Know your Cones (answers)
by Betty Hunter

1. What cone name suggests a royal crown?
   Conus diadema, Conus coronatus, Conus tiaratus
2. What cone name suggests a burial at sea?
   Conus segravei
3. What cone might wish to purchase Cloth World or Fabrics Unlimited?
   Conus textile
4. What cone names the Roman god of the sea?
   Conus neptunus
5. What cone name suggests a group of land flowers as well as a sea creature resembling a flower?
   Conus anemone
6. What cone suggests a quadrupedal, carnivorous scavenger?
   Conus hyaena
7. What cone, named for a taxonomist, sounds like a little girl's favorite toy?
   Conus dalli
8. What cone was indirectly named for a fuzzy, friendly creature from Star Trek?
   Conus tribblei
9. What cone suggests a 20th century U.S. President?
   Conus roosevelti
10. What cone is named for a great hunter of classical mythology? He became a constellation.
    Conus orion
11. What cone name bears the name of a flower extensively grown in the Netherlands?
    Conus tulipa
12. What cone suggests the first man to circumnavigate the globe?
    Conus magellanicus
13. What cone bears the name of the Roman god of doorways and beginnings? He is regularly portrayed as having two heads, one looking backward, the other looking forward.
    Conus janus
14. What cone might have aspired to be a mapmaker?
    Conus geographus
15. What cone suggests an ancient swordsman fighting in the Roman Colosseum?
    Conus gladiator
16. What cone suggests a soothsayer or diviner?
17. Conus augur
    What cone suggests the white fur often adorning royal clothing?
    Conus ermineus
18. What cone suggests one of the wise men attending the birth of Christ?
    Conus magus
19. What junior synonym for the largest species of the living Conidae represents the mythological titan who stole fire from Zeus and gave it to mankind?
    Conus prometheus
20. What cone suggests the picture writing of the ancient Egyptian priesthood?
    Conus hieroglyphus
21. What cone suggests an end or a boundary?
    Conus terminus
22. What cone's name suggests that it is active at night?
    Conus nocturnus
23. What cone suggests a Greek goddess of the moon?
    Conus selenae
24. What cone names a handsome youth loved by Aphrodite?
    Conus adonis
25. What cone contains the name of a fauvist painter who worked in Tahiti?
    Conus gauguini