Mythology
After Medusa was beheaded, this winged horse sprang from her blood--weird & gross
Who is Pegasus?
It's 808 for all of Hawaii
What is an area code?
In 1920 Arthur Eddington correctly predicted that the stars were powered by this then-unknown process
What is nuclear fusion
Colm Tóibín's "Bad Blood" documented the people & politics of this island
What is Ireland?
The Latin for "slow" gives us this adjective, what you don't want to be deemed when you arrive at school
What is tardy?
Euterpe, muse of music, was very fond of playing what's called the double this
What is a double flute?
It begins with a murder in the Louvre
What is The Da Vinci Code?
This particle has a mass slightly greater than the proton but no electric charge
What is a neutron?
This 19th century author & satirist wrote the travel book "Roughing It" about spending time out West & away from the Civil War
Who is Mark Twain?
You're so out of touch with societal mores, you're this; now time for the same-named bourbon cocktail
What is old-fashioned?
Call him Bacchus or call him by this other Greek name, the guy knew how to party
Who is Dionysus?
In computing, 0s & 1s are key to it
What is binary code?
The hazardous ultra-high-energy rays known by this Greek letter are photons emitted by a decaying nucleus
What are gamma rays?
In "Double Vision", writer John Knowles recounts traveling to Jordan & stumbling upon David Lean directing this epic film
What is Lawrence of Arabia?
Founded to combat polio, the March of Dimes today tries to combat this type of birth
What is premature birth?
Holy moly! An herb called moly protected Odysseus from being turned into a swine by this witchy woman
Who is Circe?
Ancient "eye for an eye" text
What is Hammurabi’s code?
He was knighted after his 1911 discovery of the nucleus; that's Sir Ernest to you
Who was Rutherford?
This classic 1934 novel opens, "I am living at the Villa Borghese", Henry Miller's name for Paris' Villa Seurat
What is Tropic of Cancer?
This idiom applies literally if you promise to pay 10 bucks on Tuesday & show up with 9 on Wednesday
What is a day late & a dollar short?
Typhon, a monster with 100 heads, was the father of these 2 monsters: a 9-headed water snake & 3-headed hellhound
What are the hydra and Cerberus
Named for its first enforcer, it policed movie production back in the day
What is the Hays code?
Here's your quark menu! Which flavor would you like--up, down, top, bottom, charm or this?
What is strange?
In his travel journals, Lawrence Ferlinghetti wrote of taking this hyphenated railway, which played very loud Russian music
What is the Trans-Siberian Railway?
Unripe fruit can be called this, which may also refer to your brand of juvenile humor
What is immature?