WE'RE GOING TO THE MOVIES |
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My favorite part of going is watching the previews called these, like something a car pulls |
trailers
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This Austrian monk found pairs of genes separate in a random fashion when a plant's gametes form |
Mendel
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A hole in a boat, or information given to the press without permission |
a leak
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A land bridge called al Lisan separates this "corpselike" body of water into a southern basin & a northern basin |
the Dead Sea
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Teen emperor Elagabalus forced all important Romans to worship Elah-gabal, a sun type of this |
a god
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This number is represented by the Roman numeral X |
10
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I love this format that gives "up to 40% more image" & "highest quality 3D" |
(Lily: What is HD?)
IMAX
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Surely this rings a bell: the name of this physiologist who studied the secretory activity of digestion from 1890 to 1900 |
Ivan Pavlov
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It's a "g"ift from the "g"overnment to an organization; block is one type |
a grant
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This ocean's greatest depth, about 18,000 feet, lies at around 82 degrees north latitude |
(Porter: What is the Pacific Ocean?)
the Arctic Ocean
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This Shoshone teen was an asset in many ways for Lewis & Clark, including finding edible plants during the journey |
Sacagawea
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In a letter or message, an X symbolizes one of these |
a kiss
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The ticket guy knows me, so I'm front row center for this 2016 monster movie sequel with an address for a title |
10 Cloverfield Lane
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This Swede's original scale had water's boiling point at 0 degrees & its freezing point at 100 |
Celsius
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An envoy such as an ambassador; it can also mean anyone who's tactful & avoids outright conflict |
a diplomat
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This second-longest African river takes its name from a kingdom that once existed near its mouth |
(Apurva: What is the Mali?)
the Congo River
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In 2016 a British 15-year-old got $250,000 for winning a new race of these remote-controlled craft around a track |
drones
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This male first name starting with "X" is also a Jesuit university in Cincinnati |
Xavier
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I scream, you scream for these bite-sized chocolate-covered ice cream treats with a double talk name |
(Porter: What are dibs?)
bonbons
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This giant of modern physics was diagnosed with ALS as a graduate student at Cambridge |
Hawking
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Though they weren't mounting pictures, the Founding Fathers who wrote the Constitution are known as this |
the Framers
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The Gulf of Mannar between India & this island nation is noted for its pearl banks & the sacred chank, a gastropod mollusk |
Sri Lanka
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He was just 18 when he joined brother Frank & the Younger Gang to rob his first bank in 1866 |
(Porter: Who is Buffalo Bill?)
Jesse James
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In the 1637 work "Geometrie" he introduced the use of X, Y & Z as symbols of unknown quantities |
(Porter: Who is Euler?) ... (Alex: Géométrie--French.)
Descartes
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Before we go, we should check out the ratings on this website that sounds like something you throw at a bad film |
Rotten Tomatoes (rottentomatoes.com)
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This Rome-born physicist designed the first nuclear reactor |
(Enrico) Fermi
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Once there were hopes for an overall budget agreement between Obama & the GOP, the "grand" this type of deal |
a bargain (a compromise accepted)
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The Strait of Tiquina connects the northern & southern parts of this lake in the Andes |
Lake Titicaca
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As a teen, this "Birds of America" artist conducted the first bird-banding on the continent by using thread |
Audubon
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X Division at this New Mexico national lab is the USA's center for the physics of nuclear weapons |
Los Alamos
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