Mythology
Break the “Code”
Just a Little Nuclear Physics
Write Place
Wrong Time
200

After Medusa was beheaded, this winged horse sprang from her blood--weird & gross

Who is Pegasus?

200

It's 808 for all of Hawaii

What is an area code?

200

In 1920 Arthur Eddington correctly predicted that the stars were powered by this then-unknown process

What is nuclear fusion 

200

Colm Tóibín's "Bad Blood" documented the people & politics of this island

What is Ireland?

200

The Latin for "slow" gives us this adjective, what you don't want to be deemed when you arrive at school

What is tardy?

400

Euterpe, muse of music, was very fond of playing what's called the double this

What is a double flute?

400

It begins with a murder in the Louvre

What is The Da Vinci Code?

400

This particle has a mass slightly greater than the proton but no electric charge

What is a neutron?

400

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?

400

You're so out of touch with societal mores, you're this; now time for the same-named bourbon cocktail

What is old-fashioned?

600

Call him Bacchus or call him by this other Greek name, the guy knew how to party

Who is Dionysus?

600

In computing, 0s & 1s are key to it

What is binary code?

600

The hazardous ultra-high-energy rays known by this Greek letter are photons emitted by a decaying nucleus

What are gamma rays?

600

In "Double Vision", writer John Knowles recounts traveling to Jordan & stumbling upon David Lean directing this epic film

What is Lawrence of Arabia?

600

Founded to combat polio, the March of Dimes today tries to combat this type of birth

What is premature birth?

800

Holy moly! An herb called moly protected Odysseus from being turned into a swine by this witchy woman

Who is Circe?

800

Ancient "eye for an eye" text

What is Hammurabi’s code?

800

He was knighted after his 1911 discovery of the nucleus; that's Sir Ernest to you

Who was Rutherford?

800

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?

800

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?

1000

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 

1000

Named for its first enforcer, it policed movie production back in the day

What is the Hays code?

1000

Here's your quark menu! Which flavor would you like--up, down, top, bottom, charm or this?

What is strange?

1000

In his travel journals, Lawrence Ferlinghetti wrote of taking this hyphenated railway, which played very loud Russian music

What is the Trans-Siberian Railway?

1000

Unripe fruit can be called this, which may also refer to your brand of juvenile humor

What is immature?