That Stinks!
When dissecting something in biology, that bad odor may be this preservative derived from methyl alcohol
Formaldehyde
Ernest Hemingway once claimed that "All modern American literature comes from this "Tom Sawyer" sequel"
Huckleberry Finn
In 1961 this city got what the locals called Schandmauer, "Wall of Shame"
Berlin
As Steven Spielberg could tell you, it's the fear of spiders
Arachnophobia
In fireflies, the chemical luciferase acts on luciferin to produce this
Light
This appropriately-named insect uses its disagreeable odor to protect itself from enemies
Stinkbug
He received only $10 for the first publication of "The Tell-Tale Heart"
(Edgar Allan) Poe
NATO sits in Brussels & SEATO sat in this Thai city
Bangkok
Someone who suffers from this phobia feels like the walls are closing in
Claustrophobia
This fine-grained, tough quartz makes a spark when struck against steel
Flint
Skunk musk is actually an organic compound of this element, symbol S
Sulphur
In 1985 Larry McMurtry made the bestseller list with this epic novel about the West
Lonesome Dove
The Titanic was built in a shipyard in this Northern Ireland city
Belfast
One who's brontophobic & astraphobic fears these 2 things, especially on a rainy night
Thunder and lightning
In human anatomy, the lowest 2 pairs of these bones are "floating"
Ribs
These "salts" contain ammonium carbonate, which, when inhaled, relieves faintness
Smelling Salts
Laura Ingalls Wilder was well into her 60s when she began this series of books about her early life
Little House on the Prairie
Its coat of arms features a condor & an alpaca
Bolivia
It's what a carnophobic person wouldn't eat
Meat
A bloom of tiny marine dinoflagellates produces this colorful tide
Red Tide
The corpse flower's repulsive stench attracts pollinators in the Sumatran rain forests of this country
Indonesia
Set in the Reconstruction era, Beloved won this Black American author a 1988 Pulitzer Prize
Toni Morrison
Since Burma became Myanmar, this is the only "B" country left on the Bay of Bengal
Bangladesh
If you're autophobic or monophobic, you're afraid of this, as many of us are at times
Being alone
Colloquially called the kneecap, this flat, triangular bone is one of the sesamoid bones
Patella