POPULAR SCIENCE BEST OF 2007 |
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HAVE YOU DRIVEN A FJORD LATELY? |
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One day soon we may go even greener with fuel made from these green goopy simple aquatic organisms |
algae
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In December 2007 this chanteuse gave her last performance of the Vegas spectacular "A New Day" |
Celine Dion
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The weapons in this board game are a rope, a lead pipe, a knife, a wrench, a candlestick & a revolver |
Clue
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This element of Christianity's Trinity is also called the Paraclete |
the Holy Spirit
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Have some fjun at the Roskilde Fjord, about 20 miles west of this Danish capital |
Copenhagen
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NASA is studying the possibility of a manned mission to one of these hurtling objects; it could help with deflection plans |
asteroids
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This singer from Halifax, Nova Scotia had hits with "Adia" & "Sweet Surrender" |
Sarah McLachlan
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If you're cornered in Kamchatka, end this board game by bumping your opponent's armies off the board |
Risk
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This object, of course, is what all the endlessly silly questing in "Spamalot" is about |
the Holy Grail
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The name says it all--Fiordland is this Kiwi country's largest national park |
(Alex: Oh, Peter, Carolyn beat you to it.)
New Zealand
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Inventions of the Year included a special glove to help a person perform this life-saving procedure correctly |
CPR
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She must be a Keith Jackson fan, as she titled one of her albums "Whoa, Nelly!" |
Nelly Furtado
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If your opponent asks for the "3s" that you don't have in your hand, tell him this, the name of the game |
Go Fish
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Hebdomada Major in Latin, it runs from Palm Sunday to Easter |
Holy Week
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Kenai Fjords, which became a national park in 1980, lies in the south-central part of this U.S. state |
Alaska
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Some neurological disorders are being treated with elec. impulses in a procedure called DBS, or deep brain this |
stimulation
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She put her initials on duets of "Crying" with Roy Orbison & "What A Wonderful World" with Tony Bennett |
k.d. lang
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It's also called "table soccer" & "that game in bars where you spin the rods" |
foosball
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The stoup in a Catholic church contains this liquid |
holy water
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Fjords have high walls; the walls of these, a term used mostly in Scotland, can be low |
firths
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No. 1 on the bottom-10 list of the worst jobs in science was this type of diver who swims in sewage & toxic waste |
(Alex: I'm applying soon.)
a HAZMAT diver
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Leslie is the first name of this "1234" singer who was a dancer at the 1988 Calgary Olympics |
Feist
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Used to foretell the future, this game gets its name from the French & German words for "yes" |
Ouija
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In 1756 Voltaire opined that this political entity did not reflect the 3 parts of its name |
(Alex: Yes, it wasn't holy, it's wasn't Roman, and it wasn't an empire.)
the Holy Roman Empire
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The Grand Vitara |
[Applause for Carolyn's run of the category] (Alex: Hey, you know your Japanese automakers. Way to go. $1,000 lead for you as we take our first break.)
Suzuki
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Between this country's Snaefells & Reykja Peninsulas, Faxa Bay has 2 eastern arms: the Hval & Borgar Fjords |
Iceland
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