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SCIENCE
RENOWNED RIFFS
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Founded by King Harald Hardrada around 1050, it's home to more than 1 million people

Oslo

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It's a cylindrical glass cup with an acrobatic name; back in the day, it had a pointed bottom & couldn't be set down without it rolling

a tumbler

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Aka "ring-tailed bandits", these animals are known to unscrew jars, untie knots & defeat locks

raccoon

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The surface of our star is peppered with these planet-sized blemishes that have a central dark area called an umbra

a sunspot

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This song featured a guest solo by guitar legend Eddie Van Halen

Beat It

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This type of work takes its name from a chapel in Rome where musical performances were held in the 16th century

Oratorio

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Rather than regular glasses, many hip bars use this type of canning jar named for a 19th century American tinsmith

a Mason jar

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Job held by Tom Brady & Sir Henry Morgan

a buccaneer
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In a Newtonian law, "F" is for attractive force & "G" is for this constant

gravity

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The lyrics to this 1987 heavy metal classic were said to have been inspired by the words of a homeless man to the band's frontman

Welcome To The Jungle

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In Spanish this palindromic word means "eye" or in slang, "watch out!"

Ojo

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This Toby Keith song is named for a beer pong perennial invented by Robert L. Hulseman

"Red Solo Cup"

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This synonym for clown comes from the Italian for "puff out the cheeks" 

DD

buffoon

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Gymnosperms like the pine tree reproduce via these organs also called strobili

DD

cones

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This song became the band's eighth number one on the US Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart, where it was number one for three weeks

Can't Stop

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Shopping for ingredients in the marinade for souvlaki? Don't forget this essential herb

Oregano

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In the late 12th century, Robert de Boron drew from the Gospel of Nicodemus to tell the tale of this holy vessel

the Grail

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A woman's name begins this verb that means to indulge or pamper excessively

to mollycoddle

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These clotting agents form in giant bone marrow cells called megakaryocytes

platelets

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The guitar sound in this 1985 song was modelled after Billy Gibbons, guitarist for ZZ Top's, trademark tone

Money For Nothing

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A word coined in the 1960s, it's the segment of music heard at the end of a piece

Outro

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This type of glass bears the name of a cocktail made with lemon juice, sugar & fizzy water

a collins glass

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In Matthew 22 Jesus is confronted by members of the Pharisees & by this sect

the Sadducees

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No. 12 on the periodic table, it's the third-most plentiful structural metal in the world after aluminum & iron

magnesium

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This song's lyrics were inspired by the band's feelings of being strangers during their 1970 Iceland tour

Immigrant Soul