NORSE MYTHOLOGY
AGRICULTURE
18th CENTURY AMERICANS
MATH TERMS
"P.B."
200
'The Einheriar were the dead warriors the Valkyries picked up & brought back to this hall where they were revived'
Valhalla
200
'In 1981 the U.S. government, with 560 million lbs. of this dairy food in storage, released 30 million lbs. to the needy'
cheese
200
'In 1775 he & a group of axmen cleared & marked the Wilderness Road for the Transylvania Company'
Daniel Boone
200
'5th, 50th & 500th are this type of number, as opposed to cardinal'
ordinal
200
'In New Orleans a hero sandwich is called this'
po boy
400
'Roskva, the farmer's daughter, was always under the hammer as a personal assistant to this god'
Thor
400
'Generally, a steer is a castrated bull used for food; this shorter word refers to one used as a draft animal'
ox
400
'In the 1770s, this pamphleteer wrote "African Slavery in America", an article condemning slavery'
Thomas Paine
400
'A theorem includes this series of steps, starting with a given & ending with a justified conclusion'
proof
400
'It's the state flower of Delaware (not Georgia)'
peach blossom
600
'A never-ending supply of this better-than-beer drink was made by Heidrum, oddly a goat, not a bee'
mead
600
'Spain, Italy & Greece are the leading producers of this liquid from the fruit of Olea europaea'
olive oil
600
'In "The Federalist" No. 51, this future president put forth an argument for the separation of powers'
James Madison
600
'(Cheryl of the Clue Crew standing in front of a chalkboard) From the Latin for "to turn upside down", the function g is described as this of the function f'
inverse
600
'You can use this utensil to apply a glaze to breads & sweets before or after baking'
pastry brush
800
'Odin learned the secrets of these alphabetic symbols while hanging for 9 days on Yggdrasil, the world tree'
runes
800
'The type of irrigation seen here, it was used in Israel to make the desert bloom'
drip irrigation
800
'This Pennsylvanian's son William served as royal governor of New Jersey & remained loyal to the crown'
Ben Franklin
800
'The term surd refers to irrational numbers like this number's square root, 1.7320508...'
3
800
'Anna Pavlova or Dame Margot Fonteyn, for example'
prima ballerina
1000
'Norse myth is big on trees; the first man & woman -- Ask & Embla -- were created out of these 2 species'
ash & elm
1000
'What do you do to wheat to get flour? The answer is the name of this grain'
millet
1000
'Mary Hays received this pseudonym for aiding her husband & other soldiers during the Battle of Monmouth'
Molly Pitcher
1000
'A function's domain is the set of possible values of x; this is the set of possible values of y'
range
1000
'This Latin term used for some legal services means "for the good"'
pro bono