jeopardy
Across
- 3. Claustrophobia comes from Latin meaning what?
- 6. What bird shares its name with an expression meaning to shrink back in fear?
- 9. Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the only person to win in two sciences?
- 10. The Persistence of Memory features melting versions of what object?
- 11. What is the smallest country in the world by land area?
- 13. Which European river flows through four capital cities?
- 15. Which ancient city was buried by Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD?
- 16. “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark” appears in which Shakespeare play?
- 17. The word “salary” comes from a Roman payment involving what mineral?
Down
- 1. What is the longest river entirely within France?
- 2. Which film won the first Academy Award for Best Picture?
- 4. What culinary term literally means “under vacuum” in French?
- 5. What is the only U.S. state whose capital does not have a McDonald’s?
- 6. What letter does not appear in any U.S. state name?
- 7. What astronomical term describes a planet’s apparent backward motion?
- 8. Which Titan in Greek mythology was punished by having his liver eaten daily?
- 9. Which 19th-century novel opens with the line “Call me Ishmael”?
- 12. What element has the atomic number 26?
- 13. Cats is based on poems by which Nobel Prize–winning author?
- 14. Who wrote The Age of Innocence and was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction?