GROUND CONTROL
HEADQUARTERS FOR THIS PRIVATE AEROSPACE COMPANY WAS MOVED FROM CA TO TX IN 2024
SPACEX
WHILE MAJOR TOM IS MENTIONED IN "SPACE ODDITY" (1969), THIS ASTRAL ALTER EGO WAS INTRODUCED IN 1972
ZIGGY STARDUST
DARWIN'S STUDIES ON NATURAL SELECTION LED TO THIS FOUNDATIONAL TENET OF BIOLOGY
THEORY OF EVOLUTION
THE BLUE VARIETY OF THIS LARGEST BILLFISH IS THE NATIONAL FISH OF THE BAHAMAS
MARLIN
THIS CANNIBALISTIC PSYCHIATRIST FIRST APPEARS IN RED DRAGON (1981)
HANNIBAL LECTER
MANFRED VON RICHTHOFEN, KNOWN BY THIS MONIKER, TALLIED 80 AERIAL VICTORIES, THE MOST OF ANY PILOT IN WW1
RED BARON
NASA'S JOHNSON SPACE CENTER IS LOCATED IN THIS FOURTH LARGEST U.S. CITY
HOUSTON
ALSO A PROLIFIC ACTOR, BOWIE APPEARED IN OVER 30 MOVIES, INCLUDING THIS 1986 JIM HENSON MUSICAL FANTASY
LABYRINTH
HELIOCENTRISM, POSED BY THIS POLISH POLYMATH, PLACES THE SUN AT THE CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE
COPERNICUS
THE LARGEST FLATFISH IN THE OCEAN, WITH PACIFIC SPECIMENS TOPPING 500 LBS
HALIBUT
A CRIMINAL MASTERMIND, HE RUNS A LONDON GANG OF CHILD PICKPOCKETS IN OLIVER TWIST (1838)
FAGIN
SPARKING THE WAR, THE ASSASSINATION OF ARCHDUKE FERDINAND OCCURED IN THIS CITY IN MODERN DAY BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA
SARAJEVO
THESE 1ST SOVIET SATELLITE LAUNCHES WERE CONDUCTED FROM THE BAIKONUR COSMODROME IN MODERN-DAY KAZAKHSTAN
SPUTNIK
IN 2003, BOWIE REFUSED THIS BRITISH ACCOLADE, STATING, "IT'S NOT WHAT I SPENT MY LIFE WORKING FOR"
KNIGHTHOOD
REPLACING THE "MIASMA" THEORY, THIS THEORY STATES MOST DISEASE PATHOGENS ARE ACTUALLY MICROSCOPIC ORGANISMS
GERM THEORY
ANGLERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO "BOW TO THE KING" & LOWER THEIR RODS WHEN THIS FISH LEAPS TO SHAKE LOOSE A HOOK
TARPON
THIS FOIL TO THE TITULAR OTHELLO REMAINS ONE OF SHAKESPEARE'S MOST TREACHEROUS CHARACTERS
IAGO
A U.S. ARMY SERGEANT FROM TENNESSEE'S HEROICS MADE HIM THE SUBJECT OF A 1941 GARY COOPER FILM
ALVIN YORK
MERRITT ISLAND, FLORIDA IS HOME TO THIS PRIMARY LAUNCH CENTER FOR NASA SINCE 1968
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER
BOWIE APPEARS ON THE COVER OF ALL HIS ALBUMS WITH THE EXCPETION OF THE BUDDHA OF SUBURBIA & THIS FINAL ALBUM
BLACKSTAR
EARNING POSTHUMOUS RECOGNITION, THIS FATHER OF MODERN GENETICS EXPERIMENTED WITH PEA PLANTS
GREGOR MENDEL
YOU'LL SHOUT FOR JOY IF YOU LAND ONE OF THESE OCEANIC SPEEDSTERS
WAHOO
IN ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST (1962), SHE USES HER CONTROL OF THE WARD TO HUMILIATE & MANIPULATE HER PATIENTS
NURSE RATCHED
FOUGHT ON THE FRENCH WESTERN FRONT, IT WAS THE LONGEST BATTLE OF WW1, LASTING OVER 9 MONTHS
VERDUN
EUROPE'S PRIMARY SPACEPORT IS LOCATED ON THE NORTHERN COAST OF THIS SOUTH AMERICAN COUNTRY
FRENCH GUIANA
BOWIE ASSUMED HIS LAST NAME IN PART TO AVOID CONFUSION WITH DAVY JONES, AN ENGLISH CONTEMPORARY IN THIS BAND
THE MONKEES
LATER INCORPORATED INTO PLATE TECTONICS, THIS 20TH CENTURY THEORY SOUGHT TO EXPLAIN THE MOVEMENT OF EARTH'S MANY LANDMASSES
CONTINENTAL DRIFT
LOCAL TO THE FLORIDA KEYS AND THE CARIBBEAN, THIS FISH IS WIDELY CONSIDERED ONE OF THE MOST DIFFICULT FLY FISHING TROPHIES
PERMIT
MCCARTHY'S BLOOD MERIDIAN (1985), FEATURES THIS VIOLENT, SEEMINGLY AGELESS VILLAIN OF MASSIVE STATURE
JUDGE HOLDEN
AN INTERCEPTED TELEGRAM TO MEXICO FROM THIS GERMAN OFFICIAL HELPED PUSH THE U.S. TO JOIN THE WAR
ARTHUR ZIMMERMANN