SCIENCE CLASS
SOUNDS LIKE FOOD
I'M JUST A BILL, BILLY OR WILLIAM
3 CONSECUTIVE CONSONANTS
THE U.S. IN 1964
100
In natural form a mixture of 3 isotopes, this element is the most abundant in the Earth's crust & in the human body
oxygen
100
Types of these include http-only, session & zombie, but none of them go very well with a glass of cold milk
a cookie
100
He helped computerize his high school's scheduling system, went to Harvard in the '70s, dropped out & was a billionaire by 1987
Bill Gates
100
The sovereign's seat
a throne
100
A Jan. 11 report from Luther Terry in his capacity in this job said (finally), "Cigarette smoking is causally related to lung cancer"
the Surgeon General
200
Used as a common medical treatment in the 19th century, laudanum is a tincture of this narcotic dissolved in distilled spirits
opium
200
Related to Old Norse "hvina", it's a complaining cry or sound
a whine
200
In 1887 he began running the San Francisco Examiner, which his dad acquired 7 years before
Hearst
200
You're not outta your gourd! You're into this gourd that's big on Oct. 31
a pumpkin
200
On March 27 a 9.2 quake rocked this state's Valdez, forcing the town itself to be moved to the delta of Mineral Creek
Alaska
300
Sedimentary deposits near Lake Superior produce the largest U.S. annual yield of hematite, the main ore of this metal
iron
300
Not so great with peanut butter on a sandwich, Vaseline has been a brand of this since the 1870s
petroleum jelly
300
Billy Joel's time playing a lounge in L.A. led to this, Billy's first Top 40 hit; great tune, but "tonic & gin" still sounds weird
"Piano Man"
300
Money granted to a student to pursue studies
a scholarship
300
At the Academy Awards ceremony in 1964, he became the first Black Best Actor winner
Sidney Poitier
400
Alfred Nobel invented dynamite by mixing kieselguhr, a type of chalky earth, with this liquid explosive
nitroglycerin
400
While playing, Ginger Baker would hold one of these in each hand, but he'd get little nutrition from them
drumsticks
400
William Thomson is a fine name for a physicist, but after developing the absolute temp. scale, Lord this had a nice ring
(Lord) Kelvin
400
Past participle of seek
sought
400
The first mission of this post-Mercury NASA program launched on April 8, uncrewed; soon, 2 men would fly in each mission
Gemini
500
Around 1908, geneticist Thomas Morgan began using this insect to help establish the chromosome theory of heredity
a fruit fly
500
It sounds like you're making pasta when engaging in this activity that involves catching catfish with your bare hands
noodling
500
In May 2019, this mayor of New York threw his hat in the ring to run for president, but by September, the hat had been returned
de Blasio
500
Geometry term for triangles that can be exactly superimposed, one on the other
congruent
500
In a landmark case the Supreme Court ruled that this newspaper had not libeled Alabama city commissioner L.B. Sullivan
the New York Times