To the Stars & Beyond
The distance between stars is so vast, it's measured in these "years"
What are light years?
Some called Lewis Waterman "The father of" this fancy kind of pen: how write they are!
What is the fountain pen?
This Pennsylvania city is found where the Schuylkill River meets the Delaware River
What is Philadelphia?
The name of this automobile instrument comes from the Greek for "measure" & "way"
What is an odometer?
This longtime Packer QB who truly never knew when to quit started 297 straight games
Who is Brett Favre?
If we could peer down on the Milky Way Galaxy from above, we'd see why it's classified as one of this shape
What is a spiral galaxy?
Born around 2,475 years ago, he's the father of medicine
Who is Hippocrates?
The Bisons are a triple-A minor league baseball team from this city in New York on Lake Erie
What is Buffalo?
This V-shaped angle measuring device has a pencil on one side & a sharp point on the other
What is a compass?
On March 23, 1952 the Blackhawks' Bill Mosienko performed this 3-goal feat in just 21 seconds
What is Hat Trick?
About every 2 years this planet comes within 35 million miles of Earth, but at 54,000 MPH it doesn't stay in the neighborhood long
What is Mars?
This "father of angling" was a well-known writer of biographies, his first being a short account of John Donne
Who is Izaak Walton?
In 1971 the NBA's San Diego Rockets moved to this city
What is Houston?
When making beer or wine, you might want to use a saccharometer to measure the concentration of this in a solution
What is sugar?
You know about the 100 points, but in 1968 he also had the NBA's only 20-20-20 game: 22 points, 25 rebounds & 21 assists
Who is Wilt Chamberlain?
It's the 6-letter term for the star also called Alpha Canis Majoris
What is Sirius?
This merchant known as the "father of the dime store" opened his first store in 1879 after borrowing $300
Who is (Frank W.) Woolworth?
Joplin in this state was not named for a musician but for a Methodist missionary
What is Missouri?
To measure curvature, a doctor places a scoliometer on this body part
What is the spine? (ACC: back)
To match his major league pitching wins, you'd have to win 25 games a year for 20 years...& you'd still be 11 short
Who is Cy Young?
A constellation & a galaxy are named for this mythical wife or Perseus
Who is Andromeda?
In 735 this "father of English history" died shortly after finishing a translation of the Gospel of St. John
Who is the Venerable Bede?
This city in Florida is the southernmost major city on the U.S. mainland
What is Miami?
This instrument's name is from Greek words meaning "heat measure"
What is a thermometer?
Before Rulon Gardner beat Aleksandr Karelin in this Olympic sport, Karelin hadn't given up a point in 10 years
What is Greco-Roman wrestling?