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Chemistry / Elements

100 answers | 612 clues

Must-Know (23)

3 48x 14.9% stumper $534 avg J:25 DJ:22 FJ:1

J $100 1993 Solid geometry deals with figures having this many dimensions

J $500 2000 The difference between a million & a billion in the U.S. is just this many zeros

DJ $1,000 1989 If you kowtow to the emperor, your head should touch the floor this many times after each kneeling

12 28x 22.2% stumper $733 avg J:17 DJ:10 FJ:1

J $200 2019 A.A. is one of many support groups whose recovery programs are based on this many steps

J $600 2022 In a Christmas song: 156 "drummers drumming", a multiple of the actual number that would totally rock so hard

J $1,000 2024 "Paradise Lost" & the "Aeneid" are divided into this many "books"

8 25x 4.0% stumper $740 avg J:12 DJ:13

J $100 1988 The Beatles promised they'd love their girl this many days a week

J $600 2008 It's a rap!:"____ Mile"

J $1,000 2015 Number of original U.S. colonies minus the number of official solar planets farther out than Earth

2 24x 4.3% stumper $630 avg J:11 DJ:12 FJ:1

J $100 1987 An isosceles triangle has this many sides equal in length

J $600 2006 In the Army, number of silver bars a captain has or silver stars a major general has

DJ $1,000 1989 Richard Henry Dana Jr. spent this many "Years Before the Mast"

10 19x 10.5% stumper $589 avg J:14 DJ:5

J $100 1999 Bo Derek's big screen breakthrough

J $600 2015 Number of seconds in an hour divided by the number of degrees in a circle

J $1,000 2008 Syllables in a line of standard iambic pentameter

9 18x 11.1% stumper $517 avg J:12 DJ:6

J $100 1993 16th century author John Heywood wrote, "A woman hath" this many "lives like a cat"

DJ $600 2000 Number of volts in the battery seen here:

J $1,000 2008 In the 1930s Harlan F. Stone & Owen J. Roberts were 2 of the group called this many "old men"

13 18x $422 avg J:14 DJ:4

J $100 1985 Total number of colonies involved in the American Revolution against England

J $500 2001 The traditional number of those who attended the Last Supper

J $1,000 2019 In 1865 this number amendment abolished slavery

1 18x 5.6% stumper $506 avg J:9 DJ:9

J $100 2000 Usually, to begin a long distance call from your home phone, it's the first number you must press

J $500 1989 It's the product of any expression & its reciprocal

DJ $1,000 DD 2006 1/2 plus 1/3 plus 1/10 plus 1/15

30 15x 13.3% stumper $580 avg J:10 DJ:5

J $100 1997 Number of pieces of silver Judas received

J $500 1993 The war with this number in its name erupted in central Europe in 1618

DJ $1,000 1989 If we were to end this category the way a reporter finishes an article, we'd put this number on it here

21 15x 33.3% stumper $840 avg J:10 DJ:5

J $200 2019 Gamblers know it's another name for blackjack--hit me!

J $600 2014 The largest common factor of 84 & 105 is this

J $1,000 2021 It's the total number of dots on a standard die

14 13x 25.0% stumper $575 avg J:6 DJ:6 FJ:1

J $200 2021 It's the number of days in a fortnight

J $500 1994 It's the number of lines in a sonnet

J $1,000 2024 As the word for this number sounds like it means "certainly death", Cantonese speakers have a collective case of tetrakaidekaphobia

100 13x 23.1% stumper $531 avg J:9 DJ:4

J $100 1988 Number of dollars in a "C-note"

J $600 2019 An international bestseller:"The ___-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared"

DJ $1,600 2021 Khaled Hosseini's "Splendid Suns" divided by John Reed's "Days That Shook the World"

0 13x $531 avg J:7 DJ:6

J $100 2001 The longitude in degrees of Greenwich, England

J $500 1995 The numbers of U.S. Interstate Highways that run coast to coast end in this digit

DJ $1,600 2009 Murray Head's nights "In Bangkok" minus Brewer & Shipley's tokes "Over The Line"

