Show:
THE 9th CENTURY
EN-COMPASSING
HEAD SOUTH FROM
SHEER CHAOS
SECOND LETTER "X"
200
'Around 841 the Vikings established a settlement at this Irish city on the River Liffey'
Dublin
200
'The only compass point in a Steinbeck novel title'
east
200
'...some parts of this country, & you'll be in Canada'
the United States
200
'Edward Lorenz, the father of chaos theory, posited that an insect's flapping wings could alter this, far away'
air currents (or the wind or the weather)
200
'Cruises along the Mexican Riviera frequently include a stop in this resort city 150 miles from Acapulco'
Ixtapa
400
'This English king known as "the Great" succeeded his brother Ethelred in 871 & ruled for 28 years'
Alfred
400
'This airline's specialty craft include the Shamu, Lone Star One & Arizona One'
Southwest
400
'...this 16,000-square-mile country & it's hello, Belgium'
the Netherlands
400
'In a 1926 letter this physicist wrote that he was convinced God "does not throw dice"'
Einstein
400
'According to Malory, the name of this legendary sword means "cut-steel"'
Excalibur
600
'In 813 this aged Holy Roman Emperor crowned his son Louis the Pious co-emperor'
Charlemagne
600
'Hebron is a city in this territory named for its location on the Jordan River'
the West Bank
600
'...this country & you may enter Jordan or Iraq'
Syria
600
'Researchers at UCLA used chaos theory to help predict one of these that struck Central California in 2003'
an earthquake
600
'It's a universally accepted principle or rule'
an axiom
800
'The University of al-Karaouine in this Moroccan city known for its hats was founded in 859 & is the world's oldest'
Fez
800
'Henry Hudson died looking for it'
the Northwest Passage
800
'...this country to enter Croatia, Serbia or Romania'
Hungary
800
'What Bush accused Gore of using, it's an actual branch of mathematics that acknowledges imprecision'
fuzzy math
800
'In 1972 the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey became this corporation'
Exxon
1000
'Wat a city! In the late 9th century Yasovarman I made this the capital of the Khmer Empire'
Angkor
1000
'Its nickname is the "Peace Garden State"'
North Dakota
1000
'...this country & you might find yourself in Paraguay, Argentina or Chile'
Bolivia
1000
'Frank Knight introduced the idea of this into economics in 1921; Heisenberg did it in physics a few years later'
uncertainty
1000
'(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a diagram of a winding river on the monitor.) Due to erosion, large river bends called meanders loop together & are eventually cut off from the rest of the river, becoming this type of U-shaped lake'
an oxbow