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Fun with Science
Potpourri
Can I Live Without You?
100

Washington: this computer geek

Bill Gates
100

Ray Bradbury's headstone calls him the author of this 1953 classic

Fahrenheit 451

100

One method to show movies this way divides the image into red & blue parts that your brain combines

3D

100

The AD100 is an annual list of the best in design from this magazine

Architectural Digest

100

No:
this pump sends oxygenated blood throughout the body via arteries

your heart

200

Nebraska: this "Oracle of Omaha"

Warren Buffet

200

This Irish author is buried with his wife Nora in Zurich's Fluntern Cemetery

James Joyce

200

Stick two forks together, insert a toothpick into the tines, and you'll find that you can balance it on the side of a glass; it's a method of finding the center of this and it looks cool

gravity (or mass)

200

Bill Moggridge set the standard with his design for this: a clamshell case with a hinged lid that folded over a keyboard

a laptop computer

200

No:
this largest gland in humans is the body's main chemical factory

the liver

300

Louisiana: Tom Benson, owner of these 2 pro sports teams

the Saints and the Hornets

300

This British author was buried in the Shire-- Oxfordshire, that is-- alongside wife Edith

Tolkien 

300

It's annoying when you walk across carpet & touch metal but helpful when Xerox machines use it to make copies

static electricity 

300

This Greek olive gets its name from the Greek city of its (& Yanni's) birth

kalamata

300

Without 1, yes; without 2, no:
2 million nephrons filter 400 gallons of blood daily in a healthy pair of these

kidneys

400

Oregon: this chairman of Nike

Phil Knight

400

Notables in Paris' Pere Lachaise include Jean de Brunhoff, who created this "little elephant" of kids' books

Babar

400

Defined as a system of particles uniformly distributed in a gas, it's used in spray paint

aerosol

400

In 2012 Xi Jinping succeeded this man as head of China's Communist Party

Hu Jintao

400

Yes:
removal of this gland lying crosswise behind the stomach can be mitigated in part by insulin shots

a pancreas

500

Kansas: Charles of this family that supports conservative causes  

Koch

500

This author of "Light In August" was laid to rest in Saint Peter's cemetery in Oxford, Mississippi

William Faulker

500

Have fun with the over 300-year-old "3-body problem", determining the motions of these 3 bodies based only on mutual gravity

sun, moon, and earth

500

Sealy uses this 2-letter symbol on the NYSE, perhaps to represent a user of one of its mattresses

ZZ

500

Yes:
a laparoscope is used to remove this small pouch that stores bile; the patient can be home the next day

the gallbladder