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SCIENCE & NATURE
FURNITURE
ANCIENT GREECE
GETTING IN SHAPE
IN THE DICTIONARY
100
The "horns" of the great horned owl are actually made of these
What is feathers
100
With bookshelves, drawers & a writing surface, an escritoire or a secretary is one of these
What is a desk
100
In 399 B.C. this philosopher was convicted by a jury vote of 280-221 of corrupting the youth
What is Socrates
100
Tucker & Lemoine are types of this 6-sided polygon
What is a hexagon
100
This plural word can refer to insects of the order Lepidoptera or to that queasy feeling of nervous excitement
What is butterflies
200
At about 4 1/2 feet in height & 180 pounds, this red-haired great ape is the largest tree-dwelling mammal
What is orangutan
200
This name was once used for a Divan introduced to Europe from Turkey; today it's a low footstool
What is an ottoman
200
Infantrymen carried a 3'-diameter one of these made of wood or stiff leather faced with bronze
What is shield
200
A kite quadrilateral shares this other name with a muscle--both derived from a Greek letter
What is deltoid
200
Triskaidekaphobia is the fear of this number
What is 13
300
This melted rock which eventually becomes lava may form up to 100 miles below the volcano's surface
What is magma
300
This is 152 cm × 203 cm; 60 in × 80 in
What is a queen sized bed
300
Goddess of the harvest; mother in law to Hades
Who is Demeter
300
This word for a really unequal triangle is from a Greek root meaning "unequal"
What is scalene
300
Ounce & this unit of measure both come from the Latin for "twelfth part"
What is the inch
400
Bright blue clouds of methane surround this planet
What is Neptune
400
Catalogues of this store are printed three times as many as the bible every year
What is IKEA
400
The thirty tyrants was a Sparta-imposed oligarchy that ruled Athens for a year after this war ended in 404 B.C.
What is Peloponnesian War
400
It's a diamond-shaped rhombus, or a medicated sore throat candy
What is a lozenge
400
This 12-letter adjective describes a person who can use both hands equally well
What is ambidextrous
500
This physicist known for his "uncertainty principle" was one of the founders of quantum mechanics
What is (Werner) Heisenberg
500
You would most likely find a canterbury in this room
What is the living room
500
The group will shun you if you don't know this punishment, banishment without losing property
What is ostracism
500
Also an optical device, it's a solid figure whose ends have the same shape & each of whose sides is a parallelogram
What is a prism
500
This music word for 3 or more pitches sounded simultaneously is from the French for "to agree"
What is chord