick near your fingertips--it won't break no matter how hard you try; but move it above your knuckles & it's easy thanks to this principle that increases mechanical advantage.
What is leverage?
This fabric used in coats usually comes from the Bactrian type.
What is camel's hair?
Atomic No. 82 it was used by Romans for water pipes though known in Augustus Caesar's time to cause poisoning.
What is lead?
An American hero on April 18 1775 he was accused of cowardice in 1779 but a court-martial cleared him.
Who is Paul Revere?
This No. 1 hit by the J. Geils Band is about what happens when lookin' through a girlie magazine.
What is Centerfold?
You can use a piece of string to pick up an ice cube if you first sprinkle the ice with this stuff sodium chloride.
A fabric made from this tall grass is all the rage in part due to its antibacterial properties.
What is bamboo?
Joseph Priestley found that a candle burned brighter & that a mouse thrived in this gas a new species of air.
What is oxygen?
On Sept. 15 1862 Stonewall Jackson captured this town made famous by John Brown 3 years earlier.
What is Harper's Ferry?
Take the subway to Atlantic & Flatbush Avenues to catch a music act or the NBA's Nets at this venue.
What is The Barclay Center?
The paper cup seems to laugh because the wet string is transmitting vibrations that form these waves inside the cup.
What are sound waves?
This lace named for a town in France was paired in song with a pretty face and a ponytail hanging down.
What is chantilly?
The coin called a Zincoln is 97.5% zinc & 2.5% this metal.
What is copper?
On June 11 2004 this ex-British P.M. delivered a videotaped eulogy for Ronald Reagan at Washington's National Cathedral.
Who is Margaret Thatcher?
A biography of Paul Lynde or his usual position on a classic Hollywood game show.
What is Center Square?
Rub a comb on your arm & you can use it to make the water from a faucet bend toward it thanks to this electricity.
What is static electricity?
This woven fabric used for suits sounds like a poetic contraction referencing the future.
What is twill?
Back in 1772 Swedish chemist Carl Scheele called this most plentiful gas in our atmosphere foul air.
What is nitrogen?
On Dec. 17 1819 this George Washington of South America became Gran Colombia's first president.
Who is Simón Bolívar?
King's Palace a vast chamber in Carlsbad Caverns was a location for this James Mason film based on a Jules Verne story.
What is Journey to the Center of the Earth?
I can knock the bottom checker out without knocking the stack over thanks to this property of matter that tends to keep things in place.
What is inertia?
Sails & beach umbrella are 2 items traditionally made of this hempen or flaxen cloth.
What is canvas?
Oganesson a synthetic element is part of this group of gases that includes krypton & helium.
What are noble gases?
Down the aisle they went in this year the same year a new U.S. president took office.
What is 1981?