It's All About "U"
Starts With An Animal
Medical History
Same First And Last Letter
Kansas Things
100
7-letter beach danger--at least keep it to first degree
Sunburn
100
No relation to the sea bird, it describes a person who is easily deceived or duped
Gullible
100
At one time a piece of cutting-edge technology, the atomizer sprayed carbolic acid to provide this type of surgical environment, pioneered by Joseph Lister
Antiseptic (or sterile)
100
When this is the word, shhhh!
Mum
100
This popular Post Malone song is also Kansas' state flower.
Sunflower
200
To open a flag
Unfurl
200
Canine term for a small dugout where a soldier might seek refuge from enemy gunfire
Foxhole
200
An earlier version of the Travenol used a Maytag washing machine as its tank--fitting, as it cleansed waste from a patient's blood, acting as an artificial one of these organs
Kidney
200
It's fact, not "fiction" that this is the inner part of the tooth
Pulp
200
State animal of Kansas?
American buffalo
300
A stuffed animal is also called this "luxurious" kind of toy
Unfurl
300
It's the 12-letter word for the official approval of an amendment, or of the Constitution itself
Ratification
300
It looks more like an old-fashioned sewing machine, but it's actually a 1920 model of this device that records the electrical activity of the heart
An EKG
300
A medical facility, such as the Cleveland or Mayo
Clinic
300
Born in Atchinson, this pioneering aviator's fate is still a mystery
Amelia Earhart
400
Dense, fluffy cloud variety associated with rising air currents
Cumulus
400
These classic men's shoes are go well with a suit.
Oxfords
400
Sometimes during surgery, the heart convulses, loses rhythm & stops pumping blood; Cleveland surgeon Claude Beck used cardiac massage & applied electrical current directly to the heart to reverse the phenomenon using this device; those techniques led him to develop CPR
A defibrillator
400
The act of maintaining a cemetery or a baseball diamond
Goundskeeping
400
On his quest for gold, which Spanish explorer first set foot in the area now known as Kansas?
Coronado.
500
A language closely related to Hindi but written in Arabic script
Urdu
500
It's a book or manual of basic Christian doctrine in the form of questions & answers
Catechism
500
19th-century doctors thought that the brain shrank & grew with use, leaving corresponding contours on the skull, which were read to determine a person's abilities and traits, using the 3-D bust as a reference guide in this pseudo-science
Phrenology
500
Growing up in a tough area gave me this 2-word awareness that helps me survive
Street Smarts
500
What is the region in the extreme southeast corner of Kansas that was once the center of zinc mining in the U.S.?
Ozark Plateau