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EARTH SCIENCE
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ASIA

"ACK"!
400

Fill up your tank with a Ferrari, made with dry vermouth & this almond-flavored liqueur

Amaretto

400

Gyres are circular ocean systems of these flows, such as the Canary one, part of the North Atlantic Gyre

Currents

400

This politician was assassinated in the Louisiana state Capitol building in Baton Rouge; his grave is in the gardens there

Huey Long

400

This desert with a Mongolian name takes up huge portions of Central Asia

Gobi

400

Future cancer researcher William Thilly had the idea for this cereal as a Kellogg's intern in 1965

Apple Jacks

800

Texas' Swift Single Malt Whiskey is made from barley imported from this whisky homeland

Scotland

800

The motion of tectonic plates sliding past each other is known as this, like clipping a sheep

Shearing

800

The tomb of Ulysses S. Grant, once New York City's most popular attraction, was partly inspired by the tomb of this other 19th century man who was both a great general and a head of state

Napoleon Bonaparte

800

From the Russian, the vast plain that covers much of Siberia is called not the stair but this

The Steppe

800

A needle's proverbial best hiding place

Haystack

1200

A drink called the Fast and Furious has rum, coconut rum & the blue type of this liqueur named for a Caribbean island

Curacao

1200

We assume you may know this layer of hot, solid material between earth's crust & core

Mantle

1200

"Hughes" was chiseled off this poet's headstone so often by her admirers that the surname was then cast in bronze

Sylvia Plath

1200

Touring the 500-acre film city & even getting to be an extra is a treat for fans of Mumbai's movie industry, best known as this

Bollywood

1200

This "body part" type of compliment is ambiguous & insincere

Backhanded

1600

Gimme one of these grapefruit & vodka cocktails named for a fast dog, & make it snappy!

Greyhound

1600

A moraine is the name for the material & debris deposited over time by one of these as it moves on

Glacier

1600

The tombs of Machiavelli & Michelangelo can be found in this city's Basilica of Santa Croce

Florence

1600

This strait gets its name from Dardanus, an ancient city on its Asian shore

Dardanelles

1600

If you're "taken" this way, also a nautical term, you're surprised

Aback

2000

Tennessee's Ole Smoky Distillery bottles this electric-sounding stuff, also a 2-word term for moonshine

White Lightin'

2000

These elongated crevices or cracks on the slope of a volcano release lava

Fissures

2000

This psychiatrist is buried in the Protestant church graveyard in Zürich, Switzerland

Carl (Jung)

2000

During the Khmer Rouge's rule from 1975 to 1979, most of this capital's population was forcibly evacuated

Phnom Penh

2000

Type of steering in which the first part engages with the second

Rack and Pinion