World curiosities
The only continent with no reptiles or snakes.
Antarctica
The smallest country in the world by area.
What is Vatican City?
The chemical symbol for gold.
The ancient wonder located in modern-day Iraq.
Hanging Gardens of Babylon
If you rearrange the letters in “LISTEN,” you get this word.
SILENT
The currency used in both France before the euro and parts of Africa today.
What is the franc?
The river that runs through both Paris and Rouen.
What is the Seine?
The human body’s largest organ.
Skin
The war that ended with the Geneva Accords of 1954
French colonial rule in Vietnam (the First Indochina War, 1946–1954) concluded with the Geneva Accords of 1954.
This number is the only even prime.
2
The mountain range separating Europe and Asia.
What are the Ural Mountains?
The city known as the “Gateway to the Orient.”
What is Istanbul?
The planet known for its Great Red Spot.
What is Jupiter?
The explorer who reached India by sea in 1498
Who is Vasco da Gama
The riddle’s answer: “The more you take, the more you leave behind.”
footsteps
The country whose flag is not rectangular.
Nepal
The line at 0° longitude that passes through Greenwich, England.
What is the Prime Meridian?
The branch of biology that studies ecosystems.
What is ecology?
The first woman to win a Nobel Prize
Marie Curie
How to call a word that reads the same backward and forward
A palindrome
The capital city built on more than 100 islands connected by bridges.
What is Venice?
The only sea with no coastline.
What is the Sargasso Sea?
The Sargasso Sea is a region of the Atlantic Ocean bounded by four currents forming an ocean gyre. It is the only named sea without land boundaries.
The scientist who proposed natural selection.
Charles Darwin
The empire that once stretched from Spain to India.
Persian Empire
You see me once in June, twice in November, and not at all in May. What am I?
Letter E