The commercial game of Monopoly is supposedly a remake of “The Landlord’s Game” created in 1903 by a Quaker woman named Lizzie Phillips. In Italian, there are “sessanta minuti” (sixty minutes) in an “ora” (hour). We also use the phrase “litmus test” figuratively to describe any test in which a single factor decides the outcome. Litmus is often absorbed onto filter paper, creating “litmus paper” or “pH paper”. One suggestion is that the term “litmus” comes from the Old Norse “litmose” meaning “lichen for dyeing”. Litmus was probably first used around 1300 by the Spanish alchemist Arnaldus de Villa Nova, who extracted the blue dye from lichens. Litmus is a mixture of naturally-occurring dyes that responds to acidity by changing color. The term “alkali” is sometimes used interchangeably with “base”, especially if that base is readily soluble in water. An important subset of the chemicals called bases are alkalis, hydroxides of the alkali metals and of ammonium.
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Acids and bases react with each other to form salts. Acids turn litmus paper red, and bases turn it blue. There are two letters M (ems) in the word “millennium”, one at either end.
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Unidentified flying object (UFO) 36 Millennium, at the beginning and end? : EMS 35 Peculiar light in the sky, in brief : UFO The name “Othello” was chosen as a nod to the play by William Shakespeare. The game of Reversi is also sold as Othello. Players can cause opponents to return to the start, hopefully while saying “Sorry!” in the process. The game itself is based on the ancient game of pachisi, and involves players racing against each other to move their playing pieces around the board as quickly as possible. Sorry! is a board game that dates back at least to 1934 when it was introduced in the UK market by Waddingtons. The term “soccer” started to appear about 20 years later in Oxford, as an abbreviation for “as sociation”. The term “association football” was introduced in 1863 in England, with the name chosen to distinguish the sport from rugby football. Soccer (also known as “association football”) is the most popular sport in the world. 25 In which head shots can be taken : SOCCER Tradition holds that Lao-Tzu wrote the “Tao Te Ching”, a classical Chinese text that is fundamental to the philosophy of Taoism. Lao Tse (also “Lao-Tzu”, “Laozi”) was a central figure in the development of the religion/philosophy of Taoism. Touching the wires completed a circuit causing a buzzer to go off and/or a light to come on. The game is based on the old electric wire loop game where players had to guide a loop along a winding wire without touching it. The game called Operation was invented by John Spinello and was first produced in 1965 by Milton Bradley.
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War is a card game, one played mainly by children. 20 General’s responsibility? : WAR OPERATION
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“Bosons” are named for the Indian physicist Satyendra Nath Bose who developed Bose-Einstein statistics along with Albert Einstein. They can be elementary like photons or composite like mesons, which are composed of one quark and one antiquark. Particle physics is beyond me, but I do know that bosons are subatomic particles. 19 _ boson (the so-called “God particle”) : HIGGS 15 Tide competitor : ERAĮra was the first liquid laundry detergent produced by Procter & Gamble. “Fidelio” tells of a woman named Leonore who disguises herself as a prison guard in order to get her condemned husband out of prison. “Fidelio” is Ludwig van Beethoven’s one and only opera, and a work with which he really struggled. 9 “Fidelio” is Beethoven’s only one : OPERA The Old English word “smearcian” means “to smile”, and gave us our verb “to smirk”, meaning “to smile in a self-satisfied manner”. Today’s Wiki-est Amazonian Googlies Across