Cheese Please
Historic Technology
"EE"/"CS"
Back to Back Homophones
Official Language
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This cheese is the most commonly sold in the United States.
What is mozzarella?
200
Often cited as the world's greatest invention, it was designed in ancient times, but probably just for pottery making.
What is the wheel?
200
This Southwestern US city is home to the University of Arizona.
What is Tucson?
200
A rough fairway
What is a coarse course?
200
This official language of both Lebanon and Egypt is the third most widespread official language in the world after English and French.
What is Arabic?
400
This US state is well known for wearing cheese hats to support their local football team.
What is Wisconsin?
400
While it may seem like a modern convenience to grab a 2am snack during a late night in lab, this technology was actually invented in the first century, and could dispense either wine or holy water after depositing a coin.
What is a vending machine?
400
This classic computer game is named for a ship used to clear explosives.
What is minesweeper?
400
The entire pit... all of it.
What is a whole hole?
400
While French may be the language of love, this official language of Vatican City is the origin of all romance languages.
What is Latin?
500
This is the liquid byproduct of making cheese.
What is whey?
500
Ancient versions of this earthquake detecting device can be traced back to 132 AD during China’s Han Dynasty.
What is a seismometer?
Fun Fact: When an earthquake was detected, one of eight gold dragons would open its mouth to drop a ball into a bronze toad at the base of the device, which would make a sound indicating the direction of the vibration.
500
You can remember one of the calls of this small bird by saying its name aloud.
What is a chickadee?
500
First born son, and prince of the sky kingdom.
What is an air heir?
500
In Islamabad, you'll find this is the national language (other than English).
What is Urdu?
600
This cheese is usually found in a plastic container, and it is traditionally used to make cannolis.
What is ricotta?
600
This precursor to the sextant was used in the Medieval Era to measure positions of celestial bodies and determine latitude and longitude.
What is an astrolabe?
600
The trigonometric function pictured here
What is arcsine?
600
Boat store bargain
What is a sail sale?
600
If you know another name to refer to Myanmar, it should be easy to guess this official language.
What is Burmese?
1000
This cheese is traditionally used to make tiramisu.
What is mascarpone?
1000
Still used today, the screw named for this ancient Greek helps move water from lower to higher ground.
Who is Archimedes?
1000
This limited edition footwear became available in adult sizes after a change.org petition reached over 30,000 signatures, and fits this category twice!
What are Lightning McQueen Crocs?
1000
Most important belief
What is a principal principle
1000
One of the twelve official languages of South Africa, other than English.
What is...
Afrikaans, Zulu, Xhosa, Sepedi, Tswana, Southern Sotho, Tsonga, Swazi, Venda, Southern Ndebele, or South African Sign Language