Word Origins
This 9-letter word for an insect may have come about because people believed this bug ate uncovered dairy products.
What is butterfly?
This national dish of Spain is a rice dish typically made with saffron and seafood.
What is paella?
This revolutionary product, released in 2007, reshaped mobile communications and technology.
What is the iPhone?
This Queen ruled over the United Kingdom from 1837 to 1901, the longest reign of any British monarch at the time.
Who is Queen Victoria?
he originally wrote “Titanium” for Alicia Keys but ended up providing the vocals herself and collaborating with David Guetta.
Who is Sia?
This word for one who cuts a trail comes from a name of a character in an 1840 novel.
What is pathfinder?
The Spanish diminutive for "meat" gives us the name of these roasted or braised chunks of pork.
What is carnitas?
This man is commonly credited with creating the first printing press.
Who is Johannes Gutenberg?
She became the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in 1979.
Who is Margaret Thatcher?
In 2022, she became the first woman to have a Billboard Top 10 Album in 5 decades, starting with the 1980s.
Who is Madonna?
Fittingly, this adjective describing a hit-you-in-the-gut kind of feeling goes back to a Latin word for internal organs.
What is visceral?
Aromatics, like garlic and fennel, are key to this Middle Eastern rice dish with a 5-letter name.
What is pilaf?
Known as the father of the computer, he conceptualized the first mechanical computer in the early 19th century.
Who was Charles Babbage?
This U.S. leader is known for their extensive foreign policy, particularly their efforts to build bridges with China.
Who is Richard Nixon?
This singer has said “no body but yours” to wives Miranda Lambert and Gwen Stefani.
Who is Blake Shelton?
A radical in an 1833 failed uprising in Germany, Ludwig von Rochau coined this term for acts taken for practical reasons, not ethics.
What is realpolitik?
If you see "lumache" on an Italian menu, find out if they're these gastropods or the pasta shaped like them.
What are snails?
PlayStation 4 was released in this year.
What is 2013?
This leader’s reform policies of Glasnost and Perestroika led to the end of the Cold War and the breakup of the Soviet Union.
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
Taylor Swift’s two hits in 2014’s Top Ten included “Shake It Off” and this satirical track.
What is “Blank Space”?
In 1793, a French clergyman called the destruction of libraries and sculptures this, using the name of a 5th-century tribe.
What is vandalism?
Invented by German scientist Justus von Liebig from brewer's yeast, this spread is big in the U.K., an acquired taste, and 100% vegetarian.
What is Marmite?
The electric razor was invented in this country in 1928.
What is the United States?
This is the name of Sudan's long-serving president.
Who is Omar Al-Bashir?
In this song, Sabrina Carpenter sings, “Don’t bring me to tears when I just did my makeup so nice.”
What is “Please, Please, Please.”