Context: LITERATURE: Ole E. Rolvaag wrote a Saga Of it & Laura Ingalls Wilder set a Little House on it


Context: LITERATURE: He wrote about the auto industry in Wheels & the airline industry in Airport


Context: LITERATURE: Dubliners is a collection of short stories by this Irish author


Context: LITERATURE: In an 1854 poem Tennyson asked her to Come Into The Garden


Context: LITERATURE: This Mississippian, known for her love of the South, won a Pulitzer Prize for The Optomists Daughter


Context: LITERATURE: Her career as a novelist dawned with Dawn OHara; Show Boat showed up later


Context: LITERATURE: Gom Gut & Plick et Plock were pseudonyms of this Inspector Maigret creator


Context: LITERATURE: Hmm... he dedicated his 1820 poem The Witch of Atlas to his wife Mary


Context: LITERATURE: Lloyd Brown, once an inmate of this citys Alleghany County jail, based his novel Iron City on life there


Context: LITERATURE: I shouldnt mind being a bride... if I could be one without having a husband, says Bathsheba in this Hardy novel


Context: LITERATURE: This 1877 novel was written to induce kindness, sympathy and an understanding treatment of horses


Context: LITERATURE: In 1938 actor Orson presented this novelists The War of the Worlds on radio


Context: LITERATURE: On his fifth voyage, he encounters the Old Man of the Sea


Context: LITERATURE: In this F. Scott Fitzgerald novel, Myrtle Wilson is accidentally run over & killed by Daisy Buchanan


Context: LITERATURE: This E.M. Forster novel is set in the fictional city of Chandrapore


Context: LITERATURE: In his 1938 work The Unvanquished, the Sartoris family copes with the Civil War


Context: LITERATURE: In the 1600s Basho wrote a famous hard-to-translate haiku about this creature jumping into a pond


Context: LITERATURE: The infamous Lowood School in this novel was based on a real school that Charlotte Bronte attended at age 8


Context: LITERATURE: This Jane Austen novel begins, The family of Dashwood had been long settled in Sussex


Context: LITERATURE: After Christians death in an 1897 drama, this title character still acts as a platonic friend to the widow


Context: LITERATURE: Tolstoy wrote this characters life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible


Context: LITERATURE: In this Dante work, the poet is given a tour through hell, purgatory & paradise


Context: LITERATURE: This author of No Exit said no to a Nobel Prize in 1964


Context: LITERATURE: This Flaubert title character commits suicide because of mounting debt & lies told to her husband Charles


Context: LITERATURE: In the epic poem Beowulf, Beowulf destroys this monster by tearing off his arm


Context: LITERATURE: This 1872 Samuel Butler satire has the alternate title Over The Range


Context: LITERATURE: 1719 novel about a mariner who lived 8 & 20 years all alone in an uninhabited island


Context: LITERATURE: Cervantes Alonso Quijano changes his name to this, after reading romances of chivalry


Context: LITERATURE: This author introduced detective Mike Hammer in I, The Jury


Context: LITERATURE: Although married to Alexei, she falls in love with the handsome Count Vronsky


Context: LITERATURE: Meursault is the rather cold, effectless narrator of this Camus novel


Context: LITERATURE: In this Poe tale Captain Kidds treasure is found with the aid of a secret code & a scarab beetle


Context: LITERATURE: Published in 1961, The Winter of this was John Steinbecks last novel


Context: LITERATURE: Carolyn Meeber is the title character of this Theodore Dreiser novel


Context: LITERATURE: In this Truman Capote novella, the story of Holly Golightly is narrated by Fred, a struggling writer


Context: LITERATURE: This Kipling orphans father was a sergeant in an Irish regiment in the Punjab


Context: LITERATURE: This title French schoolgirl created by Ludwig Bemelmans is often found at the end of the line


Context: LITERATURE: In the title of a 14th century work, Sir Gawain is paired with this knight


Context: LITERATURE: A rundown Mexican hotel is the setting for The Night of the Iguana, a play by this writer


Context: LITERATURE: This 1942 French novel begins, Mother died today.  Or, maybe, yesterday; I cant be sure.


Context: LITERATURE: Despite its title, this 1848 Charles Dickens novel is ultimately about a father & his daughter, not his son


Context: LITERATURE: Readers in 1860-61 picked up copies of All The Year Round to read installments of his Great Expectations


Context: LITERATURE: Time in this futuristic Aldous Huxley novel is measured from the invention of the Model T Ford


Context: LITERATURE: This 1975 E.L. Doctorow novel relates the story of Coalhouse Walker Jr., whos harassed by local firemen


Context: LITERATURE: Saul Bellows title character whose gift to Charlie Citrine was a sense of hope


Context: LITERATURE: Willa Cathers My Antonia, O Pioneers! & A Lost Lady are set on the frontier in this midwestern state


Context: LITERATURE: Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote that he lived on in his wild, jungle existence with little change for several years


Context: LITERATURE: His 1926 novel The Sun Also Rises has been published in England as Fiesta


Context: LITERATURE: The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies was a follow-up to her stories of Peter Rabbit & Benjamin Bunny


Context: LITERATURE: She made Tom Sawyer whitewash her fence


Context: LITERATURE: This title home of a Hawthorne tale has an elm-tree of wide circumference, rooted before the door


Context: LITERATURE: An edition of this 1934 book had on its cover a crab & Not to be imported into Great Britain or U.S.A.


Context: LITERATURE: This character writes, Tom and me found the money that the robbers hid....we got six thousand dollars apiece


Context: LITERATURE: Ernest Hemingways only Pulitzer Prize came in 1953 for this short novel about a Cuban named Santiago


Context: LITERATURE: In this allegory, Christian uses a key called Promise to escape from the Doubting Castle


Context: LITERATURE: In a Dickens novel, this title characters mother Clara unfortunately marries Mr. Murdstone


Context: LITERATURE: The character Jesse B. Semple figures prominently in many of this Harlem poets short stories


Context: LITERATURE: In 1922 he published The Red House Mystery; in 1928 The House At Pooh Corner


Context: LITERATURE: Mr. Kurtz is an agent of a Belgian Congo trading station in this Joseph Conrad novella


Context: LITERATURE: This western author stopped using pen names soon after the publication of Hondo  in 1953


Context: LITERATURE: The Big Knockover, a collection of his stories & short novels, was edited by Lillian Hellman


Context: LITERATURE: His novel Cancer Ward originally was banned in the Soviet Union


Context: LITERATURE: 1st name of the Maugham title character Miss Thompson


Context: LITERATURE: Brom Bones dressed up as this to scare the schoolmaster away from Katrina


Context: LITERATURE: Daniel Defoe title character who was a tart, a wife, a thief, a convict, then grew rich & lived honest


Context: LITERATURE: Requiem for a Nun was his sequel to Sanctuary


Context: LITERATURE: In his 1940 classic Western novel, Walter Van Tilburg Clark sets his Incident in this valley


Context: LITERATURE: E.B. White spun this tale about a spider & a pig


Context: LITERATURE: In this Edgar Allan Poe poem, the title birds favorite word is nevermore


Context: LITERATURE: Dickens divided this book into staves instead of chapters; Stave IV is called The Last of the Spirits


Context: LITERATURE: If youre in the hobbit of reading his books, try his non-hobbit tale Farmer Giles Of Ham


Context: LITERATURE: In Little Women, this youngest of the 4 sisters is a most important person, in her own opinion at least


Context: LITERATURE: The Bermoothes, where Prosperos brother was shipwrecked in this play, might have been named for Bermuda


Context: LITERATURE: This dilapidated Hawthorne mansion is home to Pyncheon relatives Hepzibah, Phoebe & Clifford & a lodger


Context: LITERATURE: A dog named Jip chews up the cookbook belonging to this Dickens title characters wife Dora


Context: LITERATURE: The wife of this Sinclair Lewis research scientist dies during an epidemic in the West Indies


Context: LITERATURE: His stores include The Man Who Was and The Man Who Would Be King


Context: LITERATURE: John Galsworthys 1906 work The Man of Property was the first in this series of novels


Context: LITERATURE: This 1852 work was subtitled Life Among the Lowly


Context: LITERATURE: In this Ernest Hemingway story, an author awaits death while on an African safari


Context: LITERATURE: This 1837 Nathaniel Hawthorne collection contained 39 of his stories


Context: LITERATURE: This 1897 novel contains the line At sunrise the Count could appear in his own form


Context: LITERATURE: This 14th century work is divided into 3 sections: Inferno, Purgatorio & Paradiso


Context: LITERATURE: Dickens said this title character was born at Blunderstone, in Suffolk as a posthumous child


Context: LITERATURE: This 1861 George Eliot novel is subtitled The Weaver of Raveloe


Context: LITERATURE: At the beginning of Orwells Animal Farm, Major Snowball & Napoleon are pigs who live on this farm


Context: LITERATURE: This Stephen Crane novel is set during the Battle of Chancellorsville


Context: LITERATURE: In an Anthony Hope novel, King Rudolf is The Prisoner Of this castle in Ruritania


Context: LITERATURE: Novel in which an old seaman sings, Fifteen men on the dead mans chest --- Yo--Ho--Ho, and a bottle of rum


Context: LITERATURE: This Raymond Chandler private eye was introduced in the 1939 novel The Big Sleep


Context: LITERATURE: Poes The Mystery of Marie Roget was a sequel to this story featuring detective C. Auguste Dupin


Context: LITERATURE: Chapter one of this book informs us that There was unquestionably a Chuzzlewit in the Gunpowder Plot


Context: LITERATURE: Originally, the term Picaresque referred to fiction from this country about rogues called Picaros


Context: LITERATURE: The last chapter of this Charlotte Bronte novel begins with the words Reader, I married him


Context: LITERATURE: In a poem dedicated to this lord, Longfellow wrote, Poet!  I come to touch thy lance with mine


Context: LITERATURE: A category called Famous Andres would have to include this Frenchman who wrote Mans Fate & Mans Hope


Context: LITERATURE: At the end of this novel, Reverend Dimmesdale reveals publicly that he is the father of Hester Prynnes daughter


Context: LITERATURE: This characters first literary appearance was in the tragic drama The Seducer of Seville


Context: LITERATURE: He wrote the 2001, 2010, 2061 & 3001 Odyssey books


Context: LITERATURE: This Nevil Shute novel depicts the coming annihilation of the human race after a nuclear war


Context: LITERATURE: The 2-word title of this 1985 Bobbie Ann Mason novel refers to the time a soldier spent in Vietnam


Context: LITERATURE: The title of his 1840 novel The Pathfinder refers to Natty Bumppo


Context: LITERATURE: The sequel to Tom Browns Schooldays is called Tom Brown at this university


Context: LITERATURE: Natasha Rostova marries Pierre Bezukhov in this classic Tolstoy novel


Context: LITERATURE: His poems from the Scots Observer were collected in Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses


Context: LITERATURE: He wrote his 1848 novel Dombey and Son while living in Switzerland


Context: LITERATURE: A 1927 book of short stories by Ernest Hemingway was titled Men Without these


Context: LITERATURE: Poet who wrote, Before I built a wall Id ask to know what I was walling in or walling out


Context: LITERATURE: In James Fenimore Coopers The Pioneers Oliver Edwards is this frontiersmans companion


Context: LITERATURE: The father of this Good-Bye, Mr. Chips author was a schoolteacher, not a hotelier


Context: LITERATURE: Balzac wrote La Comedie Humaine in the 1840s & this American wrote The Human Comedy in the 1940s


Context: LITERATURE: Of Pastism, Presentism or Futurism, the literary movement that began around 1909


Context: LITERATURE: The Millers Tale is one of the naughtiest of these famous Chaucer stories


