Michael Jordan
Organic Chemistry
Connect Four
Homophones
Thanksgiving
1000

After college, MJ wanted a shoe deal with Adidas, but the company passed; fair to say he landed on his feet with this brand

Nike

1000

You can breathe easy knowing photosynthesis causes plants to release this gas as a waste product

Oxygen

1000

Kix, Frosted Flakes, Coco Puffs, Cheerios

Cereals

1000

A male child and the star at the center of our solar system

Son / sun

1000

What 4 things are turkey giblets primarily composed of?

Heart, liver, gizzard, neck

1100

As a freshman in 1982, MJ took down Patrick Ewing and the Hoyas with an NCAA title winning shot for the tar heels of this school

North Carolina

1100

This element’s ‘footprint’ is everywhere; by definition, every compound studied by organic chemists contains it

Carbon

1100

Brake rotor, airbag, transmission, fuel tank

Parts of a car

1100

A type of math involving combining two or more numbers to find their sum and a particular version of a published text

Addition / edition 

1100

Which two NFL teams always play on Thanksgiving?

Detroit Lions and Dallas Cowboys

1200

After hearing doubts about his future, this Warrior scored 62 points and said, “cue the Jordan meme, right? I take all that personally”

Steph Curry

1200

Triglycerides are the most common type of this organic compound; healthy eaters steer clear of the saturated ones

Fats

1200

Galileo, Copernicus, Kepler, Hubble

Astronomers 

1200

A group of binary digits or bits and to use the teeth to cut into 

Byte / bite

1200

Which Friends character said they hate Thanksgiving?

Chandler

1300

A defender unafraid to take what he believed was his, MJ led the NBA in this statistic 3 times, averaging about 3 per game

Steals

1300

In chemistry, it’s the unit of measure equal to 6.02 times 10^23 of anything – atoms, molecules…even mammals that burrow in your lawn

Mole

1300

Centriole, lysosome, golgi apparatus, cytoplasm

Parts of a cell

1300

An army officer of high rank and a softer, usually edible part of a nut

Colonel / kernel 

1300

What float has appeared in every Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade since its debut in 1968?

Snoopy

1400

It wasn’t quite as magical as the Bulls years, but MJ did average 20 points per game at age 39 in his last year with this alliterative team

Washington Wizards

1400

Chemically speaking, they’re molecules with at least one unpaired electron; true to their name they can be totally reactive

Radicals

1400

It, Night Surf, Strawberry Spring, The Blue Air Compressor

Books by Stephen King

1400

Police officers and a small group of trees 

Cops / copse 

1400

Cranberries are naturally extremely tart because they're high in which specific type of organic acid?

Citric acid