"T"EOGRAPHY
STAR TREK
-OLOGIES
A DAY WITH GRANDMA
CLASSIC LIT
200
'This Iranian capital lies at the foot of the Elburz mountains'
Tehran
200
'In the original TV series, he played Captain Kirk'
William Shatner
200
'It shouldn't surprise you that nasology is the study of this body part'
the nose
200
'You stopped for some alpaca chunky, grandma's favorite type of this wool knitting essential'
yarn
200
'Captain Nemo takes Pierre Aronnax on a yearlong submarine voyage in this Verne novel'
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
400
'This North American city is home to the Rogers Centre & the CN Tower'
Toronto
400
'In the 2009 movie, he played Captain Kirk'
Chris Pine
400
'Traditionally, biology is divided into 2 major fields: botany & this study of animals'
zoology
400
'Grandma slipped you a $10 bill, the redesigned one with this new fire-bearing symbol of freedom on it'
the torch of the Statue of Liberty
400
'The Morlocks are an evil race in this H.G. Wells story'
The Time Machine
600
'The Turkish city of Batman is near where this river enters Iraq'
the Tigris
600
'This actor is the only member of the original cast who appeared in the 2009 film, where he encounters his younger self'
Leonard Nimoy
600
'It's the science dealing with the relationship between organisms & their environment'
ecology
600
'It was awkward when Grammy asked about your sister's this--you thought she meant archery, but she meant a boyfriend'
a beau
600
'In this novel, Toad claimed that Toad Hall was the "finest house on the whole river"'
The Wind in the Willows
800
'This Indian name for Mount Rainier is also the name of a major city nearby'
Tacoma
800
'In the 2009 film, Karl Urban took over for DeForest Kelley & darnit, Jim, played this doctor, not a bricklayer!'
Dr. McCoy
800
'Margaret Mead, who studied how culture affects human behavior, had a Ph.D. in this, from Columbia University'
anthropology
800
'Had to hit the drugstore for grandma's pills for this rash disease common in the elderly, aka herpes zoster'
shingles
800
'Edmund Dantes is unjustly accused of aiding the exiled Napoleon & imprisoned for life in this novel'
The Count of Monte Cristo
1000
'This small West African country is wedged between Ghana & Benin'
Togo
1000
'In the original series, Mr. Spock suggests this race, the bad guys in the 2009 movie, is an offshoot of his Vulcan race'
the Romulans
1000
'From the Greek for "growing in", it studies the development of organisms in their earliest stages before birth'
embryology
1000
'Back to the drugstore--grandma forgot her vacation photos from Pike County in these NE Pennsylvania mts.'
the Poconos
1000
'Way before "Lost", this William Golding novel told of plane crash survivors on a deserted island'
The Lord of the Flies
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