Context: LITERATURE: The prep school classic A Separate Peace takes place during this war


Context: LITERATURE: This scary Edgar Allan Poe story takes place at a spooky masked ball given by a prince


Context: LITERATURE: Mowglis song Against People appears in this authors Second Jungle Book


Context: LITERATURE: In chapter 2 of this Tolstoy novel, Princess Bolkonsky says, Tell me what this war is about


Context: LITERATURE: This Edgar Allan Poe story concerns a masked ball of the most unusual magnificence


Context: LITERATURE: This Babbitt author published his 1st novel, Hike And The Aeroplane, under the pseudonym Tom Graham


Context: LITERATURE: This Brave New World authors 1921 novel Crome Yellow abounds with eccentric characters


Context: LITERATURE: Chapter 6 of this Hawthorne classic is titled Pearl


Context: LITERATURE: Budd Schulbergs novel The Harder They Fall deals with corrupt practices in this sport


Context: LITERATURE: 1938s Out Of The Silent Planet was the first sci-fi novel by this Narnia creator


Context: LITERATURE: Published in 1923, The Prophet is a book of 28 poetic essays by this Lebanese-American


Context: LITERATURE: Amory Blaine, a student at Princeton, is the hero of this first novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald


Context: LITERATURE: In 1917 L. Frank Baum wrote about The Lost Princess of this place


Context: LITERATURE: When he first saw Becky Thatcher, a certain Amy Lawrence vanished out of his heart and left not even a memory


Context: LITERATURE: I never liked long walks, says the heroine of this Charlotte Bronte novel


Context: LITERATURE: Wordsworths poem about her begins, Hail, Virgin Queen!  Oer many an envious bar triumphant


Context: LITERATURE: Her 1942 novel Dragon Seed was yet another tale of Chinese peasant farmers


Context: LITERATURE: Grimm stories


Context: LITERATURE: Literary point of view when I write like this


Context: LITERATURE: Language of Chaucer


Context: LITERATURE: In the 20s, Hemingway & Fitzgerald were among these missing literary offspring


Context: LITERATURE: The next-to-last chapter of this novel is entitled The Knitting Done


Context: LITERATURE: His novel Sister Carrie sold fewer than 500 copies in its first edition


Context: LITERATURE: This experimental novelist named William published a 1953 account of drug addiction under the name William Lee


Context: LITERATURE: This novel by Richard Wright tells of Bigger Thomas, the product of a Chicago slum


Context: LITERATURE: This series of tales by Ovid with a plural title begins with the creation of the world


Context: LITERATURE: Isabel Archer is the title woman of this Henry James masterpiece


Context: LITERATURE: Theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do and die is from this Tennyson poem


Context: LITERATURE: The 1956 novel Compulsion was based on the story of this duo defended by Darrow


Context: LITERATURE: Chingachgook became the last of the Mohicans when this man, his son, died


Context: LITERATURE: This Oliver Goldsmith play is subtitled The Mistakes of the Night


Context: LITERATURE: He wrote Penrod, Penrod and Son & Penrod Jashber


Context: LITERATURE: At the end of Uncle Toms Cabin, this sadistic slave owner dies insane


Context: LITERATURE: In Puddnhead Wilson, Twain wrote, Put all your eggs in the one basket and then do this to that basket


Context: LITERATURE: F. Scott Fitzgeralds 1922 collection of stories was titled Tales of this Age


Context: LITERATURE: A review said this 1979 William Styron novel belongs on that small shelf reserved for American masterpieces


Context: LITERATURE:  This author of the classic American novel Winesburg, Ohio once lived here in the Pontalba Apartments on Jackson Square


Context: LITERATURE: Its where Philip Nolan asked to be buried


Context: LITERATURE: The final chapter of this classic book is entitled Quasimodos Marriage


Context: LITERATURE: He wrote about Polish life in Poland & the history of South Africa in The Covenant


Context: LITERATURE: Published in 1613, his Exemplary Tales are believed to be the first short stories written in Castilian


Context: LITERATURE: A curse placed on one of Nathaniel Hawthornes ancestors inspired this 1851 novel


Context: LITERATURE: In this Kipling short story, Daniel Dravot becomes the godlike monarch of an Afghani tribe


Context: LITERATURE: Poet John Donne was first to write No man is this


Context: LITERATURE: Bret Harte wrote a short story about The Outcasts of this mining camp


Context: LITERATURE: The Readers Encyclopedia said, He loved the... main streets of America even as he deplored them


Context: LITERATURE: Ayn Rand book that ends with Then there was only the ocean and the sky and the figure of Howard Roark


Context: LITERATURE: His eccentric novel Tristram Shandy contains blank pages & 1-sentence chapters


Context: LITERATURE: 17-year-old Holden Caulfield is the narrator of this acclaimed 1951 novel


Context: LITERATURE: Kholstomer by this War And Peace author is a satire on human beings from a horses point of view


Context: LITERATURE: Mercedes of Castile is a lesser-known novel by this author of The Leather-Stocking Tales


Context: LITERATURE: His third published novel, Sartoris, was the first he set in Yoknapatawpha County


Context: LITERATURE: The Man of Laws Tale in this Chaucer work tells the story of Constance, an emperors daughter


Context: LITERATURE: In this novel, Bill Sikes kills Nancy


Context: LITERATURE: His poems include Highland Mary, The Banks O Down, & A Mans A Man For A That


Context: LITERATURE: The Silmarillion, his prequel to Lord of the Rings, was published after his death


Context: LITERATURE: The color mentioned in the title of Zane Greys most popular novel


Context: LITERATURE: Robert Browning wrote, do this along with me!  The best is yet to be!


Context: LITERATURE: Maris, Lycon, Laogonus, Erymas, Sarpedon, Erylaus & Patroclus die in Book 16 of this work


Context: LITERATURE: In 1852 his story The Dandy Frightening the Squatter appeared in The Carpet-Bag, a humorous paper


Context: LITERATURE: Our copy of this 1865-69 Tolstoy work is 1,444 pages long


Context: LITERATURE: Many say that Tu Fu was this countrys greatest poet


Context: LITERATURE: In Chaucers The Canterbury Tales , this bawdy wife tells of her 5 husbands & her desire for a sixth


Context: LITERATURE: Flaubert led this movement in French literature also called naturalism


Context: LITERATURE: William Faulkners novel Mosquitoes satirizes the literary life in this Louisiana city


Context: LITERATURE: Ford Madox Fords 4-novel series Parades End is set during & after this war in which Ford himself was shell-shocked


Context: LITERATURE: For men may come and men may go, but I go on forever, this Lord of poetry babbled in The Brook


Context: LITERATURE: This 1871 sequel is subtitled Life at Plumfield with Jos Boys


Context: LITERATURE: The title of this Willa Cather novel refers to a certain Ms. Shimerda


Context: LITERATURE: Death of his son led him to write a History of Spiritualism before his last Sherlock Holmes book


Context: LITERATURE: A Christmas Carol character who tells Scrooge, I wear the chain I forged in life


Context: LITERATURE: 19th c. feminist Catharine Beecher wrote The American Womans Home with this more famous sister


Context: LITERATURE: Subtitled A Tale of Acadie, this Longfellow poem describes the tragic romance of an Acadian woman


Context: LITERATURE: Polish-born Jerzy Kosinski wrote all of his novels, including Being There in this, his adopted language


Context: LITERATURE: She based the characters of Anne & Robert in her novel The Mandarins on herself & Jean-Paul Sartre


Context: LITERATURE: Its the native country of Flora Nwapa, who wrote This is Lagos, and Other Stories


Context: LITERATURE: The original Italian title of this Umberto Eco novel is Il Nome Della Rosa


Context: LITERATURE: In 2000 Turkish author Andrew Mango published a new biography of this founder of modern Turkey


Context: LITERATURE: Cervantes novel that tells us, A knight errant without a lady is like...a body without a soul


Context: LITERATURE: He wrote his first novel, Murphy, in 1938, 14 years before his famous play Waiting for Godot


Context: LITERATURE: His wife Mary said the caroling of a skylark in Leghorn inspired his poem To a Skylark


Context: LITERATURE: The Knights Tale by this 14th century author is based on Boccaccios poem Teseida


Context: LITERATURE: His 1958 novel Our Man in Havana takes place in pre-Castro Cuba


Context: LITERATURE: Alex Haleys first major work was The Autobiography Of this black militant leader


Context: LITERATURE: Many of the Dublin locales he personally frequented are featured in his book Ulysses


Context: LITERATURE: In its original language, this Jules Verne novel is known as Vingt mille lieues sous les mers


Context: LITERATURE: Buffalo Girls & The Evening Star are among this Lonesome Dove authors recent novels


Context: LITERATURE: In 1914, 146 of this late Americans poems were published by her niece under the title The Single Hound


Context: LITERATURE: Since 1918, the O. Henry Awards have been given to outstanding examples of this form


Context: LITERATURE: The History of New York... by Diedrich Kickerbocker was actually written by him


Context: LITERATURE: The title of this famous Anita Loos work states that they Prefer Blondes


Context: LITERATURE: Thomas Manns Magic Mountain is set in a Swiss sanatorium for this disease


Context: LITERATURE: Peter Quint & Miss Jessel are the ghosts in this Henry James ghost story


Context: LITERATURE: A line from this 1894 Kipling book says, Rikki-Tikki had a right to be proud of himself; but he did not grow too proud


Context: LITERATURE: Chapters in this James Bond novel include Gem Quality & Hot Ice


Context: LITERATURE: One reviewer called this recent Sara Gruen bestseller so much more than a tale about a circus


Context: LITERATURE: He wrote Bech: A Book, Bech Is Back & Bech At Bay in addition to his Rabbit novels


Context: LITERATURE: This 1930 William Faulkner novel deals with the death & burial of Addie Bundren


Context: LITERATURE: This title characters ship, the Antelope, went down off the coast of Lilliput


Context: LITERATURE: In a 1927 Hermann Hesse novel, newspaper writer Harry Haller, a loner, calls himself this


Context: LITERATURE: John Kennedy Toole immortalized the Lucky Dog vending carts in this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel


Context: LITERATURE: Nelson Algren won a 1950 Natl Book Award for this novel about card dealer & morphine addict Frankie Machine


Context: LITERATURE: 1952 novel that begins off the coast of Cuba, & ends on shore 3 days later


Context: LITERATURE: In a Defoe novel, this companion is described as a comely handsome fellow


Context: LITERATURE: Jos Boys was the second sequel to this 19th century novel


Context: LITERATURE: Chapter 48 of this English novel deals with The Flight of Sikes--Bill Sikes


Context: LITERATURE: Richard Middlemas gets crushed by an elephant in The Surgeons Daughter, an 1827 tale by this Edinburgher


Context: LITERATURE: The NYC murder of Mary Rogers inspired Poe, who changed the setting to Paris & created The Mystery of her


Context: LITERATURE: In 1923 Vladimir Nabokov translated Alice In Wonderland into this language


Context: LITERATURE: Ernest Hemingways novel For Whom The Bell Tolls takes place during this countrys Civil War


Context: LITERATURE: First published in 1835, Berence has been called his most horrifying tale


Context: LITERATURE: He may have put his rabbit to rest, but in 1996 he published a new family saga, In The Beauty Of The Lilies


Context: LITERATURE: Buddenbrooks was the first important novel by this 20th century German author


Context: LITERATURE: Charles Dickens ended this story with the line God bless us, every one!


