BOTANY
CLASSIC SCI-FI & HORROR FILMS
WOMEN WITH 40-TUDE
MEN WITH FORT-ITUDE
SNAKE STUFF
200
'The white clover & the wood sorrel are among the plants called these, a symbol of Ireland'
shamrocks
200
'Before he was Spock, he had a small role in the mutant ant infestation classic "Them!" in 1954'
(Leonard) Nimoy
200
'Henry's granddaughter, Peter's daughter & Jane's niece, she marked 40 on January 27'
Bridget Fonda
200
'This first secretary of war under the Constitution gets a gold star for his Kentucky fort'
(Henry) Knox
200
'Stunts on this NBC show have had players bob for plums in a tank of snakes & be put into the snake pit'
Fear Factor
400
'Also called the harking, this yellow rose is named for the actress who harked back to Kansas from Oz'
(Judy) Garland
400
'Yes, dahling, this Hungarian actress played Talleah in the 1958 cult favorite "Queen of Outer Space"'
Zsa Zsa Gabor
400
'This "Fast Car" singer has been on the music scene since the '80s & the life scene since March 1964'
(Tracy) Chapman
400
'He built the Cantonment post in Kansas & got more than a lifetime sentence of his name on a fort'
Leavenworth
400
'The world's largest venomous snake, its bite could kill an elephant'
the king cobra
600
'On a cob of corn, the tassels are the male flowers & these are the female'
the kernels
600
'Holy Moses! He played a doctor fighting off zombies spawned by germ warfare in "The Omega Man"'
(Charlton) Heston
600
'In her 40 years she's married a Brinkman & a Boxleitner & been president of the Screen Actors Guild'
(Melissa) Gilbert
600
'This man seen here lent his name to an Indiana fort'
(Anthony) Wayne
600
'In the Siberian language of Tuvan, snakes are called "ground" these even though they don't live in water'
fish
800
'In the Concise Columbia Encyc., this member of the carrot family is right after another member, parsley'
parsnip
800
'More famous for his 14 films as Sherlock Holmes, he was the "Son of Frankenstein" in 1939'
(Basil) Rathbone
800
'She turned 40 in 2003; her "Leaving Las Vegas" co-star Nicolas Cage hits it in 2004'
Elisabeth Shue
800
'This "Gamecock of the Revolution" settled in South Carolina where he lived a fortified life until age 97'
Thomas Sumter
800
'For its 400th issue, Photo magazine recreated the photo of her & a snake from issue 200 using her daughter Sonja'
Nastassja Kinski
1000
'The trailing arbutus, also known as this, is shipshape as the state flower of Massachusetts'
the mayflower
1000
'Intent on demolishing Tokyo, Gamera was a giant monster one of these reptiles that breathed fire & could fly'
turtle
1000
'Geesh, she was only 10 when she took home an Oscar in 1974; she's 40 now'
Tatum O\'Neal
1000
'The largest fortification the British built in colonial America was a fort named for this "Elder" P.M.'
William Pitt
1000
'According to legend, Hermes traded a lyre to Apollo for this snake-wrapped stick'
caduceus
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