Galveston, The Tropical Crown Jewel of Texas
The city of Galveston lies within this county.
What is Galveston County?
My AP Bio lab partner, who was planning on pursuing an MD, believed that eating an entire mango could cure one of this mosquito-borne disease.
What is Malaria?
This is a Mountain Goats song.
What is [insert Mountain Goats song]?
This astral body lends its name to the day of the week that Garfield hates.
What is the Moon?
The Gila Woodpecker tend to make their nests in mesquite trees as well as the saguaro variety of this type of plant.
What is a cactus?
French pirate Louis-Michel Aury was based in Galveston as he fought of the Spanish in this country's war for independence.
What is Mexico?
In a tangent during the 33 minute long cooking video I made for my senior Latin class final project, I compared Phaedrus' fable of The Stag at the Spring to this election won by George W. Bush.
What is the 2000 United States Presidential Election?
This second most populous country in Western Africa with its capital in Accra lends its name to a compilation Mountain Goats album released in 2002.
What is Ghana?
Garfield often threatens to ship Nermal to this Emirati capital city.
What is Abu Dhabi?
Berries often supplement the diets of woodpeckers, whose tendency to primarily consume bugs and larva make them an example of this type of feeding behavior characterized by the consumption of insects.
What is insectivory?
Galveston comprises most of Galveston Island as well as this island, home of the USS Stewart and USS Cavalla.
What is Pelican Island?
In my freshman year Latin class my partner did not show up to act in our skit because they had gone to act in this Netflix original series in which their character hacks a high school's grade database to edit someone's Latin grade in the very first scene of season four.
What is Stranger Things?
At the July 26th, 2025 Mountain Goats concert in North Adams, Massachusetts, the band performed a yet song titled "Broken to Begin With" from their new unreleased album. John Darnielle cracked a joke about the title, suggesting humorously that one might expect the band to name it something along the lines of "The Reign of King Alaric" rather than the straightforward title it received. Alaric was king of what is somewhat inaccurately called the western or "Visi" sub-group of this Germanic people with the same name as a subculture associated with the wearing of all black that lends their name to an 2017 album by The Mountain Goats.
What are Goths?
In some recipes for the medieval antecedents of Garfield's favorite food, It was recommended to, during lent, replace chicken fat with this nut that typically grows shelled inside of a green husk.
What is a walnut?
Wild strawberries, common across much of North America, lend their name to a 1957 film by this Swedish director of The Seventh Seal and Scenes from a Marriage.
Who is Ingmar Bergman?
Moody Gardens in Galveston contains three of these structures, the tenth tallest of which is in Memphis, Tennessee and is currently a Bass Pro Shops.
What is a pyramid?
I once had to work with someone in AP Macro, who I'd later learn was the sister of Huh Yunjin, a member of this K-Pop girl group.
What is Le Sserafim?
In the song Foreign Object the "sharp thing hidden in my hand" is said to be shaped like this ancient astronomical instrument used for measuring the altitude of celestial objects.
What is an astrolabe?
President Garfield was quoted as describing this act, which would eventually claim his own life, as to be "no more guarded against than death by lightning; it is best not to worry about either".
What is assassination?
What is a mulberry?
The Galveston Sand Crabs were a professional team that played this sport in the South Texas League and Texas League from 1903 to 1912, and again from 1922-1924.
What is baseball?
For a 9th grade history video project on the Black Death, I portrayed Pope Clement VI, who oversaw the Catholic Church from his seat in this French city.
What is Avignon?
This Aztec feathered serpent deity is referenced in the titles of several early Mountain Goats songs.
Who is Quetzalcoatl?
This oft forgotten Garfield quote describes what should be done to those people who pose Garfield the greatest irritation, such as whomever invented the Christmas Tree as well as those who sing poorly.
What is "They should be drug out onto the street and shot"?
What is the Pileated Woodpecker?