"This element was first produced in 1940 in California. It became the "active" ingredient in the atomic bombs dropped on Japan." I believe that the "Little Boy"-bomb dropped on Hiroshima was U-235 based and only "Fat Man"-bomb dropped on Nagasaki used Plutonium. So, that hint should read "bomb" instead of "bombs".
Same here. I was thinking, "What do they call parchment?" I was trying to think of vellum, and after I finally thought of it I was surprised when it didn't work. So then I tried parchment. I thought a document that important would have been written on vellum but I guess not - not that there's that much difference.
Vellum should be accepted in addition to parchment. While there are technically distinctions between them, the two terms are often used interchangeably.
I read "steel" and "named for a city in the middle east," and my mind went immediately to Bethlehem Steel. Couldn't think of anything else after that...
Are you certain that the substance of interest in Heart of Darkness was ivory, not latex rubber? (Historically at least, that was the main substance that drove the genocide of the Congo.)
"One day he remarked, without lifting his head, ‘In the interior you will no doubt meet Mr. Kurtz.’ On my asking who Mr. Kurtz was, he said he was a first-class agent; and seeing my disappointment at this information, he added slowly, laying down his pen, ‘He is a very remarkable person.’ Further questions elicited from him that Mr. Kurtz was at present in charge of a trading-post, a very important one, in the true ivory-country, at ‘the very bottom of there. Sends in as much ivory as all the others put together...’"
Had no idea that "parchment" isn't just a verbose way of saying "paper" or "document". I managed to get it anyway because I typed it in as a joke and I audibly gasped when it showed up, lol.
Maybe accept Wootz Steel for Damascus Steel? According to Wikipedia, Wootz was the original ingot from India, but Damascus was the refined version of it. I also learned of it as Wootz Steel, but then I was learning about India.
- The Life of Brian
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wootz_steel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damascus_steel