SCIENCE CLASS
SOUNDS LIKE FOOD
I'M JUST A BILL, BILLY OR WILLIAM

3 CONSECUTIVE CONSONANTS
THE U.S. IN 1964
100

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

oxygen

100

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

a cookie

100

He helped computerize his high school's scheduling system, went to Harvard in the '70s, dropped out & was a billionaire by 1987

Bill Gates

100

The sovereign's seat

a throne

100

A Jan. 11 report from Luther Terry in his capacity in this job said (finally), "Cigarette smoking is causally related to lung cancer"

the Surgeon General

200

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

opium

200

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

a whine

200

In 1887 he began running the San Francisco Examiner, which his dad acquired 7 years before

Hearst

200

You're not outta your gourd! You're into this gourd that's big on Oct. 31

a pumpkin

200

On March 27 a 9.2 quake rocked this state's Valdez, forcing the town itself to be moved to the delta of Mineral Creek

Alaska

300

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

iron

300

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

petroleum jelly

300

Billy Joel's time playing a lounge in L.A. led to this, Billy's first Top 40 hit; great tune, but "tonic & gin" still sounds weird

"Piano Man"

300

Money granted to a student to pursue studies

a scholarship

300

At the Academy Awards ceremony in 1964, he became the first Black Best Actor winner

Sidney Poitier

400

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

nitroglycerin

400

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

drumsticks

400

William Thomson is a fine name for a physicist, but after developing the absolute temp. scale, Lord this had a nice ring

(Lord) Kelvin

400

Past participle of seek

sought

400

The first mission of this post-Mercury NASA program launched on April 8, uncrewed; soon, 2 men would fly in each mission

Gemini

500

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


a fruit fly

500

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

noodling

500

In May 2019, this mayor of New York threw his hat in the ring to run for president, but by September, the hat had been returned

de Blasio

500

Geometry term for triangles that can be exactly superimposed, one on the other

congruent

500

In a landmark case the Supreme Court ruled that this newspaper had not libeled Alabama city commissioner L.B. Sullivan

the New York Times