They Named an Element After Me
I like to think they named element 94 after me, the god of the underworld, not some little dwarf planet!
Pluto
Lineup of billiards sticks
Cue Queue
This legendary US highway is affectionately called the "Main Street of America."
Route 66
This word for unwanted photographers is plural, at least in its source language of Italian. When there's only one, the word properly ends with "o."
Paparazzi
This is what the French mean when they say "bonbon."
Candy
They named element 102 after me, but I’m more well known by the awards in my name for arts, sciences, and peace.
Alfred Nobel
Use cursive correctly
Write Right
1960 John Sturges film adapted from a Kurosawa film six years earlier
Magnficent Seven
Brent Spiner's android character on "Star Trek: the Next Generation" has this name, which you might not know is a plural word. The singular ends in "-um."
Data
A heavy cotton or hemp cloth that is used by both artists and sailors is called this.
Canvas
I’m the college town whose researchers have discovered 16 different elements. That’s why they named element 97 after me!
Berkeley
A controversial pronunciation of a peanut-buttery web graphic
Jif GIF
Pan Am introduced this "Queen of the Skies" wide-body jet in 1970.
Robin Williams, and maybe Shaq (but definitely not Sinbad) could tell you this loan word for a magical being is close to homophonic to its plural in Arabic; the singular just ends at the -n sound.
Genie
When a couple is engaged in amorous embraces and kissing, they could be said to be doing this.
Canoodling
They named Element 112 after me on what would have been my 537th birthday, even though my most famous work was with larger objects like the sun.
Nicolaus Copernicus
What the losing team did in a “gentleman’s sweep”
Won one
1967 conflict between Israel and a coalition of Egyptian, Syrian, and Jordanian forces
Six Day War
This factor in decision-making ends in -ion when singular.
Criteria
If you're on a military base, you might use this word for the bar.
Canteen
They named element 96 after me and my husband. We earned it after discovering two other elements, including one named after my native Poland!
What is gnu knew?
Gnu Knew
This ill-fated Tudor collective included Catherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn.
6 Wives of Henry VIII
You need this mythical condition like you need holes in your hands. At least it isn't something to be frowned upon, like its singular.
Stigmata
This is another word for a regulation or dogma decreed by a church council.
Canon