Zero 13x 9.1% stumper $682 avg J:7 DJ:4 FJ:2

J $100 1985 The answer to 65divided by4/7x 0

J $600 2008 In 2006 the death of a model who didn't eat enough led to a debate named for this size in women's wear

J $1,000 2013 States outside the contiguous U.S.minus people on the dais behind the president at the State of the Union

Seven 12x $767 avg J:5 DJ:7

J $200 1984 Number of gables on Nathaniel Hawthorne's "House"

J $600 2014 The White Stripes, mobilizing:"____ Nation Army"

DJ $1,200 2013 (Morgan Freeman presents the clue.) I played Detective Somerset in this 1995 film where Kevin Spacey left Brad Pitt a very unwanted gift

18 12x 41.7% stumper $892 avg J:7 DJ:5

J $200 1989 Number of inches in half a yard

J $500 1997 A gold ring has this many karats if it contains 6 parts of another metal

J $1,000 2019 In Judaism the word chai represents "life" & is synonymous with this number used to signify good luck & a long life

15 12x 16.7% stumper $883 avg J:7 DJ:5

J $100 1993 It's the first point score in tennis

J $500 1985 The square root of 225

DJ $1,000 1992 A pentadecagon is a geometric figure with this many sides

Four 11x $809 avg J:6 DJ:5

J $100 1989 The number of Preps, Tops or Seasons of pop music fame

DJ $800 2017 Chambers in a cow's stomach

J $1,400 DD 2009 Number of U.S. states that begin with the letter I

Euclid 10x 10.0% stumper $770 avg J:2 DJ:8

J $200 2002 This Greek mathematician's 13-volume work "Elements" is the basis for modern-day geometry

J $500 1988 About 300 B.C., he postulated "a straight line can be drawn from any point to any other point"

DJ $1,000 1997 This Greek's "Elements" deal with the theories of earlier scholars like Eudoxus of Cnidus

400 10x 20.0% stumper $970 avg J:4 DJ:6

J $400 2015 Title number of Truffaut "Blows" in a 1959 film

J $500 2001 Title number of blows in a 1959 Truffaut film that could be described as quadrigenarious

DJ $1,200 2002 Michael Johnson won Olympic Gold in 2000 by covering this many meters in 43.84 seconds

23 9x 12.5% stumper $925 avg J:4 DJ:4 FJ:1

DJ $200 1995 In the equationx-4=19, x is equal to this

J $600 2019 In honor of childhood idol Michael Jordan, LeBron James has long worn this number

J $1,000 2009 For Kristi's birthday, Gram chose this (Dr. Pepper is a "unique blend of" this many "flavors")

five 9x 22.2% stumper $733 avg J:6 DJ:3

J $200 2014 A parched Alan Jackson:"It's only half past 12 but I don't care, it's ____ o'clock somewhere"

DJ $800 2025 It's the number of syllables in the first line of a traditional haiku

J $1,000 2011 The Vogues:"____ O'Clock World"

pi 8x $414 avg J:6 DJ:1 FJ:1

J $200 2016 It's the term for the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter

J $500 1998 Devotees of this celebrate its irrational existence each 3/14 at 1:59 P.M.

FJ 2005 The phrase "How I want a drink, alcoholic of course" is often used to help memorize this

Should-Know (24)

180 7x $471 avg J:4 DJ:3

J $200 2017 This number can mean to turn your life around or just turn yourself around

DJ $800 2010 A soldier's "about face" involves a turn of this many degrees

DJ $1,000 1992 Number of degrees between the freezing & boiling points of water on the Fahrenheit scale

911 7x 14.3% stumper $614 avg J:5 DJ:2

J $100 2000 In a song title, rap group Public Enemy complained that this emergency number "is a joke"

J $600 2014 Help is on the way:"Nanny ____"

DJ $1,600 2013 Public Enemy:"____ Is A Joke"

plane geometry 7x $633 avg J:2 DJ:4 FJ:1

DJ $400 1995 Topology is a branch of this mathematical field concerned with the general properties of shapes

DJ $800 1984 Branch which comes in plane or solid

DJ $1,600 2011 Jean Poncelet's work on conic sections helped found the "projective" form of this branch of mathematics

a tangent 7x $643 avg J:5 DJ:2

J $200 2003 A straight line that touches the outside of a circle at only one point is called this

