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THE BRITISH NOBILITY LADDER |
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HE WHO LIVES BY THE SWORD... |
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Liquid ammonia has a high boiling point because it's held together by the strong bond named for hydrogen, atomic number this |
one
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Seth Rogen voiced a mantis & Dustin Hoffman a small red panda in this 2008 movie |
Kung Fu Panda
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At the top, Prince Andrew is the one of York |
duke
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Jules Verne title trip that's undergone a letter drop & been shortened by 90% |
(Vijay: What is 2,000 Leagues Under the Sea?) (Becki: [Shakes head]) (Alex: Ohhh, you're not going to get it either.)
Around the World in Eight Days
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Legend says Attila the Hun wielded the sword of this Roman war god |
Mars
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Ordinarily, this hyphenated type of murder involves the lack of premeditation |
(Becki: What is suicide-murder?)
second-degree murder
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Voiced by John Cleese, King Harold of "Shrek" fame was originally one of these small creatures |
frog
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No. 2: Boxing fan John Sholto Douglas was one of Queensberry |
a marquess
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Dickens parable about the beer in Paris & London |
An Ale of Two Cities
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This 8th & 9th c. ruler's supposed sword, Joyeuse, is kept in the Louvre |
Charlemagne
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Of the 1500 species of these arachnids with curved tails & venomous stingers, only 50 are dangerous to humans |
scorpions
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Nitrogen molecules are linked by 2 bonds called this, the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter |
pi
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Chemicals turn Lily Tomlin into this title "Woman" in a 1981 Joel Schumacher film |
(Becki: Who was the spider-woman?)
The Incredible Shrinking Woman
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No. 3: His wife is a countess (Don't say count) |
earl
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Epic trilogy about Sauron, supreme master of oil derricks |
Lord of the Rigs
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In an old poem, Unferth gives this title hero the sword called Hrunting |
(Alex: And we have less than a minute to finish the round.)
Beowulf
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From the Latin for "choke" & "throat" comes this word meaning "to impede the respiration of" |
(Becki: What is strangle?)
suffocate
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The return of two kidnapped fairies played by Emi and Yumi caused this winged creature to stop destroying Tokyo |
Mothra
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No. 4: It has a silent consonant |
viscount
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This Flaubert heroine just can't stop making eggs |
Madame Ovary
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William Wallace likely used one of these large swords that shares a name with a type of land mine |
claymore
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This poisonous substance that has a number in its name comes from a type of nightshade |
strychnine
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Some compounds with nice smells, like benzene, have bonds called this, a term used to describe perfume |
aromatic
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This 1987 film finds Dennis Quaid as a shrunken test pilot mistakenly injected into Martin Short's body |
(Shelby: What is Fantastic Voyage?)
Innerspace
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No. 5: The first of the 5 alphabetically |
(Shelby: What is earl?)
baron
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This ghostly Henry James story refers to a vase designed to hold threaded fasteners |
The Urn of the Screw
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I'll come clean and tell you this English king's sword Curtana had no point and was dubbed the sword of mercy |
Edward the Confessor
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It's another Japanese word for hara-kiri |
(Shelby: Um, what is sayonara?) [Laughter] (Alex: No, but it's a way of saying sayonara.) ... (Alex: If you commit [*], you're saying sayonara!)
seppuku
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