ELEMENT-ARY SCHOOL
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19th CENTURY AMERICA
GRAB BAG
100

Iodine gas is this color associated with royalty & with a dinosaur who loves you

Purple

100

This word comes before duchy, canyon & slam

Grand

100

In a rhyming phrase, it means to move with the prevailing trend

With the flow

100

This 1803 territorial acquisition from France doubled the area of the United States

Louisiana Purchase

100

Completes the proverb "Better safe than..."

Sorry

200

When you see starlight, star bright, know it's from the star burning this gas, whose symbol is H

Hydrogen 

200

Of a person who bowls, a small barrel or a noodle dish, what a kegler does

A person who bowls

200

Make more effort than required, like by walking 1,760 more yards

The extra mile

200

On July 24, 1847 this Mormon leader & his party of 143 reached the Great Salt Lake Valley

Brigham Young

200

By definition, something 3-dimensional has width, height, & this

Depth

300

The air that we breathe is mostly not oxygen but this gas, N

Nitrogen 

300

It sounds like an illness, but it's the pipe through which smoke passes in a chimney

Floo 

300

To expire like a bankrupt business or a dead fish

Belly up

300

On October 22, 1819 the first boat travelled on this canal, from Rome to Utica, New York

Erie Canal

300

This company's name is short of Integrated Electronics

Intel

400

Indium is an element in the family of this popular wrap metal

Aluminum 

400

It can mean disgusting, or 12 dozen

A gross

400

A synonym for "get lost"; you might tell Ben Franklin to do it

Fly a kite

400

At noon on April 22, 1889 settlers rushed to claim land in this new territory: many entered "sooner" than noon

Oklahoma 

400

In Thailand 95 percent of the people are of this religion

Buddhism 


500

You're very busy if you have too many bars of this element, Fe, in the fire

Irons

500

Containing all 5 vowels, this 8-letter word means a feeling of well-being or elation

Euphoria

500

In a wrestling metaphor, to fight fiercely

To the mat

500

The 1890 Battle of Wounded Knee in this state was the last major conflict between Indians & U.S. troops

South Dakota

500

In mythology he's Neptune's Greek equivalent

Jupiter