Unofficial National Anthems
With 240 weeks in the Top 100 UK Singles chart (most by any song), this unofficial United Kingdom national anthem was written by Brandon Flowers and depicts the jealousy and paranoia of a man who suspects his significant other is cheating on him.
What is Mr. Brightside?
The cathedral La Sagrada Familia.
What is Spain?
A type of race between 2 or more teams, or to pass on a message.
What is relay?
Type of nest after the kids move out.
What is empty?
Tenet, racecar, madam, tattarrattat, and detartrated are all examples of this.
What is a palindrome?
This unofficial United States national anthem is about a kid named Robert who found a six shooter gun in his dad's closet and is now coming for you. You'd better run!
What is Pumped Up Kicks?
Church of the Holy Sepulchre.
What is Israel?
To decline with age or, if you're a radioactive substance, to decompose into a more stable form.
What is decay?
Schools such as Harvard, Yale, Brown, Dartmouth, Cornell are part of this league.
What is ivy?
The Four Noble Truths are a key tenet of this major religion.
What is Buddhism?
In this unofficial German national anthem, objects are set free and mistaken for UFOs, causing a general to send pilots to investigate, leading to cataclysmic war.
What is 99 Red Balloons?
Blue Lagoon geothermal spa in Grindavik.
What is Iceland?
In golf, it's the closely mowed stretch of grass between the tees & the green.
What is the fairway?
This award is presented to recognize excellence in the American television industry.
What is an Emmy?
Former CIA Director George Tenet said in 2007 that he still lies awake at night thinking about everything that could have been, but wasn't, done to stop this tragedy.
What are the 9/11 terrorist attacks?
Waltzing Matilda by Slim Dusty narrates the story of an itinerant worker, or "swagman", making a drink of billy tea at a bush camp and capturing a stray jumbuck (sheep) to eat. When the jumbuck's owner, a squatter (landowner), and three troopers (mounted policemen) pursue the swagman for theft, he declares "You'll never catch me alive!" and commits suicide by drowning himself in a nearby billabong (watering hole), after which his ghost haunts the site. It is the unofficial national anthem of this country.
What is Australia?
Flanders Field Cemetery and Memorial.
What is Belgium?
To fix (a running rope) around a cleat, rock, pin, or other object, to secure it. Frequently in rock climbing.
What is belay?
Moses was this old when he initially spoke to Pharaoh on behalf of his people. It's the upper age for cardinals to vote in papal elections. Title number of days needed by Phileas Fogg to traverse the globe.
What is eighty?
The word "tenet" appeared only once in this 1960 Pulitzer prize-winning classic on rape and racial inequality, when narrator "Scout" Finch speaks about her dad Atticus on page 237.
What is To Kill a Mockingbird?
This unofficial Croatian national anthem was drunkenly belted out by deliriously happy fans in Ban Jelacic Square in Zagreb after Croatia defeated England during the semifinals of the 2018 World Cup, hosted by Russia.
What is Igraj Moja Hrvatska?
Coral reefs of Negril.
What is Jamaica?
East Indies is another name for this archipelago.
What is Malay?
Shaq knows it precedes "Hot" in the name of a pain-relieving cream.
What is icy?
Tenet is one of the words that appears in this word square, which was first found in the ruins of Pompeii. The text can be read top-to-bottom, bottom-to-top, left-to-right, or right-to-left. It may be rotated 180 degrees and still be read in all those ways.
What is a sator (rotas) square?