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$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| In 70-degree air, a plane traveling at about 1,130 feet per second breaks it

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Sound barrier

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$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Scientists say the Earth has warmed about 9 degrees since the last of these frigid ages

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Ice Age

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$600 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| In 1987 the Smithsonian celebrated the 300th anniversary of this scientist’s “Principia”

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Sir Isaac Newton

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$800 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| It was this part of his wife’s body that Wilhelm Roentgen X-rayed first

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Hand

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$1000 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| In 1995 scientists in Switzerland created atoms of this substance that may not exist naturally in our universe

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Antimatter

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$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| The daphnia, a water flea, is related to this million times larger member of the surf & turf combo

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Lobster

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$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| A satellite in a retrograde orbit around the Earth heads in this direction

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West/or opposite to the Earth’s rotation

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$1500 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| It’s the 3-dimensional figure that is a set of points all equidistant from the center point

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Sphere

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$800 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| In this process of cell division, unlike mitosis, a cell divides & halves the number of chromosomes

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Meiosis

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$1000 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| When your “glands” are sore, they’re busy producing these infection-fighting white blood cells

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Lymphocytes

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$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Piltdown Man, a hoax played on scientists, had a human skull & the jaw of this reddish ape

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Orangutan

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$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| A whole lot of shakin’ goes on in this science that deals almost exclusively with earthquakes

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Seismology

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$600 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Mass number is defined as the number of neutrons & these particles in an atom’s nucleus

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Protons

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$800 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| From the Latin for “smoke hole”, it’s a vent in a volcanic area from which smoke & gases escape

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Fumeral

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$1000 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| In contrast to the hydrosphere, it’s the term for the rocky part of the Earth, or its crust

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Lithosphere

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$100 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| The SO in SONAR stands for this word

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Sound

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$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| This space station turned 10 in February 1996

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Mir

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$300 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| In 1882 this inventor opened the Pearl Street Power Station in New York

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Thomas Edison

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$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| In a car’s steering system, it’s the geared wheel that moves the rack

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Pinion

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$500 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| To produce this metal using the Bayer Process, you begin with caustic soda & bauxite

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Aluminum

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$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| From the surface of this innermost planet, the sun appears 2.5 times as large as it does from Earth

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Mercury

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$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| The name of this element comes from iris, “rainbow”, & refers to its multi-hued compounds

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Iridium

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$600 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| In computers or audio amplifiers, it’s the process in which part of the output returns to the input

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Feedback

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$800 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| This basic aerodynamic force acts on a wing, putting greater pressure on its lower surface than on its upper

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Lift

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$1000 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| The 3 basic bacterial types are the coccus, the spirillum & this type that causes TB

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Bacillus

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$100 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| The Graafian follicles of these glands contain the female reproductive cells

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Ovaries

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$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| The sun is 333,000 times as massive as the Earth & 1,047 times as massive as this planet

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Jupiter

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$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Two 9-volt batteries in a series circuit produce this many volts of electromotive force

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18

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$500 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| The screw & the wedge are adaptations of this type of simple machine

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Inclined plane

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$100 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| This green plant pigment is also found in algae & in some bacteria

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Chlorophyll

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$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| In 1875 this plant breeder moved to California using profits earned on his potato

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Luther Burbank

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$300 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| It’s defined as an atom or group of atoms that has an electrical charge

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Ion

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$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| A 1991 photo of Gaspra taken by the Galileo probe was the first close-up of one of these minor planets

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Asteroid

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$1700 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| In the 1940s this Nobel Prize winner & vitamin C advocate studied the structure of antibodies

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Linus Pauling

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$100 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| This fossilized resin from prehistoric pines can preserve an insect forever

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amber

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$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Most icebergs in the north Atlantic come from about 20 glaciers on this island’s west coast

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Greenland

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$300 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Around 1840 chemist John William Draper took the first photograph of this heavenly body

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the moon

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$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Birds & bees perform this transfer of gametes from anthers to stigmas

