Marine Biology!
This vessel name won the #NameOurShip poll in 2016 and was later renamed to RRS Sir David Attenborough.
Boaty McBoatface
This mythical cephalopod-like sea monster is also Seattle’s new National Hockey League mascot
Kraken
This fortress orbiting the earth is where many astronauts and researchers live. It was built by the efforts combined by many countries around the world and often has space shuttles dock with it to drop off supplies and exchange crew members.
International Space Station
Prior to 1980, this mountain had a summit altitude of 9,677 feet and was the fifth highest peak in Washington.
Mount St. Helens
An English physician that is considered the founder of modern epidemiology
Hint: Also the name of a Game of Thrones character
John Snow
This fish scars as it ages, and has scratches and markings from prey
Rissos Dolphin
The Seattle Seahawks' mascot is named this, a football term for an assault on the opposing quarterback.
Blitz
This star has cooled down and is in the last stage of its life.
Black dwarf star
'Scuse me while you name this guitarist who was born in Seattle but rose to fame after moving to England in 1966.
Jimi Hendrix
This infectious disease is caused by bacteria called Bacillus anthracis. Infection often involves the skin, the gastrointestinal tract, or the lungs.
Anthrax
This fish releases tetrodotoxin as a defense mechanism
Pufferfish
A traditional dance done before every game by the New Zealand All Blacks.
Haka
This is the 8th planet from the Sun, and is made of mostly hyrdrogen, helium, and methane gas.
Neptune
This is the Washington state bird
Goldfinch
This organization provides general information about diseases around the world.
World Health Organization
These extinct marine reptiles had flippers as limbs and resembled modern dolphins.
Ichthyosaur
Which Major League Baseball team holds the record for most regular season wins?
Seattle Mariners
This giant mechanism orbits the earth and can see things and places very far away in space. It also takes pictures which are sent back to Earth for scientists to research.
Hubble Space Telescope
This not-very-exclusive club founded in 1995 has 153 members (& they weren't too welcome in Seattle).
A British nurse who was the head of an official delegation of nurses; worked in a military hospital at Scutari, Turkey.
Hint: They are known as the founder of modern nursing.
Florence Nightingale
This zoologist, naturalist, philosopher, physician, professor (....+ 20 other titles), coined the terms "ecology" "phylum" and "phylogeny"
Hint: They also made beautiful illustrations of species groups
Ernst Haeckel
What are curling stones made out of?
Granite
This is a small, orbiting body made up of dust, ice, and frozen gases. The solid center of this is its nucleus, and like all objects in the solar system it orbits the sun.
Comet
They earned Oscar nominations for their screenplays for "When Harry met Sally" & "Sleepless in Seattle".
Nora Ephron
Ex-physician that incorrectly linked the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine to Autism
Andrew Wakefield