Global Geography
This tall structure located in Paris was designed to be taken down 20 years after it's creation.
What is la tour d'Eiffel (the Eiffel Tower).
This modern board game, designed by Klaus Teuber, popularized the "Eurogame" genre and revolves around collecting resources to build roads, settlements, and cities on a fictional island.
What is Catan.
Founded in 1935 as "Fuji Tsushinki Seizo," this company adopted its current name in 1958 and is now one of the world's largest manufacturers of imaging sensors.
What is Sony.
This food item, originating in Austria, is a widely known pastry in French bakeries.
What is a Croissant.
What is the "Straw+Berry Juice Bar" (Also accept: Smoothie shop.)
This inland body of water, bordered by five countries, is technically the world's largest lake despite having "sea" in its name.
What is the Caspain Sea.
In chess notation, this special move is the only move in which two pieces are moved simultaneously.
What is Castling.
This multinational corporation's name comes from the Latin word for "not" and was chosen because its founders wanted a short, distinctive name that would be easy to pronounce internationally.
What is Nokia.
This French mother sauce is traditionally made from a white roux and milk, and serves as the base for sauces such as Mornay and Nantua.
What is a Béchamel sauce.
This 1964 children's novel by Roald Dahl features a boy who discovers a magical medicine that causes his grandmother to grow to enormous heights.
What is George's Marvellous Medicine.
Although it lies in Africa, this country has Spanish as its primary official language due to its history as a Spanish colony.
What is Equatorial Guinea.
This 2004 MMORPG became famous for an in-game epidemic known as the "Corrupted Blood Incident," which was later studied by real-world epidemiologists as a model for how diseases spread through populations.
What is World of Warcraft.
This famous company's current name is derived from a misspelling of the mathematical term "googol," which represents 10¹⁰⁰.
Named after the French word for "under vacuum," this cooking technique involves sealing food in an airtight bag and cooking it in a precisely controlled water bath, often for several hours.
What is Sous Vide.
This 1985 fantasy film follows a young hero named Ridley on a quest to recover a stolen unicorn horn and save a magical kingdom.
What is The Black Cauldron.
This capital city is the only national capital in the world situated above 3,500 metres (11,500 feet) in elevation.
What is La Paz.
Released in 1996, this game became the best-selling Nintendo 64 title and introduced players to a fully explorable 3D Peach's Castle hub world.
What is Super Mario 64.
Before becoming a global toy giant, this Danish company spent much of the 1930s producing wooden household items such as ironing boards and stepladders.
What is The LEGO Group (Also Accept: LEGO).
This Japanese knife, traditionally used for slicing raw fish for sashimi, is typically ground on only one side of the blade, allowing for exceptionally precise cuts.
What is a Yanagiba.
Published in 1967, this dystopian novel by John Christopher depicts a world where nearly every human wears a mind-controlling metal cap known as a "Tripod Cap."
What is The White Mountains.
When measured from its base on the ocean floor rather than from sea level, this Hawaiian mountain is taller than Mount Everest.
What is Mauna Kea.
This board game's complete game tree was weakly solved in 2007, proving that with perfect play from both sides, the game always ends in a draw.
What is Checkers.
This company, originator of the first ever video game console, fell to the official video game crash of 1983.
What is Magnavox.
This unique ingredient, widely known in Korea, is a mix of fermented pepper pastes and spices.
What is Gochujang.
This 2009 stop-motion film was the first feature movie directed by Henry Selick since 1993 and was adapted from a novella by Neil Gaiman.
What is Coraline.