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pollination

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$500 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Einstein said measurements of this depend on whether the observer is moving; it’s not absolute

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time

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$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| In a month an observer can see 59% of this heavenly body’s surface

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Moon

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$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| In 1996 scientists mapped a large lake on this continent covered by over 2 miles of ice

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Antarctica

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$600 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| When a seed germinates, its radicle breaks out & grows downward to become this part of the plant

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Root

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$800 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Common types of these organisms combining algae & fungi can be fructose, foliose or crustose

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Lichens

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$1000 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| It’s an insoluble solid that separates from a solution

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Chemical precipitation

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$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| In 1803 Luke Howard coined names for types of them, including cumulus & stratus

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Clouds

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$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Atoms of this lightest element make up about 90% of the universe

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Hydrogen

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$600 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| This element, symbol Ir, is one of the most corrosion-resistant metals known

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Iridium

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$800 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| It’s the branch of physics that deals with light & vision

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Optics

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$3000 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| From the Latin for “whip”, they’re the whiplike parts by which certain protozoa move about

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Flagellum

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$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| These 2 upper chambers of the heart receive & collect blood from the veins

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the atria

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$600 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| It’s measured in rads

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radiation

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$800 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| In 1975 in Texas scientists found fossils of this flying lizard with a more than 50’ wingspan

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a pterodactyl

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$1000 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| The name of this dog star, the brightest star in the night sky, is Greek for “scorching”

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Sirius

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$100 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| An EEG records the electrical activity of this organ

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Brain

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$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Human beings normally have 46 of these in most of their cells

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Chromosomes

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$300 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| This second-lightest metal, symbol K, is so soft it can be cut with a knife

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Potassium

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$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| He’s been called the “Father of Modern Rocketry”

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Robert Goddard

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$500 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| According to his law, resistance in a DC circuit is the ratio of volts to amps

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Georg Ohm

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$100 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| The largest cell is the 3-inch diameter yolk of this bird’s egg

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Ostrich

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$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| In Latin this metal is known as aurum

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Gold

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$300 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| On a weather chart this line connects places that have the same barometric pressure

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Isobar

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$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| On June 29, 1994 the temperature reached 125 degrees in Laughlin, the highest ever recorded in this state

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Nevada

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$500 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| This organ removes excess glucose from the blood & stores it as glycogen

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Liver

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$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Proxima Centauri is the second-closest star to the Earth; this is the closest

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The sun

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$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| The constellation Taurus, not Cancer, contains this famous nebula

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Crab Nebula

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$600 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Arteries branch off into arterioles & these join to form veins

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Venuoles

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$2000 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Often quite expensive, it’s considered the strongest natural fiber

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Silk

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$1000 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| This gray metal is used in spark plugs & x-ray tubes as well as filaments

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Tungsten

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$100 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| The boundary between the mantle & this layer is called the Mohorovicic Discontinuity

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Crust

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$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| These 2 ducts lead from the ovaries to the uterus

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Fallopian tubes

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$300 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| In the 1920s, Julius Nieuwland polymerized acetylene, added chlorine atoms & created this synthetic rubber

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Neoprene

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$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| On July 10, 1996 scientists released close-up photos of Ganymede taken by this space probe

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Galileo

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$500 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| In 1993 Eugene & Carolyn Shoemaker & David Levy discovered a highly fragmented one of these

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Comet

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$100 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| This gas, symbol Xe, is used in stroboscopes & high-speed camera flashes

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Xenon

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$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Nearly twice as sweet as sucrose, this fruit sugar is the main sweetener in honey

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Fructose

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$300 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| An archipelago is a group of islands & this is a ring of coral islands like Bikini in the Pacific

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Atoll

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$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Developed by Edward Jenner, the first true vaccine was designed to protect against this disease

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Smallpox

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$500 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| They’re the 2 lines of latitude lying 23 1/2 degrees north & south of the Equator

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Tropic of Cancer & Tropic of Capricorn

