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TOP 40 MATH
THE VEEP
200
'Samuel Schwabe got deeply into sunspots after trying to find a planet crossing the sun closer than this one'
Mercury
200
'This Dutch painter, a member of the Delft Guild, had a total output of only about 40 pictures (one with a pearl)'
(Jan) Vermeer
200
'Chicken-chasing & gathering ingredients for a communal gumbo are Cajun festivities for this pre-Lenten day'
Mardi Gras
200
'Tennessee Ernie Ford's "Tons" times Eddie Money's "Tickets To Paradise"'
32
200
'His father was born Theodore Anagnostopoulos'
Spiro Agnew
400
'A seal's these, also called vibrissae, sense vibrations in the water that can represent food'
their whiskers
400
'This Englishman described his work as "modern moral subjects... similar to representations on the stage"'
(William) Hogarth
400
'This Cajun favorite, deep-fried & dusted with sugar, is the state doughnut of Louisiana'
a beignet
400
'Rolling Stones' "Nervous Breakdown" number plus Beatles' "Days A Week"'
27
400
'Vice President under Thomas Jefferson, he was the first Vice President who did not later become President'
Aaron Burr
600
'A male moth's antennae are attuned to these released by female moths'
pheromones
600
'Gericault's most famous work, "The Raft of" this ship, was based on a historic event & caused a political scandal'
the Medusa
600
'If we covered everything Cajun from A to Z, we'd finally come to this accordion-based musical style heard here'
zydeco
600
'The Crests' "Candles" plus Boyz II Men's "Season Of Loneliness"'
20
600
'This senator from Indiana who became Vice President has a city named for him--in Alaska, of all places'
(Charles) Fairbanks
800
'It's the wavelike muscular contractions of the alimentary canal that move food through the digestive system'
peristalsis
800
'His "Jolly Toper" of the 1600s is seen here'
Franz Hals
800
'After Louisiana, this state has the largest Cajun population, especially in areas like Port Arthur'
Texas
800
'The speed Sammy Hagar "Can't Drive" minus Three Dog Night's title "Loneliest Number"'
54
800
'The nation's 42nd Vice President, he was born in Ceylon... Ceylon, Minnesota, that is'
(Walter) Mondale
1000
'Conductors allow electric current to flow & these opposite materials restrict the flow of the current'
insulators (or resistors)
1000
'Minerva, Venus & Juno are the 3 being "judged" in this famous Claude Lorrain painting'
The Judgment of Paris
1000
'The Cajuns are descended from the Acadians, the subject of this famous 1847 poem'
"Evangeline"
1000
'In the song's title, Zager & Evans' "In The Year" this minus The Commodores' "Times A Lady"'
2522
1000
'As Harding's running mate in 1920, he said, "One with the law is a majority"'
(Calvin) Coolidge