Symbolic Poultry
Poultry represents rebellious Ukrainian farmers in this novel.
What is Animal Farm?
He's the man who claimed that "democracy is the road to socialism", shown in this Chinese propaganda poster.
Who is Karl Marx?
A fickle Belgian might do this between two breakfast options.
What is waffle?
About 200 artifacts worldwide all claim to be authentically this relic; with little scientific evidence to support who's right, Spain seems to be winning the popularity contest.
What is the Holy Grail?
A (supposedly) peaceful resolution: 🌳☕️
What is treaty?
Cornelius Rooster is the mascot for this brand, a friend of the founder pointed out that his name sounded phonetically similar to the word for Cockerel in Welsh.
What is Kellogg's?
A famous engraving of this event by Paul Revere features a not so historically accurate dog in the bottom left, who is peeing on the ground.
What is the Boston Massacre?
The headquarters of these two world alliances are both housed in Brussels, one chose the location for strategic reasons while the other couldn't agree on a location and simply chose Belgium because it came first in alphabetical order.
What is the EU and NATO?
This goblet begins with a Hebrew word meaning "sanctification".
What is a Kiddush cup?
A vehicle: 🐑🐗gee🦵
What is Lamborghini?
This national icon was first popularized during the French Revolution, though its origins date back to the Roman Empire with a (frankly idiotic) joke the Romans used to mock the Gauls.
What is the Gallic rooster?
When the Greeks invented the etymological origin of this word (which translated essentially to "leading person"), it was considered a compliment to a charismatic leader...not so much anymore however.
What is demagogue?
It took some balls to build this massive steel structure; its design reflects the composition of an iron crystal, just magnified a mere 165 billion times.
What is Atomium?
The 1,600 year old Roman Lycurgus cup is one of the earliest examples of this, its famous ability to change from green to red is due to minuscule grains of gold and silver embedded within the cup; similar methods are used in pregnancy tests and airport security.
What is nanotechnology?
You'll need one if you have End-stage Renal Disease: 👶🦵🏳️⚧️🪴
What is kidney transplant?
When Europe came into contact with the Guinea Fowl via trade with this power, they decided to call it a different type of poultry based on the Asian region it came from. After the power collapsed in the early 20th century, that region formed its own republic.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
Propaganda enthusiast Georgy Plekhanov notably combined propaganda (which he defined in short as a means of indoctrinating the "enlightened") with this word which he defined as a means exploiting the uneducated; the resulting term is quite fun to say.
What is agitation?
This movie and television franchise began in 1950s Belgium as a comic series; some of the original strips were actually meant to reflect life in Nazi-occupied Belgium and it's even been proposed that the evil wizard who created a main character might have represented Hitler himself!
What is The Smurfs?
After his gardener found a large human skull in his yard, this man did the only sensible thing with a mysterious skull, he fashioned a cup out of it! He would later justify his actions with a poem, and perhaps it comes as no surprise that he was friends with Mary Shelley.
Who is Lord Byron?
A historic city:♟️a🏔️
What is Chesapeake?
The symbolic turkey of Thanksgiving actually had nothing to do with the "first Thanksgiving", but is actually accredited mostly to this woman who made Thanksgiving a national holiday (and unrelatedly also wrote Mary had a Little Lamb).
Who is Sarah Josepha Hale?
Our friend Uncle Sam had a lesser known counterpart, while Uncle Sam was inspired by a wartime meatpacker from New York (Samuel Wilson), this predecessor was inspired by a sunken steamship (how do you get more American than that?)
Who is Brother Jonathan?
Wax masks and elaborate hairdos make up this medieval quirky festival; on Mardi Gras, it somehow became a tradition for the paraders (Gilles) to throw blood oranges at the spectators (it's bad luck to throw one back).
What is the Carnival of Binche?
You think wine tasting takes no skill? Then clearly you have not yet witnessed this elaborate Catalonian drinking device in action; George Orwell commented that they resembled "...bed-bottles, especially when they were filled with white wine."
What is a porrón?
Originally a nickname for a pungent Spanish stew: 🍯🫗e
What is potpourri?