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$100 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| This ninth planet’s unusual orbit sometimes brings it closer to the sun than the eighth planet

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Pluto

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$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| It’s the ratio of the amount of water vapor in the air to the amount the air can hold at that temperature

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Relative humidity

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$300 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| A parasitoid differs from a parasite in that this eventually happens to its host

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It dies

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$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| The acceleration of falling objects varies from place to place because of variations in this force

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Gravity

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$500 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| It’s the property of a body that opposes an electric current moving through it

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Resistance

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$None ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Not long after its development, Robert Boyle renamed the Torricellian Tube this

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Barometer

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$100 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| These respiratory organs of aquatic animals occur in oysters & some insect larvae as well as in fish

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Gills

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$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Used to control glaucoma, a trabeculectomy is a procedure that reduces pressure in this organ

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Eye

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$300 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| The number of these dark patches visible on the sun’s surface varies from a few to several hundred

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Sunspots

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$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| A phrase used to remember this planet’s main moons is “Met Dr. Thip”; Titan is the second T

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Saturn

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$500 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| This drug marketed as Motrin was patented in Great Britain in 1964

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Ibuprofen

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$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| In 1857 James Clerk Maxwell concluded that its rings were made of small, unconnected particles

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Saturn

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$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| This “project” to develop a fission bomb was established in August 1942

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The Manhattan Project

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$600 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Lithium is the lightest element that occurs in this state of matter at room temperature

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Solid

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$800 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| For the radioactive isotope Actinium-227, it’s 21.8 years

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Half-life

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$1000 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| This British baron pioneered antiseptic surgery using carbolic acid for sterilization

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Joseph Lister

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$100 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Magnetism occurs most strongly in 3 elements: nickel, cobalt & this

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Iron

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$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| In 1665 Robert Hooke described & named this structural unit; bacteria have only one

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Cell

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$300 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| In 1698 Thomas Savery designed the first practical engine to run on this power

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Steam

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$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| This blood protein now comes in alpha, beta & gamma types

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Globulins

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$500 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Simple machine Archimedes would use to “move the Earth” if you gave him a firm spot on which to stand

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Lever

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$100 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Hirsutism is having more than the normal amount of this

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hair

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$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| This 4th letter of the Greek alphabet is used to describ a high-speed aircraft wing type

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delta

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$300 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| The focal length is the distance from the center of one of these to the focal point

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the lens

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$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| When astronomers got a close-up look at this object in 1985-86, its nucleus looked like a big potato

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Halley’s comet

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$500 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| This term refers to the warm periods within ice ages; we’re in one of those periods now

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interglacial

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$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| This form of oxygen, O3, is a major source of air pollution

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ozone

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$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| In 1865 this chemist saved the French silkworm industry by eradicating pebrine disease

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Pasteur

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$600 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| In this “effect” first described in 1842, the pitch of a train whistle seems to change as it moves

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the Doppler effect

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$800 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| His experiments with light, including those with prisms, were published in his 1704 book “Opticks”

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Isaac Newton

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$1000 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| The Crookes tube, used to study these rays, led to the creation of the TV picture tube

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cathode rays

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$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Almost the entire mass of an atom is contained in this central portion

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Nucleus

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$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| In 1914 she became head of the Paris Institute of Radium

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Marie Curie

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$600 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| They’re the tiny threadlike structures that carry the genes - you have 23 pairs

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Chromosomes

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$800 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Organic chemistry specializes in compounds that contain this element

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Carbon

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$2000 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| His discovery of energy quanta earned him the 1918 Nobel Prize for Physics

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Max Planck

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$100 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| It’s the more common name for sodium chloride

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Salt

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$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Foxglove is an example of this type of plant that completes its life cycle in 2 years

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Biennial

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$300 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| After the sun & moon, this planet is the brightest object in the sky

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Venus

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$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| The pH in pH scale stands for the “potential of “ this element

