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Featuring colorful onion domes, St. Basil's Cathedral stands prominently at one end of this famous Moscow square.
Red Square
He played Jack Dawson in Titanic and won his first Best Actor Oscar for The Revenant.
Leonardo DiCaprio
Officially called the Academy Awards of Merit, these prestigious golden statuettes are better known by this nickname
Oscars
Bordered by Southern Europe, Northern Africa, and Western Asia, this intercontinental sea connects to the Atlantic Ocean via the Strait of Gibraltar.
Mediterranean Sea
Invented by Ernő Rubik in 1974, this 3D combination puzzle features six faces of solid colors.
Rubik's Cube
Stretching over 9,200 kilometers from Moscow to Vladivostok, this is the longest railway line in the world.
Trans-Siberian Railway
Famous for playing Iron Man in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, he won an Oscar in 2024 for Oppenheimer.
Robert Downey Jr.
The highest prize awarded at the annual Cannes Film Festival is known by this French name.
Palme d'Or (Golden Palm)
Famous for its extreme salinity allowing bathers to float effortlessly, this landlocked body of water lies between Jordan and Israel.
Dead Sea
Originating in Japan, this popular number-placement puzzle requires filling a 9x9 grid so every row, column, and 3x3 box contains digits 1 through 9.
Sudoku
Founded by Tsar Peter the Great in 1703, this city served as the capital of the Russian Empire for over two centuries.
St. Petersburg
She holds the record for the most Academy Award acting nominations in history, with 21 nominations.
Meryl Streep
Presented by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association historically, these awards recognize achievements in both film and television.
Golden Globes
Situated between Great Britain and Scandinavia, this sea contains vast reserves of offshore oil and natural gas.
North Sea
Arthur Wynne created the first version of this popular word game for the New York World newspaper in December 1913.
crossword puzzle
Located in southern Siberia, this body of water contains 20% of the world's unfrozen surface fresh water, making it the world's deepest lake.
Lake Baikal
This British actor won three Best Actor Academy Awards for his performances in My Left Foot, There Will Be Blood, and Lincoln.
Daniel Day-Lewis
Held in Berlin, the grand prize at the Berlin International Film Festival statuette features this animal.
Bear (Golden Bear)
This body of water surrounded by ocean currents in the North Atlantic is unique because it has no land boundaries and is covered in floating brown seaweed.
Sargasso Sea
This classic ancient Chinese dissection puzzle consists of seven flat shapes (tans) assembled to form various figures.
Tangram
This last Tsar of Russia and his family were overthrown during the 1917 Russian Revolution and executed in Yekaterinburg.
Tsar Nicholas II
Katharine Hepburn holds the record for winning the most Academy Awards for acting in history, with this many wins.
4
This spoof award ceremony, held the night before the Oscars, parodies the worst films and performances of the year.
Golden Raspberry Awards (Razzie Awards)
Located in Central Asia between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, this once-vast sea has largely dried up since the 1960s due to Soviet irrigation projects.
Aral Sea
Released in 2021 and created by Josh Wardle before being acquired by The New York Times, this daily 5-letter word puzzle became a global sensation.
Wordle