DJ $600 1988 It's a straight line having 1 point in common with a curve; you might go off on one

J $1,000 2016 "SOH CAH TOA" helps you remember the meaning of the trig functions sine, cosine & this one

algebra 6x 16.7% stumper $933 avg J:3 DJ:3

J $100 1995 The name of this branch of math comes from the Arabic al-jabr, meaning "restoration"

J $500 1986 You'd study the binomial theorem in this branch of mathematics

DJ $1,000 1987 Analytic geometry combines geometry with this branch of arithmetic

90 6x $217 avg J:6

J $100 1998 You're right, an angle that is more than acute but less than obtuse has this many degrees

J $500 1997 It's the radioactive isotope of strontium from atomic fallout sometimes found in food

J $100 1985 Number of seconds in 1½ minutes

60 6x 16.7% stumper $667 avg J:2 DJ:4

J $400 1999 In 1899 the Jamais Contente, "Never Satisfied", became the first auto to "go like" this

DJ $800 2011 Number of hulls on a catamaran times the number of days in April

DJ $1,200 2014 Matt served the calendar years 2009 through 2013 in prison, so he marked off this many first days of the month

27 6x 33.3% stumper $767 avg J:2 DJ:4

J $400 2008 Always a bridesmaid, never a bride:"____ Dresses"

J $600 2024 You can just do the math to get this number of batters faced by a Major League Baseball pitcher who threw a perfect game

DJ $1,600 2018 Janis Joplin & Jimi Hendrix are members of this morbid numeric club, as they were both this age when they passed

the volume 6x $467 avg J:2 DJ:4

J $200 1985 The total space contained within a 3-dimensional figure is called this

DJ $800 2025 For a sphere, this measure is (4/3) pi r3

DJ $400 2012 A formula used for cubes is V = e3, in which "V" is this

200 5x 40.0% stumper $1,020 avg J:2 DJ:3

J $200 2015 You get this many dollars for passing Go in classic Monopoly

J $500 1990 Throw all strikes in bowling and you'll get a 300; alternate strikes & spares and you'll get this score

DJ $2,000 2021 According to Johns Hopkins & the Mayo Clinic, a desirable level of total cholesterol in the blood is below this number

101 5x 20.0% stumper $700 avg J:4 DJ:1

J $100 1997 You saw thousands of spots before your eyes in the 2 Disney movies about this number of dalmatians

J $600 2021 The OED found the University of Buffalo was the first to use this number denoting an introductory course, in 1929

DJ $2,000 2023 Legend says facing a teacher's make-worktaskto add up the first hundred positive integers, Carl Gauss quickly saw 50 pairs each totaling this

subtraction 5x $280 avg J:4 DJ:1

J $100 1993 A remainder is the number left over after this mathematical operation is performed

DJ $800 1993 This process is verified by adding the subtrahend to the difference

J $100 1994 It's the inverse operation of addition

a triangle 5x $1,000 avg DJ:5

DJ $400 2007 It's a plane figure bounded by 3 straight lines that intersect at 3 vertices

DJ $800 2009 The formula to find the area of one of these is 1/2 base times height

DJ $1,600 2003 A scalenohedron is a crystal of 8 or 12 faces, each of which is one of these shapes

trigonometry 4x $1,000 avg J:1 DJ:3

DJ $800 1987 Greek for "3-angled measuring", this branch of mathematics is widely used in navigation

J $1,000 2017 The 6 functions of this branch of math are each defined by the ratio of 2 sides in a right-angled triangle

DJ $1,000 1985 Branch widely used by surveyors, it computes relationships between sides of a right triangle

Nine 4x $575 avg J:3 DJ:1

J $400 2025 In the book series this many "Lives of Chloe King", a teenager learns that she has special enhanced abilities like a cat

J $500 1984 Broadway hit that takes Fellini film a ½ step further

J $600 2011 The Searchers:"Love Potion Number ____"

76 4x 25.0% stumper $525 avg J:4

J $100 1988 American artist Archibald M. Willard came up with several versions of the "Spirit of..." this

