j-archive-3626-J-2000-05-15

KUDZU CUISINE

200

'In Japan, a type of this curd normally made with soy beans is made with kudzu'

Tofu

400

'Like ginseng, kudzu finds its way into medicinal & herbal varieties of this beverage'

Tea

600

'Kudzu leaves can be dipped in a light batter & cooked this way until crispy like a potato chip'

Deep-fried

800

'This purplish part of the kudzu plant can be turned into a jelly'

Flower

1000

'A powder made from this part of the plant is used as a starchy thickener for soups'

Roots

EUROPEAN HISTORY

200

'Thousands of these Protestants were killed by pro-Catholic forces in the Massacre of Saint Bartholomew's Day'

Huguenots

400

'In 1709 Sweden was defeated by this Russian czar in the Battle of Poltava, losing its dominance in the Baltic area'

Peter the Great

600

'In 1996 Emil Constantinescu defeated Ion Iliescu in a runoff election for president of this country'

Romania

800

'In 1905 journalist Arthur Griffith founded this political party, urging the Irish to not pay taxes to the British'

Sinn Fein

1000

'In 1928 this finance minister grabbed power & began his 40-year rule as dictator of Portugal'

Antonio Salazar

AIRLINE TRAVEL

200

'The head of a union of these workers calls them the only mainly female transportation work force'

Flight attendants

400

'By federal regulation, you have to be told that federal law bars "tampering with, disabling, or destroying" this'

Smoke detector

600

'This airline term for "to get off an aircraft" sounds like Tattoo's line on "Fantasy Island"'

Deplane

800

'The "type II" version of the fluid for this winter process is good for about 30 minutes'

Deicing

1000

'This cable outfit's airport network is now seen at over 1,500 gate areas in the U.S.'

CNN (Cable News Network)

YOU-PHEMISMS

200

'2-letter word that means "you" in Julius Caesar's dying words'

Tu

400

'"You" is defined as the pronoun of this "person", singular or plural'

Second person

600

'A little-used plural of "thou", it comes before "of little faith"'

Ye

800

'This Brooklynese plural of "you" is a homophone of a word meaning "multiple female sheep"'

Youze

1000

'This Southern plural of "you" is a homophone of a word meaning "a two-masted sailing vessel"'

Y\'all

GONE FISSION

200

'The energy released during fission can be calculated using this famous calculation'

E=MC2 (squared)

400

'In 1938 2 Germans bombarded this element, No. 92, with neutrons, but didn't realize they'd induced a fission reaction'

Uranium

600

'In 1942 this Italian-born physicist & his team produced the first controlled self-sustaining fission reaction'

Enrico Fermi

800

'It was named for a district of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, first assigned because early work was done at Columbia'

The Manhattan Project

1000

'The director of the Los Alamos lab, he owned a cabin near Santa Fe called "Perro Caliente" ("Hot Dog")'

J. Robert Oppenheimer