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Thomas Midgley, who put lead into gasoline, introduced this now banned refrigerant in 1930 |
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A golden age of Jewish culture began in the 10th C. under these people who ruled Spain |
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Sarah Tueting & Cammi Granato were 2 of the heroines of this triumphant U.S. team |
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The mallard is one of the most widespread wild species of this bird |
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In "Scream", this actress seen here was the first to scream |
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An abecedarian is a person who's learning this, a necessity for "Wheel of Fortune" |
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In 1931, to produce this fiber, Wallace Carothers heated hexamethylene diamine & adipic acid |
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Now a term for an urban minority area, this word originally referred to an area set aside for medieval Jews |
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Chris Thorpe & Gordy Shear went horizontal to win the USA's first silver medal in this event |
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The name of this talkative bird seen here can be spelled with or without an "H" at the end |
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"I want my work to scare you to death", said this buff little actress & vampire slayer |
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These socks with a diamond-shaped pattern are fit for a duke |
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Studying "on the rocks" of northern Europe, Jean Louis Agassiz developed the idea of this "age" |
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In 1994 a bomb killed 96 at a Jewish community center in this S. American city where Eichmann once lived |
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Perhaps afraid of being shot by mistake, officials stopped this event due to fog & snow |
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This genus of woodpecker includes the red-breasted & the yellow-bellied types |
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This former movie "Batman" is a distant cousin of the poet who wrote "Trees" |
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It's a place where bees are kept, though it sounds like a home for gorillas |
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The "scope" of his career covers classifying galaxies by type & a constant on how fast they're receding |
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Biblical Palestine was divided into Israel & this kingdom named for one of Jacob's sons |
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Beaten out by Ilya Kulik, this Canadian left the building with a silver medal in figure skating |
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The toulouse, a breed of this bird, is especially popular at Christmas |
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He plays the snidely sarcastic Dennis on "Just Shoot Me!"--what a card! |
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Your nose knows this adjective means shaped like an eagle's beak |
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The story goes, when asked to determine if King Hieron's crown was pure gold, this man figured out how to do it |
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The first congress of this movement met in 1897; its goal of Israeli statehood was achieved in 1948 |
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Cross-country skier Bjorn Daehlie of this country won 3 golds, making him the Winter Games all-time leader |
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In falconry, the terms falcon & tercel traditionally apply to the female & male of this species |
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This actor has won 2 Tonys for "Brighton Beach Memoirs" & for the show ("How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying") in which he sang the following |
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In "Paradise Regained", Milton called this European capital the "Mother of arts and eloquence" |
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