Context: LITERATURE: The Last Temptation Of Christ has this many chapters, the traditional number of years of Jesus life


Context: LITERATURE: In The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow, Abraham Van Brunt, a rival of Ichabod Crane, is better known by this name


Context: LITERATURE: To research this novel, Irving Stone stayed in Van Goghs asylum cell


Context: LITERATURE: Paul Riesling, this Sinclair Lewis realtors one true friend, shoots his wife & is sent to prison


Context: LITERATURE: This English lord dedicated an 1880 volume of poetry to his grandson, who was also named Alfred


Context: LITERATURE: His famous story The Tell-Tale Heart tells us, It was not the old man who vexed me, but his evil eye


Context: LITERATURE: 18-year-old Carrie Meeber leaves her Wisconsin home & moves to Chicago in this Theodore Dreiser novel


Context: LITERATURE: In this Orwell novel, the  Ministry of Peace, also known as Minipax, concerns itself with war


Context: LITERATURE: In the last years of his life, he devoted many of his working hours to Finnegans Wake


Context: LITERATURE: James Fenimore Coopers 1823 novel The Pioneers was the first in a series of these 5 Tales


Context: LITERATURE: In 1919 Booth Tarkington won a Pulitzer Prize for this Magnificent novel; in 1922 he won again for Alice Adams


Context: LITERATURE: In this 1952 short story, Hemingway wrote, A man can be destroyed but not defeated


Context: LITERATURE: In A Scandal in this, Sherlock Holmes calls Dr. Watson his Boswell


Context: LITERATURE: Graham Greenes A Gun For Sale was published in the U.S. under this title


Context: LITERATURE: Northumbria in the Age of Bede or Mercia in Offas reign are guesses as to where & when this work was created


Context: LITERATURE: This Dickens novel about a foundling is subtitled The Parish Boys Progress


Context: LITERATURE: His Anna Karenina was originally published in installments between 1875 & 1877


Context: LITERATURE: Its the English title of Isabel Allendes novel La Casa de los Espiritus


Context: LITERATURE: William Dean Howells wrote of Silas Lapham & she wrote of Silas Marner


Context: LITERATURE: In this 1979 book Norman Mailer told the story of convicted killer Gary Gilmore


Context: LITERATURE: Henry Fielding called a 1749 novel The History of him, a Foundling


Context: LITERATURE: An 1894 Anthony Hope romance was titled this of Zenda


Context: LITERATURE: 1868 Wilkie Collins novel about a mysterious rock


Context: LITERATURE: Rowena has Saxon the brain in this 1819 work by Sir Walter Scott


Context: LITERATURE: Sophocles wrote a tragedy about this self-sacrificing daughter of Oedipus


Context: LITERATURE: While teaching Russian literature at Cornell, he wrote his famous novel Lolita


Context: LITERATURE: Much Obliged, Jeeves, this authors last collection of Bertie-&-Jeeves stories, was published in 1971


Context: LITERATURE: It begins, In the ancient city of London....A boy was born to a poor family of the name of Canty....


Context: LITERATURE: In novels by Baroness Orczy, this colorful hero is really Sir Percy Blakeney


Context: LITERATURE: This 1922 novel by Hermann Hesse is based on the early life of Buddha


Context: LITERATURE: The first four chapters of this Bram Stoker work are from Jonathan Harkers journal


Context: LITERATURE: City that was the starting & ending point of Phileas Foggs 80-day trip around the world


Context: LITERATURE: In 1726, he received 200 pounds for his tale of Lemuel Gulliver, the only time he was paid for his writing


Context: LITERATURE: Husband of poet Elizabeth, he wrote O to be in England, now that Aprils there


Context: LITERATURE: This German was in his 80s when he finished writing Faust a few months before his death in 1832


Context: LITERATURE: Les chatiments is a group of satirical poems attacking Napoleon III by this creator of Quasimodo


Context: LITERATURE: The Jindyworobak Movement of the 1930s celebrated this countrys Aboriginal culture


Context: LITERATURE: The heroine of her 1849 novel Shirley was inspired by her late sister Emily


Context: LITERATURE: The title of this poet-playwrights 1893 book The Celtic Twilight became a synonym for the Irish literary revival


Context: LITERATURE: This South African called her 1965 story collection Not For Publication


Context: LITERATURE: Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities takes place during this struggle


Context: LITERATURE: George S. Kaufman helped John Steinbeck turn this work about George & Lennie into a play


Context: LITERATURE: First published in 1966, The Bloomsday Book is a guide to this James Joyce work


Context: LITERATURE: Henry Millers The Colossus of Maroussi is an account of his travels in this country


Context: LITERATURE: Herman Wouk won a 1952 Pulitzer Prize for this novel of World War II


Context: LITERATURE: He collaborated with ex-wife Margaret Bourke White on documentaries but not on Gods Little Acre


Context: LITERATURE: His novels Ragtime & Worlds Fair were both set in NYC before WWII


Context: LITERATURE: The title of this novel by Charles Jackson has become a catch phrase for a major drinking binge


Context: LITERATURE: Some of the stories & poems in We Are Still Married reflect on this authors life in Minnesota


Context: LITERATURE: We wonder what his grandfather, the adding machine inventor, would have thought of Naked Lunch


Context: LITERATURE: In addition to Buck & White Fang, this author wrote about Jerry, an Irish terrier pup


Context: LITERATURE: Early collections of his stories include Flappers And Philosophers & Tales Of The Jazz Age


Context: LITERATURE: In David Copperfield, Wilkins is the first name of this kindhearted optimist


Context: LITERATURE: This B. Traven novel about 3 Americans looking for gold in Mexico was first published in Germany


Context: LITERATURE: To Let was the last novel in this John Galsworthy series


Context: LITERATURE: The full title of this Spanish novel includes de la Mancha, El Ingenioso Hidalgo


Context: LITERATURE: Bernard Binlin Dadies novel Climbie depicts this Ivorian country, his homeland, during colonial times


Context: LITERATURE: New Zealand-born Dame Ngaio Marsh became famous for her work in this field of fiction


Context: LITERATURE: His essay Civil Disobedience was delivered as a lecture & printed as Resistance to Civil Government


Context: LITERATURE: Some have described his Eugene Onegin as the first great Russian novel, although it was written in verse


Context: LITERATURE: In this novel, Jo March becomes a writer & marries Friedrich Bhaer, a middle-aged professor


Context: LITERATURE: This 1848 Thackeray work is subtitled “A Novel Without A Hero”


Context: LITERATURE: Her husband, a physician, assumed the name Roger Chillingworth


Context: LITERATURE: In this Hemingway novel, Robert Jordan falls in love with Maria


Context: LITERATURE: This Thomas Hardy novel about Bathsheba Everdene was first published anonymously in 1874


Context: LITERATURE: Chapter 7 of this Louisa May Alcott novel is entitled Amys Valley of Humiliation


Context: LITERATURE: His Jungle Book prose begins, It was seven oclock of a very warm evening in the Seeonee Hills...


Context: LITERATURE: I believe you think me a fiend! says Heathcliff with his dismal laugh in this novel


Context: LITERATURE: In this novel, Sancho Panza is described as a poor, honest man without much salt in his brain-pan


Context: LITERATURE: This Tolstoy epic of Russian society between 1805 & 1815 contains more than 500 characters


Context: LITERATURE: Chapter 83 of this Herman Melville novel is entitled Jonah Historically Regarded


Context: LITERATURE: In A Study in Scarlet, he told Holmes, I have all the facts in my journal, and the public shall know them


Context: LITERATURE: In 1823 James Fenimore Cooper wrote The Pioneers, the first in the series of these tales


Context: LITERATURE: I must go, Cathy, said Heathcliff, seeking to extricate himself from his companions arms in this novel


Context: LITERATURE: George Du Maurier introduced this evil hypnotist in his 1894 novel Trilby


Context: LITERATURE: Wilkins is the first name of this David Copperfield character whos always waiting In case anything turned up


Context: LITERATURE: In this 17th C. novel, Sancho Panza is promised, & eventually gets, the governorship of his own island


Context: LITERATURE: This 1895 story set in the future was H.G. Wells first novel


Context: LITERATURE: The full title of this 1872 tale ends with And what Alice found there


Context: LITERATURE: James Jones 1962 novel The Thin Red Line was a sequel to this 1951 work


Context: LITERATURE: Characters in this Dickens novel include Mealy Potatoes, Mr. Creakle & Edward Murdstone


Context: LITERATURE: In 1998 Jose Saramago became the first writer in this language to win a Nobel Prize for Literature


Context: LITERATURE: 2 old Quakers, Captain Peleg & Captain Bildad, are part-owners of the Pequod in this 1851 novel


Context: LITERATURE: In this novel, dArtagnan, a native of Gascony, is described as Don Quixote at 18


Context: LITERATURE: In Good Wives, the second part of this novel, Aunt March dies & leaves her home, Plumfield, to Jo


Context: LITERATURE: William Makepeace Thackeray wrote that Some of the love passages of this Charlotte Bronte work made me cry


Context: LITERATURE: In a Thomas Hardy novel, grain merchant Michael Henchard serves in this title political office


Context: LITERATURE: The hero of this Mark Twain novel calls himself A Yankee of the Yankees....and nearly barren of sentiment

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court


Context: LITERATURE: In his 1913 novel Sons And Lovers, Miriam is based on his close friend Jessie Chambers


Context: LITERATURE: John Updike called this authors The Metamorphosis An indubitable masterpiece


Context: LITERATURE: Written in 1900, In the Ravine is one of this Russian playwrights finest stories


Context: LITERATURE: Wamba is a brave jester who risks his life to save his master Cedric in this Sir Walter Scott novel


Context: LITERATURE: This Nobel Prize winner dedicated The Waste Land to fellow poet Ezra Pound


Context: LITERATURE: His Dr. Zhivago aroused so much opposition in the Soviet Union that he said Nyet to the Nobel Prize in 1958


Context: LITERATURE: In 1953 this British politician won the Nobel Prize for his biographical & historical works & for his oratory


Context: LITERATURE: He was no Stranger to the Nobel Prize for Literature, winning in 1957


Context: LITERATURE: A poem by this 1923 Nobel Prize winner is heard here:<br />


Context: LITERATURE: In the Andersen tale, at age 15 she swims to the oceans surface & views the world above for the first time


Context: LITERATURE: In this H.G. Wells novel, the first Martian spaceship lands near the town of Woking


Context: LITERATURE: Tom Canty, born in a slum called Offal Court, & Edward Tudor are the title characters in this Twain novel


Context: LITERATURE: In this novel, Mr. Charrington, who runs an antique shop, is actually a member of the Thought Police


Context: LITERATURE: Leora, the wife of this Sinclair Lewis doctor, dies of bubonic plague on the island of St. Hubert


Context: LITERATURE: After his son Kingsley Doyle was killed in World War I, he became a devoted spiritualist


Context: LITERATURE: The Martian invaders in this H.G. Wells novel are destroyed by earthly bacteria


Context: LITERATURE: In The Call of the Wild, Judge Millers gardener kidnaps this dog & sells him for $50


Context: LITERATURE: Peachy Carnahan & Daniel Dravitt plan to make themselves kings of Kafiristan in this Kipling story


Context: LITERATURE: The Plain of Ease, the Valley of Humiliation & the Country of Conceit appear in this John Bunyan work


Context: LITERATURE: In titles, animal associated with both Volpone and Reynard


Context: LITERATURE: Malcolm Lowerys Under the Volcano is set mainly in this country


Context: LITERATURE: Granddaughter of the author of Trilby, she wrote Rebecca


Context: LITERATURE: One contributor to Knickerbocker magazine was this author, who used Knickerbocker as a pseudonym


Context: LITERATURE: English poet who wrote Endymion,<br />Hyperion, and its unfinished revision, The Fall of Hyperion


Context: LITERATURE: This Spaniard rides a bony old nag named Rocinante on his quests


