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FORMULA 1

200

'It's the chemical formula for pure snow'

H2O

400

'It's the common "table" substance whose formula is NaCl'

salt

600

'The chemical formula for this sugar found in dairy products is C₁₂H₂₂O₁₁'

lactose

800

'The chemical formula of this compound with a 2-word name is CaCO₃'

calcium carbonate

1000

'The structure of methane is seen here; this is its familiar chemical formula'

CH4

SOVIET MAN

200

'(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Riga, Latvia.) Perhaps the U.S.S.R.'s greatest filmmaker, born in Riga in 1898, I'm in front of a building his father designed'

Sergei Eisenstein

400

'Marshall Zhukov directed the defense of Moscow in 1941 & must have enjoyed capturing this city in April 1945'

Berlin

600

'(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from the Red Square in Moscow, Russia while a memorable melody plays.) This composer of film and ballet scores was overshadowed when he died the same day as Stalin, March 5, 1953'

Prokofiev

800

'T.D. Lysenko, who thought acquired traits can be inherited, ran the USSR's Institute of this, the biology of heredity'

genetics

1000

'This secret policeman lost a struggle for power & was liquidated himself in 1953'

Lavrentiy Beria

WOMEN POETS

200

'Her early 1960s poem "Lady Lazarus" tells of her attempted suicide'

Sylvia Plath

400

'Only 7 of her poems were published during her lifetime--5 in the Springfield Republican'

Emily Dickinson

600

'Having been replaced by her as leader of the Imagists, Ezra Pound began calling them "Amygists"'

Amy Lowell

800

'In 1850 the Athenaeum suggested that she succeed Wordsworth as England's poet laureate'

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

1000

'In 1923 she won a Pulitzer Prize for a group of poems that included "The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver"'

Edna St. Vincent Millay

"GRAND" PRIX

200

'It's the largest gorge on Earth'

the Grand Canyon

400

'In Yiddish bubbie is this relative'

grandmother

600

'This 3-word nickname for the Republicans dates from the 1870s'

Grand Old Party

800

'The J.M.W. Turner work seen here depicts this well-known location'

the Grand Canal (in Venice)

1000

'A champion chess player at the international level'

grandmaster

PIC-POURRI

200

'Place name that's on the brand we're showing'

York

400

'If you see these stones rolling around Colombia, pick them up; they're valuable'

emeralds

600

'Note there are no birds in the picture of this famous bird illustrator'

Audubon

800

'In a popular kids' game, they're what's eaten by the hungry animal seen here'

marbles

1000

'Trig books use this Greek letter to denote angle'

theta