Science Class
Welcome to Miami
A Latin Bestiary
Sounds Like Food
World of Barbie
200

In natural form a mixture of 3 isotopes, this element is the most abundant in the Earth's crust & in the human body.

What is oxygen?

200

The Gold Coast Museum boasts the train from which this president held a paper telling of his 1948 election "defeat".

Who is Harry S. Truman?

200

This creature puts the leap in Lepus, its Latin name.

What is a hare/jackrabbit?

200

Types of these include HTTP-only, session & zombie, but none of them go very well with a glass of cold milk.

What is a cookie? (in your browser, not chocolate chip)

200

In 2023 she & Ryan Gosling were the leads for a big screen live-action Barbie adventure.

Who is Margot Robbie?

400

Used as a common medical treatment in the 19th century, laudanum is a tincture of this narcotic dissolved in distilled spirits.

What is opium?

400

Miami has the USA's largest cruise terminal, serving this cruise line named for a nearby sea.

What is Royal Caribbean?

400

That bubo, this Avian, was making noise all night & I couldn't sleep.

What is an owl?

400

Related to Old Norse "hvina", it's a complaining cry or sound.

What is a whine? (Similar to wine)

400

Creators Ruth and Elliot Handler named Barbie and Ken for their children, and also co-founded this company that still makes the dolls.

What is Mattel?
600

Daily Double: Sedimentary deposits near Lake Superior produce the largest U.S. annual yield of hematite, the main ore of this metal.

What is iron?

600

Don't look to crash with this Miami Heat legend & wife Gabrielle Union-- they sold their mansion for $22 million.

Who is Dwayne Wade?

600

Instead of its deadly monarch, you can call this sea creature by this four-letter Latin name.

What is an orca?

600

Not so great with peanut butter on a sandwich, Vaseline has been a brand of this since the 1870s.

What is petroleum jelly?

600

In an immersive & interactive experience, you can enter the world of Barbie and visit this iconic home of hers, brought to life.

What is her Dreamhouse?

800

Alfred Nobel invented dynamite by mixing Kieselguhr, a type of chalky earth, with this liquid explosive.

What is nitroglycerin?

800

The Brickell section of town has one end of the Tamiami Trail; 264 miles away, the other end, is, naturally, in this city.

What is Tampa?

800

A horse is this, also a Peter Shaffer play title.

What is Equus?

800

While playing, Ginger Baker would hold one of these in each hand, but he'd get little nutrition from them.

What are drumsticks?

800

In 2016, Barbie got 3 new & diverse body types in addition to her original: Tall, petite, and this five-letter adjective.

What is curvy?

1000

Around 1908, geneticist Thomas Morgan began using this insect to establish the chromosome theory of heredity.

What is a fruit fly?

1000

Calle Ocho, or Southwest 8th Street, is the main thoroughfare of this area, home to many exiles.

What is Little Havana?

1000

Pullus, "chicken", gives us this English word for a young and yummy hen.

What is a pullet?

1000

It sounds like you're making pasta when engaging in this activity that involves catching catfish with your bare hands.

What is noodling?

1000

In 1989, Barbie became an ambassador for this U.N. agency that helps children around the world.

What is UNICEF?