Symbolic Poultry
Propaganda
The Fricking Belgians!
World Cups
An Emoji Category
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Poultry represents rebellious Ukrainian farmers in this novel.

What is Animal Farm?

400

The figure depicted in this Soviet ad. (Maybe change)

What is a cosmonaut?

400

A fickle Belgian might do this between two breakfast options.

What is waffle?

400

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?

400

A (supposedly) peaceful resolution: 🌳☕️

What is treaty?

800

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?

800

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?

800

The headquarters of these two major 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?

800

This goblet begins with a Hebrew word meaning "sanctification".

What is a Kiddush cup?

800

You'll need one if you have End-stage Renal Disease: 👶🦵🏳️‍⚧️🪴

What is kidney transplant?

1200

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?

1200

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?

1200

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?

1200

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?

1200

Historic American city:♟️a🏔️

What is Chesapeake?

1600

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?

1600

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?

1600

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?

1600

🐑🐗g-e🦵(work on it)

What is Lamborghini?

2000

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?

2000

Originally a nickname for a pungent Spanish stew: 🍯🫗e

What is potpourri?

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