Greek
The people of Athens named the city of Athens after the Greek goddess Athena, the name beating out that of another Greek god, a member of "The big three."
What is Poseidon?
This is the method of measuring applause.
What are Rounds of Applause?
This city is famous for their hot chicken.
What is Nashville?
This medical term refers to a blood clot entering the brain, a reduced blood flow to the brain, or a burst blood vessel in the brain.
What is a stroke?
These mollusks are a delicacy (depending on your love for seafood) are found in chowders across New England
What are Clams?
This military alphabetic code is used by NATO with a mix of greek words representing english letters.
What is the NATO Phonetic Alphabet?
This childhood song of joy instructs kids to clap their hands, stomp their feet, and shout "Hooray!"
The Everglades reside in this state, home to swamplands, alligators, and AJ Earle
What is Florida?
This organ, when not working properly, doesn't produce insulin, developing diabetes.
This sea creature gives birth as a male and has no stomach; has a curly tail
What is a seahorse?
Today we call Earth's hotter neighbor "Venus", but the Greeks had a different name for it, named after one of their many gods.
What is Aphrodite?
The longest Standing Ovation in Academy Awards history occurred in 1972 and lasted 12 minutes, given to this legendary actor.
Who is Charlie Chaplin?
These two capitals belong to the only states that aren't members of "The lower 48"
What are Juneau and Honolulu?
This famous conqueror would catapult his deceased soldiers, infected with the bubonic plague, over enemy fortifications in an attempt to infect them as well, in one of the first instances of biological warfare
Who is Genghis Kahn?
Captain Nemo's famous submarine; found in the novel by Jules Verne
What is the Nautilus?
Our modern-day organization of letters, so to speak, came from these two Greek terms.
What are Alpha and Beta?
The Entente and Axis powers on the eastern front in WWI seemed to be in high spirits on this day, when an unofficial truce between soldiers of both sides, ventured into no man's land to play football (soccer), exchange gifts, and food.
What is the Christmas Day Truce?
The "Four corners monument" marks the spot that these four states come together at one point.
What are Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah?
WWII Psycho-Doctor Josef Mengele discovered in his twisted experiments the "Pre-warming shock" and "The after-drop effect" concluding you couldn't do This with freezing people to "fix" them.
One of the fastest fish in the sea; also shares a name with a sports franchise in Miami
What is a Marlin?
The 10-year war and subsequent siege of this city is where the Greek Army, led by Odysseus, deceived the opposing Army using the Trojan Horse.
What is Troy?
The most formal of claps; used by gentlemen of sports, to not cause a loud noise for other sportsmen, but to still show a fellow sportsman appreciation for a good play.
What is the Golf clap?
The Largest (and only) US territory South of the Equator; also the third-largest Pacific territory currently in US possession.
What is American Samoa?
This traditional Japanese dish, consisting of pufferfish, contains tetrodotoxin, a deadly neurotoxin, if not properly prepared.
What is Fugu?
The residence of our Disney friends Marlin and Nemo, in the oceans off the coast of Australia
What is an Anenome?