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As co-editor of the influential magazine The Smart Set, this Baltimorean attacked the "booboisie" |
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As "The Absent-Minded Professor", Fred MacMurray reached new heights after discovering this magical substance |
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Among his 355 patents is an 1887 one for ballistite, or smokeless powder |
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Continent where you'd find the shrews Crocidura nigeriae & Crocidura tansaniana |
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In 2004 he replaced George Tenet as the permanent head of the CIA |
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A rapid chaotic beating of the heart muscles in a nonsynchronous way |
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His first U.S. publication, in the May 1915 Smart Set, was 2 stories about Dubliners |
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Since 1963 this British title character has traveled through time & space in a device called the TARDIS |
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In 1884 Ottmar Mergenthaler invented this machine that eliminated setting type by hand |
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Canadian province where you'll most likely spot Trowbridge's shrew, which enjoys Douglas fir seeds |
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The name of this intelligence service established in 1951 is from the Hebrew for "institution" |
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1964 building blocks for a wacky Warhol work |
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In 1919 The Smart Set ran his first paid story, "Babes in the Woods"; in 1922, the classic "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz" |
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In the '60s he played Egghead, a super-smart villain on TV's "Batman" |
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The difference engine, a computing device he designed in the 1820s, was built in 1991 from his plans & it worked! |
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The Southeastern shrew inhabits the marshy U.S. region that got this uninviting name from Col. William Byrd |
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John Thurloe was this English leader's intelligence chief in the 1650s, gathering info on royalist plots |
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A crude cart used to carry the condemned to the guillotine during the French Revolution |
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This ex-sailor published 3 early sea plays in the magazine, including "The Long Voyage Home" |
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The head of the house on this sitcom was alien egghead/physics professor Dick Solomon |
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In 1837 Brits Cooke & Wheatstone designed an electric one; later that year, an American painter perfected it |
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The Mt. Malindang shrew & the Palawan tree shrew are native to this country |
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During World War II Gen. Bill Donovan ran this forerunner of the CIA |
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Miles Franklin was only a teenager when she penned this bestseller about growing up in Australia's outback |
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His 1st published story, "The Parthian Shot", ran in The Smart Set in 1922, before he began doing his spadework |
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In this screwball comedy, stuffy paleontologist Cary Grant had a few bones to pick with Katharine Hepburn |
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Named for its American inventor, this electrostatic generator is used to accelerate particles |
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It would be "serendip"itous to see a Kelaart's long-clawed shrew, as it lives only on this island |
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Sanskrit for "learned man", this term was used for natives recruited into intelligence gathering in British India |
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12-letter word for an oily men's hair cream to keep hair in place & make it look glossy |
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