Geography
Of the 14 countries that border Russia, this "stan" country shares the longest border with 4,750 miles
Kazakhstan
It's a beard trimmed to a point on the chin
50 to 150 taste receptors are in each taste bud on this organ
the tongue
This special forces group has headquarters at naval base Coronado in southern California
the navy SEALS
This Huxley novel is set in the year 632AF (after Ford)
Brave New World
This capital of Puerto Rico is the oldest city founded by Europeans that is now under US jurisdiction
San Juan
To bind all four of an animals legs together
Hogtie
Free nerve endings are in tufts in this outermost layer of the skin
the epidermis
Since the time of Catherine the Great Sevastopol has been the site of a Russian navy base on this black sea peninsula
the Crimea
In this novella, Marlow describes ivory trader Mr. Kurtz as "impressively bald" as an "ivory ball"
Heart of Darkness
Basra is an oil-refining center and this country's main port
Iraq
To crouch in fear
cower
Listen up! Myringoplasty is surgery to repair a perforation in this body part
the eardrum
Germany maintains naval bases on this sea, including at Kiel and Rostock, both bombed by the RAF in WW2
The Baltic Sea
Don't be a bird brain! Take wing with this fable by Richard Bach that has a bird in its title
John Livingston Seagull
Aka Tahoma, this 14,400 foot active volcano is about 60 miles southeast of Seattle
Mount Rainier
Bilirubin and carotene are these coloring agents
pigments
The ability of this transparent eye part to adjust focus from distant to near declines with age in a condition called presbyopia
the lens
Commissioned in 1921 and a major training site, an Australian naval base near Melbourne bears the name of this mythic canine
Cerberus
John Harmon is the title acquaintance in common in this Dickens novel
Our Mutual Friend
In 1871 Henry Stanley finally tracked down Dr. David Livingstone along the shores of this 2nd largest lake in Africa
Tanganyika
To crouch in fear
to cower
The respiratory area of the nose has tiny hair-like structures called cilia, and this moist alliterative lining
a mucus membrane
William and Catherine Boone started this Christian charitable organization in London in 1865
The Salvation Army
Faulkner used "Dark House" as a working title for this novel whose title went in the opposite direction
Light in August