Weird Sports
Still played today, Jeu de Paume is an early version of this court and net game.
What is (lawn) tennis?
General term for something that transmits sound, electricity or other forms of energy.
What is a conductor?
Around 218 BC, this Carthaginian led 20,000 infantry into Italy via the Alps, along with the elephants.
Who is Hannibal?
Begun in 486 BC, China's "Grand" this is the world's longest manmade waterway.
What is a canal?
Notable graves in this cemetery include those of Joe Louis, Audie Murphy and John J. Pershing.
What is Arlington?
Overseen by WEPA, a polo tourney is played in Nepal each year using these huge animals instead of horses.
What are elephants?
The enzyme thrombin is a natural one of these clot formers.
What is a coagulant?
This Union general swing north in February 1864 through the Carolinas toward Virginia.
Who is William T. Sherman?
A folk tale tells of Meng Jiangnu, who searches for her husband along this public works project.
What is the Great Wall of China?
Frank Sinatra rests at Desert Memorial park just east of this California resort city.
What is Palm Springs?
The WCBO challenges both brains and brawn in its combined matches of boxing and this board game.
What is chess?
Boiling this protein found in the fibers of connective tissues turns it into gelatin.
What is collagen?
This tribe lost 4,000 members along the "Trail of Tears" in the 1830s.
Who are the Cherokee?
In 1901, China agreed to pay 11 nations about $330 million in damages that arose from this rebellion.
What is the Boxer Rebellion?
Samuel Gompers, Walter Chrysler and Washington Irving are among those "snoozing" at this cemetery north of NYC.
What is Sleepy Hollow cemetery?
You can earn a spot in the record books by speed snorkeling through these peat moss wetlands of Europe.
What are bogs?
In an experiment, the people getting sugar pills instead of the drug being tested are this group.
What is the control?
The second offensive by this German lasted from January to July, 1942, with stops in Tobruk and Benghazi.
Who was Erwin Rommel?
Legend says Emperor Huangdi's wife invented the loom to weave this luxurious fabric.
What is silk?
Begun in 1906, this LA-area cemetery is the final resting place of Elizabeth Taylor and Jimmy Stewart.
What is Forest Lawn?
It became an Olympic event in 2014, but this snowboarding event still looks unusual with those rails.
What is slopestyle?
It's the force that holds the molecules of a substance together.
What is cohesion?
The land bridge that once allowed humans to migrate on foot from Asia to North America is named for him.
Who is (Vitus) Bering?
"Know the enemy and know yourself," is a lesson from this treatise, tactics from which were later used by Mao.
What is "The Art of War?"
6,188 Union Civil War soldiers are buried at popular Grove National Cemetery in Petersburg in this state.
What is Virginia?