Awards & Honors
You Can Call Me "Al"
Landmark's the Spot
Government in Crisis
What's in Your Brain?
200

Canada's equivalent of the Grammy Awards, they're named after the chief Roman goddess

Juno

200

A horse not in the top 3 finishers is called this, just filling out the field

an also-ran

200

With its high onion domes, St. Basil's cathedral towers over this capital city

Moscow

200

Following the 2011 ouster of this longtime president, Egypt's armed forces suspended its constitution

Mubarak

200

Sulci are grooves on the brain surface; this German pathologist noted wide sulci in a 1906 autopsy of a dementia patient

Alzheimer

400

Recipients of the Draper Prize, an engineering award, include this Brit, inventor of the World Wide Web

Tim Berners-Lee

400

Cozad, Nebraska once billed itself as the world capital for this forage crop

alfalfa

400

Completed in 1791, this Berlin landmark was originally an entrance to the Prussian palace

the Brandenburg Gate

400

Parliament gained supremacy over the president in an 1877 crisis early in this ordinal French republic

the Third Republic

400

The main parts of a neuron are the cell body, an axon & these, branching out to receive input

the dendrites

600

In World War I, because of racial tensions within the Army, a black combat unit nicknamed the Harlem Hellfighters was assigned to fight with the French, and because of their valor, the regiment was awarded this cross of war, one of France's highest honors

The Croix de guerre

600

The Aymara language gives us the name of this beast of burden

alpaca

600

The restaurant atop this Toronto tower serves Saskatchewan mushrooms & Ontario wines

The CN Tower

600

This 1832-33 crisis ended when South Carolina backed down from its efforts to void federal law

Nullification

600

Look at me! This "in the back of the head" brain lobe is responsible for processing visual information

occipital

800

"Dwight's Pot" is a nickname for this cup awarded to the Men's International Tennis Federation championship team

the Davis Cup

800

From the Arabic for "follower", it's the brightest star in the constellation Taurus

Aldebaran

800

Over 200 feet tall, the Koutoubia one of these mosque towers can help you find your way in Marrakesh

a minaret

800

Last name of the man who dismissed prime minister Mohammad Mosaddegh in August 1953, with some US help

Pahlavi (the Shah)

800

This pea-sized gland secretes a hormone regulating sleep; science has not confirmed Descartes' belief that it's the seat of the soul

the pineal

1000

The Nebula Awards honor this genre

science fiction (books)

1000

The pharynx, esophagus, stomach, and intestines are all part of this 2-word conduit, also known as the digestive tract

the alimentary canal

1000

The statue of Lafayette in Union Square and the grander landmark elsewhere in New York City were created by this Frenchman

Bartholdi

1000

In November 2019 Jeanine Áñez Chávez declared herself Bolivia's president, replacing this man who had resigned under pressure

Evo Morales

1000

From a Latin word for "edge", this primitive "system" of nerves helps run basic behavior like feeding, fighting & fleeing

the limbic system