Gross GDP is often disregarded in favor of this metric, which measures GDP by population to give a more accurate view.
What is GDP Per Capita?
Frank Sinatra really wanted you to fly him to this body, which controls Earth’s tides.
What is the Moon?
This disease, now eradicated, is known as one of the deadliest in human history, responsible for many of the worst plagues ever recorded.
What is Smallpox?
Historically, if you spoke against the monarch, or were a claimant to the throne, you might have this body part removed.
What is a Tongue?
This dessert is considered quintessentially American, even though it's been baked in Europe for centuries.
What is Apple Pie?
This body of the US government is in charge of regulating the dollar and setting interest rates, making it one of the most powerful financial institutions on Earth.
What is the Federal Reserve?
One of Muse’s biggest hits is about this kind of black hole, which is thought to reside at the center of every galaxy.
What is Supermassive?
Recently, this disease, which made the jump from avian to humans, created a large scare across the US and Europe.
What is Bird Flu?
In Ancient Greece, this was an autocrat who ruled without kingship; today, this is any leader who miswields their power.
What is a Tyrant?
The British love this old timey goop made from a sweetened East Asian grain.
What is Rice Pudding?
This international institution is responsible for global finance and development loans, which also makes it a pillar of the Western model of development.
What is the World Bank?
Train sang his heart out about drops of this planet, which is also the closest gas giant to the Sun.
What is Jupiter?
A form of influenza, this pandemic became the deadliest in modern history during and immediately following WW1.
What is Spanish Flu?
If one group seeks to destroy another, they might enact one of these; there were red and white ones during the Russian Civil War.
What is a Terror?
The name for this dish originated in Spanish-speaking countries, though many European countries call it something closer to condensed milk pudding.
What is Flan?
After WW2, this financial scheme by the US was critical in Western Europe’s recovery and the beginning of the Cold War.
What was the Marshall Plan?
Pearl Jam’s early hits were Even Flow and this song, which is also the standard unit of measuring distance on a galactic scale.
What is Light Years?
Originally a rare genetic mutation, this disorder was spread across populations due to providing an advantage against malaria infection.
What is Sickle Cell Anemia?
This African nation, today a powerhouse in East Africa, was formed via a union of Tanganyika and Zanzibar.
What is Tanzania?
This British dish is very similar to a Victoria Sponge, and includes basically every common British sweet treat thrown into layers.
What is Trifle?
When countries align themselves with the US financial system, this process may occur, in which the US Dollar is used in parallel with national currency.
What is Dollarization?
This spaceflight was the third crewed test flight in NASA’s history, and also a song by Adam and the Ants.
What is Apollo 9?
The second ever disease to be eradicated, this livestock disease began in Germany and was regularly responsible for cattle deaths.
What is Rinderpest?
Beginning as an illegitimate line of the House of Burgundy, this house ruled Castile and Aragon until the ascension of the House of Hapsburg.
What is the House of Trastamara?
Of every old candy, these orange spongey pieces shaped like a legume are probably the most famous.
What are Circus Peanuts?