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Hydrogen

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$500 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| In geometry it’s a quadrilateral with 2 parallel sides; in anatomy, it’s the smallest wrist bone

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Trapezoid

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$100 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Drumlins are elongated, elliptical hills formed at the edges of these moving ice masses

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Glaciers

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$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Elements are arranged in order of their atomic numbers on this table

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Periodic Table of Elements

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$300 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| This yellow element is found in gunpowder & matches & is used in vulcanizing rubber

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Sulphur

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$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| 2 bacteria, Lactobacillus Bulgaricus & Streptococcus Thermophilus, turn milk into this

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Yogurt

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$500 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Named after its 19th century inventor, this pendulum demonstrates the Earth’s rotation

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Foucault’s Pendulum

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$100 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Among alkaloids found in plants, this stimulant is found in coffee or tea

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caffeine

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$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| You may not need a high IQ to know IQ stands for this

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intelligence quotient

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$300 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Name for the process a caterpillar goes through to become a moth

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metamorphosis

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$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| When cocci live in pairs, they’re called diplococci; in clusters, staphylococci; in chains, this

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streptococci

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$700 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Next in length on the scale of geological time: age, epoch, period, era…

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eon

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$100 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Mycobacterium tuberculosis is one of the organisms this process kills in milk

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Pasteurization

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$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Like humans, the Red-vented Bulbul bird needs a dietary source of this vitamin, also called ascorbic acid

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Vitamin C

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$300 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Boiling bones & hides converts the protein collagen to this foodstuff

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Gelatin

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$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Horseshoe crabs & coelacanth fish are considered living ones of these

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Fossils

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$500 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Quarks have six known ones of these, which is far short of Baskin-Robbins

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flavors

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$100 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Ferrovanadium is an alloy of vanadium & this metal

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iron

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$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| The horny casing of the toes of ungulates is called this

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hooves

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$300 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| In 1990 this space telescope provided the first picture of Charon as completely separate from Pluto

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the Hubble telescope

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$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| He outlines his 3 laws of motion in “Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica”

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Sir Isaac Newton

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$500 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Fusion, the change of a solid to a liquid state, is more commonly called this

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melting

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$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| This heavenly body’s prominences include dark filaments & clouds of gas

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The Sun

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$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| In botany there are 4 flower parts: sepals, petals, stamens & these

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Pistils

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$600 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| You have many sweatglands, but only this number of lacrimal glands

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2

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$800 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| The highest jet streams occur in this layer of the atmosphere that begins 10 miles above the earth

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Stratosphere

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$1000 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| There are 3 types of RNA: transfer, ribosomal & this

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Messenger

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$100 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Formulated NaCl it’s the chemical name for common table salt

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sodium chloride

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$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Of the 3 basic states of matter, only this one, when unconfined, tends to expand indefinitely

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gas

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$300 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Term for the time it takes a radioactive substance to decay to 50% of its original quantity

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half-life

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$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| In biological classification this comes between family & species

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genus

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$500 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| On the Fahrenheit scale, the freezing point of water is 32° & the boiling point is this

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212° Fahrenheit

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$100 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| In breathing it’s the gas you expel to the atmosphere

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Carbon Dioxide

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$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Erosion from these created fjords & drumlins

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glaciers

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$300 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Scientist John Dalton suffered from the red-green type of this

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Colorblindness

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$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| The surfaces of this type of element can be anodized

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Metal

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$500 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| He discovered that if nitroglycerin was absorbed by an inert substance, it wouldn’t explode from shock

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Alfred Nobel

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$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| This is the formulation of the Einstein equation

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E = mc2

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$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| This is the permanent removal of unwanted hair by destroying its roots with electric current

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electrolysis

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$600 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| This pole star is the brightest one in the constellation Ursa Minor

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Polaris

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$800 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| This synthetic metallic element is named for scientists Marie & Pierre

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curium

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$1000 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Estimated temperatures on this planet range from 950° F. on the sunlit side to -346° on the dark side

