TV TEACHER APPRECIATION
TEACHER VOCABULARY
I'LL TAKE THAT ACTION
THINGS TO DO OUTDOORS
BEFORE & AFTER
SCIENCE QUIZ
400
On "Breaking Bad", a chilling medical diagnosis led to this chemistry teacher making significant changes in his life
Walter White
400
Also starting with "T", it can mean a private teacher or be a verb meaning to act as one
a tutor
400
Zach Braff's payout for an on-set bet: an outgoing message recorded by this fellow actor known as the "Voice of God"
Morgan Freeman
400
Toss around one of these, originally called a Pluto platter
a Frisbee
400
Seat for tickling the ivories while lifting a weight bar upward over your supine body
a piano bench press
400
Despite a popular slander, these fish, Carassius auratus, actually have excellent memories
goldfish
800
Will Schuester sang "Leaving On A Jet Plane" & a lot of other stuff on this show, like you probably do all the time in your classes
Glee
800
In the U.S. military D.I. is short for "drill" this; now give me 50, you worthless lumps!
instructor
800
Stephen Hawking waited 15 years--until he was sure--before conceding a bet about whether Cygnus X-1 is one of these (it is)
a black hole
800
Hit the water & paddle your own boat of this type with a palindromic name
a kayak
800
Spurs' home in the "Lone Star State" that played Armand the vampire on film
San Antonio Banderas
800
Atoms of this metallic element bond weakly with others of their kind, so it's a liquid as low as 72 degrees
mercury
1200
Mr. Garvey called roll looking for "D-nice" (Denise), "Balakay" (Blake), & "A.A. Ron" (Aaron) on the sketch show from this title duo
Key & Peele
1200
Mussolini was a demagogue; an educator is this, with the same final 6 letters
pedagogue
1200
A bet with the rival team's mayor is now a Super Bowl tradition for Mayor Quinton Lucas of this city; his fave wager? Barbecue
Kansas City
1200
Soar through the air & get your adrenaline going with this sport
paragliding
1200
Healthy grain with only its outermost layer removed so it can teach 4,000 undergraduates in Houston
brown Rice University
1200
The main asteroid belt is bounded by the orbits of these 2 planets
Mars & Jupiter
1600
Rooming with 3 guys, Jess lost her teaching gig but rebounded & became a principal on this FOX sitcom that ran from 2011 to 2018
New Girl
1600
Those spectacles & the tweed jacket make you look this adjective, meaning pertaining to a university teacher
professorial
1600
Ancient writers say Cleopatra won a bet with Mark Antony by dissolving this gem in vinegar, then drinking it; must be nice, Cleo!
a pearl
1600
Attend a battle reenactment like in La Porte, Texas, where they reenact this one that led to independence from Mexico
the Battle of San Jacinto
1600
The first book in Patrick Rothfuss' "The Kingkiller Chronicle" used as a facility to test the aerodynamics of planes
The Name of the Wind Tunnel
1600
It's the Greek-derived name for the process of identical cell duplication
mitosis
2000
Mr. Feeny, closing out this '90s show on ABC: "Believe in yourselves. Dream. Try. Do good... I love you all. Class dismissed"
Boy Meets World
2000
The same Latin word gives us a synonym for a building & this word for teaching that provides moral uplift
edify
2000
This German director "eats his shoe" is a 1980 documentary in which a bet is lost & as payment, a shoe is indeed eaten
Werner Herzog
2000
Plant some of these flowers of the violet family
pansies
2000
'70s sitcom about a Black family in Chicago in a font created by typographer Stanley Morison
Good Times New Roman
2000
Sometimes mistaken for diamond, topaz is not just beautiful but hard, making it a solid 8 on this scale
Mohs
