PEOPLE IN AMERICAN HISTORY
THE LAWS OF PHYSICS
COMPUTER STUFF

NAME THE GAME
CROSSWORD CLUES "Q"
200

This future presidential assassin made his acting debut in an 1855 Baltimore staging of "Richard III"

John Wilkes Booth

200

P stands for pressure & V for this in the ideal gas law, PV=nRT

volume

200

A single processor sharing multiple jobs is doing this, like when Mom tries to drive & put on makeup

multitasking


200

The classic version incorporates real streets in Atlantic City

Monopoly

200

To satisfy one's thirst
(6)

quench

400

In 1908 he rolled out the first car affordable for most Americans, the Model T

(Henry) Ford

400

The lightweight plastic rocket flies far above the drop point, while the more massive launcher barely bounces--a textbook example of this man's second & third laws of motion

Newton

400

A class in school, or a record of where you've gone in a web browser


history

400

Use all 7 of your tiles on one turn & get a 50-point bonus

Scrabble

400

William Penn's religion
(6)

Quaker

600

In 1927 he made aviation history aboard a plane called the Spirit of St. Louis

Lindbergh

600

To double the stretch of a spring, you have to double the strength of the pull per "Hooke's Law of" this property

elasticity

600

Before a game's release, Joe Gamer may be asked to play a pre-version usually referred to by this Greek letter

beta

600

Water on the knee is one challenge

Operation

600

small,short-tailed game bird
(5)

quail

800

FBI headquarters is housed in a building named for this man who was director from 1924 to 1972

J. Edgar Hoover

800

The First Law of Thermodynamics is AKA the principle of conservation of this

energy

800

You may have worked with a newfangled cash register called a POS terminal, the POS standing for this

point of sale


800

Use letter tiles to build words in this a-peeling game with a fruit in its name

Bananagrams

800

A sticky situation or boggy ground
(8)

quagmire

1000

After his first wife Miriam died in 1832, this religious leader wed as many as 56 more times

Brigham Young

1000

Snell's Law, or the law of refraction, is a major law of this branch of physics

optics

1000

imgur.com has a button to make this four-letter cultural reference that often spreads online

a meme

1000

It takes some math skills & strategy to win in this ancient African family of games, often using flat marbles in modern versions in place of stones, beans, or seeds

mancala

1000

Wharf
(4)

a quay