Colleges and Universities
This type of organization gets it's name from the Greek word for "sister."
What is sorority?
This animal has no skeleton.
What is a jellyfish?
Calling someone "as cold as ice" is an example of this English grammar point.
What is a simile?
What are lighters?
This brass instrument is the only one that uses a slide to change pitch.
What is the trombone?
This campus tradition includes kissing someone under the ISU clock tower at midnight on homecoming.
What is "campanilling?"
The word "ursa" is latin for this animal.
What is a bear?
This language is the 4th most spoken language in the United States.
What is French?
This company, responsible for the critically acclaimed restaurant "star" rating system, got it's beginning making these.
Michelin tires.
This instrument can be renamed to the fiddle in bluegrass arrangements.
This university is the first land-grab university in the United States.
What is Iowa State University?
A bird known for being the fastest flying.
What is the peregrine falcon?
What is Klingon?
This aristocratic company owner didn't wear his brand of blue jeans because they were meant for labor workers.
Levi Strauss
This instrument is traditionally played with the player's hand in the bell.
What is the French horn?
This university's mascot is a train, lovingly named "The Boilermaker Special."
What is Purdue University?
This rodent is the largest in the world.
What is a capybara?
This is the most famous constructed language.
What is Esperanto?
This French word is often taken to mean the rich, upper class in Marxist contexts, but in reality references the middle class.
This woodwind instrument is nearly 8 feet long and has the lowest voice.
What is the bassoon?
In Iowa State's Lake Laverne, these animals live alongside various waterfowl.
What are river otters?
A domesticated and locally adapted variety of animal is called this.
What is a landrace?
This term refers to a sentence that seems like it means something, but it actually doesn't.
EX: "More people have been to Germany than I have."
This toy is the most best-selling product of all time.
What is a Rubik's cube?
In an orchestra setting, all instruments tune to this one.
What is the oboe?