Food & Drink
This Italian staple, often shaped into long thin strands, is the base of dishes like carbonara and alle vongole.
Spaghetti
This U.S. president issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, ending slavery in the United States.
Abraham Lincoln
This Egyptian city is the gateway to the Pyramids of Giza.
Cairo
This Netflix series set in 1980s Indiana features a group of kids encountering supernatural forces and secret government experiments, including a girl with psychokinetic abilities named Eleven.
Stranger Things
This substance is traditionally said to be left in the stockings of naughty children at Christmas.
Coal
The main ingredient in hummus is this legume.
Chickpeas
This Scandinavian group established settlements from Newfoundland to Kyiv during the early medieval period.
The Vikings
This French city is famous for its uniform building heights and wide boulevards fanning out from central points.
Paris
In this 1946 film, an angel named Clarence shows George Bailey what his town would be like if he had never been born, set in the fictional Bedford Falls.
It's a Wonderful Life
This town is the whimsical home of the Whos in Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas.
Whoville
This spicy Korean dish of fermented vegetables—most famously napa cabbage—is a cornerstone of Korean cuisine.
Kimchi
This German encryption device—using rotors and plugboard settings—was the primary target of Allied codebreaking efforts.
The Enigma Machine
Sometimes called the world’s first master-planned capital, this Brazilian city was laid out in the shape of an airplane and designed by Lúcio Costa and Oscar Niemeyer in the 1950s.
Brasilia
This Netflix series about a chess prodigy in the 1960s became the platform's most-watched limited series when it premiered.
The Queen's Gambit
Premiering in St. Petersburg in 1892, this Christmas-themed ballet features characters like Clara and the Mouse King.
The Nutcracker
This beverage, made by fermenting rice, is traditionally served warm or cold in Japan and ranges from dry to sweet.
Sake
Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II conquered this city in 1453, marking the end of the Byzantine Empire.
Constantinople
This U.S. city’s “Big Dig” megaproject rerouted its central highway into a tunnel, becoming one of the most expensive infrastructure projects in history.
Boston
This French film follows a shy Parisian waitress who secretly orchestrates acts of kindness, known for its whimsical visual style and vibrant color palette.
Amélie
In National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, Clark Griswold plans to spend his expected Christmas bonus on this project.
Putting in a pool
This French culinary technique involves slowly cooking meat in its own rendered fat, a method historically used for preservation.
Confit
This ancient empire’s road system allowed it to administer territories from the Andes to the Amazon.
The Incan Empire
This city on the Vltava River became the seat of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV and remains known for its Gothic and Baroque architecture.
Prague
This Stanley Kubrick period drama is famous for its use of natural candlelight cinematography and follows an Irish rogue's rise and fall in 18th-century society.
Barry Lyndon
This country is widely credited as the place where eggnog first originated.
England