HERBOLOGY
This fragrant herb, commonly used in Italian cooking, is a key ingredient in pesto sauce.
What is basil?
This is the longest river in the world, flowing through northeastern Africa.
What is the Nile?
This long-running competition show has contestants vote each other off a remote location until one remains.
What is Survivor?
Do to the odd spelling of it's name, this animal famously takes the very first entry in many English dictionaries.
What is the aardvark?
This currency is used by 20 of the 27 European Union member states.
What is the euro?
This herb, often dried and ritualistically burned, is also a common ingredient in Thanksgiving stuffing.
What is sage?
This river is the second longest in the world and carries more water than any other river on Earth, flowing through the world's largest rainforest.
What is the Amazon?
This singing competition show sends contestants through blind auditions, where celebrity coaches choose contestants based on talent alone.
What is The Voice?
This fruit is technically a single-seeded berry and can be eaten mashed, spread, or sliced (as long as you remove the skin.
What is an avocado?
This Japanese currency's name translates to "round object," referring to the shape of the coins first minted in the 1870s.
What is the yen?
This herb's oil is widely used in aromatherapy for its calming, relaxing scent, and its purple flowers are commonly grown in gardens across southern France.
What is lavender?
Nicknamed "China's Sorrow" for its history of catastrophic flooding, this is the second-longest river in China and is know for it's distinct color.
What is the Yellow River?
This long-running franchise follows the lives of a Calabasas-based family and helped launch the fame of several of its members.
What is Keeping Up with the Kardashians?
In geometry, this word describes the highest point of a shape or structure, though it's also used to describe a species with no natural predators.
What is apex?
This Russian currency's name derives from an old word meaning "to weigh," a nod to a time before coinage when precious metals were valued by weight.
What is the ruble?
This needle-leafed herb, often used to season roasted meats or potatoes is traditionally associated with memory and remembrance as per Ophelia in Hamlet.
What is Rosemary?
This river forms much of the border between the United States and Mexico, stretching roughly 1,900 miles from Colorado to the Gulf.
What is the Rio Grande?
This social experiment show places strangers together in a house, isolated from the outside world, in a format widely credited as one of the first modern reality TV competitions.
What is Big Brother?
This eleven letter word describes holding two opposite feelings at once or having "mixed feelings" about something or someone (like loving your job but dreading Mondays).
What is ambivalence?
This Vietnamese currency has one of the lowest nominal values of any currency in the world, with exchange rates requiring millions of units to equal just a few U.S. dollars.
What is the dong?
This famously poisonous herb, related to carrots and parsley, causes paralysis that works its way up the body until it reaches the respiratory system and was the ultimate end of Socrates.
What is Hemlock
Mesopotamia translates into "land between rivers" and was one of the earliest human civilizations situated "between" the Tigris and this famous river.
What is the Euphrates?
This dating show experiment has contestants date and get engaged without ever seeing each other, meeting face-to-face for the first time only after saying "yes" to a proposal.
What is Love is Blind?
This eleven letter word describes a chronological inconsistency where something is shown out of its normal place in time (like a painting of a knight with a cellphone).
What is an anachronism?
This is the name of the currency used in several countries including (but not limited to) Iraq, Jordan, and Kuwait and traces its origin to the silver coins of the ancient Romans.
What is the dinar?