True Crime
Languages
Food
Mythology
Misc
100
This infamous pirate, known for terrorizing the Caribbean in the early 1700s, was Edward Teach by birth.
Blackbeard
100
This language, spoken by over 1 billion people, is the most widely spoken native language in the world.
Mandarin Chinese
100
This fermented Korean dish is made primarily from cabbage and radishes, flavored with chili, garlic, and fish sauce.
kimchi
100
This Greek goddess of wisdom and warfare was born fully grown from Zeus’s head.
Athena
100
Decimal time was something that never caught on. It divides the day up into 10 decimal hours. What is 5 decimal time in our 24-hour time?
12:00 noon
200
This dictator of the Soviet Union executed or imprisoned millions of his own citizens in the 1930s.
Joseph Stalin
200
This type of language develops from a mixture of two or more languages, often blending a European language with local languages, and is commonly spoken in parts of the Caribbean, Africa, and the Indian Ocean.
Creole
200
This chocolate bar is filled with pistachio cream and crunchy filo pastry, and became a global social media sensation.
Dubai chocolate
200
This Mesopotamian hero sought immortality in one of the world’s oldest surviving epic poems.
Gilgamesh
200
Argentina is named after the original name of this element of the periodic table.
Silver (Ag) - Argentum
300
This Roman senator is said to have shouted “Sic semper tyrannis” (thus always to tyrants) when he participated in the assassination of Julius Caesar
Brutus
300
The language spoken in Brazil
Portuguese
300
This Japanese cooking style involves battering and deep-frying seafood or vegetables.
tempura
300
Wednesday is named after this one-eyed Norse god who sacrificed an eye in exchange for wisdom and knowledge.
Odin
300
What planet has the fastest orbit around the sun?
Mercury
400
This Russian mystic and advisor to the Romanovs was assassinated in 1916 and blamed for influencing the royal family.
Rasputin
400
This Indo-Iranian language, also known as Persian, is the official language of Iran and is written in a modified Arabic script
Farsi
400
This Mexican sauce, often containing chili peppers, chocolate, and spices, is traditionally served over chicken or turkey.
Mole
400
King Minos kept this half man half creature in the basement underneath his palace on Crete.
Minotaur
400
Who am I?
Ariana Grande
500
This female mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher of Alexandria was brutally murdered by a mob of Christian zealots in 415 CE.
Hypatia
500
This language, the final stage of ancient Egyptian, was written using the Greek alphabet with some additional characters and is still used in religious services of the church in Egypt.
Coptic
500
This yellow spice, derived from the root of a plant in the ginger family, is commonly used in curry and mustards
turmeric
500
Which deity did Pharaoh Akhenaten promote as the sole god, abandoning traditional Egyptian polytheism?
The Aten or Sun
500
The planet Uranus is the only planet to have its moons named after fictional characters from this very very famous author's works.
Shakespeare