1960s America
A Chem/Physics/Bio Sampler
11-Letter Words
That's So Sir/Reel!
"Con's"
100
At the 1964 World's Fair, Henry Ford unveiled this pony car with a price near $2,300; Detroit ran wild as 400,000 sold in year one
the Mustang
100
Humans have 22 pairs of nonsex these & one pair of non-nonsex
Chromosomes
100
A less serious offense, such as shoplifting, often punished with less than one year in prison
Misdemeanor
100
Rushing around in "From Russia with Love" & "The Russia House"
Sir Sean Connery
100
This word meaning to acknowledge the truth, perhaps about an election loss, comes from the Latin for "surrender"
concede
200
Frank Weatherman, the last inmate to leave this island prison upon its 1963 closure, said it "never was no good"
Alcatraz
200
The standard model of particle physics accounts for 3 of the 4 fundamental forces, skipping this one, important in daily life
gravity
200
In 1949 Joseph Sobek created this soon-popular game played within 4 walls
racquetball
200
Gus in "Cats" & also giving a magnetic performance in "X-Men"
Ian McKellen
200
A coordinate clause is introduced by this part of speech
a conjunction
300
Let me stand next to your fire! 1967's Summer of Love reached a peak when Jimi Hendrix set his guitar ablaze at this pop festival
Monterey Pop Festival
300
It's the type of ionization chamber seen here, a measuring device that non-physicists never want to hear working hard nearby
a Geiger counter
300
Type of criminal seen here and often portrayed in heist movies
a safecracker
300
The maitre d' at L'Idiot in "L.A. Story" & also giving a thoughtful performance in "X-Men"
Patrick Stewart
300
This musical instrument has largely been replaced by the accordion
a concertina
400
23 days after Gagarin's flight in 1961, Alan Shepard lit the candle on this NASA project with a 15-minute suborbital journey
Mercury
400
It's the study of fishes, all 30,000 or so species of them
ichthyology
400
A homeless person may still have a place indoors to sleep; this is the term for someone sleeping on the streets
unsheltered
400
Ruling in "The Cider House Rules" & (What's it all about?) "Alfie"
Sir Michael Caine
400
The blowing of this is part of a luau
a conch
500
In 1962 James Meredith became the first African-American student at this southern university
the University of Mississippi
500
With hard work & strong acid, you can get the original metals from alloys, like this partner of zinc out of brass
copper
500
The original line of this separating 2 territories was the one dividing the New World between Spain & Portugal
demarcation
500
"Murder by Death" & "Star Wars", one year apart
Sir Alec Guinness
500
Here's a typical early 19th century landscape by this British painter
Constable