Context: LITERATURE: Longfellow based his tales of this inn on the Red Horse Inn in Sudbury, Massachusetts


Context: LITERATURE: This 1902 Joseph Conrad novella is set in the Belgian Congo


Context: LITERATURE: In Great Expectations, Pip falls in love with Estella, a ward of this spinster


Context: LITERATURE: In 1904 this short story authors first book, Cabbages and Kings, was published


Context: LITERATURE: When he saw water snakes in the moonlight and blessed them, the albatross fell from his neck


Context: LITERATURE: He wrote his 1948 novel The Naked and the Dead while he was enrolled at the Sorbonne


Context: LITERATURE: She received the Pulitzer prize for her Collected Stories, not for Ship of Fools


Context: LITERATURE: The young narrator of Treasure Island


Context: LITERATURE: A well-known Ambrose Bierce short story is about an incident at this bridge in Northern Alabama


Context: LITERATURE: Lotus Blossom is the concubine of Wang Lung in this Pearl Buck novel


Context: LITERATURE: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is set in the town of St. Petersburg in this state


Context: LITERATURE: At the end of Moby Dick, this narrator is rescued by another whaling ship, the Rachel


Context: LITERATURE: This R.D. Blackmore novel begins in Exmoor, in the county of Somerset, in the year 1673


Context: LITERATURE: This Edith Wharton title character has a hypochondriac wife named Zenobia


Context: LITERATURE: Roderick & Madeline are the doomed twins in his scary 1839 story The Fall of the House of Usher


Context: LITERATURE: The Millers Tale is one of the bawdiest stories in this collection of Chaucer Tales


Context: LITERATURE: He published Flappers and Philosophers, his first book of short stories, in 1920, the year he married Zelda


Context: LITERATURE: The Red Rover is a sea novel by this author of The Last of the Mohicans


Context: LITERATURE: He said it took him Five years to write In Cold Blood


Context: LITERATURE: Its what made Quasimodo deaf


Context: LITERATURE: James Fenimore Cooper wrote The Pioneers & she wrote O Pioneers!


Context: LITERATURE: Robert Jordans big mission in For Whom The Bell Tolls is to blow up one of these structures


Context: LITERATURE: Thomas Mann story published as Der Tod In Venedig in 1912; it didnt appear in English until 1925


Context: LITERATURE: This E.M. Forster novel is divided into 3 sections:  Mosque, Caves & Temple


Context: LITERATURE: This Dickens title orphan was given his name by Mr. Bumble


Context: LITERATURE: This authors The Man Who Would Be King has been called the perfect short story


Context: LITERATURE: This John Bunyan work written as a dream was published in 2 parts:  Part I in 1678 & Part II in 1684


Context: LITERATURE: Title novella of the Philip Roth collection that won the 1960 National Book Award


Context: LITERATURE: The 42nd Parallel is the first novel in this John Dos Passos trilogy


Context: LITERATURE: According to both Burns & Steinbeck, their best laid schemes gang aft a-gley


Context: LITERATURE: In 1671, Milton wrote Paradise Regained, a sequel to this


Context: LITERATURE: English title of 7-part novel A la recherche du temps perdu by Proust


Context: LITERATURE: All stories, if continued far enough, end in death... he wrote in Death in the Afternoon


Context: LITERATURE: Language in which Brownings Sonnets from the Portuguese was originally written


Context: LITERATURE: The cheery first Masterpiece Theatre season included Jude the Obscure & this Russians The Possessed


Context: LITERATURE: Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys is the story of the mad wife of this Jane Eyre character


Context: LITERATURE: In 1856 Revue de Paris readers followed this tale of the miserable wife of a boring doctor


Context: LITERATURE: A fling with the valet is one of the escapades of this Strindberg title Miss


Context: LITERATURE: I Married a Communist, The Human Stain & American Pastoral make up a recent trilogy by this novelist


Context: LITERATURE: Child of the Morning is the story of Hatshepsut, a woman who ruled this country as a pharaoh


Context: LITERATURE: This Danish fairy tale author wrote an autobiography called The Fairy Tale of My Life


Context: LITERATURE: His first Jungle Book was so popular that he published his Second Jungle Book in 1895


Context: LITERATURE: Chapter 25 of this book is called The First Wedding  & it described Megs marriage to John Brooke


Context: LITERATURE: This author said that he was acting in a play with his kids when he came up with the idea for A Tale of Two Cities


Context: LITERATURE: As this 1931 novel begins, Wang Lung travels to the house of Hwang to fetch his bride


Context: LITERATURE: Washington Irving based this character on his friend Jesse Merwin, a schoolteacher


Context: LITERATURE: Upton Sinclairs 1927 novel Oil! was based on this presidential scandal of a few years earlier


Context: LITERATURE: In this title incident, vigilantes hang 3 men falsely accused of cattle rustling


Context: LITERATURE: The title of this Steinbeck novel refers to a district above Monterey inhabited by Paisanos


Context: LITERATURE: As well as the Iliad & Odyssey, a number of hymns are attributed to him


Context: LITERATURE: This American novelist created the old fisherman Santiago & the young bullfighter Pedro Romero


Context: LITERATURE: Before Les Miserables, he attacked the French penal system in the novel Claude Gueux


Context: LITERATURE: This Thoreau work includes a chapter on The Pond in Winter


Context: LITERATURE: The 2 leading French Absurdists were Ionesco, from Romania, & this Irish author of Waiting for Godot


Context: LITERATURE: Published in Spain in 1605, this classic of world literature was an instant hit


Context: LITERATURE: Of 50, 200 or 500, the one closest to the number of characters in War and Peace


Context: LITERATURE: This title Sir Walter Scott character is torn between Rebecca & the Saxon Rowena


Context: LITERATURE: Bank official Joseph K. is on the defensive as the accused in this Kafka work


Context: LITERATURE: In a Thomas Hardy novel, Michael Henchard is this title mayor


Context: LITERATURE: This quintessential New Englander published his first book of poems, A Boys Will, while living in England in 1913


Context: LITERATURE: Set in part in Philadelphia, Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker is a novel about this war


Context: LITERATURE: Taji & Jarl are deserters from a whaling ship in his 1849 novel Mardi


Context: LITERATURE: The Pentameron is a volume of imaginary conversations between Petrarch & this author of The Decameron


Context: LITERATURE: Great Chilean poet known for his Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair


Context: LITERATURE: The only thing this Wizard of Oz character was afraid of was a lighted match


Context: LITERATURE: This childrens story describes Toad Hall as a dignified old house of mellowed red brick


Context: LITERATURE: In 1941 his story The Devil And Daniel Webster was adapted as a film starring Edward Arnold


Context: LITERATURE: This novel begins, My fathers family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip...


Context: LITERATURE: Though not in travel brochures, Erskine Caldwells Tobacco Road is located in this state


Context: LITERATURE: George Shelby dedicates his life to abolition in this Harriet Beccher Stowe novel


Context: LITERATURE: He wrote many short stories with surprise endings including The Gift of the Magi


Context: LITERATURE: This Sylvia Plath novel was first published under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas


Context: LITERATURE: Lady Brett Ashley elopes with a bullfighter in this Hemingway novel


Context: LITERATURE: Dr. Pangloss is the tutor to this title character created by Voltaire


Context: LITERATURE: The book-of-the-month club calls this Dostoyevsky work the greatest crime novel ever written


Context: LITERATURE: In an 1896 sequel, this Mark Twain title character turned Detective


Context: LITERATURE: In 1846 these sisters published a collection of poems under the pen names Currer, Ellis & Acton Bell


Context: LITERATURE: One of his last collections of tales, Uncle Remus and the Little Boy, was published posthumously in 1910


Context: LITERATURE: This Hemingway novel about the Lost Generation is told from the viewpoint of Jake Barnes


Context: SCIENCE: At sea level at 70 degrees this travels 1,129 feet per second; it speeds up over 1 foot per sec. for each rising degree


Context: SCIENCE: The largest tree, the General Sherman in California, is this type, also called a Sierra Redwood


Context: SCIENCE: 6 elements once known as inert gases are now known by this aristocratic name


Context: SCIENCE: In metric measurement, 10 millimeters equal 1 of these


Context: SCIENCE: Boyles Law says normally if you double the pressure on a gas, the volume decreases by this amount


Context: SCIENCE: In 1973 it became the first comet studied by men in space


Context: SCIENCE: This resin, a natural polymer used as a varnish, is produced by insects in India and Myanmar


Context: SCIENCE: These electromagnetic rays used to take pictures of your insides were originally known as Roentgen rays


Context: SCIENCE: This German-born American physicist won the 1921 Nobel Prize for Physics


Context: SCIENCE: When combined with oxygen, this lightest chemical element makes water


Context: SCIENCE: Also a term for someone from Warsaw, its one of the 2 strongest points in a magnetic field


Context: SCIENCE: The symbol of this radioactive element is Pu & it sounds like its named after Mickey Mouses dog


Context: SCIENCE: This gas, symbol Xe, is used in stroboscopes & high-speed camera flashes


Context: SCIENCE: Nearly twice as sweet as sucrose, this fruit sugar is the main sweetener in honey


Context: SCIENCE: An archipelago is a group of islands & this is a ring of coral islands like Bikini in the Pacific


Context: SCIENCE: Developed by Edward Jenner, the first true vaccine was designed to protect against this disease


Context: SCIENCE: Theyre the 2 lines of latitude lying 23 1/2 degrees north & south of the Equator


Context: SCIENCE: This thermometer developer discovered that the boiling point of a liquid varies with atmospheric pressure


Context: SCIENCE: Of the noble gases, this one has the lowest atomic weight


Context: SCIENCE: From 1838 to 1841 this naturalist was Secretary of the Geological Society of London


Context: SCIENCE: This 2-letter-named moon of Jupiter is the most volcanically active body in the solar system


Context: SCIENCE: Kelp is an especially rich source of this halogen


Context: SCIENCE: The 2nd law of this covers equal distribution of resources; thus cream in coffee blends evenly even when not stirred


Context: SCIENCE: Part of a corkscrew is this type of simple machine reworked into a spiral form


Context: SCIENCE: The third law of thermodynamics implies that a system can never be brought to this temperature point


Context: SCIENCE: In 2006, Israeli scientists claimed to have created the ball type of this stormy phenomenon using a microwave oven


Context: SCIENCE: This type of cell sounds like it causes disease, but it refers to a gamete, such as an egg cell


Context: SCIENCE: In 2007 Intel announced a new faster chip design replacing silicon with this element, symbol Hf


Context: SCIENCE: Its the more common name for sodium chloride


Context: SCIENCE: Foxglove is an example of this type of plant that completes its life cycle in 2 years


Context: SCIENCE: After the sun & moon, this planet is the brightest object in the sky


Context: SCIENCE: The pH in pH scale stands for the potential of  this element


Context: SCIENCE: In geometry its a quadrilateral with 2 parallel sides; in anatomy, its the smallest wrist bone


Context: SCIENCE: He invented carbonated water as a byproduct of his investigations into the chemistry of air


Context: SCIENCE: Psychologists refer to this sense as olfaction


Context: SCIENCE: The length of this on Jupiter is less than 10 hours


Context: SCIENCE: Palynology seeks knowledge about past plant distribution by studying grains of this


Context: SCIENCE: Consisting of 3 atoms, water is an example of a triatomic one of these units


Context: SCIENCE: American Arthur Comptons work proved the existence of these particles of light


Context: SCIENCE: In 1803 Luke Howard coined names for types of them, including cumulus & stratus


Context: SCIENCE: Atoms of this lightest element make up about 90% of the universe


