Let's Eat
This squash, despite its name, is technically classified as a fruit because it grows from a flower and contains seeds.
What is a pumpkin?
Nepal is the world's largest producer of this pungent seed, widely used across South Asian cooking and pressed into a cooking oil that gives much of Nepali food its distinct flavor.
What is mustard?
This Asian country is made up of over 17,000 islands, making it the largest archipelago nation in the world.
What is Indonesia?
This burger chain, founded by brothers in San Bernardino, California, is credited with pioneering the fast food industry's assembly-line "Speedee Service System" in 1948.
What is McDonald's?
This 1912 maritime disaster, involving a "unsinkable" ocean liner striking an iceberg, killed over 1,500 people on its first voyage.
What is the sinking of the Titanic?
This salty, umami-rich Japanese paste, made from fermented soybeans and koji, forms the base of a traditional breakfast soup
What is miso?
Before rice became widespread in Nepal's cooler, high-altitude regions, this trio of hardier grains — barley, millet, and this third grain — formed the base of the traditional diet, often ground into porridge or flatbread.
What is Buckwheat?
This country contains a point where three nations' borders meet at the peak of a mountain, marking the only place in the world where a tripoint sits atop a glacier.
This Southern fast food chain, famous for its chicken sandwiches, is closed every Sunday due to the religious beliefs of its founder, Truett Cathy.
What is Chick-fil-A?
This 1989 event, in which East German citizens tore down a decades-old concrete barrier by hand, symbolized the end of the Cold War division of Europe.
What is the fall of the Berlin Wall?
This fruit is also known as Alligator Pear.
What is Avocado?
Nepal ranks third in the world in producing this root, a pungent rhizome commonly dried, powdered, or used fresh, which thrives in the country's humid mid-hill farming regions.
What is Ginger?
This South American country is home to Angel Falls, the world's tallest uninterrupted waterfall, with a drop of over 3,200 feet.
What is Venezuela?
This fast food chain, headquartered in Irvine, California, was founded by a World War II veteran and is known for never taking on debt or going public, remaining privately held for decades.
What is In-N-Out Burger?
This 1997 event, involving a car crash in a Paris tunnel while fleeing paparazzi, killed a beloved member of a royal family.
What is the death of Princess Diana?
This international trade agreement and commodity, grown mainly near the equator, is the second-most traded commodity in the world by value after oil, according to some estimates.
What is Coffee?
This ethnic group, concentrated in the Kathmandu Valley, is traditionally credited with much of Nepal's historic art, architecture, and trade, and speaks a Tibeto-Burman language distinct from Nepali.
Who are Newars
This Central American country has no standing army, having abolished its military entirely in 1948 after a brief civil war.
What is Costa Rica?
This chain opened its first shop in 1965 under the name "Pete's Super Submarines," founded by a 17-year-old and a family friend who lent him $1,000 for college tuition.
What is Subway?
This 1991 event marked the formal dissolution of a superpower, splitting into fifteen separate nations?
What is the collapse of the Soviet Union?
This crop, a staple in the Andes for thousands of years, was brought to Europe in the 16th century but was initially feared as poisonous since it belongs to the same family as deadly nightshade.
What is Potato?
This disputed Himalayan territory, claimed by Nepal but administered by India, became a major diplomatic flashpoint in 2020 when Nepal released a new political map including it, straining relations between the two countries.
What is Kalapani (or the Kalapani/Limpiyadhura/Lipulekh area)?
This European microstate, one of the smallest countries in the world, is landlocked between France and Spain, nestled entirely within the Pyrenees mountains.
What is Andorra?
In early 2026, this fast-food chain launched a new dessert called the Peach Cobbler Roll — a crispy pastry stuffed with diced peaches, graham cracker, and this Southern spirit-flavored vanilla filling.
What is Arby's?
This 1994 event saw ethnic violence erupt in a small East African nation, killing an estimated 800,000 people over roughly 100 days while the international community largely failed to intervene.
What is the Rwandan genocide?