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You can isolate about 1 gram of this element, Ra, out of several tons of pitchblende |
radium
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Completes Punch's 1855 quip "What is matter? Never mind. What is mind? No" this |
matter
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In October 1888 this painter joined Van Gogh in Arles; he fled after that ugly ear incident |
Paul Gauguin
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Amy Irving provided the sexy singing voice of Jessica Rabbit for this 1988 film |
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
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In this Dostoyevsky novel, Ivan is the atheistic intellectual of the 4 sons |
The Brothers Karamazov
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The person in this post supervises the train crew & collects fares |
the conductor
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In the 1700s Georg Ernst Stahl coined the phlogiston theory, that a form of burning caused this on iron |
rust
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In 1845 it was Punch's unromantic one-word "advice to persons about to marry" |
Don't
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"The Dance", also the title of the work seen here, was one of this artist's favorite scenes: |
Henri Matisse
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His 1987 album "The Return of Bruno" didn't "Die Hard"--it hit No. 14 on the pop charts |
Bruce Willis
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Ivan was the middle name of this astronaut, Virgil was his first, but most people called him "Gus" |
Gus Grissom
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This term for porters came from their colorful headgear |
redcaps
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A free radical is an atom or molecule that has an odd number of these |
electrons
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The final issue showed a gravestone inscribed "Mr. Punch, 1841-1992 Not as" this "as He Used to Be" |
(Lindsay: What is funny?) (Mary: What is young?) (Justin: What is lively?)
alive
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In November 1998 the Getty Museum bought his seminal 1870s painting "Impression: Sunrise" |
Claude Monet
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This Norwegian best-known for Ingmar Bergman films starred in the 1979 Broadway musical "I Remember Mama" |
Liv Ullmann
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As director of "Twins" & "Kindergarten Cop", he told Arnold Schwarzenegger what to do |
Ivan Reitman
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It's a firebox feeder, an apprentice to the engineer, or a famous Bram |
stoker
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Lithium reacts with this common substance to form lithium hydroxide |
(Alex: Less than a minute to go, Lindsay.)
water
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A sexually confused Punch quote tells us "Our best men are dead!... Tennyson," & this "Adam Bede" author |
George Eliot
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This American painted portraits of fashionable society, & the one of Robert Louis Stevenson seen here |
John Singer Sargent
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She sang harmony on her husband Richie Sambora's 1998 album "Undiscovered Soul" |
Heather Locklear
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In a 1985 book he called arbitrage "Wall Street's best kept money-making secret" |
Ivan Boesky
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A track inspector, whether or not he's from Wichita |
lineman
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Bromine & chlorine are in a group of elements known by this name, from the Greek for "salt-forming" |
halogens
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From Victorian times comes the quote "It's worse than wicked, my dear, it's" this synonym for low-class |
vulgar
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This 17th century Spaniard created the intriguing & complex portrait seen here: |
[Image showed Las Meninas.]
Diego Velazquez
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"Young Love" was a No. 1 hit in 1957 for this blond heartthrob who shares his first name with a diet soft drink |
Tab Hunter
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Before the revolution, he was appointed director of the physiology dept. at the Inst. of Experimental Medicine |
(Mary: What is Ivan... I don't know.)
Ivan Pavlov
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A pin puller operates these in the yard, to shunt cars from one track to another |
switchovers
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