LITERARY HEAVYWEIGHTS
LIFE SCIENCES
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The main sources of the legend of Atlantis are works called "Critias" & "Timaeus", both by this Greek writer.

Plato

400

This chemical is the messenger that carries the genetic code to the parts of the cell that make proteins.

Messenger RNA, or mRNA
400

This astronomer discovered the sun was the center of the solar system and that the moon's surface is uneven.

Galileo

400

"Friends": Chandler Bing

Matthew Perry

400

To take someone's weapons away.

Disarm
600

C.S. Lewis nominated this friend & fellow fantasy writer for a Nobel.

J. R. R. Tolkien
600

It's not usually thought of as an organ, but for an average human, it's the largest & can cover 20 square feet.

Skin

600

Called "Earth's twin"--but the twinning must be fraternal as we don't enjoy the same thick clouds of sulfuric acid.

Venus

600

The original "Star Trek": Mr. Spock

Leonard Nimroy

600

A special type of camera lens used to produce a spherical visual effect.

Fisheye

800

Some think the purported perfectly organized society of Atlantis was an inspiration for this 1516 work by Thomas More.

"Utopia"

800

Ticks & tapeworms are examples of these creatures that take nutrition with no benefit to their host.

Parasite

800

Has about a dozen moons at least 6 miles in diameter, including Ganymede.

Jupiter

800

"This is Us": Randall Pearson

Sterling K. Brown

800

In Britain this pastime is called noughts & crosses.

Tic-tac-toe

1000

In 1963 this then-president of France received nominations for literature, not peace.

Charles de Gaulle

1000

5 feet long in humans, this part comes in near the end of digestion & performs the vital task of absorbing water & vitamins.

Large intestine

1000

**Daily Double**

This gas giant is noted for a dark gap called the Cassini division.

Saturn

1000

"Fawlty Towers": Basil Fawlty

John Cleese

1000

This other name for tetanus refers to one of its most common symptoms.

Lockjaw

1200

These 2 pioneers in psychology were nominated for literature, one in 1936 & one in 1954.

Sigmund Freud + Carl Jung

1200

This rhyming phrase describes the nervous system's response to facing stress or danger.

Fight-or-flight

1200

May have used its gravity to capture an independent object that would become one of its moons--Triton.

Neptune

1200

"The Walking Dead": Rick Grimes

Andrew Lincoln
1200

The fruit of a rambler, which is sometimes used as a homeopathic treatment for osteoarthritis. [2 words]

Rose hip