Awards & Honors
Canada's equivalent of the Grammy Awards, they're named after the chief Roman goddess
Juno
A horse not in the top 3 finishers is called this, just filling out the field
an also-ran
With its high onion domes, St. Basil's cathedral towers over this capital city
Moscow
Following the 2011 ouster of this longtime president, Egypt's armed forces suspended its constitution
Mubarak
Sulci are grooves on the brain surface; this German pathologist noted wide sulci in a 1906 autopsy of a dementia patient
Alzheimer
Recipients of the Draper Prize, an engineering award, include this Brit, inventor of the World Wide Web
Tim Berners-Lee
Cozad, Nebraska once billed itself as the world capital for this forage crop
alfalfa
Completed in 1791, this Berlin landmark was originally an entrance to the Prussian palace
the Brandenburg Gate
Parliament gained supremacy over the president in an 1877 crisis early in this ordinal French republic
the Third Republic
The main parts of a neuron are the cell body, an axon & these, branching out to receive input
the dendrites
In World War I, because of racial tensions within the Army, a black combat unit nicknamed the Harlem Hellfighters was assigned to fight with the French, and because of their valor, the regiment was awarded this cross of war, one of France's highest honors
The Croix de guerre
The Aymara language gives us the name of this beast of burden
alpaca
The restaurant atop this Toronto tower serves Saskatchewan mushrooms & Ontario wines
The CN Tower
This 1832-33 crisis ended when South Carolina backed down from its efforts to void federal law
Nullification
Look at me! This "in the back of the head" brain lobe is responsible for processing visual information
occipital
"Dwight's Pot" is a nickname for this cup awarded to the Men's International Tennis Federation championship team
the Davis Cup
From the Arabic for "follower", it's the brightest star in the constellation Taurus
Aldebaran
Over 200 feet tall, the Koutoubia one of these mosque towers can help you find your way in Marrakesh
a minaret
Last name of the man who dismissed prime minister Mohammad Mosaddegh in August 1953, with some US help
Pahlavi (the Shah)
This pea-sized gland secretes a hormone regulating sleep; science has not confirmed Descartes' belief that it's the seat of the soul
the pineal
The Nebula Awards honor this genre
science fiction (books)
The pharynx, esophagus, stomach, and intestines are all part of this 2-word conduit, also known as the digestive tract
the alimentary canal
The statue of Lafayette in Union Square and the grander landmark elsewhere in New York City were created by this Frenchman
Bartholdi
In November 2019 Jeanine Áñez Chávez declared herself Bolivia's president, replacing this man who had resigned under pressure
Evo Morales
From a Latin word for "edge", this primitive "system" of nerves helps run basic behavior like feeding, fighting & fleeing
the limbic system