J $800 2019 This gasoline brand introduced its iconic orange ball in 1962

J $400 2020 This 2-digit number is part of the title of theartworkseen here

666 4x $675 avg J:4

J $300 1998 In Revelation 13:8, it's given as "The Number of the Beast"

J $800 2022 Biblically, it's the "number of the beast"

J $800 2021 Found in the last book of the Bible, it was a common telephone prefix in Reeves, La. but residents got the option to change it

28 4x 50.0% stumper $850 avg J:2 DJ:2

J $400 DD 1986 Sum of the digits in the title of the followingsongby Prince:"Tryin' to run from the destruction / You know I didn't even care / 'Cause they say / 2000, zero-zero, party over, oops, out of time / So tonight, I'm gonna party like it's 1999"

J $600 2004 It precedes "Days" in the title of a Sandra Bullock movie & "Days Later" in the title of a killer virus zombie movie

DJ $1,600 2010 Sandra Bullock as a journalist who ends up in rehab:"____ Days"

19 4x $600 avg J:3 FJ:1

J $500 1990 Number of the Rolling Stones' 1966 "Nervous Breakdown"

FJ 1986 # of numbers from 1-100 where 5 is used as at least 1 digit

J $500 1989 Number of shots fired in an arrival salute to the V.P., any cabinet member or the speaker of the house

1776 4x 50.0% stumper $900 avg J:3 DJ:1

J $400 1995 The Roman numeral for this year appears on the back of a $1 bill

J $500 2000 "Sit Down, John" & "The Lees of Old Virginia" are songs from this musical set during the revolution

DJ $2,200 DD 2026 Songs from this Broadway musical include "The Lees of Old Virginia" & "Sit Down, John"

six 4x $700 avg J:3 DJ:1

J $600 2007 Faces on a cube

J $800 2008 Number of numbers to pick in each game of the 12-state Mega Millions lottery

DJ $800 2004 It's the number of basic questions in journalism (don't forget the "H")

cosine 4x $600 avg J:3 DJ:1

J $300 1991 As an angles increases from 0 to 90 its sine increases from 0 to 1 & this decreases from 1 to 0

J $600 2016 (Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows a trigonometric animation on the monitor.) As the circle is drawn in blue, in red, the "Y" values translate to sine, & in yellow, the values of "X" translate to this

DJ $1,200 2011 cos, in trig

a slide rule 4x $600 avg J:2 DJ:2

J $300 1995 Rarely used anymore, this calculating device employs logarithmic scales to multiply numbers

DJ $600 1984 Logarithmic tool outmoded by the calculator

DJ $1,200 2017 The instrument called this type of "rule" helps rescue the crew of "Apollo 13"

49ers 4x $350 avg J:4

J $400 1984 California "goal" rushers

J $600 2009 19th c. gold seekers; or Ronnie Lott, Jerry Rice, et al.

J $200 2012 Bob St. Clair's 79 & Joe Montana's 16

Worth Knowing (53)

Omar Khayyam 3 Four Weddings and a Funeral 3 Fahrenheit 451 3 decimal 3 a theorem 3 a point 3 a pie chart 3 a cone 3 55 3 1001 3 base 3 variables 2 U2 2 transmission 2 the third degree 2 the fourth estate 2 the denominator 2 the absolute value 2 Ten Days That Shook the World 2 Slaughterhouse-Five 2 secant 2 quarks 2 Pete Rose 2 one billion 2 non-Euclidean 2 Newton 2 million 2 median 2 Maroon 5 2 logarithms 2 less than 2 Japan 2 Fiddler on the Roof 2 cosecant 2 calcium 2 BUtterfield 8 2 BMW 2 an intersection 2 an equation 2 an axiom 2 a Venn diagram 2 a radical 2 a quotient 2 a quadrant 2 a pyramid 2 a plane 2 a degree 2 87 2 7th 2 72 2 4-F 2 26 2 2000 2

Astronomy / Space

39 answers | 274 clues

Must-Know (12)

5 27x 11.1% stumper $485 avg J:15 DJ:12

J $100 2001 There are this many cards in one player's hand in standard draw poker

J $500 2000 The third smallest prime number

J $1,000 2002 It's the number of years in a French president's term of office; in 2000 it was reduced from 7

