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SANTA'S EIGHT TINY REINDEER |
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The formula for the surface area of this is the formula for the area of a circle, multiplied by 4 |
a sphere
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In "The Untouchables", Kevin Costner portrayed this federal agent who helped bring down Capone |
Eliot Ness
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Aristotle introduced the term hamartia, or a dramatic hero's "tragic" this |
flaw
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A cleanser from Prestige Brands |
Comet
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Albert Canal, flow / Twixt the Meuse & Scheldt Rivers / Babble in two tongues |
Belgium
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In a 2005 film it's tough love for a high school basketball team when Samuel L. Jackson plays this coach |
Coach Carter
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Thoreau wrote, "If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps... he hears" this musician |
(Chris: What is his own drummer?)
a different drummer
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His Greek equivalent is Eros |
Cupid
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Across the Andes / Or the dry Atacama / Our ribbon of coast |
Chile
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Strong & muscular, like that paper towel dude |
brawny
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If 2 sides of a cube total 50 square feet, this is the cube's total surface area |
(Chris: What is 300 square feet?) (Dave: What is 3,750?) (Ryan: [Refusing to ring in] Don't even think of it.) [Laughter] (Alex: Two sides total 50. One side is 25. There are six sides on a cube. Six times 25.)
150 square feet
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In 1940's "Abe Lincoln in Illinois" Mary Todd Lincoln was played by this "Harold and Maude" star |
(Dave: Who is Bea Arthur?)
Ruth Gordon
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His 1830s work on democracy in America suggested giving it a try back home in France |
(Alex: A very important error there by Chris leads Ryan to the Daily Double and a chance for the lead.)
de Tocqueville
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The rolling cane fields / Lead the eye on to Haiti / Or Washington Heights |
the Dominican Republic
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1,000-mile Burmese river |
the Irrawaddy
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It's the area of a Major League Baseball infield (the part enclosed by the baselines) |
(Dave: What is the diamond?) (Alex: No. What is [*]? (Dave: Oh, the area.) (Alex: 90 by 90.) (Dave: Okay, gotcha.)
8,100 square feet
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This author of fantasy, sci-fi & religious works was portrayed by Anthony Hopkins in "Shadowlands" |
C.S. Lewis
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In 1620's "Novum Organum" this Brit wrote that the way to truth is to work up from particulars to general principles |
Francis Bacon
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Arthur Murray by profession |
Dancer
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The chickadee sings / As he did for Frontenac / I will name him Gord |
Canada
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Native American people who met Columbus in 1492 |
the Arawak
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In the movie "Impromptu" Hugh Grant played Frederic Chopin & Judy Davis played this lover |
George Sand
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This man's incompleteness theorem says math is partly based on ideas that can't be proven within math |
(Kurt) Gödel
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Lightning in Munich |
Blitzen
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To Maputo Bay / Indian Ocean breezes / Brought Pedro Cabral |
Mozambique
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Interim capital of Pakistan in the 1960s |
Rawalpindi
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