Show:
"MUM"s THE WORD
EURO COINS
CHEMISTRY
CHARACTERS IN PLAYS
HISTORIC NAMES
200
'In 1934 Goodpasture & Johnson isolated the virus that causes this disease of the parotid glands'
mumps
200
'This country's 2-Euro coin features pacifist Bertha von Suttner; its 1-Euro coin has good old Wolfgang'
Austria
200
'Mendeleyev didn't know about this set of gases, which includes helium & argon, so they weren't on his table'
noble/inert gases
200
'This Tennessee Williams cotton plantation patriarch is unaware that he is dying of cancer'
Big Daddy
200
'This liberator is often called the "George Washington of South America"'
Simon Bolivar
400
'Species of this ornamental flower include Feverfew & Pyrethrum, both of which are used in insecticides'
chrysanthemum
400
'This country has a very busy coin; Europa is being abducted by Zeus who is in the form of a bull'
Greece
400
'(Sofia of the Clue Crew demonstrates.) When I put lemon juice on litmus paper, the resulting color tells me where on this scale it belongs'
the pH scale
400
'In a 1960 musical, this Elvis-like rock star gets his draft notice from Uncle Sam -- bye, bye'
Conrad Birdie
400
'After he was banished from Iceland for murder, he discovered Greenland around 982'
Erik the Red
600
'This phrase for meaningless talk or nonsense is a corruption of an African spirit's name, Mama Dyumbo'
mumbo-jumbo
600
'Put the coins of Luxembourg & The Netherlands together & it looks like Grand Duke Henri is kissing this queen'
Queen Beatrix
600
'Most types of E. coli work safely in your intestines; some even help make this blood-clotting vitamin'
Vitamin K
600
'Seymour, a clerk at Mushnik's Skid Row Florists, names his carnivorous plant after this lover'
Audrey
600
'It's the name shared by an Irish revolutionary & the pilot of the command module during the first moon landing'
Michael Collins
800
'From the Old French for "to wear a mask", it's a masked or costumed merrymaker'
mummer
800
'A French coin features a tree (oooohhh) & this motto of the republic'
"Liberte, egalite, fraternite"
800
'Heat a soda can with 1 tsp. of water in it, then invert it in a pot of water & it'll collapse by atmospheric this'
pressure
800
'In this play Veta Simmons tries to get her brother Elwood P. Dowd committed to a sanitorium'
Harvey
800
'In 1839 Joseph Cinque led a famous slave revolt aboard this Spanish ship'
Amistad
1000
'In 1995 the city of Bombay officially changed its name to this, its name in the Marathi language'
Mumbai
1000
'This country whose name on its coins begins with an "E" has a king on them'
Spain (Espana)
1000
'Since the 18th C., brewers have used this device to measure the alcoholic, not water, content of their booze'
hydrometer
1000
'Thornton Wilder's "Our Town" focuses on the romance & marriage of Emily & him'
George Gibbs
1000
'Russian prince & military hero who was the subject of an Eisenstein movie, with music by Prokofiev'
Alexander Nevsky