INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF CHEMISTRY
MUSICAL THEATER

WRITERS' RELATIVES
WHAT DO U STAND FOR?
NOTHING
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The celebratory year 2011 marks 100 years since this radiant scientist's Nobel Prize for Chemistry

Marie Curie

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In "Kiss Me, Kate", the characters, as actors, perform this Shakespeare play at Ford's Theatre in Baltimore

The Taming of the Shrew

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While director of scientific affairs for this company, Joyce Kilmer's father invented its baby powder

Johnson & Johnson

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In UFO, possibly an alien craft

unidentified

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This word for "nothing" precedes "and void" to mean "not valid"

null

800

You exhale this gas first identified by British scientist Joseph Black in the 1750s

carbon dioxide

800

With Glenn Close starring as Norma Desmond, it opened in 1994 with the greatest advanced sales in Broadway history

Sunset Boulevard

800

The state song "On the Banks of the Wabash, Far Away", was written by the brother of this "Sister Carrie" author

(Theodore) Dreiser

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In SCUBA

underwater

800

Something that is in vain is "all for" this, from the Old English for "nothing"

naught

1200

A chemical known as an anhydride is one that removes this from substances

Water 

1200

"Tornado Ballet", "Mean Ole Lion" & "Funky Monkeys" were songs featured in this 1975 musical

The Wiz 

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This "Naked Lunch" author was named for his paternal grandfather, who invented the adding machine

(William) Burroughs

1200

In the government department HUD

Urban

1200

In "Casablanca" Rick says, "It doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to" this

a hill of beans

1600

Chemist Frederick Soddy came up with this term for atoms having the same nuclear charge but different masses

isotopes

1600

This triple Tony-winning show bears the name of Nigerian musician Kuti

Fela!

1600

This acting son of British Poet Laureate Cecil won Oscars in 1990 & 2008

Daniel Day-Lewis

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In the ACLU

Union

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This man's "choice" is the absence of a real alternative--you take that which is offered or nothing

Hobson's choice

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A solid can be finely analyzed using the EELS technique, which studies energy loss in these particles

the electrons

2000

When this musical was tried out before moving to Broadway, it was known as "The Princess and the Pea"

Once Upon a Mattress

2000

His father Nathaniel was a successful writer & his grandfather Robert was a noted humorist & drama critic

Peter Benchley

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In the committee known as HUAC

Un-American

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In math, a solution to an equation in which the value of every variable is equal to zero is called this, like certain "pursuits"

trivial