4 27x 11.1% stumper $541 avg J:17 DJ:10

J $100 1998 If you got a trapezoid for Christmas, you got a figure with this many sides & a crummy gift

J $500 1993 An adult who's never lost any permanent teeth should have this many canines, whether or not he's a dog owner

DJ $1,000 1989 In 1960 Kennedy & Nixon debated one another this many times

6 26x 3.8% stumper $515 avg J:15 DJ:11

J $100 2000 The number of days it took God to create the universe & everything in it (not resting)

J $500 1993 According to an Old English song title, the number of pence that's jolly

J $1,000 2011 Nations in the Iroquois Confederacy, after the Tuscarora tribe joined

17 14x 35.7% stumper $686 avg J:8 DJ:6

J $200 1985 "She was just" this, "you know what I mean? And the way she looked was way beyond compare"

J $500 1989 The next prime number after 13

J $1,000 2003 The first Apollo mission launched at night & the last one to go to the moon had this number

three 13x 15.4% stumper $415 avg J:9 DJ:4

J $100 1984 Joanne Woodward's "Eve" had this many faces

J $800 2008 Blind Melon gave multiplication help covering the "Schoolhouse Rock!" song about this "magic number"

J $1,000 2014 Proofreader's nightmare Lynyrd Skynyrd:"Gimme ____ Steps"

24 12x 16.7% stumper $733 avg J:5 DJ:7

J $100 2000 Of 0, 12 or 24, the number of hours of sunlight in the Arctic Circle on June 21

DJ $800 2007 (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a globe with latitude & longitude lines on the monitor.) The Earth can be divided into this many units, each measuring 15 degrees longitude & roughly equal to a time zone

DJ $1,000 1999 Letters in the Greek alphabet

16 12x 8.3% stumper $733 avg J:7 DJ:5

J $100 1994 In 1958 Chuck Berry sang about this "Sweet Little" number

DJ $600 1992 If you hold after being dealt 3 fives & an ace in blackjack you have this many points

DJ $1,000 DD 1990 Number in the title of the following Neil Sedaka hit:"Tonight's the night I've waited for..."

20 11x 9.1% stumper $664 avg J:9 DJ:2

J $400 2018 Channels in a classical Doric column, or the January date of a traditional presidential inauguration

J $500 2000 In a 1998 documentary Myles Berkowitz tried to find Ms. Right & get a movie made in this many title "dates"

J $1,000 2012 An eye chart is usually read from a distance of this many feet

88 10x 10.0% stumper $510 avg J:8 DJ:2

J $200 2024 There are this many officially recognized constellations, same as the number of keys on a standard piano

J $500 1997 Slang for a piano

DJ $2,000 2008 A pianist could tell you this is the number of days it takes Mercury to complete one orbit

11 9x $556 avg J:8 DJ:1

J $300 2001 In a 1960 film, this title number of crooks, led by Danny Ocean, plan a Vegas caper

J $500 1992 Colonel Sanders created his famous chicken using this many "herbs and spices"

J $400 2025 This Apollo mission put the first humans on the Moon

two 9x 11.1% stumper $622 avg J:6 DJ:3

J $200 2007 Humps on a Bactrian

J $600 2025 Number of points a team gets for a safety in the NFL

DJ $1,600 2004 If you are the very model of a U.S. Major General, you wear this many stars

48 8x $350 avg J:7 DJ:1

J $100 2000 States in the United States in 1945

J $500 1997 From 1912 to 1959 there were this many states in the United States

J $200 2015 Total number of stars on the U.S. flag in 1957

Should-Know (11)

70 7x 28.6% stumper $529 avg J:4 DJ:3

J $100 1999 It's the Major League record for home runs in a season

J $600 2002 According to Psalms, the number of years allotted to each human being; the strong get 10 more

DJ $1,000 DD 2011 4 score & 7 minus the syllables in a haiku

1,000 7x 14.3% stumper $629 avg J:4 DJ:3

J $100 1994 It's ten hundreds

J $800 2016 Mercury Morris of the Miami Dolphins ran for exactly this many yards in the 1972 season

