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Buffalo History
100

This animal is famous for having the highest record land speed.

The Cheetah

100

A particular form of a language which is isolated to a specific region or social group.

A dialect

100

This culture founded settlements in Newfoundland marking the earliest known European Colonies in the Americas.

The Vikings

100

This technology, originally used in the creation of fireworks would go on to change the face of Warfare.

Gunpowder

100

This logistics project turned Buffalo into a Hub for Shipping and Manufacturing.

The Erie Canal
200

This animal native to the Eastern Himalayas while sharing a name is not actually closely related to a certain national animal of China.

The Red Panda

200

This type of language common in many languages across East Asia change the meaning of words based on pitch.

Tonal Language

200

These types of structures built by the Native Americans groups such as the Hopewell, primarily use dirt as a building material and can cross millions of miles and form geometric patterns and astronomical alignments

Mounds

200

This invention revolutionized textile production by allowing one worker to spin multiple threads at once.

The Spinning Jenny

200

This technology crucial for unloading ships was invented in Buffalo.

The Grain Elevator

300

This Order of mammals is known for being the only living group of mammals to still lay eggs.

The Monotremes or Monotremata

300

This country is second to the United States in having the largest population of fluent English Speakers.

India

300

A style of communal, multi-story adobe and stone architecture often built into cliff faces built by Native American peoples particularly in the Southwestern U.S.

Pueblos

300

This type of night-time lighting system predating streetlights made with gigantic carbon arc lamps were capable of lighting entire towns at night from only one tower.

Moonlight Towers

300

This celebration of technology and culture was hosted in Buffalo and featured futuristic inventions such as X-rays and early motion pictures 

Pan-American Exposition

400

This little lizard is capable of running across the surface of the water for short distances.

The Basilisk Lizard

400

This little-spoken language has the distinction of being the language most similar to modern English.

Frisian

400

Images pecked, carved, or incised into the rock surface, found frequently through the South-West.

Petroglyphs

400

A revolutionary gene-editing technology that allows scientists to make precise changes to DNA, like cutting, adding, or altering genetic material

CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) 

400

Buffalo was one of the first cities in the world powered by hydroelectricity giving it this nickname.

The City of Light

500

This species of spider, rather than using its web as a traditional trap, spins it in-between its legs and uses it as a net to grab unsuspecting prey wandering below.

The Ogre-faced Spider 

500

This popular scale for classifying fluency in a language uses a A1-C2 proficiency scale.

CEFR (Common European Framework of Reference for Languages)

500

The Old Copper Complex, a treasure trove of advanced copper tools predating the arrival of copper instruments in the rest of the world by thousands of years is located in what region of the United States?

The Great Lakes

500

This ancient leverage tool, a simple stick with a hook, is used to propel a lightweight spear long distances with great force.

Atlatl

500

This U.S. President was sworn into office in Buffalo. 

Theodore Roosevelt

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