Scientists as Parents
Musicals by Song Lyrics
On the Border
U.S. Museums
Four Consonants in a Row
400

Behave or I'll turn this car around right now! This many degrees--half a circle; don't think I won't

What is 180?

400

"Tale as old as time, song as old as rhyme"

What is Beauty & the Beast?

400

Below sea level and with high salinity, it's found between Jordan and Israel

What is the Dead Sea>

400

If you're brave enough, there's an Interactive Medieval Torture Museum not far from the Field Museum in this city

What is Chicago?

400

Third generation offspring; your kid's kids if you will

What are grandchildren?

800

If you sit that close to the TV & burn this eye part that receives images from the lens, don't come running to me

What is retina?

800

"It's time to try defying gravity, I think I’ll try defying gravity, and you can't pull me down"

What is Wicked?

800

This Egyptian port city that lends its name to an important conduit lies in Africa right on the edge of Asia

What is Suez?

800

You can bet Vidalia, Georgia has a museum devoted to this product & how it grows

What are onions?

800

Idiomatically, it's a catastrophe when this large receptacle comes before "fire"

What is a dumpster?

1200

When you have daughters of your own, with this chromosomal letter pair, you'll understand

What is XX?

1200

"They chained me and left me for dead, just for stealing a mouthful of bread"

What is Les Misérables?

1200

The Peace Arch on the border of Canada and the U.S. overlooks Blaine, Washington and Surrey in this province

What is British Columbia?

1200

A museum in Fairmount, Indiana honors two local legends--James Dean & this creator of Garfield the cat

Who is Jim Davis?

1200

A ceremony signaling new construction, or an adjective describing anything revolutionary

What is groundbreaking?

1600

Why is this & not oxygen the most abundant element in the Earth's atmosphere? Because, I said so!

What is nitrogen?

1600

"Little more speed, little more rope, little more wind, little more hope, gotta get this stupid kite to fly"

What is You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown?

1600

The thick marshland and jungle of the Darién Gap, which separates North and South America, is on the border between these two nations

What are Panama & Colombia?

1600

Trenton New Jersey's Old Barracks Museum has preserved the quarters built in 1758 for British soldiers in this war

What are the French & Indian Wars?

1600

A loop found on footwear, it's a symbol of success through one's own efforts

What is a bootstrap?

2000

Keep making that face & it'll freeze that way... absolute zero, mister! On this scale named for a British scientist

Who is Kelvin?

2000

"The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain"

What is My Fair Lady?

2000

With about 2,500 staff members, CERN's particle physics research lab straddles parts of these two nations

What are Switzerland and France?

2000

In 2025 the Musical Instrument Museum in Phoenix featured an exhibition on this greatest violin maker "and the golden age of violins & guitars"

Who is Stradivari?

2000

Hard coal that burns with little flame

What is anthracite?