Modern African Geopolitics and History (The category made specifically to frustrate Ti-Paul as of Teresa's instructions)
President of Egypt after Nasser.
Who is Sadat?
We have 14 cousins. This many of them have r's in their first name.
What is five (Margarida, Maria, Teresa, Andrew, Gabriel)?
Her home state.
What is Texas?
This capital city was built almost perfectly between the nation's two largest cities as a compromise in the 20th century.
What is Canberra (Australia)?
The term used to describe a person's claim to innocence.
What is an alibi?
Fought between 1964 and 1979, this war's belligerents were the unrecognized government of Ian Smith against the ZANU and ZAPU rebel groups, ending with the establishment of a newly independent nation in southern Africa.
What is the Rhodesian Bush War?
The family reunion has been held since 2002 (17 years before Winston was born). We have watched this many men's World Cups at the family reunion.
What is five?
This Kacey Musgraves album and its most popular song share the same name. This album was released in 2024, selling over 66,000 copies in its first week.
What is Deeper Well?
Boasting a population of almost 2 million people, this capital city is technically the second largest city in the nation, just over 1 million people smaller to its adjacent sibling that served as the capital from 1948-1976.
What is Manila (Philippines)?
This type of glass shatters into many different small, harmless pieces, and therefore many times is found on cars.
What is tempered glass?
Holding almost 50% of the world's bauxite reserves, which is a principal mineral used to make aluminum, this small country is just one of many that has undergone a military coup in the past four years.
What is Guinea?
Grandma's mom's maiden name.
What is Ribeiro?
Considered her first hit single, this song won the Grammy Award for Best Country Song in 2013.
What is Merry Go 'Round?
These two cities are the closest capitals to each other (aside from Rome and the Vatican), with their closest point just 1 mile apart.
What are Brazzaville and Kinshasa (Congo Rep. & DRC)?
This term describes the postmortem cooling of the body. Over time, the body's temperature will equilibrate with the ambient temperature, therefore comparing the ambient temperature to the body heat is used to determine time of death. Name this term.
What is algor mortis?
Emerging out of the "Anglophone Crisis," this self declared and unrecognized state claims the territory of the western edge of Cameroon, which used to be the British territory of Southern Cameroons.
What is the Republic of Ambazonia?
"Caetano" is the Portuguese variant of the Italian name "Gaetano," which means "from Gaeta." Aside from present-day Caetano, we have had this many Caetano's in our family (since 1650).
What is two?
Name of her dog.
What is Pepper?
Built in the 1960s after the nation's previous capital was heavily destroyed in a hurricane, this city is the smallest capital in the Americas.
What is Belmopan (Belize)?
CODIS, or Combined DNA Index System, is the US's national database containing DNA samples of convicted felons, which can be used by law enforcement to compare or match DNA with suspect's DNA. This is the name of the national database that contains fingerprint samples.
What is IAFIS (Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System)?
While ascending to power via a military coup in 1983, this Burkinabé politician was a promoter of Pan-Africanism and "the Democratic and Popular Revolution." He also modernized the agriculture, environmentalist, health, and public services of the nation, while also being an advocate for women's rights. However, his stint in power was short, being deposed and killed in a coup after just four years by the very general that had initially put him in the presidency.
Who was Thomas Sankara?
For almost 200 years, the Colaço family has owned "Solar Dos Colaços" in Goa. Constructed by Joao Colaço in 1730, to this day prayers to Our Lady of Rosary occur at the mansion between August 1st to August 15. This is the name of the street on which the Colaço house is located.
What is the Ponte de Linhares Causeway?
While known for being a country artist, before being a singer she was heralded for being a master of this ancient artistic skill, brought over to the US from Germany in the 1800s yet thought to have originated in Africa some 10,000 years ago.
What is yodeling?
This city, whose name means "City of Stones" or "Stone City," was founded in 1 BC and was one of the principal locations on one of the Silk Road paths.
What is Tashkent (Uzbekistan)?
What does this formula describe:
θ = arcsin(width/length)
What is angle of impact of blood spatter?