Fish
This 1975 fish-themed thriller film by Steven Spielberg is based on the 1974 novel by Peter Benchley.
Jaws
This English word means "easily persuaded to believe something".
Gullible
This bird species, originating from Central Australia, is now widely used in scientific research as a model species.
Zebra finch
This Greek physician, called the "Father of Medicine", first called this disease cancer in about 4000 years BC.
Hippocrates
This environmental science book by Rachel Carson was published in 1962, documenting the adverse environmental effects caused by the indiscriminate use of pesticides.
Silent spring
This famous novel is the story of an epic struggle between an old fisherman and a big fish, the greatest catch of his life.
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway.
The name of the greatest female footballer of all times, and also the name of the world's oldest common gull.
Marta
The name of the ship that Charles Darwin sailed on to go study the finches of the Galapagos islands.
Beagle
This Polish-French scientist discovered radioactivity and stumbled upon the first effective non-surgical cancer treatment.
Marie Curie
The most severe nuclear accident since the Chernobyl disaster took place in this Japanese city in 2011, following an earthquake and a tsunami.
Fukushima
This species is considered the most common fish in Estonia.
European perch (ahven)
Gulls are the symbol of this US state, where "The miracle of the gulls" took place in 1848. The gulls saved the Mormon pioneers' crops in Salt Lake valley by eating thousands of insects that were devouring their fields.
Utah
This species is the is most common and widespread bird in the finch family.
Common chaffinch
This country has the highest frequency of cancer
Australia
Minamata disease, a neurological disease causing insanity, paralysis, coma, and death is named after the city of Minamata in Japan. The epidemic of the disease was caused by this pollutant.
Mercury (methylmercury)
In Douglas Adams's book "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", this was the message left by the dolphins when they left Planet Earth just before it was destroyed.
So long, and thanks for all the fish.
This country is the richest in seabirds. There are just 360 species of seabird out of a total of 9,000 bird species worldwide. Of this 360, 86 breed in the this country, including 38 which breed nowhere else.
New Zealand
Finches and canaries were used in the UK, US and Canada in the coal mining industry to detect this substance.
carbon monoxide
This immortal cell line used in scientific research is derived from cervical cancer cells taken from a 31-year-old African-American mother of five.
HeLa (Henrietta Lacks)
Some historians argue that poisoning by this pollutant, originating from the plumbing system, plagued the Roman elite with diseases such as gout and hastened the empire's fall.
Lead
This Greek god with a lower body of a fish is the son of the sea god Poseidon. He has given his name to the largest moon of the planet Neptune, and to a family of Eurasian newts.
Triton
This book from 1726 by the Irish writer Jonathan Swift satirises both human nature and the "travellers' tales" subgenre literature.
Gulliver's travels
In this classic modern American novel, the name Finch is used as the last name of the main family, to symbolize the vulnerability of a finch.
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
German virologist Harald zur Hausen earned the Nobel prize in 2008 for discovering the role of these viruses in causing cancer in humans.
Human papilloma viruses (HPV)
This country is considered the most polluted country in the world. It is the eighth-most populous country in the world.
Bangladesh