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53, heaviest of the stable halogens, purplish metal, aggressive gas
Iodine
Musical term that means to pluck the strings
Pizzacato
Novel by Hemingway, British and American families go watch the running of the bulls
The Sun Also Rises
Novel by Tom Hardy, man loses everything, gets his family back, then loses everything again
Mayor of Casterbridge
Poem named ___, authored by ____, uses personification to compare a plant to a woman
Trees, Kilmore
14th US state to join
Vermont
Darwin’s lesser known competitor
Wallace
Conquered the Incans
Pizzaro
Wrote “Oh Captain my Captain” and “Song of Myself” and “Children of Adam”
Walt Whitman
Wrote Ode on a Grecian Urn
Keats
Wrote Civil Disobedience
Henry David Thoreau
Father of American rocketry
Goddard
Wrote Paradise Lost
Milton
Section at end of piece of music
Cadenza
The first amateur detective story, written by Poe, the orangutan did it
Murder in the Rue Morgue
Wrote Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith
Name of 3rd crusade
King’s Crusade
Authored by Huxley, boys are shown babies grown artificially, Class system used to separate intelligent from laborers
Brave New World
Has 20 faces
Icosahedron
Kind of volcano with gently sloping sides, hundreds of layers
Shield volcano
Meeting of altitudes
Centroid
Nymph who turned down Apollo, turned into a laurel tree
Daphne
Sum of terms and has whole number exponents
Polynomial
Statement vaguely warning Japan about atomic bomb
Pottsdam Declaration
Language used commonly between two countries for trade
Lingua Franca
Name for sex cell
Gamete
When plants grow to face or better reach light source
Phototropism
River that forms Grand Canyon
Colorado River
Liquid turning into a gel or solid
Coogulation
In this book a dude loves a rich girl but his poor girlfriend is pregnant
An American Tragedy
Lightest noble gas
Helium
Retold Arthurian legend in 4 parts: the ill maid knight, the sword and the stone, the queen of air and darkness, the candle in the wind
The once and future king
First female cabinet member
Francis Perkins
Discovered gaseous elements in air, won nobel peace prize
Ramsey
Sister of Moses, turned white
Miriam
Mixing of two alleles
Partial dominance
POW, spent 2 yrs in Russian prison, released in 1962, exchanged for Soviet spies
Francis Gary Powers
Said I think, therefore I am
Descartes (pronounced DAY CART)