Oppenheimer
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100

Kitty Oppenheimer's marriage to Robert was tempestuous, and in the 1950s, controversy on her onetime involvement with this political party helped bring an end to her husbands career in governement.

What is the communist party?

100

This god of love hid Psyche and visited in secret until she found out who he was

Who is Cupid?

100

Diabetes was a death sentence until Frederick Banting discovered how to extract and use this hormone to treat the disease.

What is insulin? 

100

Boylston Street and Brookline Avenue will take you to parking for their home games

Who are the Red Sox?

100

A small flowing body of water contains this, 500 sheets of paper

What is a ream?

200

"I feel I have blood on my hands," said a troubled Oppenheimer, in a tense October 1945 meeting with this man who replied the blood was on his own instead. 

Who is Truman?

200

The theme song to the James Bond film Goldfinger mentions this king of Phyrgia

Who is Midas?

200

To provide immunity from smallpox, in 1796 British physician Edward Jenner used cowpox to make the first of these. Which is why the word comes from the Latin for cow.

What is vaccine?

200

This US pro soccer teams sounds like an energy drink

Who are the Red Bulls?

200

A number above a trillion is pierced by this, a product you can get from DeWalt

What is a drill?

300

Oppenheimer wasn't sure why he chose this name for a nuclear testing site, but he did recall thinking of John Donne's poems of death and resurrection, including the sonnet that begins "Batter my heart, three-person'd God"

What is the Trinity test site?

300

She used her magic to help Jason, but after 10 years of marriage, he wed another; she killed her own children and the second wife

Who is Medea?

300

In 1996, a team at Roslin Institute in Scotland used a technique knows as somatic cell nuclear transfer to produce the first clone of an adult mammal, a thin Dorset sheep named this.

Who is Dolly?

300

This baseball team whose name includes a shade of red is also known as the Rebirds

Who are the Cardinals? 

300
Inside a domesticated fowl is this word of disgust; it

is paired with "the" in Gen Z slang for dating turnoff

What is ick?

400

Arguing that the far-flung Manhattan Project needed a central facility, Oppenheimer helped choose an isolated New Mexico location for this top secret site, described as an ivory tower frontier boomtown. 

What is Los Alamos? 

400

She was chained to a rock, left to be devoured by a sea monster; Perseus swooped in and saved her

Who is Andromeda? 

400

This property of elements, like uranium and thorium, was discovered in part by Marie Curie who actually coined the word for it

What is radioactivity? 

400

This Midwest NHL team that plays its home games at the United Center won the Stanley Cup in 2013 and 2015

What are the Blackhawks? 

400

A word for an underground cemetery hides this Mexican food offering

What is taco?

500

In the film Oppenheimer, Matt Damon played this hard-driving U.S. Army general described as the Manhattan Project's indispensable man who oversaw the project from its inception through the successful testing and eventual wartime use of the atomic bomb. 

Who is General Leslie Groves?

500

Among Greek heroes, No. 1 is Achilles and No. 2 is this son of Telamon who resuces Achilles' body from the Trojans.

Who is Ajax?

500
In 2020, for the first time ever, the Nobel prize in chemistry was won by two women, Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpenteir for their work on the revolutionary gene editing tool known by this acronym. 

What is CRISPR? (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats. )

500

One in the NBA and one in the NHL, these 2 pro sports teams are "Golden"

What are the Golden State Warriors and the Golden Knights?

500

A word for booze has this 4-letter silver salmon inside of it

What is coho?