SOME SERIOUS SCIENCE
VACATION SPOTS
2 WORDS, 3 LETTERS EACH
THAT BOOK TITLE IS MISLEADING
BRIT BITS
TV CHARACTERS
Final Jeopardy
200

Newton's third law of motion is often stated as "For every action, there is an equal and opposite" this 

a reaction

200

At the Six Flags in Jackson, New Jersey, visitors go from zero to 128 mph in 3.5 seconds on Kingda Ka, the USA's tallest this

roller coaster

200

A scoundrel who wins his victims' trust & then swindles them

a con man

200

Where's the funny in "The Divine Comedy", an epic poem by this Italian that begins with a literal journey through hell

Dante

200

Making up the island of Great Britain are England, Scotland & this much smaller country

Wales

200

"You clearly don't know who you're talking to, so let me clue you in. I am not in danger, Skyler. I am the danger"

Walter White

200

COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES

This Catholic university gets its name from the Latin for “new” & “house” & was in the news in Spring 2016

400

In the 17th century Robert Hooke coined the term "cell" for the biological structures he saw using this recently invented instrument

a microscope

400

Costa Rica is famous for this activity, whizzing along a steel cable high above the canopy of the rainforest

ziplining

400

Like Fifth & Madison Avenues in New York City, since 1966

one way

400

Somerset Maugham wrote about a guy in love with a waitress named Mildred, & not BDSM, in the misleadingly titled "Of Human" this

Bondage

400

Look out below! It's this this ancient monument begun around 5,000 years ago during the late Neolithic period

Stonehenge

400

"The reason you haven't felt it is because it doesn't exist. What you call love was invented by guys like me, to sell nylons"

Don Draper

400

This Catholic university gets its name from the Latin for “new” & “house” & was in the news in Spring 2016

Villanova

600

This explosive event that kicked off the universe happened some 13.8 billion years ago

the Big Bang

600

Escondido, Calif. has a park named for this animal-spotting adventure, but for a more authentic version, you might try Tanzania

a safari

600

Someone who cares a lot about their body & spends a lot of time at 24 Hour Fitness is this rodent

a gym rat

600

This "Story" by Michael Ende runs to just 400 pages in a hardback edition; the title made me think, you know, it was infinite

The Neverending Story

600

On a live webcam you'll frequently see people re-enacting a famous Beatles album cover as they cross this London street

Abbey Road

600

"I'm a doctor, not a coal miner";
"...an engineer";
"...an escalator";
"...a mechanic";
"...a bricklayer"

Dr. McCoy

800

The HGP, the Human this Project, completed its work mapping the human one in 2003

genome

800

Vacationers flock to this country's Mediterranean island of Ibiza for its famous party scene

Spain

800

It doesn't sound super-medical, but Queen Elizabeth II's death certificate lists the cause as this, at 96

old age

800

No, it's not about where Ken & Barbie live; the title of this trashy novel by Jacqueline Susann refers to uppers & downers, as in pills

The Valley of the Dolls

800

It's the "meaty" nickname for the Yeomen Warders seen here who guard the Tower of London

 

Beefeater

800

"You come at the king, you best not miss"

Omar (Little)

1000

Alexander Fleming became Sir Alexander Fleming after his 1928 discovery of this antibiotic "wonder drug"

penicillin

1000

Northwest of Tahiti in French Polynesia is this island paradise with a double-talk name

 

Bora Bora

1000

When the pope makes someone a cardinal, he's said to give them this item to wear

a red hat

1000

Though not about Wheaties, "Breakfast of Champions" by this American is still a very good read

Kurt Vonnegut

1000

The principal leader of the Church of England gets the title archbishop of this

Canterbury

1000

"I gotta get 2 children's life vests, abduct Jonathan Farrow... kill him, cut him to pieces, dump him in the ocean"

Dexter