Context: SCIENCE: This element, symbol Ir, is one of the most corrosion-resistant metals known


Context: SCIENCE: Its the branch of physics that deals with light & vision


Context: SCIENCE: From the Latin for whip, theyre the whiplike parts by which certain protozoa move about


Context: SCIENCE: A sounds repetition by reflection


Context: SCIENCE: He originated The Origin of Species


Context: SCIENCE: Singular form of the word bacteria


Context: SCIENCE: Negative particle that orbits an atoms nucleus


Context: SCIENCE: Cytology is the study of these biological building blocks


Context: SCIENCE: Proxima Centauri is the second-closest star to the Earth; this is the closest


Context: SCIENCE: The constellation Taurus, not Cancer, contains this famous nebula


Context: SCIENCE: Arteries branch off into arterioles & these join to form veins


Context: SCIENCE: Often quite expensive, its considered the strongest natural fiber


Context: SCIENCE: This gray metal is used in spark plugs & x-ray tubes as well as filaments


Context: SCIENCE: When light is passed thru a prism, it produces this spread of colors


Context: SCIENCE: Its the branch of chemistry that deals with carbon compounds


Context: SCIENCE: All lines of longitude are measured east or west of this line


Context: SCIENCE: The Big Dipper is part of this constellation


Context: SCIENCE: The most important source of uranium & radium is this mineral ore


Context: SCIENCE: An astroblame is a scar on the Earths surface caused by one of these


Context: SCIENCE: These warm, dry winds can raise the temperature at the base of the Rockies as much as 40º F. in 1 hour


Context: SCIENCE: From the Latin for body, its a free-moving cell such as an erythrocyte or leukocyte


Context: SCIENCE: In the 2nd U.S. suborbital flight, his Mercury capsule, Liberty Bell 7, sank in the Atlantic upon splashdown


Context: SCIENCE: 2 isotopes of the same element differ in the number of these subatomic particles


Context: SCIENCE: Measured in ohms, its the R in Ohms law, V=IR


Context: SCIENCE: Next in the sequence: pentagon, hexagon, heptagon...


Context: SCIENCE: In the time it takes this largest planet to go once around the Sun, Earth has gone around 12 times


Context: SCIENCE: A good electrical insulator, this yellowish resin produces a charge of static electricity when rubbed


Context: SCIENCE: Isaac Newton found the strength of this depends on 2 things: mass & distance


Context: SCIENCE: Fahrenheit equivalent to 0º Centigrade


Context: SCIENCE: You might have to put F. Lee Bailey on one to admit he had a show about one


Context: SCIENCE: The science which deals with the motion & behavior of bullets


Context: SCIENCE: What youre stuck with boiling down collagen, softening it with hot water & letting it swell


Context: SCIENCE: In 1808, this metalsmith made copper plates for a Fulton steamboat boiler


Context: SCIENCE: The leatherback variety of this reptile is one of the few animals that primarily eat jellyfish


Context: SCIENCE: This prefrontal medical procedure involves the destruction of sections of the brains cortex


Context: SCIENCE: This process of making rubber harder & more elastic by heating it with sulfur bears the name of a Roman god


Context: SCIENCE: His 1543 book Concerning the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres started an astronomical revolution


Context: SCIENCE: The process by which neutral atoms become electrically charged is called this


Context: SCIENCE: Every second, fusion reactions in the Sun convert about 600 million tons of this element into helium


Context: SCIENCE: Of the 3 basic rock types, the type that was once one form but has changed to another due to heat & pressure


Context: SCIENCE: From the surface of this innermost planet, the sun appears 2.5 times as large as it does from Earth


Context: SCIENCE: The name of this element comes from iris, rainbow, & refers to its multi-hued compounds


Context: SCIENCE: In computers or audio amplifiers, its the process in which part of the output returns to the input


Context: SCIENCE: This basic aerodynamic force acts on a wing, putting greater pressure on its lower surface than on its upper


Context: SCIENCE: The 3 basic bacterial types are the coccus, the spirillum & this type that causes TB


Context: SCIENCE: This form of oxygen, O3, is a major source of air pollution


Context: SCIENCE: In 1865 this chemist saved the French silkworm industry by eradicating pebrine disease


Context: SCIENCE: In this effect first described in 1842, the pitch of a train whistle seems to change as it moves


Context: SCIENCE: His experiments with light, including those with prisms, were published in his 1704 book Opticks


Context: SCIENCE: The Crookes tube, used to study these rays, led to the creation of the TV picture tube


Context: SCIENCE: This is the formulation of the Einstein equation


Context: SCIENCE: This is the permanent removal of unwanted hair by destroying its roots with electric current


Context: SCIENCE: This pole star is the brightest one in the constellation Ursa Minor


Context: SCIENCE: This synthetic metallic element is named for scientists Marie & Pierre


Context: SCIENCE: Estimated temperatures on this planet range from 950° F. on the sunlit side to -346° on the dark side


Context: SCIENCE: This is the name of our own galaxy


Context: SCIENCE: This element is called natrium in Latin, hence its symbol Na


Context: SCIENCE: Magnifications of up to one million times can be achieved with this type of microscope


Context: SCIENCE: Many of the gems sold as topaz are actually the citrine variety of this stone


Context: SCIENCE: Cosmic rays were first detected by V. F. Hess during a flight by one of these


Context: SCIENCE: The crepe ring is the transparent C ring in this planets ring system


Context: SCIENCE: Albert Ghiorso at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab holds the record for discovering the most of these


Context: SCIENCE: In MS-DOS, the .bak file extension meant the file was this type


Context: SCIENCE: An isohel on a weather map is a line showing connecting places with an equal amount of this


Context: SCIENCE: This medal metal is usually an alloy of tin & copper


Context: SCIENCE: In testing out gases by smelling themHumphry Davy found in 1800 that this one made him feel giddy


Context: SCIENCE: The name of this disorder in which the bones become porous comes from the Greek for bone & passage


Context: SCIENCE: In astronomy, this unit of measure is abbreviated pc


Context: SCIENCE: Each of these organs contains about 1 million nephrons, which filter blood


Context: SCIENCE: These were first seen in human cells in 1882; the exact number, 46, was determined in 1956


Context: SCIENCE: In 1758 this Swedish biologist introduced binomial nomenclature


Context: SCIENCE: Poor amoebas! They reproduce by doing this


Context: SCIENCE: Vegetable dye that turns red in acid solutions & blue in alkaline solutions


Context: SCIENCE: Distilled from liquid air, this gas is used to produce a bright reddish light


Context: SCIENCE: To cure Parkinsons, scientists are now trying cell grafts in this part of the body


Context: SCIENCE: This British physician has been called the Father of Immunology


Context: SCIENCE: The SO in SONAR stands for this word


Context: SCIENCE: This space station turned 10 in February 1996


Context: SCIENCE: In 1882 this inventor opened the Pearl Street Power Station in New York


Context: SCIENCE: In a cars steering system, its the geared wheel that moves the rack


Context: SCIENCE: To produce this metal using the Bayer Process, you begin with caustic soda & bauxite


Context: SCIENCE: In 1857 James Clerk Maxwell concluded that its rings were made of small, unconnected particles


Context: SCIENCE: This project to develop a fission bomb was established in August 1942


Context: SCIENCE: Lithium is the lightest element that occurs in this state of matter at room temperature


Context: SCIENCE: For the radioactive isotope Actinium-227, its 21.8 years


Context: SCIENCE: This British baron pioneered antiseptic surgery using carbolic acid for sterilization


Context: SCIENCE: After about eight weeks, a human embryo develops into this


Context: SCIENCE: At about 63,000 ft. at normal body temperature, blood will do this


Context: SCIENCE: Because they are never found in chemical compounds, the noble gases neon, argon & helium are called this


Context: SCIENCE: A hemodialyzer is a medical device known as an artificial this organ


Context: SCIENCE: The second law of thermodynamics says that this will of its own accord only move to a colder object


Context: SCIENCE: This division separates Saturns rings & is named for the man who spotted them in 1675


Context: SCIENCE: Formulated NaCl its the chemical name for common table salt


Context: SCIENCE: Of the 3 basic states of matter, only this one, when unconfined, tends to expand indefinitely


Context: SCIENCE: Term for the time it takes a radioactive substance to decay to 50% of its original quantity


Context: SCIENCE: In biological classification this comes between family & species


Context: SCIENCE: On the Fahrenheit scale, the freezing point of water is 32° & the boiling point is this


Context: SCIENCE: In biology its a finger; in math, a figure like 1


Context: SCIENCE: A free-falling body accelerates at a rate of about 1 g, g coming from this word


Context: SCIENCE: Pre-Y1K scientists figured this organ gave out light; they were, of course, wrong


Context: SCIENCE: These in the skies of Albuquerque on October 3, 1999 were a fine example of Charles Law in action


Context: SCIENCE: The 5-kingdom system is made up of animals, bacteria, plants, protists & these


Context: SCIENCE: A deuterium atom is a hydrogen atom that has this keeping its proton company in the nucleus


Context: SCIENCE: This largest nerve in the body arises in the sacral plexus, leaves the pelvis & runs down the thigh


Context: SCIENCE: Bears appeared during this epoch right before the Pliocene


Context: SCIENCE: It equals mass divided by volume & is often expressed in pounds per cubic foot


Context: SCIENCE: His 1905 paper On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies contained his special Theory of Relativity


Context: SCIENCE: In 1935 the daughter of this famed pair won a Nobel Prize for the discovery of artificial radioactivity


Context: SCIENCE: Its the chemical formula for dry ice


Context: SCIENCE: The term geotropism refers to the effect that this has on the direction plants grow or bend


Context: SCIENCE: In the Arctic, some of these organisms consisting of an alga & a fungus may be 4,000 years old


Context: SCIENCE: Behaviorists & dogs drool over the work of this Russian physiologist


Context: SCIENCE: Though pleasant to kiss under, this plant is poisonous to eat


Context: SCIENCE: Cryobiologists are interested in doing this to living matter to preserve it for future use


Context: SCIENCE: In a month an observer can see 59% of this heavenly bodys surface


Context: SCIENCE: In 1996 scientists mapped a large lake on this continent covered by over 2 miles of ice


Context: SCIENCE: When a seed germinates, its radicle breaks out & grows downward to become this part of the plant


Context: SCIENCE: Common types of these organisms combining algae & fungi can be fructose, foliose or crustose


Context: SCIENCE: Its an insoluble solid that separates from a solution


Context: SCIENCE: In breathing its the gas you expel to the atmosphere


Context: SCIENCE: Erosion from these created fjords & drumlins


Context: SCIENCE: Scientist John Dalton suffered from the red-green type of this


Context: SCIENCE: The surfaces of this type of element can be anodized


Context: SCIENCE: He discovered that if nitroglycerin was absorbed by an inert substance, it wouldnt explode from shock


Context: SCIENCE: In November 2009 science news, a NASA probe found water here, & not a little bit, either


Context: SCIENCE: About 65% of iron in humans is in the form of this, which transports molecular oxygen from the lungs through the body


Context: SCIENCE: Its the largest number in the Fibonacci sequence thats also a day in a month


Context: SCIENCE: If somethings described as effervescent, it means it has a lot of these


Context: SCIENCE: Kill an insect & youve committed insecticide; kill the mildew in your shower & youve committed this


Context: SCIENCE: This sedimentary rock, Creta in Latin, was formed from marine life during the Cretaceous period


Context: SCIENCE: This mineral comes after No. 9, corundum, on the Mohs scale


Context: SCIENCE: Abbreviated pc, its a unit of distance used in astronomy equal to 3.21 light years


Context: SCIENCE: Its the weakest of the 4 basic forces, but its strong enough to keep the moon orbiting the Earth


