COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES
What started as the Harvard Annex in 1879 was chartered as this women's school in 1894
Radcliffe
This Temptations hit begins, "I've got sunshine on a cloudy day, when it's cold outside I've got the month of May"
"My Girl"
This adjective found before "law" & "arts" means "warlike"
martial
The 4 varieties of this explosive are straight, ammonia, straight gelatin & ammonia gelatin
dynamite
Around 700 B.C., long after the war told of by Homer, Greeks occupied this city's site & called it Ilion
Troy
Nike was founded by a track coach & a student, both from this university
The University of Oregon
In the 1966 song "That's Life", this "Chairman of the Board" explains what it all means
Frank Sinatra
Also the name of a mineral, as an adjective it means resembling a snake in form or movement
serpentine
On July 16, 1945 this secret project got big results near Alamogordo, New Mexico
The Manhattan Project
This ship-building civilization made of independent city-states began trading with Egypt around 3000 B.C.
Phoenicia
Of the 10 University of California campuses, this one in northern California is alphabetically first
Berkeley
This Iron Butterfly hit was first titled "In The Garden Of Eden"; intoxication & slurring of the words led to the change
"In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida"
From the Greek word for "hidden", it describes something mysterious in meaning
cryptic
Cosmologists believe that the universe started from a very small volume with this event
The Big Bang
After 1400 B.C. this city near Crete's northern coast reverted from mighty capital to just another town
Knossos
During the War of 1812, students saw the burning of the White House from their dormitories at this Jesuit university
Georgetown
Roger McGuinn & David Crosby formed this folk-rock band in Los Angeles in 1964
The Byrds
2 rhyming adjectives: one means envious, the other, enthusiastic & eager
jealous and zealous
The National Demolition Assoc. says this process of collapsing a building "is the most visible face" of the industry
implosion
During this Babylonian king's reign, he captured Jerusalem twice, the second time destroying the city's temple
Nebuchadnezzar
In 1817 Col Sylvanus Thayer began an influential 16 yrs. as superintendent at this institution in New York state
West Point
The top female solo act of the 1960s, she began the decade with "Sweet Nothin's" & "I'm Sorry"
Brenda Lee
Because it can be drawn or stretched out into a thin wire, copper is described by this adjective
ductile
In 1908 the Tunguska object smashed into a remote region of this country, flattening half a million acres
Russia
Hattusa, a vast fortress city, served as the capital of this empire that covered most of ancient Anatolia
the Hittite Empire