Card Player's Vocabulary
Biology
Consonant Craving
Shoe Names
20th Century Words
100
Around December it's what I do to certain halls
What is deck?
100
By definition bacteria called anaerobes don't need this to live
What is oxygen?
100
Fear of small places:
AUOOIA
What is claustrophobia?
100
They block drains
What is clogs?
100
Before this word was common, some folks used "radio with pictures"
What is television?
200
They come in law & three-piece varieties
What are suits?
200
In an earthworm, pairs of nephridia, similar to these human organs, filter & remove waste
What are the kidneys?
200
Located near the navel... does it strike a cord?
UIIA
What is umbilical?
200
Someone really lazy
What is a loafer?
200
This word for a labor addict dates to 1947
What is a workaholic?
300
In 1902 Teddy Roosevelt's was "square"
What is square?
300
Linked to some birth defects, aneuploidy is the condition of having an abnormal number of these
What are chromosomes?
300
Famous French Impressionist painter- Painted lots of scenery of the beautiful garden surrounding his home in France:
AUE OE
Who is Claude Monet?
300
Not just a prestigious European University
What are Oxford's?
300
Samuel Bert invented a machine that made this shaved ice treat at the Texas State Fair
What is a sno-cone?
400
It's how Steven Spielberg says, "Stop what you're doing"
What is cut?
400
There are 3 main types of these in the body--smooth, striated & cardiac
What are muscles?
400
Chinese needle non-torture:
AUUUE
What is acupuncture?
400
When an old sailing ship took on water bilge, these kept it afloat
What are pumps?
400
"Chewy" term coined in the '60s for pop music like The Archies' "Sugar, Sugar"
What is bubblegum?
500
The Danube is the second biggest one of these in Europe
What is river?
500
Blood has 4 main components: red blood cells that make up about 45% of the volume, white blood cells & platelets that account for less than 1%, & making up about 55% is this liquid part that transports cells throughout the body
What is plasma?
500
One who studies the source of outbreaks of infectious disease:
EIEIOOI
What is epidemiologist?
500
Sterile animal hybrids
What are mules?
500
A spot of light on a radar screen, it appeared in a 1945 issue of Electronic Engineering Magazine
What is a blip?