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AMERICAN AUTHORS

200

'Her home Orchard House was the model for whre the March family lived in her most famous novel'

Louisa May Alcott

400

'During the War Of 1812, this "Rip Van Winkle" author wrote biographies of Naval commanders'

Washington Irving

600

'Susan & Benjamin Cheever, children of this short story master, are both authors as well'

John Cheever

800

'He stood 5'3" & was the subject of movies that came out in 2005 & 2006'

(Truman) Capote

1000

'He reviewed films & TV for the New Republic before his first book, "Goodbye, Columbus", was published in 1959'

Philip Roth

ALBUMS THAT ROCK

200

'"X&Y",
"Parachutes"'

Coldplay

400

'"American Idiot",
"Dookie"'

Green Day

600

'"Master of Puppets",
"Death Magnetic"'

Metallica

800

'"In Your Honor",
"The Color and the Shape"'

Foo Fighters

1000

'"Beggars Banquet",
"Steel Wheels"'

the Rolling Stones

ANATOMY

200

'This cord that connects a fetus to the placenta contains 2 arteries & 1 vein'

the umbillical cord

400

'The human body has 3 types of these: skeletal, smooth & cardiac, a combination of skeletal & smooth'

muscles

600

'The talus fits between the ends of these 2 bones forming the ankle joint'

the tibia & fibula

800

'Humans have 33 vertebrae, 7 of them cervical, meaning they are in this part of the body'

your neck

1000

'The pons connects the 2 hemispheres of this part of the brain that regulates balance'

the cerebellum

MATHEM-ATTACK!

200

'Che Guevara probably knew the political-sounding term for the root symbol seen here'

radical

400

'You should answer this one automatically:
It's the property that says
a = a'

reflexive

600

'(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows an array of numbers enclosed in brackets on the monitor.) A set of numbers in rows and columns can be used in many ways--for example, to encrypt a code or create 3-D computer graphics; the set shares this name with a 1999 film'

a matrix

800

'The symbol i is used to represent the imaginary square root of this number'

-1

1000

'(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a geometric diagram on the monitor.) Half the base times the height gives the area of a triangle; for a cylinder, the area of the base times the height gives this measurement'

volume

NAME THE DECADE

200

'The World Wide Web gets its first page'

the 1990s

400

'The first controlled nuclear chain reaction'

the 1940s

600

'Khruschev's "Secret Speech" denounces Stalin'

the 1950s

800

'George Orwell, 34 years dead, hits the bestseller list'

the 1980s

1000

'Man first reaches the South Pole'

the 1910s