Acronyms
If you put money in an IRA, you're putting it in this
Individual Retirement Account
On this innermost planet, a solar day lasts twice as long as its year and is equal to about 176 earth days
Mercury
The only actor to perform in all the Star Wars movies is Anthony Daniels, who plays this character
C-3PO
In England a "long" one of these is equal to 2,240 pounds
Long Ton
"Hamlet" uses this verb meaning to talk nonsense; adding -ish to it makes a nonsense language
Gibber
The name of cookie maker Nabisco stands for this
National Biscuit Company
The brightest star in the night sky is this binary star in Canis Major
Sirius
This bounty hunter, seen as a child in Episode II, is actually a clone of his father, Jango
Boba Fett
A quadrant is a unit of circular measure equal to this many degrees
90
These homophones, 1 from Genesis and 1 not, both mean a confused assortment of sounds
Babel/babble
City whose name is derived from Texas, Arkansas and Louisiana
Texarkana
In 2019 Green Bank Observatory found the most massive of this superdense type of star (a teaspoon weighs more than all of humanity)
Neutron star
This spaceship was originally modeled after a hamburger with an olive next to it
Millenium Falcon
A gallon is equal to 3.785 of these liquid metric units
A liter
This rhyming phrase for meaningless ritual ends with the name of an elephant owned by P.T. Barnum
mumbo-jumbo
Al Capp's students wildly indignant about nearly everything
S.W.I.N.E.
Going 1,000 mph, it would take more than 2.8 million years to travel the 4.2-light-year distance to this nearest star system
Alpha Centauri
Boba Fett made his first appearance in this film
Star Wars Holiday Special
To convert from Celsius to Fahrenheit, multiply the Celsius reading by 1.8 then add this number
32
On Pentecost, the apostles received this ability AKA glossolalia that may baffle some onlookers
speaking in tongues
UNESCO is an acronym for this
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization
This comet with a hyphenated name was broken up by the gravity of Jupiter and fragments of it crashed into the planet in 1994
Shoemaker-Levy 9
In Star Wars, the language of Greedo the bounty hunter is this language of South America's Andean regions
Quechua
Like the shifting sands of time, there are 437.5 of these weight units to an ounce
grains
Change the first three letters in "jumbled" to get this word for a message that's so jumbled it's meaning is lost
garbled