a. Acronym for the Lance Throwing contest in the Olympics held by King Arthur.
b. What angry spouses sometimes call each other, short for Low-down No-good Two-timing Horseface.
c. 'Lets No one Turn their Head,' a modern device prescribed by chiropractors to temporarily stabilize the neck of whiplash sufferers.
d. Linear No-Threshold Hypothesis, the generally accepted hypothesis used to explain the relationship between radiation exposure and cancer risk. Says that the effect is proportional to the dose, that a given increment of radiation exposure will produce the same increment of cancer risk at any dose, however large or small.

2. Collective Dose

a. A misspelling of collective doze: a compulsory nap required of pre-school children.
b. A new program in which a given amount of liquor or beer is equally distributed during college fraternity parties in order to reduce excessive drinking by some.
c. A socialist-inspired term in which all doses of medicine are equally distributed.
d. The summation of all doses received by all members of a given population. Often expressed in units of person-sievert or person-rem. Also called population dose.

3. Reforming

a. What the US Congress unanimously supports doing with campaign finance laws.
b. In gourmet restaurants, what is done to discarded or uneaten food before it is re-served.
c. The work done by plastic surgeons.
d. The process by which hydrogen is extracted from a substance, like methanol or gasoline, for use in a fuel cell.

4. Electrolyte

a. A Greek demi-goddess with whom Zeus fell in love.
b. A politician's misspelling of electorate.
c. Title of a song from Chronic Town, the musical group R.E.M.'s first album.
d. A key component of a fuel cell which allows protons but not electrons to flow through it.

5. Breeder reactor

a. A reactor in which infertile couples are placed.
b. A modern version of a chicken farm.
c. A holiday spot in Germany.
d. A reactor that is designed to produce more fissile material than it consumes; also sometimes called "fast reactor" since most breeder reactors use fast neutrons for sustaining the nuclear chain reaction.