FUN WITH THE PERIODIC TABLE |
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BEFORE & AFTER AT THE MOVIES |
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ONCE THERE WERE NO COMPUTERS |
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If all the elements were onstage with us, only bromine & this other element would be liquid |
mercury
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Annie is a nickname, & Hall the real last name, of this actress who played Annie Hall |
Diane Keaton
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One way to propel a boat |
(Dan: What is an oar?)
row
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The first word of "Bleak House" is this city; the next paragraph begins, "Fog everywhere" |
London
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Han Solo meets up with Lando Calrissian while time-traveling with Marty McFly |
(Dan: What is... uh, The Empire Strikes--) (Alex: Oh, sorry.)
The Empire Strikes Back to the Future
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Before computer games, this "happy" term referred to a control rod used by pilots |
a joystick
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By atomic number, this noble gas, number 10, is the first whose symbol matches a state postal abbreviation |
(Tony: What is argon?) ... (Alex: NE for Nebraska.)
neon
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A train wreck in 1901 left this markswoman partially paralyzed for a time |
Annie Oakley
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Feline vocalization |
(Dan: What is purr?)
mew
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James Bond fights the Soviets while trying to romance Ali MacGraw before she dies |
From Russia with Love Story
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"The Victorian Internet" is a book about pioneers of this communication device |
the telegraph
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Element 107, named for this man, has the symbol Bh |
(Dan: What is bohrium?)
Niels Bohr
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In 1991 she had her first museum exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, a rare honor for a living photographer |
(Tony: Who is Annie Leibowitz?) (William: [Laughing] Who is Annie Leibowitz?) ... (Alex: You got it right, yes, that's a common mistake. A minute to go now, Dan.)
Annie Leibovitz
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More advanced, or recently created |
new
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A Byron poem says, "I stood in" this city, "on the Bridge of Sighs; a palace and a prison on each hand" |
(Tony: What is Florence?)
Venice
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The president's plane is hijacked by terrorists & taken to a mental institution run by Nurse Ratched |
Air Force One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
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In the Klondike variant of this card game, spaces in the tableau can only be filled with kings |
solitaire
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In the center of the table are the "transition" these, including nickel & iron |
metals
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Learn to play poker like a pro from this pro in DVDs like "Advanced Texas Hold 'Em Secrets" |
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]
Annie Duke
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A trademark brand of format for VCR tape |
Beta
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In "The Third Man" Orson Welles said it "had 500 years of democracy & peace, & what did that produce? The cuckoo clock" |
(Dan: What is Vienna?) (Alex: Oh, no, that's where the action takes place, of course, but he was referring to [*].)
Switzerland
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Gene Kelly croons & dances while taking his brother Dustin Hoffman on a road trip |
Singin' in the Rain Man
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Before items like the HP Color LaserJet 2600N, this term referred to people like Gutenberg |
a printer
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The temporary symbols given to elements 113-118 all begin with a double this vowel |
(William: What is O?)
U
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Lao-Tzu's ultimate principle of the universe |
Tao
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It was of Oakland, California, her girlhood home, that she wrote, "There is no there there" |
Gertrude Stein
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John Belushi & the boys set up their fraternity in the museum where crazy Vincent Price turns people into figurines |
Animal House of Wax
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A "nonexistent domain" error on a failed e-mail is kind of the new version of this 1962 Elvis song |
"Return To Sender"
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