Physics
State Capitals
Word Play
Colorful Language
D_M
100

Radiation used to sterilize food, strengthen plastics & turn Doctor Banner into the Hulk

What are Gamma Rays

100

This state's capital is named after prospector Joe Juneau

What is Alaska

100

Word which follows union, black & flap & precedes hammer, frost & rabbit

What is Jack

100

I'm sick of all the bureaucratic nonsense; let's cut this stuff once used to bind legal documents

What is Red Tape

100

It followed "Pets" in a company that went public in 2000; unfortunately, it also preceded "crash"

What is Dotcom

200

Force that sends your clothes to the washing machine's perimeter

What is Centrifugal Force

200

"Pig's Eye" was 1st name of Minnesota capital until a church was built there, dedicated to him

What is St. Paul

200

"Silent" anagrams to this, which you hang on a tree on a silent night

What is Tinsel

200

A 1907 paper compared the warming influence of Earth's atmosphere to the effect of one of these structures

What is A Greenhouse

200

The sound of hiccups is caused by spasms of this dome-shaped muscle

What is Diaphragm

300

Half the atoms in a radioactive substance decay in the time period called this

What is Half-Life

300

State capital that was originally called "Michigan"

What is Lansing

300

Acrostic
that
one
might
see here

What are Atoms?

300

Spherical word meaning to vote against a candidate or to ostracize someone socially

What is Blackball

300

To the Aussies, a game that's been played honestly is "fair" this 6-letter slang word

What is Dinkum

400

What a physicist would call the base on which a teeter-totters or a see-saws

What is Fulcrum

400

Only state capital named for a foreign statesman, it's North Dakota's

What is Bismarck

400

Three rhyming prefixes, all meaning half

What are Semi-, Demi-, & Hemi-

400

FIFA rules say a soccer player who's shown one of these is getting cautioned, not ejected

What is a Yellow Card

400

It's a synonym for propriety

What is Decorum

500

In E equals MC2, the E is energy, the M, mass & the C is this squared

What is the Speed of Light

500

There were no Revolutionary War battles fought at this New Hampshire capital

What is Concord

500

A letter added to a kidnap victim's salvation produces this window above a door

What is Transom

500

The final draft of an authoritative government report, is one of these, for the stuff it's printed on & its color

What is a White Paper

500

It's a little crown worn as a sign of authority

What is Diadem

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