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What river is this city on?
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Italian (Fabri Fibra - Fenomeno)
100
How many cards does a usual poker deck have?
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52
100
The top three materials used to manufacture clothing are linen, cotton and THIS fabric
Polyester
100
The island of Papua is home for over 1,000 languages or 12% of all languages in the world. The main reason for it is this feature of the island.
A lot of impassable terrains such as mountains, dense jungles, swamps, etc.
100
What river is Cairo (Egypt) on?
The Nile
200
2
Turkish (Canbay & Wolker feat. Heijan & Muti - Bertaraf)
200
What does it mean to "stack" a deck of cards?
To physically arrange the order of cards in the deck so you always get dealt the winning hand
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200
The loincloth is the oldest item of clothing, however it's practically never worn nowadays. What is the second oldest clothing item that is still in use?
A skirt
200
The Thai alphabet has a lot of letter that make the same sound (e.g. ก, ข, ฃ, ค, ฅ and ฆ all make the "k" sound). That's why usually when they spell or teach children to read and write, they do this.
Add a common word that starts with that letter
200
What river is Zaporizhzhia (Ukraine) on?
The Dnieper river
300
3
Portuguese
300
If you get dealt this hand in poker, what combination do you have?
A Full House
300
In 2009, Elena Bodnar from Ukraine got an Ig Noble prize for the invention of an "Emergency Bra". What is the special feature of this bra?
A cup can be used as a gas mask. One for the woman and one for her child or partner.
300
A lot of European languages have gendered nouns (e.g. Russian, French, Spanish etc.). Some other languages, especially languages of ethnic minorities and tribes, also have gendered nouns, but it means something completely different.
Words can only be used by one gender. For example, in the Ubang language spoken in Nigeria, a woman would say "ogbala" to mean "a cup" but a man would call it "nkoh".
300
What river is Baghdad (Iraq) on?
The Tigris
400
4
HINT! It's an official language of one of the Baltic countries
400
How many card will you need to build a 5-story house of cards? (Assuming you need only one card for a base of two card leaning on one another)
Hint! This is what 3-story house of cards look like:
400
Napoleon was the first one to introduce buttons of sleeves to solve this problem
HINT! It was a way to combat bad manners
400
Spain if one of few if not the only European country where the usage of regional languages (Basque, Catalan, Galician, etc.) seem to be on the rises rather than dying. The main difference is that in some schools instead of teaching children a minority language, they do THIS
HINT! This approach allows for a natural language acquisition as opposed to "forcing" it on children
400
What river is Oskemen (aka Ust-Kamonogorsk) (Kazakhstan) on?
HINT! Such cities as Tobolsk, Khanty-Mansiysk, Omsk and Semey (aka Semipalatinsk) are also on this river.
500
5
HINT! This language is spoken in the European part of Russia
500
What game is being played in the picture?
HINT! An informal name for this game is also a word for a specific bed
500
The first designer brand logo to be displayed on clothes ever was this animal
HINT! It's a reptile
500
The Basque language is one of few language language isolates in Europe, meaning it doesn't belong to any language family and has no obvious "relatives". One of they theories regarding the language is that in a very long process of morphing, THEIR language evolved into Basque.
HINT! They lived in Europe around 40,000-50,000 years ago.
500
What river is Seoul (South Korea) on?
HINT! The name has only three letters (in English)
