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ASTRO-QUIZ

200

'The body of a comet is called this, just like the center of an atom'

a nucleus

400

'After the Sun & Moon, this planet, aka the "Morning Star" & "Evening Star", is the brightest object in the sky'

Venus

600

'Copernicus' belief that the Earth revolves around the Sun is known as a this-centric view of the cosmos'

heliocentric

800

'In 1801 Ceres became the first of these to be discovered'

asteroids

1000

'(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a diagram on the monitor.) Abbreviated A.U. & about 93 million miles in length, it's the average distance between the Earth & the Sun'

the astronomical unit

HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL

200

'The Alabama High School Athletic Association says the most important health safeguard during workouts is plenty of this'

water

400

'In 1985 Dirk Borgognone of Reno High set a record that still stands with a 68-yard one of these'

a field goal

600

'In this state, high school football is a big deal & Longview vs, Marshall is one of the great rivalries'

Texas

800

'Total number of regulation minutes in most high school football games'

48

1000

'In 2007 the Supreme Court ruled high school coaches can be kept from contacting 8th graders for this purpose'

recruitment

MUSEUMS

200

'The National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. is part of this museum complex'

the Smithsonian

400

'In April 2009 the glass pyramid at this Paris museum celebrated its 20th anniversary'

the Louvre

600

'The Temple of Dendur is in the Sackler Wing of this ginormous NYC museum'

the Metropolitan Museum of Art

800

'In Denver, you can visit the home of Molly Brown, who survived the sinking of this in 1912'

the Titanic

1000

'Sue, the largest, most complete & best preserved T. rex, makes her home at the Field Museum in this city'

Chicago

AMERICAN IDLE 2009

200

'With businesses hurting, not as many people bought office supplies from this company, stock symbol SPLS'

Staples

400

'This Pittsburgh ketchup maker saw lower sales because of less demand in foreign markets'

Heinz

600

'Geoffrey the Giraffe from this company went toy shopping & bought struggling FAO Schwarz'

Toys "R" Us

800

'This American car company declared bankruptcy & was rescued by Fiat'

Chrysler

1000

'Following a stress test, this large U.S. bank was told by regulators that it needed to raise $34 billion'

Bank of America

MEDICINE

200

'The Chinese discovered that this practice using needles could work as an anesthetic'

acupuncture

400

'The traditional Snellen chart used to measure this contains only the letters C, D, E, F, L, O, P, T & Z'

eyesight

600

'Today these bloodsucking creatures are sometimes used by physicians to treat hematomas'

leeches

800

'In the 1870s germs of this disease of cattle became the first microorganism identified as a cause of illness'

anthrax

1000

'In 2003 scientists announced the completion of this program that sequenced human DNA'

the Human Genome Project