Context: SCIENCE: A cubic inch of material contains a million billion billion of these, each with protons & neutrons in its nucleus


Context: SCIENCE: Changes in the tropospheric layer of this are what gives us weather


Context: SCIENCE: On June 1, 1831, James Clark Ross discovered this when a compass needle he was holding pointed straight down


Context: SCIENCE: Newton figured the Earth should be an oblate spheroid with an equatorial bulge because it does this


Context: SCIENCE: From the Greek for number, its the science of numbers


Context: SCIENCE: A lean, small-boned person is an ectomorph; an endomorph is round; and this type is muscular


Context: SCIENCE: In this pre-birth procedure, a small amount of fluid is withdrawn from the sac in the uterus and tested


Context: SCIENCE: Termed The Last Sorcerer in a recent biography, in 1705 he became the first scientist to be knighted for his work


Context: SCIENCE: From the Latin for about a day, these body rhythms govern cycles of wakefulness & sleep


Context: SCIENCE: In the 1970s sign language was taught to Koko the gorilla & Washoe, one of these


Context: SCIENCE: A magnetron is an electronic tube used to produce these waves found in some kitchens


Context: SCIENCE: The bubbling seen here is caused by this gas, a major part of Jupiters atmosphere


Context: SCIENCE: The spin of a frisbee keeps it stable in flight, illustrating angular this


Context: SCIENCE: In 1869 this Russian chemist published his periodic table


Context: SCIENCE: Only a few living things, like some germs, can live without this gas symbolized O


Context: SCIENCE: Though the Earth isnt a perfect sphere, its eastern & western halves are each called this


Context: SCIENCE: No Doubt sang, Thank You for turning on the lights.  Thank You, now youre this organism that lives off a host


Context: SCIENCE: This man seen here, born in Oxford in 1942, is among the greatest physicists of our time


Context: SCIENCE: Piltdown Man, a hoax played on scientists, had a human skull & the jaw of this reddish ape


Context: SCIENCE: A whole lot of shakin goes on in this science that deals almost exclusively with earthquakes


Context: SCIENCE: Mass number is defined as the number of neutrons & these particles in an atoms nucleus


Context: SCIENCE: From the Latin for smoke hole, its a vent in a volcanic area from which smoke & gases escape


Context: SCIENCE: In contrast to the hydrosphere, its the term for the rocky part of the Earth, or its crust


Context: SCIENCE: This fossilized resin from prehistoric pines can preserve an insect forever


Context: SCIENCE: Most icebergs in the north Atlantic come from about 20 glaciers on this islands west coast


Context: SCIENCE: Around 1840 chemist John William Draper took the first photograph of this heavenly body


Context: SCIENCE: Birds & bees perform this transfer of gametes from anthers to stigmas


Context: SCIENCE: Einstein said measurements of this depend on whether the observer is moving; its not absolute


Context: SCIENCE: The largest cell is the 3-inch diameter yolk of this birds egg


Context: SCIENCE: In Latin this metal is known as aurum


Context: SCIENCE: On a weather chart this line connects places that have the same barometric pressure


Context: SCIENCE: On June 29, 1994 the temperature reached 125 degrees in Laughlin, the highest ever recorded in this state


Context: SCIENCE: This organ removes excess glucose from the blood & stores it as glycogen


Context: SCIENCE: Into the 20th Century it was thought the universe was one big galaxy--this one


Context: SCIENCE: Vauquelin found Beryllium in 1798, the year after he found this, symbol Cr


Context: SCIENCE: Predicted in 1928, the first known antiparticle was the anti-this, also called the positron


Context: SCIENCE: A typical snowflake has this many sides


Context: SCIENCE: Common element whose refined forms include pig, cast or wrought


Context: SCIENCE: After length, width & depth, the 4th dimension


Context: SCIENCE: Type of organism that lives off of another, contributing nothing


Context: SCIENCE: Shattering sound that accompanies breaking the sound barrier


Context: SCIENCE: A whole lot of shakin goes on in this science that deals almost exclusively with earthquakes


Context: SCIENCE: Mass number is defined as the number of neutrons & these particles in an atoms nucleus


Context: SCIENCE: Like you, dicotyledonous plants have a network of these, but theirs carry food & water


Context: SCIENCE: Pauling found an alpha type of this spiral in proteins; Watson & Crick found a double one in DNA


Context: SCIENCE: This ninth planets unusual orbit sometimes brings it closer to the sun than the eighth planet


Context: SCIENCE: Its the ratio of the amount of water vapor in the air to the amount the air can hold at that temperature


Context: SCIENCE: A parasitoid differs from a parasite in that this eventually happens to its host


Context: SCIENCE: The acceleration of falling objects varies from place to place because of variations in this force


Context: SCIENCE: Its the property of a body that opposes an electric current moving through it


Context: SCIENCE: The daphnia, a water flea, is related to this million times larger member of the surf & turf combo


Context: SCIENCE: A satellite in a retrograde orbit around the Earth heads in this direction


Context: SCIENCE: Its the 3-dimensional figure that is a set of points all equidistant from the center point


Context: SCIENCE: In this process of cell division, unlike mitosis, a cell divides & halves the number of chromosomes


Context: SCIENCE: When your glands are sore, theyre busy producing these infection-fighting white blood cells


Context: SCIENCE: Snakes come equipped with a special tooth named for this & used to break out of it


Context: SCIENCE: In 1992 scientists found ripples in the CBR, Cosmic Background this, whose existence supports the Big Bang Theory


Context: SCIENCE: Several centuries after the Chinese used negative numbers, people in India came up with the concept of this number


Context: SCIENCE: The books in Libbie Hymans 6-volume study of these have spines; by definition, the creatures in them dont


Context: SCIENCE: 7 years after Darwin published his natural selection theory, this man published his laws of genetics


Context: SCIENCE: While we have 23 pairs of these in each cell, the fruit fly makes do with 4, only 1 of them sex-related


Context: SCIENCE: 2000 news: the Gunnison sage grouse isnt just another northern sage grouse, but a new one of this classification


Context: SCIENCE: An acre of soil contains billions of nematodes, the round type of these seen here under the microscope


Context: SCIENCE: From the Latin for parchment, this semi-permeable barrier surrounds a cells cytoplasm


Context: SCIENCE: At Prague Tech, we wonder if this physics professors voice got higher as he moved toward you


Context: SCIENCE: Term for the blood vessels which take the blood from the heart


Context: SCIENCE: In the scientific categories, Americans have won 142, or 38%, of these awards 1st given in 1901


Context: SCIENCE: The Hubble constant tells how fast the universe is expanding since this noisy event occurred


Context: SCIENCE: Base 10 equivalent to the binary number 11


Context: SCIENCE: A metal that is ductile can be pulled into this while cold & under pressure


Context: SCIENCE: These respiratory organs of aquatic animals occur in oysters & some insect larvae as well as in fish


Context: SCIENCE: Used to control glaucoma, a trabeculectomy is a procedure that reduces pressure in this organ


Context: SCIENCE: The number of these dark patches visible on the suns surface varies from a few to several hundred


Context: SCIENCE: A phrase used to remember this planets main moons is Met Dr. Thip; Titan is the second T


Context: SCIENCE: This drug marketed as Motrin was patented in Great Britain in 1964


Context: SCIENCE: One wholl give you blood or the kidney off his back


Context: SCIENCE: Around for 400 million yrs., there are now more than 2,000 species of these pesty cricket cousins


Context: SCIENCE: Intact DNA was recently extracted from one of these ancient royal relics


Context: SCIENCE: Tracking these, coast guard rates them as bergy bits, growlers, small, medium, & large


Context: SCIENCE: 3-letter suffix used to form chemical terms, esp. names of sugars & other carbohydrates


Context: SCIENCE: This type of rain forms when nitrogen oxides & sulfur dioxide react within growing droplets


Context: SCIENCE: This branch of study is for the birds... actually, its of the birds


Context: SCIENCE: In 1633 the Church condemned him to house arrest for astronomical heresy


Context: SCIENCE: As it has no mass, this particle travels at about 186,000 miles per second


Context: SCIENCE: This green plant pigment is also found in algae & in some bacteria


Context: SCIENCE: In 1875 this plant breeder moved to California using profits earned on his potato


Context: SCIENCE: Its defined as an atom or group of atoms that has an electrical charge


Context: SCIENCE: A 1991 photo of Gaspra taken by the Galileo probe was the first close-up of one of these minor planets


Context: SCIENCE: In the 1940s this Nobel Prize winner & vitamin C advocate studied the structure of antibodies


Context: SCIENCE: Around 1910 Thomas Morgan found that these hereditary units are located on chromosomes within cells


Context: SCIENCE: Some minerals can readily be identified by taste; halite has this type of taste


Context: SCIENCE: Cilia later!  These long hairlike extensions help bacteria move by means of a whipping motion


Context: SCIENCE: Sugars, alcohols & starches are all formed by different combos of these 3 elements


Context: SCIENCE: The fundamental forces are electromagnetism, gravity & these 2 opposite nuclear forces


Context: SCIENCE: This most malleable metal can be beaten into sheets 1 ten-thousandth of a millimeter thick


Context: SCIENCE: This element whose symbol is Zr is alphabetically the last element


Context: SCIENCE: The Portland type of this substance is limestone & shale heated until almost fused, then ground


Context: SCIENCE: This term can mean active by day, or happening every day


Context: SCIENCE: In the third century B.C. this principled Greek showed the value of pi was between 223/71 & 220/70


Context: SCIENCE: It can be fatty matter on the wall of an artery, or a buildup of matter on a tooth


Context: SCIENCE: The 4 dimensions in the Einsteinian space-time continuum are time, length, width & this


Context: SCIENCE: NaOCl, sodium hypochlorite, is this common laundry product


Context: SCIENCE: Put this in your notebook: Andromeda, like the Milky Way, is a galaxy of this shape


Context: SCIENCE: Abbreviated lm, its a measurement of light


Context: SCIENCE: The opposite of a base, it turns blue litmus red


Context: SCIENCE: Jaundice can be a symptom of this liver disease, type A, B or C


Context: SCIENCE: The 10th to 12th of these body parts that form a cage articulate with single vertebrae


Context: SCIENCE: Echocardiography can tell you whether this doublespeak heart issue is caused by an abnormal valve


Context: SCIENCE: Also known as epinephrine, this hormone is secreted in response to stress, like fear or injury


Context: SCIENCE: Its that line off in the distance where the sky meets the land or the sea


Context: SCIENCE: What makes Rigel the brightest star in this constellation is that its really 3 stars


Context: SCIENCE: In the 1970s it was found that when CFCs break down, this is the main 1 of the 3 elements in them that harms the ozone


Context: SCIENCE: Amoebas use temporary extensions called these to move or to surround & engulf food


Context: SCIENCE: This amino acid is the sodium salt of glutamic acid


Context: SCIENCE: Hirsutism is having more than the normal amount of this


Context: SCIENCE: This 4th letter of the Greek alphabet is used to describ a high-speed aircraft wing type


Context: SCIENCE: The focal length is the distance from the center of one of these to the focal point


Context: SCIENCE: When astronomers got a close-up look at this object in 1985-86, its nucleus looked like a big potato


Context: SCIENCE: This term refers to the warm periods within ice ages; were in one of those periods now


Context: SCIENCE: Land animal with the largest teeth


Context: SCIENCE: Diffraction refers to the way it bends


Context: SCIENCE: The 2 primary ferrous metals


Context: SCIENCE: Natural vanilla flavoring comes from this tropical flower


Context: SCIENCE: Stratigraphy is a branch of this science


Context: SCIENCE: An enzyme in saliva called ptyalin converts these into maltose, a sugar


