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Carbon dioxide is swapped for oxygen in the alveoli of these organs |
lungs
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She only made it to No. 4 with "Fame", but topped the charts with "Flashdance... What A Feeling" |
Irene Cara
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"Profound" adjective for the part of the "South" stretching from South Carolina to Louisiana |
deep
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A hacker stole this billionaire's credit card number off the Internet & used it to order Viagra for him |
Bill Gates
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1960s NBA superstar guard Robertson was known as "The Big" this |
O
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It was back to ghoul for John Kassir on HBO's "Tales from" this place |
the Crypt
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Blood pressure is measured in millimeters of this poisonous metal |
mercury
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In an eerie scene, Dean Stockwell lip-syncs "In Dreams" in this David Lynch film named for another song |
Blue Velvet
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A classic 1936 book about the literary peak of Boston & Concord was called "The Flowering of" this area |
New England
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He authored "Between Hope and History: Meeting America's Challenges for the 21st Century" |
Bill Clinton
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Term for a family where dad took off, mom ignores the kids, etc.; Sally Jessy would be jobless without them |
dysfunctional
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When the heart's atria contract, blood flows from the right atrium into the right this |
ventricle
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The "Wind Beneath My Wings" is from this weepy Bette Midler-Barbara Hershey film |
Beaches
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Geographic collective name for Delaware, Maryland, Missouri & Kentucky from when they refused to secede |
border states
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Seen here, this actor headed the drama department at Montana State University before his acting career took off |
Bill Pullman
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Also standing for a unit of energy, this is the most frequently used letter in printed material in English |
(Frank: What is W?) ... [The end-of-round signal sounds.]
E
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I don't mean to do this, but it means to inquire unnecessarily into something, or open it by leverage |
pry
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The plasma globulin called transferrin transports this ferric material |
iron
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It's what PN stands for in PNNL, a national laboratory in Richland, Washington |
(Frank: What is plutonium?)
Pacific Northwest
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TV journalist & producer of such PBS series as "Genesis: A Living Conversation" |
Bill Moyers
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This letter found in Mr. Thant's name is a Burmese title of respect, meaning "Mister" |
U
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These tiny bits of cytoplasm lacking nuclei are there to gang up in clots |
platelets
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He recorded standards like "It Had to be You" & "Our Love is Here to Stay" for "When Harry Met Sally..." |
Harry Connick, Jr.
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Thought to be barren, the Great Plains were marked on pre-Civil War maps as "The Great American" this |
Desert
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This comes before "Claudius" & "the Jury" in literary works |
I
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In physics it pertains to force or power; in comics, it pertains to the "Duo" of Batman & Robin |
dynamic
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