Etymologies
This word for a color comes from the name of a fruit.
What is orange?
This is the primary spoken language of Hong Kong.
What is Cantonese?
This is the county north of Germany. It is famous for birthing Hans Chrstian Andersen.
What is Denmark?
These long-eared animals hop as their primary mode of movement.
What are rabbits?
This is the capital of Italy.
What is Rome?
This man was the first president of the United States of America.
Who was George Washington?
This germand-descended word means 'badger hound' in English and was anmed after the animal it was bred to hunt.
What is dachshund?
This is the primary spoken language of the Philippines.
What is Filipino?
This island nation sits with sight of the coast of the South American nation of Venezuela.
What is Trinidad and Tobago??
This is the world's largest rodent.
What is the capybara?
This is the capital of Finland.
What is Helsinki?
This man lived in the fifth century BC China and was known as the 'great teacher.'
Who was Confucius?
This norse descended word is the name of a tree dwelling rodent
What is squirrel?
The words bibliotheque, boulangerie, and gateau come from this language.
What is French?
Guam, Puerto Rico, and Samoa are all territories of this nation.
What is the United States of America?
This is the only bird which can fly backwards.
What is a hummingbird?
This is the capital of Canada.
What is Ottawa?
This is the famous Taiwanese director who created flms such as Eat Drink Man Woman and Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon.
Who is Ang Lee?
This word for a unit of time comes from the latin word for 'next' and shares this origin with an ordinal in English.
What is second?
This is the only official langauge in Nigeria and is used on all official documents and buildings.
What is English?
Angola, Mozambique, and Brasil are all examples of this type of country.
What is Lusophone?
This animal comes in both three-toed and four-toed varities.
What are sloths?
This is the capital of Brasil.
What is Brasilia?
This team of American basketball players won the gold medal in the 1992 olympic games.
Who were the Dream Team?
This country name is believed to descend from the name of the ruling family that united the country in 221ce.
What is China?
This southeast Asian country's language is shown here: ประเทศไทย.
What is Thai?
North and South Korea, South Sudan, North Macedonia, South Africa, and this country are the only countries in the world with cardinal directions in their names.
What is East Timor?
This is the Cheetah's closing living relative.
What is the Puma?
This is the capital of Angola.
What is Luanda?
This third century Chinese general and warlord had two famous 'brothers' and was deified after his death in 220ce.
Who was Guan Yu?