J $1,000 2015 Patricia Schultz has prepared a long bucket list with her book this many "Places to See Before You Die"

the hypotenuse 7x $657 avg J:3 DJ:4

DJ $400 2018 It's the side of a right triangle that's opposite the right angle

J $600 2024 In a Tom Lehrer song, a movie called "The Eternal Triangle" stars Ingrid Bergman as this longest side of a right triangle

DJ $1,200 2025 It's the much cooler-sounding way to say the side of a right triangle opposite the right angle

Eight 6x 16.7% stumper $950 avg J:3 DJ:3

J $100 1984 It was "enough" for Dick Van Patten

J $600 2009 According to the International Astronomical Union, the number of planets in our solar system

DJ $2,000 2017 Vertices of a cube

A Thousand 6x $750 avg J:4 DJ:2

J $100 1990 According to a 1962 Bobby Vee hit, "The night has" this many eyes

J $600 2020 By Khaled Hosseini: "A ___ Splendid Suns"

DJ $1,600 2006 Wilson Pickett:"Land Of __ Dances"

prime numbers 5x 20.0% stumper $940 avg J:2 DJ:3

J $500 1987 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, & 19, for example, but not 4, 9, or 21

DJ $2,000 2003 It's been thought but not proved that there's an infinite supply of twin these, parts of them that differ by 2

DJ $600 1991 It's the term for integers greater than 1 that have only 1 & themselves as factors

42 5x 20.0% stumper $720 avg J:4 DJ:1

J $400 1990 It's the total number of dots on a pair of dice

J $600 2010 Lindbergh's most famous flight to the first manned moon landing

J $1,000 2004 ...different men who've been president of the United States

31 4x $467 avg J:2 DJ:1 FJ:1

J $200 2025 Baskin-Robbins started out offering this many flavors; now the company has 1,400-plus

J $600 2013 The Baskin-Robbins logo introduced in 1953 included this number

FJ 2013 North America's 3 mainland countries have a total of 91 states & provinces; Mexico has this many states

300 4x $625 avg J:2 DJ:2

J $100 1992 In bowling, roll 12 strikes in a single game & you'll achieve this perfect score

DJ $800 2009 75% of 200 plus 200% of 75 equals this

DJ $1,200 DD 2003 Between 2 & 2:50 P.M., the minute hand on your watch covers this many degrees

29 4x $975 avg J:3 DJ:1

J $500 1988 Number in the last line of the complete version of the poem which begins "30 days hath September"

J $1,000 2022 Start counting in your head! It's the next prime number after 23

J $800 2002 In a 1976 song, the number of crew members who perished in "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald"

an ellipse 4x 25.0% stumper $950 avg DJ:4

DJ $400 2010 (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a diagram on a monitor) Acirclehas 2 foci that coincide in a single point. If we separate the foci, we can drawthis7-letter conic section

DJ $800 2018 E:It's a closed, oval-shaped curve

DJ $1,200 2021 Homotopy is when one shape can be continuously deformed into another; a circle is homotopic to this oval closed curve

Worth Knowing (16)

Three's Company 3 a ray 3 a parabola 3 77 3 101 Dalmatians 3 Three Men and a Baby 2 Thirteen 2 the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse 2 The 39 Steps 2 R2-D2 2 PT-109 2 Proof 2 basketball 2 97 2 2 Broke Girls 2 .45 2

Other

74 answers | 185 clues

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the 600 7x 42.9% stumper $729 avg J:6 DJ:1

J $500 1994 In "The Charge of the Light Brigade", it's the number of soldiers who rode "Into the Valley of Death"

J $1,000 2022 In a classic poem: "Then they rode back, but not / Not the" 19

DJ $600 1988 Number of members in the brigade that, in the poem, rode "into the valley of death"

500 6x 50.0% stumper $800 avg J:3 DJ:3

J $300 1993 This number often follows "Fortune" & "Indy"

J $600 2016 Seuss' "The ____ Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins"

DJ $2,000 2013 The Proclaimers:"I'm Gonna Be (____ Miles)"

A Chorus Line 5x $840 avg J:3 DJ:2

J $400 2008 "I Hope I Get It"

J $800 2017 "I Hope I Get It"

DJ $1,000 1996 "I Hope I Get It"