Context: SCIENCE: A dry Sirocco is a warm wind that carries particles of sand from this African desert across the Mediterranean


Context: SCIENCE: In 1729 this Swede wrote Praeludia Sponsaliorum Plantarum, which described the sexual processes of plants


Context: SCIENCE: This metals name is from the Greek for rose; it forms salts that give rose-colored solutions


Context: SCIENCE: Black spot is a serious fungal disease that affects these flowers; rugosas have good resistance


Context: SCIENCE: Polarized lenses are one method used in these items that make some movie theater experiences more exciting


Context: SCIENCE: William Jennings Bryan called this theory a program of infidelity masquerading under the name of science


Context: SCIENCE: With cups that rotate horizontally, an anemometer measures the speed of this, anemos in Greek


Context: SCIENCE: Dont blame me--the most common cause of earthquakes is movement along these lines


Context: SCIENCE: Theyre also called erythrocytes


Context: SCIENCE: The name of this noble gas is from the Greek for new


Context: SCIENCE: The Haber process uses nitrogen & hydrogen to synthetically produce this pungent gas


Context: SCIENCE: This unit of pressure is equal to about 14.7 pounds per square inch or 1 bar


Context: SCIENCE: In the nervous system, calcium ions crossing the gap between these cause a release of acetylcholine


Context: SCIENCE: As opposed to what arthropods have, vertebrates have this internal framework


Context: SCIENCE: Mycobacterium tuberculosis is one of the organisms this process kills in milk


Context: SCIENCE: Like humans, the Red-vented Bulbul bird needs a dietary source of this vitamin, also called ascorbic acid


Context: SCIENCE: Boiling bones & hides converts the protein collagen to this foodstuff


Context: SCIENCE: Horseshoe crabs & coelacanth fish are considered living ones of these


Context: SCIENCE: Quarks have six known ones of these, which is far short of Baskin-Robbins


Context: SCIENCE: Drumlins are elongated, elliptical hills formed at the edges of these moving ice masses


Context: SCIENCE: Elements are arranged in order of their atomic numbers on this table


Context: SCIENCE: This yellow element is found in gunpowder & matches & is used in vulcanizing rubber


Context: SCIENCE: 2 bacteria, Lactobacillus Bulgaricus & Streptococcus Thermophilus, turn milk into this


Context: SCIENCE: Named after its 19th century inventor, this pendulum demonstrates the Earths rotation


Context: SCIENCE: This inert gas alters your voice because sound travels more than twice as fast in it as in air


Context: SCIENCE: Lignin, a substance in wood, changes when exposed to oxygen; that makes white paper turn this color as it ages


Context: SCIENCE: Slow-motion video shows this bug evading a swat in 250 milliseconds; for 240 of those, its repositioning itself to jump


Context: SCIENCE: Its the form of glucose that rotates a plane of polarized light clockwise


Context: SCIENCE: Almost the entire mass of an atom is contained in this central portion


Context: SCIENCE: In 1914 she became head of the Paris Institute of Radium


Context: SCIENCE: Theyre the tiny threadlike structures that carry the genes - you have 23 pairs


Context: SCIENCE: Organic chemistry specializes in compounds that contain this element


Context: SCIENCE: His discovery of energy quanta earned him the 1918 Nobel Prize for Physics


Context: SCIENCE: The only substance known to ancient man in solid, liquid & gas form


Context: SCIENCE: Most of the worlds supply of this light gas comes from natural gas fields in the U.S.


Context: SCIENCE: Launched by the Soviets in 1957, the 1st living creature to orbit the Earth was one of these


Context: SCIENCE: Some hemophiliacs spend over $50,000 per year on Factor VIII which does this for the blood


Context: SCIENCE: Science took a leap forward when physicist Max Planck devised this theory about light


Context: SCIENCE: Invented by Edwin Land, it was the first instant camera


Context: SCIENCE: When Henry Cavendish discovered this lightest-known element, he called it inflammable air


Context: SCIENCE: Galileo is said to have done gravity experiments by dropping weights from this tower


Context: SCIENCE: In ancient times, lodestone was used as a form of this instrument


Context: SCIENCE: A positive ion is formed when an atom loses one or more of these


Context: SCIENCE: by definition an anaerobe is an organism that lives in an environment free of this element


Context: SCIENCE: The Gutenberg Discontinuity is the boundary that separates the core from this part of the earth


Context: SCIENCE: From its Latin name argentum, Ag is the chemical symbol for this metallic element


Context: SCIENCE: Its the solid part of the earth as distinguished from the atmosphere & hydrosphere


Context: SCIENCE: In 1979 it was discovered that this genetic structure spirals to the left, not to the right as once believed


Context: SCIENCE: The boundary between the mantle & this layer is called the Mohorovicic Discontinuity


Context: SCIENCE: These 2 ducts lead from the ovaries to the uterus


Context: SCIENCE: In the 1920s, Julius Nieuwland polymerized acetylene, added chlorine atoms & created this synthetic rubber


Context: SCIENCE: On July 10, 1996 scientists released close-up photos of Ganymede taken by this space probe


Context: SCIENCE: In 1993 Eugene & Carolyn Shoemaker & David Levy discovered a highly fragmented one of these


Context: SCIENCE: Silver iodide & silver bromide are sensitive to this, hence their use in photography


Context: SCIENCE: Term for the edible endospermic seeds of an ear of corn


Context: SCIENCE: Sore, stiff joints are one symptom of this condition suffered by sailors off the C, vitamin C


Context: SCIENCE: Though his work was uncertain, he won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1932, just on principle


Context: SCIENCE: The element named for him wasnt one of the ones he left a gap for in the periodic table; it came in at 101


Context: SCIENCE: This heavenly bodys prominences include dark filaments & clouds of gas


Context: SCIENCE: In botany there are 4 flower parts:  sepals, petals, stamens & these


Context: SCIENCE: You have many sweatglands, but only this number of lacrimal glands


Context: SCIENCE: The highest jet streams occur in this layer of the atmosphere that begins 10 miles above the earth


Context: SCIENCE: There are 3 types of RNA:  transfer, ribosomal & this


Context: SCIENCE: The Graafian follicles of these glands contain the female reproductive cells


Context: SCIENCE: The sun is 333,000 times as massive as the Earth & 1,047 times as massive as this planet


Context: SCIENCE: Two 9-volt batteries in a series circuit produce this many volts of electromotive force


Context: SCIENCE: The screw & the wedge are adaptations of this type of simple machine


Context: SCIENCE: Of copper, iron or aluminum, the one that would be most attracted to a magnet


Context: SCIENCE: In a month, this object ranges from about 225,000 miles to 252,000 miles from the Earth


Context: SCIENCE: By definition, its what a carnivore eats


Context: SCIENCE: In 1985 a hole was discovered in the ozone layer over this continent


Context: SCIENCE: Just using flour & water gives you unleavened bread; add this fungus to leaven it


Context: SCIENCE: Meaning without water, its one type of barometer


Context: SCIENCE: Miranda, a moon of this planet, was the 1st not named after a god or spirit


Context: SCIENCE: Heisenbergs uncertainty principle says you can figure out a particles momentum or this, not both


Context: SCIENCE: In 70-degree air, a plane traveling at about 1,130 feet per second breaks it


Context: SCIENCE: Scientists say the Earth has warmed about 9 degrees since the last of these frigid ages


Context: SCIENCE: In 1987 the Smithsonian celebrated the 300th anniversary of this scientists Principia


Context: SCIENCE: It was this part of his wifes body that Wilhelm Roentgen X-rayed first


Context: SCIENCE: In 1995 scientists in Switzerland created atoms of this substance that may not exist naturally in our universe


Context: SCIENCE: Magnetism occurs most strongly in 3 elements: nickel, cobalt & this


Context: SCIENCE: In 1665 Robert Hooke described & named this structural unit; bacteria have only one


Context: SCIENCE: In 1698 Thomas Savery designed the first practical engine to run on this power


Context: SCIENCE: This blood protein now comes in alpha, beta & gamma types


Context: SCIENCE: Simple machine Archimedes would use to move the Earth if you gave him a firm spot on which to stand


Context: SCIENCE: Not long after its development, Robert Boyle renamed the Torricellian Tube this


Context: SCIENCE: Ferrovanadium is an alloy of vanadium & this metal


Context: SCIENCE: The horny casing of the toes of ungulates is called this


Context: SCIENCE: In 1990 this space telescope provided the first picture of Charon as completely separate from Pluto


Context: SCIENCE: He outlines his 3 laws of motion in Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica


Context: SCIENCE: Fusion, the change of a solid to a liquid state, is more commonly called this


Context: SCIENCE: The symbol of this element first isolated in 1783 comes from its German name


Context: SCIENCE: Among alkaloids found in plants, this stimulant is found in coffee or tea


Context: SCIENCE: You may not need a high IQ to know IQ stands for this


Context: SCIENCE: Name for the process a caterpillar goes through to become a moth


Context: SCIENCE: When cocci live in pairs, theyre called diplococci; in clusters, staphylococci; in chains, this


Context: SCIENCE: Next in length on the scale of geological time: age, epoch, period, era...


Context: SCIENCE: In the early 1830s Michael Faraday found that a moving one of these can produce an electric current


Context: SCIENCE: In 1953 Watson & Crick built a model of the molecular structure of this, the gene-carrying substance


Context: SCIENCE: In 2002 an 800-mile-diameter planetoid called Quaoar was found 1 billion miles past this 1430-mile-diameter planet


Context: SCIENCE: In the 1920s scientists discovered fossilized dinosaur eggs in this huge Mongolian desert


Context: SCIENCE: Among the compounds called alkanes, the hexanes are C6H14 -- & these hydrocarbons are C8H18


Context: SCIENCE: The fishlike amphioxus has a structure called a notochord which in humans develops into this column


Context: SCIENCE: Newtons Third Law of Motion is usually quoted as For every action there is this 3-word type of reaction


Context: SCIENCE: In geologic theory, the Earths outer shell has about 12 big these, moving around tectonically


Context: SCIENCE: Boric acid, a weak acid, is used as this bacteria-killing infection-preventing type of substance


Context: SCIENCE: This unit represents the explosive power of 2 billion pounds of TNT


Context: SCIENCE: The vast majority of this second-lightest gas comes from natural gas fields in the U.S.


