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YOU SAY YOU WANT AN INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION |
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WE ALL WANT TO CHANGE THE WORLD |
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Tony & Maria are the Romeo & Juliet of this musical |
West Side Story
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g is the symbol for acceleration caused by this |
gravity
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It's celebrated on March 17 |
St. Patrick's Day
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One of a Jonathan Swift-created group of vicious people, or a Yang & Filo-created website |
(Drew: Uh, what are Yahoos? [*].) (Ken: That's not correct.) ... (Ken: Unfortunately, the website is singular.) [Originally ruled incorrect; reversed before Double Jeopardy! as Drew corrected himself in time]
Yahoo
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The first Industrial Revolution was largely powered by this odorless gas with which Robert Fulton gained fame |
steam
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This ex-U.S. pres. won the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize "for his decades of untiring effort... to advance democracy and human rights" |
Carter
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Bob & Doug McKenzie find that something is rotten at Elsinore Brewery in the comedy "Strange Brew", inspired by this tragedy |
Hamlet
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In 2016 the Max Planck Institute said it used these 4-letter cells to create Fallopian tubes in a Petri dish |
stem cells
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It's a 45-minute ferry ride from Woods Hole on Cape Cod to this place |
Martha's Vineyard
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Talking in 2024, this 10-letter word can mean 2023 or any nostalgically remembered time in the past |
yesteryear
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This 4-letter cloth-weaving machine dates to the 4000s B.C.; the power one helped along the Industrial Revolution |
a loom
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In 1869 Susan B. Anthony co-founded the NWSA, the National Woman this Association |
Suffrage
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This play was re-imagined in "A Thousand Acres", a Midwest tale in which one of 3 sisters is cut out of their dad's will |
King Lear
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The hypothetical solar sail on a spaceship wouldn't fly on solar wind, as you might think, but on these particles, also known as light quanta |
photons
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After the events of April 14, 1865, the owner of this venue was jailed for a month, but cleared of any wrongdoing |
(Ken: Yeah, the Lincoln assassination.)
Ford's Theater
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Seen here is this Japanese dish of skewered meat |
yakitori
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Unclean water in England caused outbreaks of this bacterial disease, so water fountains sprang up after an 1852 act |
cholera
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On the night before he died in 1968, MLK said, "I've seen" this; "I may not get there with you. But... we, as a people, will get" there |
(Jayaker: What is the mountaintop?) ... (Ken: He's been to the mountaintop, but he's seen [*].)
the Promised Land
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The 2023 romcom "Anyone But You", with squabbling would-be lovers named Bea & Ben, was inspired by this comedy |
(Drew: Hmm, I always get it confused... um, what is As You Like It?) (Ken: Sorry, no, Bea and Ben would be Beatrice and Benedick in [*].)
Much Ado About Nothing
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What's called the Moho discontinuity inside the Earth separates the crust from this interior section |
the mantle
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Created by a Hungarian design teacher, it was inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame in 2014 |
a Rubik's Cube
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Seen here, it's the state bird of Alabama |
a yellowhammer
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Cotton lasted about 15 hours as a light bulb filament before 2nd I.R. man Edison used this, getting 1,200 hours & bumming out pandas |
bamboo
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Named for the Italian city of her birth, in 1907 she became the first woman to receive the U.K.'s Order of Merit |
Florence Nightingale
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"She's the Man", in which Amanda Bynes pretends to be a boy to play soccer at Illyria Prep, is an update of this play |
Twelfth Night
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M-theory "ties up" a unified version of this theory that describes the universe in terms of tiny oscillating tubes |
string theory
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This 1996 memoir was originally supposed to end with the scattering of the author's mother's cremains, but that came in a later book |
Angela's Ashes
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Paraguay tea is another name for this 2-word drink made from a South American holly |
yerba-maté
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In the 1780s the men of the Clyde Iron Works could say it's so hot it feels like standing near this 2-word shaft to produce liquid metal |
a blast furnace
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After devoting his life to aiding victims of leprosy, this 19th century Belgian priest was made a saint |
Father Damien
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