Historical Tidbits
This island, south of Greece, was home to the Minoan civilization.
Crete
A snake found in the Nile region of Northern Africa, this species aided in Cleopatra VII's suicide.
Asp
Taylor Swift attracted significant attention when this male rapper infamously gave his "Imma let you finish" speech in the middle of her accepting her VMA award.
Kanye West
Zoom!! This man wrote a book Izzy has a tolerate-hate relationship with about a man who travels to various remote countries and regions and includes the ever-parodied lilliputians.
Jonathan Swift :/
This mountain range, extending through Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile and Argentina, was home to a massive empire that was conquered in 1572 by Francisco Pizarro.
Andes
Before Julius Caesar was assassinated, he was warned to avoid this time of year.
Ides of March
This species of fish, named for the appearance of its dorsal fin, alongside marlins and swordfish, is considered the fastest sea creature by many, reaching top speeds of about 68 MPH.
Sailfish
This polarizing TV show stars actors like Jim Parsons, and launched a spinoff show about his character when he was a child.
This children's author who has a holiday named after him wrote and illustrated more than 60 books, but also worked as a political cartoonist during World War II.
Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel)
This South Pacific island nation, whose capital is Wellington, is located south of Australia and is frequently excluded from maps.
New Zealand
This English explorer, famous for exploring the region of Oceania, was killed in Hawai'i after attempting to capture their ruling chief.
Captain James Cook
Saltwater Crocodile
This actor, famous for his roles as the Grinch and Dr Eggman in the Sonic the Hedgehog Movie, recently retired, stating "I have enough. I've done enough. I am enough." in an interview.
Jim Carrey
Windmills
DAILY DOUBLE!!! The most recent nation recognized by the UN is this African country, located next to Ethiopia and named after its neighbor to the north, which was officially recognized in 2011.
South Sudan
Queen Dido founded this Phoenician city-state, located in modern day Tunisia, in the 9th century BCE. The same city-state would later engage in the Punic Wars opposite Rome.
Carthage
This large, flightless black bird, native to Australia, is well known for their bright blue skin near their heads and their aggression and attacks towards most other animals, including humans.
(Southern) Cassowary
This Phoenix-based football team, owned by Michael Bidwell, boasts quarterbacks Murray, McSorley, and McCoy.
Arizona Cardinals
This Nobel-prize winning Chilean Poet is best known for his poetry collection Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (1924) but also served in the Chilean government for much of his life, including holding the seat of a Senator for the Chilean Communist Party.
Pablo Neruda
This former country dissolved in 1991-92 and is now six nations in Europe: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Slovenia. Its capital, Sarajevo, is now the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Yugoslavia (RIP)
Valley Forge
This large, highly dangerous mammal, native to Africa, is an invasive species in Colombia that was originally imported illegally by Pablo Escobar.
Hippopotamus
This annual fashion event, benefitting a famous New York City museum of art, features celebrities dressed in various clothing items that are inspired by each year's theme, the most recent being "Gilded".
Met Gala
This French novelist is famous for his novels Journey to the Center of the Earth, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, and Around the World in Eighty Days. His name is shared by one of the main characters from the Netflix show Euphoria.
Jules Verne
This modern day South Asian country experienced a genocide of between 1.5 million and 2.5 million civilians in the 70s, nearly a quarter of the country's population, due to disease, starvation, and execution under the "Communist" rule of the Khmer Rouge. Mass graves called "Killing Fields" dot the country, immortalizing this tragedy.
Cambodia