Birds
This raptor is known for reaching a top speed over 240mph.
What is the Peregrine Falcon?
What is a beaver?
The Russian city of Novgorod sits astride this, the longest river in Europe.
What is the Volga River?
What is a fjord?
This unit of time is defined as 9,192,631,770 vibrations of a Cesium-133 atom.
What is a second?
This spooky species is kept at the Tower of London, representing the power of the crown.
This large freshwater creature is responsible for the most human attacks and fatalities of all crocodilians each year.
What is the Nile Crocodile?
What is the Missouri River?
What is Fargo?
This archaic term describes a length of 1/8th of a mile.
What is a "furlong?"
Since its founding in 1927, this manufacturer of school buses has been represented by this little bird.
What is Blue Bird?
This small shark is traditionally used to cook fish & chips. It gives birth to live young after one of the longest gestation periods (18-24 months) of any animal.
What is the Spiny Dogfish? (will also accept houndfish)
The Iron Gates of this river between Serbia and Romania run through an 83 mile long gorge, and reaches up to 53 meters in depth.
What is the Danube?
The British name for Las Malvinas, a contested territory in the Western Hemisphere.
The height of a horse is traditionally measured using these anachronistic units.
Who is Audubon?
This goopy white oil found in the head of the sperm whale gives the animal its name.
What is spermacoeti?
Little more than a muddy stream, the crossing of this river with an army was considered an act of treason in the Roman Republic.
What is the Rubicon?
One of the four main types of wetlands: Bogs, Marshes, Swamps, and this.
What is a "fen."
This unit of distance is defined as the arc length of 1/60th of a degree (1 arc-minute) of latitude at the equator.
What is a "Nautical Mile?"
This remarkable Old World bird stays in flight for most of its life, longer than any bird. It flies for 10 months at a time and lands only to breed.
What is the Common Swift?
This distant relative of the North American Groundhog is suspected as one of the native carriers of Yersinia pestis, more commonly known as the Black Death.
What is the Eurasian Marmot? (Will accept Marmot)
Abraham, the father of the Judeo-Christian and Islamic religious traditions was born in the city of Ur, located on the mouth of this river on the Persian Gulf.
What is the Euphrates River?
This term describes a region where the tides have widened the mouth of a river, creating a broad inlet. Most commonly used in Scotland.
What is a firth?
The 'Barleycorn' is an old English unit of measurement, defined as the diametrical breadth of a dried grain of barley. There are this many barleycorns in one inch.
What is 3 barleycorns?