(1) You have been invited to sit down at the periodic table. Among these mythological figures and the elements named after them are the 12 Titans (titanium), Prometheus (promethium), and Thor (thorium). Nobel laureates and their elemental namesakes include Ernest Rutherford (rutherfordium), Marie Skłodowska-Curie and Pierre Curie (curium) and Albert Einstein (einsteinium). “Noble types” are the noble gases that are found on the far right side of the periodic table.
(2) The word on the card is Noel (or more accurately, NO).eL). N is the Newton symbol, O is the most common blood type, e is a mathematical constant, and L. on specimen labels indicates what Carl Linnaeus named the species.
(3) Element 47 has been used for centuries. It creates images in several ways: silver salts are used in photography, and silver itself is used in mirrors. Silver ions or compounds are included in wound dressings for their antimicrobial properties. Silver provides calories in the form of knives, forks and spoons, and if you have shiny glass baubles on your Christmas tree, that shine may be due to the thin layer of silver inside.
(4) But this is Carol of the Bells. In order they describe the astronomer Jocelyn Bell Burnellphysicist John Stewart Bell and inventor Alexander Graham Bell.
(5) Gingerbread would be an acceptable answer. The first two letters of our dishes are the same as the most frequently used ones. metric prefixes (words that increase or decrease a number to the power of 10), regularly moving from tiny (nano) to huge (giga). In order: nano (10-9), micro (10-6), national (10-3), break for 100 (which is equal to 1), kilogram (103), mega (106) and giga (109).
(6) They describe Ada Lovelace, Mary Anning, Hannah Fry and mitochondrial Eve. Mary Anning is the only one who doesn't have a palindromic name, that is, one that reads the same forward and backward (or backwards), so she's the one who won't be returning next year.
(7) Add the energy symbol E and the energy unit symbol eV (electronvolt) to Mendel to get Mendeleev. Gregor Mendel demonstrated how traits are inherited in a series of pea plant breeding experiments in the 1850s and 1860s, and Dmitri Mendeleev created the first periodic table, arranging the chemical elements in order of atomic weight.
(8) Three clues describe I'd like tomurmur and meme. Each of these words consists of repeating units that are shorter by one letter each time, so it is logical to follow the year MM (2000 in Roman numerals).
(9) The Christmas pudding is set on fire! The brandy needs to be heated before pouring it in so that the ethanol vapor from the alcohol burns off, not the pudding.
(10) The theme of grandma’s charades was music. The clues relate to classical, rock, pop and finally punk and emo.
(11) This is cheese. People did cheese in one form or another for more than 7,000 years. It gets its flavor and texture from the many bacteria, molds and yeasts that live inside it.
(12) The answer is crazy. Each clue describes a word containing the word “nut”: sternutation, nutria, minute, nutrition. You may find them in a stocking or on the table after dinner.
