GREAT LITERATURE BEFORE 2000
In "The Divine Comedy", this Roman poet serves as an informative guide through purgatory & hell
Virgil
The first recorded labor strike went down in this empire's New Kingdom around 1160 B.C.; the workers wanted their bread & beer
Egypt
On New Year's or any other day, it's the fineness of detail that can be distinguished in a photographic image
resolution
It's a demonstrably true mathematical statement; calculus has a "fundamental" one
Theorem
The theoretical tachyons are said to exist only at speeds faster than the speed of this
light
Goethe's "Faust" tracks a disillusioned scholar's despair at life leading to a dangerous wager with this devil
Mephistopheles
Planes called ohkas, or "cherry blossoms", were used by these suicidal units during the Battle of Leyte Gulf in 1944
kamikaze
Axiom I in Newton's "Opticks" is "Angles of" this & "refraction, lie in... the same plane with the angle of incidence"
reflection
Fire up the engine of your mind & name this solid figure with equal & parallel circles at either end
A cylinder
Term for the intrinsic angular momentum of a particle, or more simply, rapid rotation
spin
A seaman travels into the African interior in search of an ivory trader in this work exposing colonialist evils
Heart of Darkness
After making it over the Alps, this general lost an eye during a jaunt through the marshes of the Arno in 217 B.C.
Hannibal
Narinder Kapany coined this term for transmission of light through strands of glass
fiber optics
Multiply the numerator of one fraction by the denominator of another (& vice versa) to get their "cross" this
Product
To get an element's mass number, add its protons & these
neutrons
Giuseppe di Lampedusa's only novel was about an aging aristocrat with this title animal on his family crest
The Castle
A biography about this chief calls him "The Founder of the Zulu Nation"
Shaka
The field of physical optics studies not the particle nature but this nature of light
wave
See if you can pick off this term for the point at which a line or curve crosses an axis
The intercept
Some say particle physics goes back to the discovery of this particle in 1897
electron
A man makes numerous failed attempts to gain access to a the title edifice to improve his situation in this Franz Kafka novel
The leopard
In the 19th century a group of Irish radicals & a group of U.S. coal miners agitating for better conditions shared this feminine name
Molly Maguires
(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows two lens diagrams on a monitor.) The two main kinds of lens are diverging & this more familiar type that bends the rays of light inward so they meet at the focal point
converging or convex
In 19 - 5 = 14 19 is the minuend; 5 is this other "end"
The Subtrahend
Color is a property of these fundamental particles that come in strange & charm types
quarks