The world's more than 400 nuclear power plants use this process of splitting an atom in 2 to create energy
fission
"The very existence of" this James Bond chief, "let alone his identity, was never admitted"
M
60 conspirators helped knock off Julius Caesar in 44 B.C., but as far as we know, only he got the "et tu" thrown at him
Brutus
You use paddles or mallets, not sticks, to score on the table used in this arcade classic
air hockey
Alaskan wood frogs can freeze for 7 months, in part by increasing their bodies' levels of this simple sugar
glucose
The diameter of the nucleus is a few femto-these or quadrillionths of that unit
meter
Niacin is part of this vitamin group
B
The going rate for selling out America in 1780? For him, 6,315 pounds, but it's not like his name was totally destroyed...oh wait
Benedict Arnold
Cut a rug or 2 playing this double-talk Konami game that sounds like a plea to overthrow the government
Dance Dance Revolution
Weighing up to 7 pounds, a West African frog with this Biblical name is the world's largest
Goliath
A gamma particle is a high-energy one of these light particles emitted during radioactive disintegration
photon
Rolling Stone's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time includes 2 by this L.A. punk quartet
X
FBI Soviet analyst Robert Hanssen began spying for this overseas intelligence agency in 1985
The KGB
Bally's 1975 Pinball Wizard machine featured Ann-Margret & this lead singer of The Who
Roger Daltrey
You best look, but don't touch, these frogs of Central & South America, named because their skin secretes paralyzing alkaloids used in primitive weapons
poison dart frog
This word once used by alchemists today means the changing of one element into another by a nuclear reaction
transmutation
Einstein used it to denote the speed of light
C
Last name of the couple who in 1953 were the first U.S. civilians to be executed for espionage
Rosenberg
You roll 9 balls & score 10 to 100 in this arcade favorite, around since 1909
Skee-ball
Frogs are in the class Amphibia & the order Anura, meaning lacking these appendages, unlike reptiles
a tail
The sun is a fusion reactor; creating one on Earth would require creating this very hot, ionized state of matter
plasma
In chess notation, this, not K, denotes a knight
N
In 480 B.C. the traitorous Ephialtes helped the Persians outflank the Greeks at this mountain pass
Thermopylae
This Atari game that shares its name with a Shakespeare play was known for its rotating dial used as a controller
Tempest
To fool predators some species of frogs use thanatosis, this defensive behavior
playing dead