150 5x 40.0% stumper $560 avg J:4 DJ:1

J $400 2024 In 2024 West Conshohocken Borough in Pennsylvania celebrated its sesquicentennial, this many years

J $500 1999 Number of psalms in the Biblical book of Psalms

DJ $1,000 1988 Number of psalms in the Book of Psalms

an abacus 4x $1,650 avg J:2 DJ:2

J $100 1991 A calculating device with rows of beads strung on a wire & mounted on a frame

DJ $6,000 DD 2021 Their numerals weren't handy for arithmetic, so ancient Romans did most of their calculating on this device

DJ $200 1988 Calculating device the Chinese call the "suan pan"

360 4x $525 avg J:1 DJ:3

DJ $200 1984 Number of degrees in a circle

DJ $1,200 2010 No matter how many sides a convex polygon has, the sum of its exterior angles will always equal this many degrees

J $300 1997 On a square, it's the total number of degrees of the interior angles

Worth Knowing (68)

scalene 3 My Fair Lady 3 Hairspray 3 Cabaret 3 binary 3 a right angle 3 a diameter 3 80 3 73 3 714 3 49 3 409 3 39 3 1600 3 1492 3 109 3 "Sixteen Tons" 3 "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover" 3 Wayne Gretzky 2 The Three Faces of Eve 2 The Seven Year Itch 2 the remainder 2 the perimeter 2 the Gang of Four 2 the circumference 2 One Day at a Time 2 Oliver! 2 Oklahoma! 2 obtuse 2 Nine Inch Nails 2 K2 2 Jackson Pollock 2 integers 2 degrees 2 Catch-22 2 Blink-182 2 angles 2 A Tale of Two Cities 2 a protractor 2 A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum 2 a decagon 2 95 2 90210 2 84 2 81 2 800 2 8 1/2 2 640 2 61 2 52 2 501 2 36 2 35 2 32 2 3000 2 20/20 2 1999 2 1961 2 108 2 100,000 2 1,760 2 1,001 2 $200 2 "When I'm Sixty-Four" 2 "Mambo No. 5" 2 "Five O'Clock World" 2 "Eight Days A Week" 2 the 80s 2

Math / Physics

21 answers | 98 clues

Must-Know (3)

7 36x 8.3% stumper $742 avg J:22 DJ:14

J $100 2001 Number of proverbial "seas" of the world, or number of "sisters" in women's colleges in the Northeast

J $500 1990 The book of Proverbs says, "Wisdom hath builded her house; she hath hewn out" this many "pillars"

J $1,000 2002 Joshua & his army circled Jericho for this number of days

64 8x 25.0% stumper $600 avg J:6 DJ:2

J $200 2008 The Beatles asked, "Will you still need me, will you still feed me when I'm" this

J $800 2023 In 2023 France raised the retirement age to this, still younger than Social Security's longtime number until 1983

J $1,000 2022 In 1958 Crayola introduced its box of this many crayons, the first with sharpener included

144 8x 12.5% stumper $875 avg J:4 DJ:4

J $300 1990 A dozen dozen

DJ $800 2015 100 & 200:It's a gross

J $1,000 2009 3-digit number for a gross

Should-Know (2)

57 5x $240 avg J:4 DJ:1

J $100 1997 Heinz' varieties

J $200 2024 The right spot to smack on a Heinz bottle is this number to get the ketchup flowing at a brisk .028 mph

J $200 2020 This number is in Heinz' slogan

25 5x 20.0% stumper $760 avg J:1 DJ:4

DJ $200 1987 The next square in the series 4, 9, 16,...