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Mercury

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$100 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| It’s the element whose atomic weight is closest to its atomic number

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hydrogen

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$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Inventors of these include Georges Leclanche, Gaston Plante & Alessandro Volta

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batteries

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$300 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Life here was the subject of the 1965 book “World Without Sun”

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the sea

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$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| After 1,400 orbits it fell back to Earth January 4, 1958 & burned up

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Sputnik

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$500 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| In 1977 the U.S. banned these that used freon as the propellant

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spray cans

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$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| An astroblame is a scar on the Earth’s surface caused by one of these

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a meteor

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$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| These warm, dry winds can raise the temperature at the base of the Rockies as much as 40º F. in 1 hour

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the Chinooks

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$1000 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| From the Latin for “body”, it’s a free-moving cell such as an erythrocyte or leukocyte

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a corpuscle

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$800 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| In the 2nd U.S. suborbital flight, his Mercury capsule, Liberty Bell 7, sank in the Atlantic upon splashdown

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Gus Grissom

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$1000 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| 2 isotopes of the same element differ in the number of these subatomic particles

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neutrons

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$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Measured in ohms, it’s the R in Ohm’s law, V=IR

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resistance

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$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Next in the sequence: pentagon, hexagon, heptagon…

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octogon

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$600 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| In the time it takes this largest planet to go once around the Sun, Earth has gone around 12 times

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Jupiter

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$800 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| A good electrical insulator, this yellowish resin produces a charge of static electricity when rubbed

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amber

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$1000 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Isaac Newton found the strength of this depends on 2 things: mass & distance

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gravity

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$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| This most malleable metal can be beaten into sheets 1 ten-thousandth of a millimeter thick

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gold

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$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| This element whose symbol is Zr is alphabetically the last element

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zirconium

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$600 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| The Portland type of this substance is limestone & shale heated until almost fused, then ground

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cement

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$2000 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| This term can mean active by day, or happening every day

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diurnal

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$1000 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| In the third century B.C. this “principled” Greek showed the value of pi was between 223/71 & 220/70

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Archimedes

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$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| This is the name of our own galaxy

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the Milky Way

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$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| This element is called natrium in Latin, hence its symbol Na

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sodium

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$600 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Magnifications of up to one million times can be achieved with this type of microscope

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an electron microscope

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$800 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| This sugar, C12H22O11, occurs in the milk of all mammals

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lactose

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$1000 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Many of the gems sold as topaz are actually the citrine variety of this stone

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quartz

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$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| In metric measurement, 10 millimeters equal 1 of these

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a centimeter

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$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Boyle’s Law says normally if you double the pressure on a gas, the volume decreases by this amount

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one-half

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$1100 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| In 1973 it became the first comet studied by men in space

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Kohoutek

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$800 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| One mole of any substance always has the same number, 6.022 x 1023 of these

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atoms

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$1000 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| This resin, a natural polymer used as a varnish, is produced by insects in India and Myanmar

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shellac

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$100 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Psychologists refer to this sense as olfaction

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smell

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$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| The length of this on Jupiter is less than 10 hours

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the day

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$300 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Palynology seeks knowledge about past plant distribution by studying grains of this

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pollen

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$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Consisting of 3 atoms, water is an example of a triatomic one of these units

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a molecule

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$500 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| American Arthur Compton’s work proved the existence of these “particles” of light

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photons

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$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| by definition an anaerobe is an organism that lives in an environment free of this element

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oxygen

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$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| The Gutenberg Discontinuity is the boundary that separates the core from this part of the earth

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the mantle

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$600 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| From its Latin name argentum, Ag is the chemical symbol for this metallic element

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silver

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$800 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| It’s the solid part of the earth as distinguished from the atmosphere & hydrosphere

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the lithosphere

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$1000 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| In 1979 it was discovered that this genetic structure spirals to the left, not to the right as once believed

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DNA

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$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| On June 1, 1831, James Clark Ross discovered this when a compass needle he was holding pointed straight down

