What is the currency of the United Kingdom?
Pound sterling
What breakfast food is poured onto a griddle and often served with syrup?
Pancake
In bowling, what is knocking down all pins with the first ball called?
Strike
What English monarch was nicknamed the Virgin Queen?
Elizabeth I
What dance style is strongly associated with Argentina and Uruguay?
Tango
Which city is nicknamed Sin City?
Las Vegas
What pasta shape means little worms in Italian?
Vermicelli
What poker variant uses the flop, turn, and river?
Texas Hold'em
Which explorer opened a sea route from Europe to India around Africa?
Vasco da Gama
What musical term means gradually getting louder?
Crescendo
What scenic Norwegian term describes a long, narrow sea inlet between cliffs?
Fjord
What dessert is set with gelatin and literally means cooked cream in Italian?
Panna cotta
What board game is played on a board with 24 narrow triangles called points?
Backgammon
What 19th-century conflict was also called the War Between the States?
American Civil War
What instrument is Yo-Yo Ma famous for playing?
Cello
What city is served by Schiphol Airport?
Amsterdam
What creamy Indian dish is made with black lentils and butter?
Dal makhani
What sport has periods called chukkas?
Polo
What emperor made Christianity legal in the Roman Empire with the Edict of Milan?
Constantine
What Cuban dance and music style became a 1950s craze?
Mambo
Patagonia is shared by Argentina and what other country?
Chile
What country is especially associated with smorrebrod?
Denmark
What tabletop game helped popularize the term meeple?
Carcassonne
What Japanese period lasted from 1603 to 1868 under shogun rule?
Edo period
Who composed Rhapsody in Blue?
George Gershwin