More than one meaning
Concern, or a sum charged for the use of money
Interest
Chinese has more than a billion speakers, with this form being the most common
Mandarin
Pulmonologists study this organ
The lungs
The children of an elementary school in Fresno led the way in getting the dogface butterfly official designation in this state
California
Marie gets a Nobel! Pierre gets a Nobel! Irene gets a Nobel! Frederic gets a Nobel! Everybody in this family gets a Nobel!
Curie
A ship's rigging, or to subdue a foe at the 40-yard line
This lake in the Cascade Mountains is the deepest lake in the United States
Crater Lake
Hippologists study these animals
Horses
Both found on its long migration routes--Texas & Minnesota each picked this regal flyer
Monarch butterfly
Thomas Francis was the guy who tested Jonas Salk's vaccine against this vicious disease through the double-blind method in 1954
Polio
Very strict & hard-nosed, or a boat's rear end
Stern
The Bass Strait separates this smallest state of Australia from the mainland
Tasmania
Areologists study this planet
Mars
This bioluminescent pick for Pennsylvania lights up summer evenings
Firefly
Thomas Watson worked in the lab with this man & in 1876 was on the other end of a very important phone call
Alexander Graham Bell
A narrow sea between 2 pieces of land, or to interpret for a spirit as a medium
Channel
Named for a Germanic people, this peninsula forms the continental part of Denmark
Jutland
Thanatologists study this bummer of a subject
Death
This industrious insect important to agriculture was chosen by Nebraska & Missouri
Honeybee
Howard Florey & Ernst Chain followed up Alexander Fleming's work on this antibiotic & they all shared a Nobel Prize in 1945
Penicillin
To authorize, or a coercive penalty enforced by multiple nations
Sanction
The word "The" is officially part of the name of this tiny African country, highlighted on the map
The Gambia
Pteridologists study these plants such as bracken that reproduce using spores
Ferns
New Mexico chose the tarantula hawk, a type of this stinging insect that preys on tarantulas
Wasp
In 1942 at the University of Chicago, Leo Szilard helped this Italian create the first nuclear reactor
Enrico Fermi