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Magnetic North Pole

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$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Newton figured the Earth should be an oblate spheroid with an equatorial bulge because it does this

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Spin on its Axis

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$600 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| From the Greek for “number”, it’s the science of numbers

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arithmetic

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$800 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| A lean, small-boned person is an ectomorph; an endomorph is round; and this type is muscular

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Mesomorph

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$1000 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| In this pre-birth procedure, a small amount of fluid is withdrawn from the sac in the uterus and tested

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amniocentesis

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$100 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| When light is passed thru a prism, it produces this spread of colors

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Spectrum

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$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| It’s the branch of chemistry that deals with carbon compounds

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Organic Chemistry

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$300 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| All lines of longitude are measured east or west of this line

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Prime Meridian

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$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| The Big Dipper is part of this constellation

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Ursa Major

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$500 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| The most important source of uranium & radium is this mineral ore

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Pitchblende

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$100 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Invented by Edwin Land, it was the first instant camera

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Polaroid Camera

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$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| When Henry Cavendish discovered this lightest-known element, he called it inflammable air

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Hydrogen

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$300 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Galileo is said to have done gravity experiments by dropping weights from this tower

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Leaning Tower of Pisa

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$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| In ancient times, lodestone was used as a form of this instrument

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Compass

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$500 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| A positive ion is formed when an atom loses one or more of these

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Electron

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$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| In 1985 a hole was discovered in the ozone layer over this continent

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Antarctica

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$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Just using flour & water gives you unleavened bread; add this fungus to leaven it

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yeast

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$600 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Meaning “without water”, it’s one type of barometer

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aneroid

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$800 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Miranda, a moon of this planet, was the 1st not named after a god or spirit

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Uranus

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$1000 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle says you can figure out a particle’s momentum or this, not both

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its position

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$100 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| In computerese, a “vaccine” is a program that seeks out & destroys these

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Computer viruses

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$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| A compass points toward this north pole

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Magnetic North Pole

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$300 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Varieties of these simple plants include red, brown, green & blue-green

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Algae

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$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Behaviorists & dogs drool over the work of this Russian physiologist

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Ivan Pavlov

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$500 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| The most abundant metal on Earth, when it was discovered in 1820 it was worth more than gold

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Aluminum

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$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| A simple one of these consists of a small weight swinging to & fro on the end of a string

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Pendulum

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$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| The process by which a substance changes from liquid to a gas is called this

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Vaporization

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$600 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| The planets that are smaller than Earth are Mercury, Venus & these two

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Mars & Pluto

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$800 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| An LED; it’s used for displaying readings on digital watches & calculators

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Light Emitting Diode

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$1000 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| When this scientist discovered oxygen, he called it dephlogisticated air

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Joseph Priestley

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$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| If something’s described as effervescent, it means it has a lot of these

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Bubbles

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$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Kill an insect & you’ve committed insecticide; kill the mildew in your shower & you’ve committed this

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Fungicide

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$600 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| This sedimentary rock, “Creta” in Latin, was formed from marine life during the Cretaceous period

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Chalk

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$800 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| This mineral comes after No. 9, corundum, on the Mohs scale

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Diamond

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$1000 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Abbreviated “pc”, it’s a unit of distance used in astronomy equal to 3.21 light years

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Parsec

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$100 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| The mother of a mule

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Horse (Mare)

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$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| It’s another name for your coccyx

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Tailbone

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$300 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Union Carbide makes this common car additive that contains ethylene glycol

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Antifreeze

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$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| This unit of measure in weather is abbreviated mb

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Millibar

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$500 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Frenchman who discovered the Piezoelectric Effect, that certain crystals when stressed make electricity

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Pierre Curie

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$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| The only substance known to ancient man in solid, liquid & gas form

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Water

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$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Most of the world’s supply of this light gas comes from natural gas fields in the U.S.

