| Geography & Nature | PANDAS | China gave the bears to the National Zoo in Washington, D.C. on April 16, 1972. Another pair, Mei Xiang and Tian Tian, arrived on December 6, 2000. |
| Sports & Games | AKEBONO | Born as Chadwick Haheo Rowan, the Hawaiian attained the rank of yokozuna in 1993. |
| Literature & Arts | LEWIS | Sinclair Lewis's Babbitt helped popularize the political term "liberal" in 1922. |
| History & Government | GRASSO | Democrat Ella Grasso was inaugurated as governor of Connecticut on January 8, 1975. |
| Entertainment & Food | QUEEN | "Bohemian Rhapsody" reached the top in 1975, then a second time after Freddie Mercury's death in 1991. |
| Math & Science | HECTO | Its counterpart is "centi-", meaning "one hundredth". |
Quiz Quilt Answer: EUREKA (Second letters going up)
The interjection, directly from the Greek for "I found it", was supposedly shouted by a naked Archimedes when he discovered how to determine the purity of gold.
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