AP BIOLOGY
AROUND THE WORLD
HOMOPHONES
BOTTOM OF THE NINTH
Roy G. Biv
SHOW CARS
100

This process describes a caterpillar becoming a butterfly.

metamorphosis

100

Oktoberfest

Munich Germany

100

Refuse and Torso

waste and waist

100

Holes 10 through 18

Back Nine

100

These two congruent and parallel bases connected by rectangles“ break up” white light.

prism

100

Hazzard County was never the same after Bo and Luke drove this around it for years.

1969 Dodge Charger 

200

This gas replaced “biting the bullet” for soldiers undergoing dreadful limb amputations.

ether

200

2028 Summer Olympics

Los Angeles, California

200

Duckling’s call and Clearance

cheep and cheap

200

Human gestation

9 months

200

This is the actual shape of a rainbow.

A circle-we only see half it in the form of an arc

200

This car and its driver were hired to escort a delivery of beer through "dry" regions of the nation without getting caught by law enforcement. 

Pontiac TransAm driven by "Bandit" (Burt Reynolds)

300

This is where Charles Darwin did most of his work to create a theory that challenged the long-held belief in creationism.

Galapagos Islands

300

Overwintering monarch butterflies

Mexico

300

Rule and Precipitation

reign and rain

300

The very LAST day you could have visited New York’s twin towers of the World Trade Center.

9/10 (Sept. 11, 2001 towers crashed and >3000 lives were lost)

300

"Somewhere over the Rainbow” was made famous by Judy Garland in this fictional place.

Oz

300

This car featured in a 1968 Disney film got its character name from a routine about a ski instructor with a broken nose that looked like the car's hood.

1963 Volkswagen Beetle (Herbie the Love Bug)

400

This human organ regulates the production of red blood cells within the bone marrow.

kidneys

400

Papal conclave

Sistine Chapel in Vatical City

400

Smokey and a Streaker

bear and bare

400

Romans would have signified a nine o’clock meeting by these two letters.

I and X

400

High in the mountains of this city, a rainbow was observed for nearly 9 hours (8 hrs 58 mins) topping the previous record of 6 hours set in 1994 in Sheffield, England.

Taipei, Taiwan

400

The 1963 Aston Martin was first seen being driven by this English spy in the movie Goldfinger.

James Bond

500

This common personal hygiene product was named for the scientist instrumental in forwarding the germ theory.

Listerine (John Lister)

500

“Running of the Bulls” (most famous one)

Pamplona Spain

500

Quisp and Dexter Morgan

cereal and serial

500

In Dante’s epic poem The Divine Comedy, this is described as having nine levels.

HELL

500

Because of its liquid methane rainstorms, it is unlikely that enough sunlight passes through the methane drops to create a rainbow, however nearly 1,000 tons of diamonds rain from the sky every year on this planet.

Saturn

500

This car was featured in a 2008 film with a very significant Hmong-American cast.

1972 Gran Torino