Fun With Elements
The name of this element begins with a synonym for "automobile"
carbon
Before Frasier got his own show, he was one of the patrons at the Boston bar on this show
Cheers
Named for a Roman restaurateur, this simple dish is known for its sauce of butter, Parmesan & heavy cream
Fettucine Alfredo
This "Walden" prose master wrote less well-remembered poems like "Within the Circuit of This Plodding Life"
Thoreau
A coal mine explosion in this state's town of Monongah claimed 362 lives in 1907
West Virginia
This element, No. 16 on the periodic table, has a pelt at the end of its name
Sulfur
Rue McClanahan played Aunt Fran & Vicki Lawrence was the title character on this '80s sitcom
MAmas Family
It's the protein in egg whites
Albumen
Lord Byron wrote wistfully, "I am ashes where once I was" this
Fire
The last major eruption of Mount St. Helens was in this presidential election year
1980
You'll find a short term for a graduate of a particular college in this abundant metallic element
Aluminum
John Goodman played the husband of the title character on this sitcom that debuted in 1988
Roseanne
This Italian term is used to describe pasta that is not overdone
Al dente
First name of the 16th & 17th century poet whose "Hymn to God the Father" uses the word "done" 7 times in 18 lines
John
Spectacular May 1937 newsreel footage showed this New Jersey air disaster
Crash of the Hindenburg
Atomic number 35, this element begins with the first name of Ichabod Crane's rival
Bromine
Bruce Willis & Cybill Shepherd were an unlikely pair of detectives on this show
Moonlighting
Reptilian nickname for an avocado
An alligator pear
This Lake Poet married Mary Hutchinson, of whom he wrote, "She was a Phantom of delight"
Wordsworth
Among the deadliest of its kind on record, one of these named Mitch engulfed Central America in Oct. 1998
A hurricane
This element that's "ph" balanced (it has 2 of them) ends with the name of an Egyptian falcon god
Phosphorus
This '80s detective show used the same production facilities in Hawaii that were used for the old "Hawaii Five-O"
Magnum PI
Made from pimiento berry, it's so-named because it tastes like nutmeg, cinnamon & cloves
Allspice
Editor Harriet Monroe said this man "has an eccentric system of typography which... intrudes itself irritatingly"
EE Cummings
Called the worst industrial accident in history, a poisonous gas leak in this Indian city in December 1984 killed thousands
Bhopal