LANGUAGES
The words boss, cookie, dope & waffle came from these early settlers in what is now New York
Dutch
In 1813 Sir Walter Scott turned down this royal post, recommending Robert Southey
Poet Laureate
Of the longest, highest or widest mountain chain in the world, the one that describes the Andes
longest
Khmer is the official language of this country
Cambodia
The longest word ever in a London Times crossword, 27 letters, was from his "Love's Labor's Lost"
William Shakespeare
Introduced into South America in 1569, this tribunal killed about 100 people over the next 250 yrs.
Inquisition
Modern standard Chinese is usually called Northern Chinese or this
Mandarin
These Kenneth Grahame tales were originally told to his son to keep him from crying
The Wind in the Willows
Tourists in Lima often suffer from soroche, an illness due to this
altitude (lack of oxygen)