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Helium

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$1800 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Launched by the Soviets in 1957, the 1st living creature to orbit the Earth was one of these

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Dog (Laika)

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$800 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Some hemophiliacs spend over $50,000 per year on Factor VIII which does this for the blood

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Allows it to Clot

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$1000 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Science took a leap forward when physicist Max Planck devised this theory about light

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Quantum Theory

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$300 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| After about eight weeks, a human embryo develops into this

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a fetus

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$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| At about 63,000 ft. at normal body temperature, blood will do this

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boil

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$500 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Because they are never found in chemical compounds, the noble gases neon, argon & helium are called this

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the inert gases

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$100 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Term for the blood vessels which take the blood from the heart

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arteries

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$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| In the scientific categories, Americans have won 142, or 38%, of these awards 1st given in 1901

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Nobel Prizes

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$300 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| The Hubble constant tells how fast the universe is expanding since this “noisy” event occurred

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the Big Bang

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$500 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| A metal that is “ductile” can be pulled into this while cold & under pressure

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wire

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$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Poor amoebas! They reproduce by doing this

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dividing (splitting in two)

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$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Vegetable dye that turns red in acid solutions & blue in alkaline solutions

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litmus

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$600 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Distilled from liquid air, this gas is used to produce a bright reddish light

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neon

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$800 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| To cure Parkinson’s, scientists are now trying cell grafts in this part of the body

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brain

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$1000 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| This British physician has been called the “Father of Immunology”

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(Edward) Jenner

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$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Behaviorists & dogs drool over the work of this Russian physiologist

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Pavlov

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$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Though pleasant to kiss under, this plant is poisonous to eat

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mistletoe

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$600 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Cryobiologists are interested in doing this to living matter to preserve it for future use

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freezing

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$100 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Most living organisms have millions, but a prisoner only has one

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a cell

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$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| A 5th C. B.C. Greek philosopher was 1st to theorize that all matter is made of these

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atoms

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$300 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Term for creatures like vultures or hermit crabs that eat carcasses & refuse

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a scavenger

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$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Days & nights are always 12 hours long there

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the equator

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$500 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| If you’re studying mensuration, you’re studying this

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measurement

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$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| One who’ll give you blood or the kidney off his back

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donor

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

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cockroaches

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$600 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Intact DNA was recently extracted from one of these ancient “royal relics”

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mummy

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$1800 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Tracking these, coast guard rates them as bergy bits, growlers, small, medium, & large

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icebergs

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$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Land animal with the largest teeth

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the elephant

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$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| “Diffraction” refers to the way it bends

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light

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$600 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| The 2 primary ferrous metals

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iron and steel

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$800 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Natural vanilla flavoring comes from this tropical flower

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the orchid

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$1000 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Stratigraphy is a branch of this science

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geology

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$100 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| A typical snowflake has this many sides

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six

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$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Common element whose refined forms include pig, cast or wrought

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iron

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$300 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| After length, width & depth, the 4th dimension

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time

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$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Type of organism that lives off of another, contributing nothing

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a parasite

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$500 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Shattering sound that accompanies breaking the sound barrier

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a sonic boom

279
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$100 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| A sound’s repetition by reflection

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an echo

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$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| He originated “The Origin of Species”

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Charles Darwin

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$300 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Singular form of the word “bacteria”

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bacterium

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$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Negative particle that orbits an atom’s nucleus

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an electron

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$500 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Cytology is the study of these biological building blocks

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cells

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$200 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| Fahrenheit equivalent to 0º Centigrade

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32

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$400 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| You might have to put F. Lee Bailey on one to admit he had a show about one

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a lie detector

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$600 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| The science which deals with the motion & behavior of bullets

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ballistics

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$800 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| What you’re “stuck with” boiling down collagen, softening it with hot water & letting it swell

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glue

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$1000 ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| In 1808, this metalsmith made copper plates for a Fulton steamboat boiler

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Paul Revere

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$None ||| Category: SCIENCE ||| The mammal that holds the record for the longest lifespan

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man

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