DJ $600 1986 Number whose square is 625 & whose square root is 5

DJ $1,000 1984 The reciprocal of 1/25

Worth Knowing (16)

The Three Musketeers 3 Ten 3 complementary 3 Radius 3 The House of the Seven Gables 2 Pythagoras 2 Five Easy Pieces 2 Cube 2 an arc 2 a prime number 2 a matrix 2 a cylinder 2 9 to 5 2 34 2 202 2 Trafalgar Square Root 2

Biology / Animals

27 answers | 94 clues

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40 17x 5.9% stumper $465 avg J:14 DJ:3

J $100 1995 Baba's thieves or Borden's whacks

J $600 2012 It's the new 30:quadraginta

J $1,000 2006 (Jimmy of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Dublin, Ireland.) The beauty of Ireland has been summed up in the popular phrase, this many "shades of green"

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congruent 5x $960 avg J:2 DJ:3

J $400 1998 From the Latin "to agree", it describes 2 figures that coincide when superimposed

DJ $600 1991 In geometry, the term for two or more figures that are identical in size and shape

J $1,000 2012 From the Latin for "agreeing", it means identical in shape & size, like the two objects seen here

calculus 5x $800 avg DJ:4 FJ:1

DJ $600 1984 Branch named from the Latin word for pebble comes in "differential" & "integral"

DJ $1,000 1987 This branch of math was invented to solve problems with quantities that change or vary

FJ 2006 In Latin the name of this math field meant a pebble used in counting, & the word also has the medical meaning "stone"

99 5x $280 avg J:4 DJ:1

J $200 2014 Number of Jay Z' title "Problems", or "Bottles Of Beer On The Wall"

DJ $200 1989 On T\/'s "Get Smart", this was the number of the agent who gave birth to twins

J $300 1993 In lunch counter slang, this number means the chief soda jerk, as Barbara Feldon might know

Seventeen 4x 25.0% stumper $700 avg J:3 DJ:1

J $200 1990 Janis Ian "learned the truth at" this age "that love was meant for beauty queens"

DJ $2,000 2010 This number, one of the first 20, uses only one vowel (4 times!)

J $200 1985 In September '84, this magazine turned 40, 23 years older than its name

Infinity 4x $600 avg DJ:4

DJ $400 2017 Dev Patel played mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan in 2016's "The Man Who Knew" this limitless number

DJ $600 2001 A quantity, such as the set of all natural numbers; its symbol is seen here

DJ $600 1985 The figure resembling eight turned on its side symbolizes this

96 4x 25.0% stumper $825 avg J:3 DJ:1

J $200 1988 ? & the Mysterians' only #1 hit was about crying this many tears

J $800 2022 In Roman numerals it's XCVI

DJ $2,000 DD 2021 1956's "Dalmatians" minus 2003's "People You Meet in Heaven"

86 4x 25.0% stumper $1,450 avg J:3 DJ:1

J $400 1993 A bouncer could tell you that to eject someone from a bar is to do this to him

J $600 2014 This term that means "to throw out" or "we're out of it" may be rhyming slang for "nix"

DJ $4,000 DD 2011 In restaurant slang, this number means "all gone"

10,000 4x 25.0% stumper $475 avg J:4

J $200 1999 On March 29, 1999 the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above this benchmark for the first time

J $1,000 2020 The word myriad can refer to any large number of things, or specifically to this big number

J $300 1999 Number of Natalie Merchant's musical "Maniacs"

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Three Mile Island 3 four and twenty 3 a rhombus 3 a circle 3 "1999" 3 vertex 3 topology 2 the Yankees 2 the Fifth 2 The B-52s 2 Route 66 2 cotangent 2 a trapezoid 2 7th heaven 2 54°40' 2 1985 2 "The Four Seasons" 2 "Knock Three Times" 2

Botany / Plants

3 answers | 13 clues

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one 9x $388 avg J:7 DJ:1 FJ:1

J $100 2000 In a 1969 Three Dog Night ballad, this number is "the loneliest number that you'll ever do"

DJ $1,200 2006 U2:"__"

FJ 2008 It's the only whole number that when spelled out has all its letters in reverse alphabetical order

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66 2 22 2

Earth Science

2 answers | 7 clues

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50 5x 20.0% stumper $720 avg J:2 DJ:3

DJ $400 1989 Paul Simon had his only No. 1 hit in 1976 with a song about this many "Ways To Leave Your Lover"

DJ $600 1990 Though you'll probably retire later, you can join the American Assn. of Retired Persons on reaching this age

J $1,000 2016 In 1944-45 the NHL played this many games & "Rocket" Richard scored exactly that many goals, a feat not matched until 1981

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1493 2

Medicine / Health

1 answers | 2 clues

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30 Rock 2

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