SOME SERIOUS SCIENCE
VACATION SPOTS
2 WORDS, 3 LETTERS EACH
THAT BOOK TITLE IS MISLEADING
BRIT BITS
TV CHARACTERS
Final Jeopardy
200
Newton's third law of motion is often stated as "For every action, there is an equal and opposite" this
a reaction
200
At the Six Flags in Jackson, New Jersey, visitors go from zero to 128 mph in 3.5 seconds on Kingda Ka, the USA's tallest this
roller coaster
200
A scoundrel who wins his victims' trust & then swindles them
a con man
200
Where's the funny in "The Divine Comedy", an epic poem by this Italian that begins with a literal journey through hell
Dante
200
Making up the island of Great Britain are England, Scotland & this much smaller country
Wales
200
"You clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not in danger, Skyler. I am the danger"
Walter White
200
COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES
This Catholic university gets its name from the Latin for “new” & “house” & was in the news in Spring 2016
400
In the 17th century Robert Hooke coined the term "cell" for the biological structures he saw using this recently invented instrument
a microscope
400
Costa Rica is famous for this activity, whizzing along a steel cable high above the canopy of the rainforest
ziplining
400
Like Fifth & Madison Avenues in New York City, since 1966
one way
400
Somerset Maugham wrote about a guy in love with a waitress named Mildred, & not BDSM, in the misleadingly titled "Of Human" this
Bondage
400
Look out below! It's this this ancient monument begun around 5,000 years ago during the late Neolithic period
Stonehenge
400
"The reason you haven't felt it is because it doesn't exist. What you call love was invented by guys like me, to sell nylons"
Don Draper
400
This Catholic university gets its name from the Latin for “new” & “house” & was in the news in Spring 2016
Villanova
600
This explosive event that kicked off the universe happened some 13.8 billion years ago
the Big Bang
600
Escondido, Calif. has a park named for this animal-spotting adventure, but for a more authentic version, you might try Tanzania
a safari
600
Someone who cares a lot about their body & spends a lot of time at 24 Hour Fitness is this rodent
a gym rat
600
This "Story" by Michael Ende runs to just 400 pages in a hardback edition; the title made me think, you know, it was infinite
The Neverending Story
600
On a live webcam you'll frequently see people re-enacting a famous Beatles album cover as they cross this London street
Abbey Road
600
"I'm a doctor, not a coal miner";
"...an engineer";
"...an escalator";
"...a mechanic";
"...a bricklayer"
Dr. McCoy
800
The HGP, the Human this Project, completed its work mapping the human one in 2003
genome
800
Vacationers flock to this country's Mediterranean island of Ibiza for its famous party scene
Spain
800
It doesn't sound super-medical, but Queen Elizabeth II's death certificate lists the cause as this, at 96
old age
800
No, it's not about where Ken & Barbie live; the title of this trashy novel by Jacqueline Susann refers to uppers & downers, as in pills
The Valley of the Dolls
800
It's the "meaty" nickname for the Yeomen Warders seen here who guard the Tower of London
Beefeater
800
"You come at the king, you best not miss"
Omar (Little)
1000
Alexander Fleming became Sir Alexander Fleming after his 1928 discovery of this antibiotic "wonder drug"
penicillin
1000
Northwest of Tahiti in French Polynesia is this island paradise with a double-talk name
Bora Bora
1000
When the pope makes someone a cardinal, he's said to give them this item to wear
a red hat
1000
Though not about Wheaties, "Breakfast of Champions" by this American is still a very good read
Kurt Vonnegut
1000
The principal leader of the Church of England gets the title archbishop of this
Canterbury
1000
"I gotta get 2 children's life vests, abduct Jonathan Farrow... kill him, cut him to pieces, dump him in the ocean"
Dexter