TOOL TALK
EX-MEMBERS OF THE BAND

4-LETTER SCIENCE
MEANWHILE BACK AT THE RANCH
FACTS & FIGURES
FUN WITH COLORS
100

In computer-speak, 404 is this "not found"

file

100

20 years after Jerry Garcia's 1995 death, 4 living members of this band announced 50th anniversary gigs in Chicago

The Grateful Dead

100

One of the heaviest of metals, it's often used in alloys called Babbitt metals to make bearings

lead

100

I'm not ready to be "put out to" this, the land on which livestock graze

pasturev

100

On average, a house cat does this about 15 hours a day

sleep

100

Possibly from the Latin for "sky", cerulean is a shade of this color

blue

200

It's the part of a gun that by its fall causes a discharge

hammer

200

In 1997 this Michael Stipe band said drummer Bill Berry was retiring to his farm (& replaced him with a drum machine)

R.E.M.

200

This photochemical haze is caused by the reaction of sunlight with hydrocarbons & nitrogen oxides in the atmosphere

smog

200

This adjective is used to describe animals allowed to graze outside & unconfined

free-range

200

Holy this Ohio city on both banks of the Maumee River! The average price for a home is under $100,000

Toledo

200

It can also mean a place that's extremely putt upon

a green

300

The name of this palindromic tool means horizontal

level

300

This multi-instrumentalist quit the Rolling Stones shortly before his 1969 death

Brian Jones

300

Force times distance gives you this, commonly expressed in joules

work

300

Stackable beds typified this dormitory for ranch hands of the Old West

a bunkhouse

300

SSince 1908, this association has placed more than 1.9 billion Bibles in hotel rooms & other locations 

the Gideons

300

The Cincinnati Bengals have used black, white & this as their team colors since 1968

orange 

400

To swindle someone, perhaps out of the same-named wedgelike tool

chisel

400

From 1960 to 1962 he provided the backbeat for the Beatles but in their eyes, didn't live up to his last name

Pete Best

400

It's believed that the layer called the inner this spins slightly faster than the rest of the Earth

core

400

It sounds like snaring a groom, but it's the care & raising of domesticated animals

husbandry

400

A giant one of these cacti can grow 60 feet tall & live for 200 years

a saguaro

400

The color with the shortest wavelength in the visible spectrum, it appears next to indigo in a rainbow

violet

500

To force with a violent twist; you don't want to do it to your back 

wrench

500

In 2001 this band kicked Don Felder out of the aerie; in "the long run", the 2 sides settled out of court in 2007

The Eagles

500

Specifically, it's any compound other than water formed by the reaction of an acid & a base

salt

500

Gauchos are the equivalent of cowboys on these vast grassy plains of South America

the Pampas

500

20 million illnesses a year, the most of any foodborne pathogen, are caused by this "-virus" & many are on cruise ships

norovirus

500

A great horned owl has large eyes with irises of this color, which helps amplify incoming light

yellow