| SMALLPOX | Infectious disease now considered eradicated; its first vaccine was discovered by Edward Jenner in 1796 (5,3) |
| SMALLPOXVACCINE | Discovery by Edward Jenner in 1796 |
| AMALTHEA | Largest of the non-Galilean moons of Jupiter, discovered by Edward Emerson Barnard in 1892 (8) |
| POLIO | The first vaccine for this disease, now mostly eradicated, was created by Jonas Salk |
| SABIN | Whose (Albert ___) oral polio vaccine was given to millions of Russians before being released in the US? (5) |
| PITT | The Salk vaccine was developed at its med |
| DIONE | This moon was discovered by the Italian-born French astronomer Gian Domenico Cassini in 1684 and named for a daughter of the Titan Oceanus in Greek mythology. It is accompanied in its orbit by two muc |
| DECATHLON | Olympic event won by Bruce Jenner in 1976 and Ashton Eaton in 2012 and 2016 |
| COWPOX | Edward Jenner used it when developing the world's first successful vaccine |
| COUPOX | Edward Jenner used it when developing the world's first successful vaccine |
| IAPETUS | The outermost of Saturn's major regular moons, extraordinary because of its great contrast in surface brightness. This moon was discovered by Gian Domenico Cassini in 1671, it has a radius of 718 km ( |
| URANUS | Which planet was discovered by William Herschel in 1781 and named after the Greek god who was son an |
| NORFOLK | -- Island in the S Pacific was discovered by Captain Cook in 1774 (7) |
| JONASSALK | US virologist who developed the first vaccine against polio, introduced into use in 1955 (5,4) |
| IDIAMIN | Which soldier became president of Uganda in 1971, ruled through most of the decade as a military dictator, and is now considered one of the most brutal despots in modern world history? (3,4) |
| RUDDYDUCK | New World waterbird now considered invasive in the UK (5,4) |
| ESPY | Award won by Caitlyn Jenner in 2015 |
| URANIUM | This element, whose isotopes are used as fuel in nuclear reactors and nuclear weapons, was discovered by German chemist Martin Heinrich Klaproth in 1789. One pound of this material yields as much ener |
| PHOEBE | This moon was discovered by the American astronomer William Henry Pickering in 1899. Roughly spherical and about 210 km (130 miles) in diameter, this moon has a mean distance from Saturn of about 12,9 |
| MAURITIA | Name for the dense mass of continental crust in the Indian Ocean stretching between Madagascar and India; it was discovered by scientists in 2017. (8) |
