Colorful Cities
This South Carolina “ville” is home to Furman University
Greenville
With over 11.3 million visitors in 2017, this Southeastern national park is the most visited in the country
Great Smoky Mountains
secure against; not affected by a given influence (6)
immune
This procedures involves the removal of a small piece of tissue for microscopic analysis
Biopsy
“He loved Big Brother.”
1984
A peak in Oregon's Wallowa Mountains is named for this Shoshone interpreter
Sacagawea
Parlez-vous Francais? This Louisianan port city translates to “Red Stick.”
Baton Rogue
President Grant established this first national park on March 1st, 1872
Yellowstone
The villain in William Shakespeare’s tragedy who tricked Othello into murdering his wife (4)
Iago
Also known as a lumbar puncture, this procedures is used to diagnose polio
spinal tap
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
The Great Gatsby
In 1946, Emily Greene Balch, a colleague of Jane Addams, was a co-winner of this award first given in 1901
Nobel Peace Prize
This former mining town was once Colorado's territorial capital, but now is popularly known as the headquarters for Coors Brewery
In 1913, the highest recorded air temperature on Earth (134.1 F) was recorded at Furnace Creek Ranch in this NP, the largest in the lower 48
Death Valley
A formal document charging a public official with misconduct in office (11)
impeachment
Fat is vacuumed out of tissues below the epidermis in this elective cosmetic surgery
Liposuction
“The offing was barred by a black bank of clouds, and the tranquil waterway leading to the uttermost ends of the earth flowed sombre under an overcast sky – seemed to lead into the heart of an immense darkness.”
Heart of Darkness
Polish physicist and chemist who became the first person to win the Nobel Prize in both Chemistry and Physics
Marie Curie
This Texan "ville" is across the Rio Grande from Matamoros
On December 20th, 2019, the US gained this national park, located in the Tularosa Basin of New Mexico.
White Sands NP
an obstacle; any structure that makes progress difficult (10)
impediment
Cross hatching is shading a drawing; this is checking recipient-donor compatibility for a blood transfusion
cross-matching
For never was a story of more woe
Romeo and Juliet
Leading writers of the Modernist movement, this woman wrote "To the Lighthouse"
Home of Western Kentucky University
Bowling Green
These two states have the most national parks, each with eight.
one of the five major classes of immunoglobulins; the main antibody defense against bacteria (3)
IgG
A keratoplasty is another name for one of these eye part transplants
Cornea
“It’s funny. Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.”
The Catcher in the Rye
At age 15, this 16th century girl reluctantly allowed herself to be put on the English throne; bad idea
Lady Jane Grey