Context: SCIENCE: Sialia mexicana is the scientific name of the western bluebird: Sialia is the genus & mexicana tells you this


Context: SCIENCE: In a first-class type of this, the fulcrum is between the applied force and the load


Context: SCIENCE: The tail of this body is formed when ice turns into gas as it gets closer to the sun


Context: SCIENCE: This 5-letter word is the opposite of attract


Context: SCIENCE: It takes approximately 24,840 MPH to achieve this


Context: SCIENCE: The word rubber comes from the discovery that the stuff could be used to rub out marks made with this


Context: SCIENCE: As its caused by a lack of niacin, pellagra is termed this type of deficiency disease


Context: SCIENCE: In parts of the Caribbean, these are on a diurnal cycle: one high, one low a day, thats it


Context: SCIENCE: Its a substance that conducts current; sodium & potassium are 2 of the ones Gatorade restores to your body


Context: SCIENCE: Dimitri Mendeleyev made modern chemistry possible when he set this grouping of the elements


Context: SCIENCE: A simple one of these consists of a small weight swinging to & fro on the end of a string


Context: SCIENCE: The process by which a substance changes from liquid to a gas is called this


Context: SCIENCE: The planets that are smaller than Earth are Mercury, Venus & these two


Context: SCIENCE: An LED; its used for displaying readings on digital watches & calculators


Context: SCIENCE: When this scientist discovered oxygen, he called it dephlogisticated air


Context: SCIENCE: Most living organisms have millions, but a prisoner only has one


Context: SCIENCE: A 5th C. B.C. Greek philosopher was 1st to theorize that all matter is made of these


Context: SCIENCE: Term for creatures like vultures or hermit crabs that eat carcasses & refuse


Context: SCIENCE: Days & nights are always 12 hours long there


Context: SCIENCE: If youre studying mensuration, youre studying this


Context: SCIENCE: Its what the L stands for in laser


Context: SCIENCE: The Celsius temperature scale is also called this, meaning divided into one hundred parts


Context: SCIENCE: This one of the simple machines is made by using a wheel & a rope


Context: SCIENCE: Shock researcher Walter Cannon coined this word for an organisms ability to maintain internal equilibrium


Context: SCIENCE: He was in Shanghai in 1921 when he found out he had won a Nobel Prize for Physics


Context: SCIENCE: Isaac Newton published his first mathematical formulation for this fundamental force in 1687


Context: SCIENCE: In 1996researchers announced a new one of these body parts, the spheno-mandibularis


Context: SCIENCE: During an epidemic of this disease in 1796, Edward Jenner discovered the power of vaccines & used it to save lives


Context: SCIENCE: When boiling water, energy absorbed that escapes as vapor is this type of heat, from Latin latere, to hide


Context: SCIENCE: In 1633 Descartes suppressed his book The World because it supported the ideas of this Italian


Context: SCIENCE: Rust is a slow example of this process:  combustion is defined as a rapid one


Context: SCIENCE: Dont worry about exploding when using this heart medicine -- its too diluted


Context: SCIENCE: This family of trees has 2 genera, populus & salix; we wonder to which one Alyson Hannigan belongs


Context: SCIENCE: Some protozoans bodies can be divided into the fluid inner endoplasm & this more rigid outer part


Context: SCIENCE: In computerese, a vaccine is a program that seeks out & destroys these


Context: SCIENCE: A compass points toward this north pole


Context: SCIENCE: Varieties of these simple plants include red, brown, green & blue-green


Context: SCIENCE: Behaviorists & dogs drool over the work of this Russian physiologist


Context: SCIENCE: The most abundant metal on Earth, when it was discovered in 1820 it was worth more than gold


Context: SCIENCE: The universes background radiation is thought to be left over from this primordial event


Context: SCIENCE: Electrically speaking, its the opposite of resistivity


Context: SCIENCE: Ossification, the formation of this, begins in the embryo at the end of the second month


Context: SCIENCE: These 2 upper chambers of the heart receive & collect blood from the veins


Context: SCIENCE: Its measured in rads


Context: SCIENCE: In 1975 in Texas scientists found fossils of this flying lizard with a more than 50 wingspan


Context: SCIENCE: The name of this dog star, the brightest star in the night sky, is Greek for scorching


Context: SCIENCE: This green pigment is required for photosynthesis


Context: SCIENCE: One meter equals 39.37 of these


Context: SCIENCE: Fructose is a monosaccharide, a simple one of these


Context: SCIENCE: pH, the measure of acidity, stands for potential of this most abundant element


Context: SCIENCE: The mammal that holds the record for the longest lifespan


Context: SCIENCE: You have receptors in your ears for this fundamental force, & they get upset when  youre weightless


Context: SCIENCE: Darwin defined it as preservation of favorable variations and the rejection of injurious variations


Context: SCIENCE: Below the atmosphere is this sphere, from the Greek for stone


Context: SCIENCE: The mother of a mule


Context: SCIENCE: Its another name for your coccyx


Context: SCIENCE: Union Carbide makes this common car additive that contains ethylene glycol


Context: SCIENCE: This unit of measure in weather is abbreviated mb


Context: SCIENCE: Frenchman who discovered the Piezoelectric Effect, that certain crystals when stressed make electricity


Context: SCIENCE: An EEG records the electrical activity of this organ


Context: SCIENCE: Human beings normally have 46 of these in most of their cells


Context: SCIENCE: This second-lightest metal, symbol K, is so soft it can be cut with a knife


Context: SCIENCE: Hes been called the Father of Modern Rocketry


Context: SCIENCE: According to his law, resistance in a DC circuit is the ratio of volts to amps


Context: SCIENCE: Its the element whose atomic weight is closest to its atomic number


Context: SCIENCE: Inventors of these include Georges Leclanche, Gaston Plante & Alessandro Volta


Context: SCIENCE: Life here was the subject of the 1965 book World Without Sun


Context: SCIENCE: After 1,400 orbits it fell back to Earth January 4, 1958 & burned up


Context: SCIENCE: In 1977 the U.S. banned these that used freon as the propellant


Context: WORD ORIGINS: This adjective meaning deceptive or sneaky is from the Latin de via, meaning out of the way


Context: WORD ORIGINS: This New York islands name may come from the Algonquian word for island


Context: WORD ORIGINS: This compass direction may come from the Proto-Germanic for to the left of the rising sun


Context: WORD ORIGINS: From the Latin for much writing, its another name for a lie detector test


Context: WORD ORIGINS: A type of ear implant to help the deaf, its from the Greek for snail


Context: WORD ORIGINS: This states name is from the Sioux for sky-tinted waters; maybe they meant the 10,000 lakes


Context: WORD ORIGINS: The Old Norse word vindauga gave us this pane-ful word for an opening in a wall


Context: WORD ORIGINS: Derived from the Latin for salted vegetables, this cold dish might be enhanced with a little oil & vinegar


Context: WORD ORIGINS: This number can be traced back to the Sankrit Shunya, or empty


Context: WORD ORIGINS: The -sex suffix on British placenames refers to this Germanic people


Context: WORD ORIGINS: From Dutch “kaban huis”, meaning ship’s galley, in U.S. it came to mean last car on a train


Context: WORD ORIGINS: Laboratory culture dish named for the German bacteriologist who invented it


Context: WORD ORIGINS: Chinese for “work together”, it was motto of U.S. marine raiders in WWII


Context: WORD ORIGINS: Originally a brand applied to slaves & criminals, it has come to mean a mark of disgrace


Context: WORD ORIGINS: Run-down part of town, from the rough forest paths along which newly-cut logs were dragged


Context: WORD ORIGINS: Derived from the Greek for ice, its a glass of fine quality that resembles ice


Context: WORD ORIGINS: Many scholars believe that the Celts called it The Wild Place; now this wild place is a city of over 7 million


Context: WORD ORIGINS: A Middle Eastern chieftain, this 4-letter term is from the Arabic for commander


Context: WORD ORIGINS: This wooden club is named for the town in county Wicklow where it originated


Context: WORD ORIGINS: A Greek word for cowherd has given us this term for pastoral or rustic


Context: WORD ORIGINS: The name of this dialect comes from a Hindi word, mantri, meaning counselor


Context: WORD ORIGINS: Today meaning a self-employed person, this term derives from medieval knights who sold their skills


Context: WORD ORIGINS: The name of this, also called a fireplug, is partly from a word for water


Context: WORD ORIGINS: The name of this bread spread goes all the way back to bous, a Greek word for cow


Context: WORD ORIGINS: These sparkly fake gems are partly named for a river that flows through Germany


Context: WORD ORIGINS: The name of this type of reference work is from the Greek for cyclical& education


Context: WORD ORIGINS: This 5-letter synonym of question comes from the Latin for to ask or to seek


Context: WORD ORIGINS: This word meaning complete range comes from the 3rd Greek letter, which used to be the low end of the musical scale


Context: WORD ORIGINS: This type of establishment gets its name from the Latin for to restore


Context: WORD ORIGINS: Meaning to ascribe predetermined characteristics, this word comes from a printing process using metal plates


Context: WORD ORIGINS: Its from the Latin for hemp because it was often made of hemp; add a letter & it means to take a survey


Context: WORD ORIGINS: This word for a friend comes from the Latin for with whom you would eat bread


Context: WORD ORIGINS: Used in the 40s for a sudden loss of power in a jet engine, Herbert Freudenberger applied it in 1974 to spent people


Context: WORD ORIGINS: This dog, of which there are more than 20 breeds, takes its name from the Latin for earth


Context: WORD ORIGINS: The name of this ballroom dance with gliding turns comes from German for roll or turn


Context: WORD ORIGINS: This word for the art & science of good eating goes back to Greek for belly


Context: WORD ORIGINS: This term for a novice or beginner is from Latin & Greek for newly planted


Context: WORD ORIGINS: Murray Gell-Mann adopted this word for various hypothetical particles from Finnegans Wake


Context: WORD ORIGINS: The name of this South American Indian group was originally the title of their emperor


Context: WORD ORIGINS: Although it comes from the Latin for whitish, this color of hair is actually reddish-brown


Context: WORD ORIGINS: The Greek kalyptos, to cover, gives us the name for this Australian gum tree


Context: WORD ORIGINS: Derived from the Latin word for body, its used to describe a large or bulky person


Context: WORD ORIGINS: The name of this most recent geological era is from the Greek for new animals


Context: WORD ORIGINS: Well known to Jeopardy! fans, this 10-letter word originally meant a stew of many different ingredients


Context: WORD ORIGINS: Not surprisingly, the word koala comes from a native language of this continent


Context: WORD ORIGINS: This word meaning something not fully understood is from the Greek musterion, secret rite


Context: WORD ORIGINS: The name of this 2- or 3-toed mammal comes from Middle English for slow


Context: WORD ORIGINS: This title of prince Siddhartha comes from Sanskrit for awakening


Context: WORD ORIGINS: Lepos, meaning scale, gave us this word for a pariah


Context: WORD ORIGINS: This term for a copy or reproduction is from the Latin meaning to make similar


Context: WORD ORIGINS: December, decimal & decimate all come from the Latin word for this


Context: WORD ORIGINS: Some believe the word gimmick began as gimac, an anagram of this


Context: WORD ORIGINS: This sport derives its name from the word association, as in association football


Context: WORD ORIGINS: Meaning vain & above oneself, this adjective comes from the Middle French for high


Context: WORD ORIGINS: This word for a cantankerous personality is a variation of ordinary


Context: WORD ORIGINS: Mussolini coined this word from the bundles of sticks that were a symbol of every Roman authority


Context: WORD ORIGINS: Asked if he were a wise man, Pythagoras supposedly said, No, Im a lover of wisdom, giving us this word


Context: WORD ORIGINS: This popular slang expression of the early 20th century is probably just a shortened form of magnificent


Context: WORD ORIGINS: Irritable or peevish, from the Latin petere, to attack


Context: WORD ORIGINS: A masterful conductor is often called this, Italian for master


Context: WORD ORIGINS: The name of this bird is from the French version of Peter


Context: WORD ORIGINS: Make no bones about it, its from a Greek expression for dried-up body


Context: WORD ORIGINS: This Austrian physicists name is now synonymous with a measurement of the speed of sound


Context: WORD ORIGINS: This 3-letter slang term for forbid or veto comes to us from the German for nothing


Context: WORD ORIGINS: If youre schussing around on these, remember that their name comes from old Norse for sticks


Context: WORD ORIGINS: The minute you walked in the joint, you knew the name of this body part was from the old English elnboga


Context: WORD ORIGINS: Its no Greek myth: this big South American bird was probably named for the wife of Cronus


Context: WORD ORIGINS: This word for what one often does to red wine before serving comes from a Latin word for an iron ring


Context: WORD ORIGINS: The name of this greenish patina that forms on copper comes from Old French for green of Greece


Context: WORD ORIGINS: Scallop & scaloppine come from a word meaning these; the fillets are so thin they curl up like them


Context: WORD ORIGINS: The verb to pounce comes from a noun meaning this part of a bird of prey