Nautical Nonsense
Lone Stars
The Final Frontier
They Sat Ired
Name the Nolan
100
This title arose from the Moorish term for "chief of all chiefs"
What is admiral? (from emir-al)
100
"Remember the _ ! Remember Goliad!" or so goes the rally cry
What is the Alamo?
100
Where the singularity has been reached
What is a black hole?
100
H.G. Wells' imperial tale starring invaders from Mars
What is The War of the Worlds?
100
A billionaire playboy, a secret society, a city in fear
What is Batman Begins (The Dark Knight)?
200
Make way to here when nature calls
What is the head?
200
The name of the space center where the Apollo astronauts phoned home
What is the Johnson Space Center?
200
The closest planet to Earth, on average
What is Mercury?
200
A polygonal exploration of Victorian social life
What is Flatland?
200
Dreams within dreams
What is Inception?
300
Gather round the water-cooler and share in the gossip, otherwise known as this
What is scuttlebutt?
300
Made an official Texas Treasure in 2001, this burger chain first took flight in Corpus Christi
What is Whataburger?
300
The third brightest object in the sky, after the Sun and Moon
What is the International Space Station?
300
A telling look into government through the eyes of a tobacco lobbyist
What is Thank You for Smoking?
300
Palindromic time scuffles
What is Tenet?
400
While modern mariners know them as port and starboard, to Ahab's crew they were _ and starboard
What is larboard?
400
Juneteenth marks slavery's end when the Emancipation Proclamation was read in this Texas city
What is Galveston?
400
Neutron stars with magnetic personalities
What are magnetars?
400
A dog roams Russia with human glands and testicles in this novella
What is Heart of a Dog?
400
Warring magicians
What is The Prestige?
500
Here the roles are reversed: officers must ask their chiefs for permission to enter
What is the Goat Locker?
500
Out west in Amarillo, this local landmark makes use of ten Cadillacs in a very unusual manner
What is Cadillac Ranch?
500
While the myths speak of all seven stars in this constellation, only six can be seen unassisted today
What are the Pleiades?
500
Lucian's second-century epic of interplanetary war and adventure
What is A True Story (Vera Historia)?
500
Tattoos and ephemeral memory
What is Memento?