Food & Drink
This spice comes from the dried inner bark of trees.
What is cinnamon?
This instrument measures air pressure and can help indicate approaching weather changes.
What is a barometer?
This punctuation mark shows omitted words or a pause that trails off.
What is an ellipsis?
This device, patented by Alexander Graham Bell in 1876, transmitted speech electrically.
What is the telephone?
This country is home to Kyoto, once its imperial capital.
What is Japan?
This cooking method uses low, moist heat to tenderize tougher cuts of meat.
What is braising?
This term describes the boundary between two air masses with different temperatures.
What is a front?
This word describes a phrase that reads the same forward and backward, such as "level."
What is a palindrome?
This material, developed by Charles Goodyear, made rubber more durable and less sensitive to temperature.
What is vulcanized rubber?
This narrow strait separates Spain from Morocco.
What is the Strait of Gibraltar?
This French term means "everything in its place" and refers to preparing ingredients before cooking.
What is mise en place?
What is a cumulonimbus cloud?
This literary device gives human qualities to animals, objects or ideas.
What is personification?
This instrument, invented by Adolphe Sax, is named after its Belgian inventor.
What is a saxophone?
This ancient city, now in Jordan, is famous for building carved into rose-colored rock.
What is Petra?
This fermented cabbage dish is a traditional food in Germany and part of Central Europe.
What is sauerkraut?
What is the zenith?
This term means a story told within another story.
What is a frame narrative?
This 19th-century device used a series of photographs to create the illusion of motion.
What is the zoetrope?
This river flows through or along the borders of ten countries in Southeast Asia and East Asia.
What is the Mekong River?
This thickening agent, made from seaweed, is often used in desserts and can set without refrigeration.
What is agar?
This atmospheric optical effect creates a bright ring around the Sun or Moon when light passes through ice crystals.
What is a halo?
This word describes a word or phrase whose sound imitates what it names, like "buzz."
What is onomatopoeia?
This Scottish engineer developed an early practical stream engine that greatly improved on earlier designs.
Who is James Watt?
This landlocked country is known for the ancient city or Samarkand, a major stop on the Silk Road.
What is Uzbekistan?