Less-than-Stellar Scientific Poetry
Phat Albert had drive in 1905 / His theory, sweeping the nation / Mass & energy speaking, confidence peaking / Voila, this equation
What is E=mc2?
John Knox was the best-known leader of this country's Reformation, made official by a 1560 act of its parliament
What is Scotland?
Hunter S. Thompson's first book was about this motorcycle gang
Who are Hells Angels?
This Welshman played a serial killer on film & a man who built robots that killed people on "Westworld"
Who is Hopkins?
Giving kids that take-charge vibe, Gwen Stefani sings about being a real cheerleader, "I ain't no" this
What is Hollaback Girl?
ACTRESSES & THEIR ROLES:
She made her big screen debut as a teen named Laurie in a 1978 film & in 2022 she played that role for the 7th & last time
Who is Jamie Lee Curtis?
1789, & Klaproth is fine / This element, found using his cranium / 238 is a type of it, folks / For Martin discovered...
What is Uranium?
To defend against missiles, Roman legions linked shields in a formation called the testudo, Latin for this land animal
What is a Turtle (Tortoise)?
In 1982 this magazine company condensed the Bible
What is Reader's Digest?
This actor has been seen in a "Jeopardy!" audience at least twice--in "White Men Can't Jump" & watching Cliff on "Cheers"
Who is Woody Harrelson?
This song by fun. & Janelle Monae is all about seizing the moment of youth
What is We Are Young?
PHYSICS:
Modern formulations of Newton's 2 most famous equations both begin with this quantity that's measured in newtons
What is Force?
Ptolemy's wrong this Pole did say / Earth has some movement / Founded modern astronomy with some autonomy / & Kepler made an improvement
Who is Copernicus?
A 1493 papal decision split the New World between these 2 nations, or so they thought
What is Spain and Portugal?
D.J. Alan Freed received partial composer credit on this singer's "Maybellene"
Who is Chuck Berry?
He won an Emmy guest starring on "Friends" in 2000, the year he was "Unbreakable" as David Dunn
Who is Bruce Willis?
Vitamin C's "Graduation" rhymes, "As our lives change / Come whatever / We will still be" this alliterative phrase
What is Friends Forever?
THE ARTS:
The black, white & gray imagery in this 1937 Picasso mural includes a braying horse that has stumbled over a fallen warrior
What is Guernica?
We have no pic of Margaret Mead / Sporting a blue feather boa / But things were great in 1928 / With "Coming of Age in"...
What is Samoa?
Calling himself an admiral in a bit of self-promotion, in 1853 he sailed 4 warships into the harbor of Uraga & refused to leave
Who is Commodore Matthew Perry?
Founded in 1934, this corporation provides recorded music to subscribers like restaurants & supermarkets
What is Muzak?
A "Bombshell" as Gretchen Carlson, she hit the smaller screen as Grace Fraser in "The Undoing"
Who is Nicole Kidman?
Teachers, kids, everybody! As Sia sings, "I don't need dollar bills to have fun tonight", you reply, "I love" these
What are Cheap Thrills?
INTERNATIONAL SONGS:
Bush poet A.B. Paterson, who died in 1941, wrote the words to this internationally famous song
What is Waltzing Matilda?
A 1918 Nobel win/ It is tough to follow / A German physicist / Which kinda rhymes with lyricist? / He's a man of "constant" sorrow
Who is Max Planck?
Wahunsenacawh was another name of the man the Jamestown colonists called this, like the people he led
What is Powhatan?
In 1996 she "Singled Out" guys & gals in an MTV game show
Who is Jenny McCarthy?
Her real-life roles include Marcia Clark on "American Crime Story" & Tony Bradlee in "The Post"
Who is Sarah Paulson?
Baz Luhrmann told us Don't worry about the future; or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing
Bubblegum. The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind; the kind that blindside you at 4 PM on some idle Tuesday while warning us to make sure we did this no matter what
What is Wear Sunscreen?
19th CENTURY AMERICANS:
His book "An Overland Journey from New York to San Francisco in the Summer of 1859" shows he heeded his own famous advice
Who is Horace Greeley?