Architectural Antiques
This ancient Roman structure, famous for its massive unreinforced concrete dome, remains the world's largest of its kind.
Pantheon
This Detroit-born icon, often called the "King of Pop," revolutionized music videos with the 14-minute long, horror-themed production of "Thriller."
Michael Jackson
This iconic, double-layered circular sandwich cookie was technically an imitation of a pre-existing 1908 competitor called Hydrox, which lost the "battle of the biscuits" due to inferior marketing.
Oreo
Known for its unique biodiversity, this island nation is home to the world's smallest primate, the mouse lemur, and roughly 90% of its wildlife is found nowhere else on Earth. It is also the name of a widely known children's film.
Madagascar
The Filipino translation to the the feeling of dizziness.
"hILO"
Characterized by pointed arches, ribbed vaults, and flying buttresses, this architectural style dominated Europe from the 12th to the 16th century.
Gothic Architecture
This British singer-songwriter broke out in the 2010s with his acoustic, loop-pedal-driven live sets and chart-topping hits like "The A Team" and an album associated with math symbols.
Ed Sheeran
Despite its popularity in Italian-American cuisine, this meat-and-pasta dish actually has roots in ancient Greece, where it was derived from a fermented noodle.
Lasagna
This is the only country in the world that does not have a rectangular flag; instead, it is shaped like two stacked triangles.
Nepal
A person whose occupation is making clothes.
"TaILOr"
This mid-20th-century architectural style, characterized by raw, unpainted concrete surfaces and massive, monolithic forms, took its name from the French term for "raw concrete."
Brutalism
This group's 1967 album, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, is widely credited with shifting the focus of rock music from singles to the cohesive, thematic "studio album."
The Beatles
Originally marketed as a medicinal tonic for indigestion in the 1830s, this now-ubiquitous condiment became a staple of the American pantry.
Ketchup
This country has more lakes than the rest of the world’s countries combined, containing roughly 60% of all the lakes on the planet.
Canada
A section or speech at the end of a book or play.
EpILOgue
Championed by figures like Bernini and Borromini, this movement rejected Renaissance symmetry in favor of chiaroscuro, dynamic elliptical plans, and the dissolution of boundaries between painting, sculpture, and building.
Baroque Architecture
A defining voice of the 2010s and 2020s, this Canadian artist's atmospheric, melancholic blend of R&B and synth-pop propelled him to perform at the 2021 Super Bowl Halftime Show.
The Weeknd
In 18th-century France, people were so suspicious of this versatile root vegetable that they actually thought it caused leprosy; it took a clever pharmacist’s publicity stunts to convince the public it was safe to eat.
Potato
You can walk across this entire country in less than an hour, as it is only 0.44 square kilometers in total area, making it the smallest nation on Earth.
Vatican City
A person who can speak or utter sounds so that they seem to come from somewhere else.
VentrILOquist
In his 1927 manifesto Towards a New Architecture, this Swiss-French architect outlined his "five points" of new architecture, which included pilotis, the roof garden, and the free plan.
Le Corbusier
This artist, known for his high-energy stadium anthems, actually started his career as a child actor, appearing in numerous television commercials and even a professional theater production of The Sound of Music at age seven.
Justin Timberlake
During the 19th century, this colorful confection was actually the subject of a massive legal "price-fixing" scandal involving the sugar trust, leading to its brief prohibition in certain states for being considered a "narcotic-like" indulgence for children.
Cotton Candy
This is the only country in the world that is completely surrounded by another single country (Italy), making it one of the world's few landlocked enclaves.
San Marino
An act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself, especially in a play.
SolILOquy