The 40-Year-Old German
Single Consonant Words
For the Birds
Film Schools
One "L" of a Drug
400

His work got a good review in the Times of London in 1919: "New Theory of the Universe--Newtonian Ideas Overthrown"

Albert Einstein

400

To line up

Queue

400

Birds are unique in having these, the obvious characteristic that distinguished them from all other modern animals

Feathers
400

Johns Hopkins doubled for Harvard in this 2010 film with Jesse Eisenberg as Mark Zuckerberg

The Social Network

400

Pfizer makes this popular anticholesterol drug that works by reducing low-density lipoproteins in the blood

Lipitor

800

After the 1994 election, she became Germany's Minister of Environment, Conservation & Reactor Safety, but a promotion awaited

Angela Merkel

800

French term for a woman's male escort

Beau

800

Birds do it, bees do it, it being this act that fertilizes flowers; hummingbirds & honeycreepers are noted for it

Pollination

800

That's Occidental College, not the planet Vulcan, in "Star Trek III: The Search for" him

Spock

800

The carbonate form of this is used to treat bipolar disorders

Lithium

1200

20-year-old Dirk Nowitzki began playing for this NBA team in 1998 & was still with them 20 years later

Dallas Mavericks

1200

A variety of color, or an old word for a shout, paired with "cry"

Hue

1200

Sailors have long been superstitious about killing this bird, as reflected in a 1798 poem

Albatross

1200

East Los Angeles College, not the University of Alabama, is where this Tom Hanks character shows his football prowess

Forrest Gump

1200

This topical anesthetic applied in adhesive patches has also been marketed as Burn-O-Jel

Lidocaine

1600

In 1725, 3 years after Book I of the "Well-Tempered Clavier", this 4-decades-old man composed his "Easter Oratorio"

Bach

1600

2 Freudian parts of the mind

Ego and Id

1600

A native Brazilian word is the source of the name of this tropical bird that has a large, brightly colored beak

Toucan

1600

A lecture room at New York's Columbia University was used for a scene in the 2nd installment of this Marvel hero's franchise in 2004

Spider-Man

1600

Sing out the name of this brand used to treat fibromyalgia & nerve pain

Lyrica

2000

Vroom! He showed off his 25-HP, 4-stroke, single vertical cylinder compression engine on the cusp of 40 in 1897

Rudolf Diesel

2000

How Frere Jacques would customarily say, "See ya!"

Adieu

2000

Appropriately, the sacred type of this bird was sacred to ancient Egyptians

Ibis

2000

Boston's Bunker Hill Community College shares screen time with M.I.T. in this 1997 Damon-Affleck production

Good Will Hunting

2000

In the name of a well-known hallucinogen, it comes before "acid diethylamide"

Lysergic

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