|
|
|
|
|
|
|
In the world of this author, District 1 provided luxury items; District 5, power & electricity |
(Suzanne) Collins
|
|
|
You don't have to go to Antarctica; Boulders Beach in South Africa has the African type of this flightless bird, with pink "eyebrows" |
penguins
|
|
|
Culturally off limits |
(Tessa: [*]? What is [*]?)
taboo
|
|
|
This second-lightest gas is mixed with oxygen for use in scuba diving |
helium
|
|
|
This apostle & letter writer was a tent maker by trade, so he moved easily around the ancient world with tools & cloth |
Paul
|
|
|
The "Love Street" in a 1968 song by this band was Laurel Canyon's Rothdell Trail, where Jim Morrison lived |
the Doors
|
|
|
John Updike had a devil of a time coming up with "The Witches of" this fictional Rhode Island town |
Eastwick
|
|
|
Modern-day Druids visit this Mystic circle north of Salisbury, England that's thousands of years old |
Stonehenge
|
|
|
It's orbited by Charon |
Pluto
|
|
|
Okay, we've heard about it regarding "fire & brimstone", but this element is used as a fungicide & in vulcanizing rubber |
sulfur
|
|
|
The story of Martin de Porres, the 1st Black saint in the Americas, includes this skill, letting him hover before the altar |
levitation
|
|
|
The "N" in CSNY, he wrote the 1970 hit "Our House" about the Laurel Canyon home he shared with Joni Mitchell |
(Graham) Nash
|
|
|
This author created Magrathea, which worked to create a second earth, as the first was destroyed by Vogons to create a galactic bypass |
(Douglas) Adams
|
|
|
This ancient Israeli fortress was the site of a 1st century siege after the fall of Jerusalem |
(Tessa: What is Jericho?)
the Masada
|
|
|
|
Predynastic Egypt used this element in glassmaking; today, we'd be pretty lost without it as a semiconductor in computers |
silicon
|
|
|
In a vision on the wall of her room, St. Clare witnessed a mass & so today is the patron saint of this modern invention |
television
|
|
|
Stars flocked to the 1970s football & poker nights at the "Kirkwood Casino", the home of this late Eagles singer |
Glenn Frey
|
|
|
Norton Juster wrote up Dictionopolis & ran the numbers on Digitopolis, rival cities in this children's classic |
The Phantom Tollbooth
|
|
|
Rio de Janeiro is home to this soccer stadium that held its second World Cup final in 2014 |
Maracana
|
|
|
Cannon fire volley |
a salvo
|
|
|
A 1954 report noted this lightest of the solid elements "appears to offer a useful alternative" to electro-convulsive therapy |
lithium
|
|
|
Story goes the patron saint of Wales, St. David, lived on nothing but water & these onion relatives |
leeks
|
|
|
An epicenter of the 1960s Laurel Canyon scene was the house of Cass Elliot, big-voiced star of this group |
The Mamas & the Papas
|
|
|
In an H.G. Wells book, this doctor has established a camp for creepy scientific research on a volcanic island |
Doctor Moreau
|
|
|
The northern lights are cool, but at Mt. Wellington in Tasmania, you can see the southern lights, also called the "aurora" this |
australis
|
|
|
Slow & dignified, musically |
largo
|
|
|
A pacemaker can use heat from this radioactive element, No. 94, as it decays to generate the electricity that stimulates the heart |
(Maggie: What is palladium?)
plutonium
|
|
|
St. Francisco Marto, one of 3 children who saw the Virgin Mary in this Portuguese town in 1917, died in the flu pandemic in 1919 |
(Tessa: What is Lisbon?)
Fátima
|
|
|
Looking out from her daughter's dining room, Joni Mitchell's mom was shocked by goings-on at this man's place next door |
(Frank) Zappa
|
|