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BIBLICAL CITIES
"H.D." TV
SCIENCE CLASS
FOOD IN FRENCH
AMAZING STORIES
200
'This city in Lower Galilee was the hometown of Mary & Joseph'
Nazareth
200
'Aaaaaaaaay!!!! It was the family favorite featuring the Fonz'
Happy Days
200
'The difference between the freezing & boiling points of water is 100 on the Kelvin scale & this scale'
Celsius
200
'Pain is the French word for this food staple'
bread
200
'"The Exiles" & "The Long Rain" are 2 of 18 stories in this Ray Bradbury collection featuring a tattooed dude'
The Illustrated Man
400
'Lot fled to Zoar as destruction rained upon Admah, Zeboiim & these 2 cities in the Vale of Siddim'
Sodom & Gomorrah
400
'Now Democratic National Committee chairman, this former pres. candidate appears regularly on "Meet the Press"'
Howard Dean
400
'Geneticists know that human beings typically have 23 pairs of these; fruit flies have only 4 pairs'
chromosomes
400
'In French, this citrus fruit is un pamplemousse'
a grapefruit
400
'In this 1864 Jules Verne novel, explorers descend into an Icelandic volcano & later surface on Stromboli Island'
Journey to the Center of the Earth
600
'Samson was imprisoned & died in this Philistine city; today a "Strip" is named for it'
Gaza
600
'Say, kids, he was the freckle-faced puppet persona of 1950s TV'
Howdy Doody
600
'(
Kelly of the Clue Crew drops a raisin into a glass and watches it bob back up.
) A raisin in soda sinks because it's denser, & it
rises
because CO
2
pockets make it more this, from the Spanish for "float"'
buoyant
600
'Champignon is the French word for an edible one of these'
a mushroom
600
'"Under the Moons of" this planet, featuring adventurer John Carter, was Edgar Rice Burroughs' 1st published story'
Mars
800
'On the road to this city, Paul was struck blind for 3 days; he later preached there'
Damascus
800
'On the Disney Channel, she turned heads as the multi-talented & often animated Lizzie McGuire'
Hilary Duff
800
'A litmus test can help you set things on this scale devised by S.P.L. Sorensen'
a pH scale
800
'Cotelette d'agneau means cutlets or chops of this meat'
lamb
800
'"The Chronic Argonauts" was a precursor to this 1895 H.G. Wells novel'
The Time Machine
1000
'"And the Lord said unto Joshua, See, I have given unto thine hand" this city, "and the king thereof"'
Jericho
1000
'Seen
here
, he was Jack Paar's sidekick on "The Jack Paar Show"'
Hugh Downs
1000
'(
Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a diagram of the brain on a monitor.
) Descartes called
this
gland "the seat of the rational soul", & it's named for its pinecone-shaped appearance'
the pineal gland
1000
'Un oeuf is an egg; this is an eggplant'
une aubergine
1000
'In his short story "The Sentinel", a mysterious pyramid is found on the Moon, left there by some passing alien civilization'
Arthur C. Clarke