In British usage, the object of this verb is nearly always a flint |
KNAP |
In geometry, a transformation with no change in shape or size, such as rotation |
ISOMETRY |
In Greek myth, a mountain nymph |
OREAD |
Joseph ____ wrote the poem “Stille Nacht” for which Franz Gruber wrote a melody and guitar accompaniment in 1818 |
MOHR |
Kind of memory normally used for computer firmware |
read-only |
Latin for “hail” or “welcome” |
SALVE |
Port in southwest Finland, the capital city before Helsinki |
TURKU |
Representing expectations rather than reality |
on paper |
Someone involved in crime and/or violence |
HOODLUM |
Someone who wants power or wrongly thinks they have it |
MEGALOMANIAC |
Standard of comparison used to check experimental results |
CONTROL |
The apposite nickname of an American folk artist who was born in 1860 and died in 1961 |
grandma moses |
The best-known exponent of Catalan modernism |
Antonio Gaudi |
The capital and largest city of Chad |
N'Djamena |
The only Briton to win gold in an Olympic javelin final |
Tessa Sanderson |
The planet orbited by the Cassini probe from 2004 to 2017 |
SATURN |
The protagonist in Thomas Hardy’s final novel |
Jude Fawley |
The third pharaoh of Egypt’s 19th dynasty |
Rameses the Great |
The world’s longest river flowing into an inland body of water rather than the sea |
VOLGA |
Tomas de Torquemada was Spain’s first Grand ____ |
INQUISITOR |
Victorian overcoat, with a shorter cape than an Inverness |
ULSTER |
What some people do with espresso and paella |
MISPRONOUNCE |
Word such as “bagel”, “chutzpah”, or “mensch” |
YIDDISHISM |
____ spectabilis is better known as bleeding heart |
DICENTRA |