History
Wisconsin
Animals
Language
200

Present-day Mexico City is built on this historical city

Tenochtitlan

200

Wisconsin is the US leading producer of this energy-giving root

Ginseng

200

This multi-armed sea creature has a beak for a mouth

Octopus


200

This language has the most native speakers worldwide

Mandarin Chinese

400

This is the decade the Communist Manifesto was originally published.

1840s (1848)

400

Wisconsinites consume more of this spirit than anywhere else in the United States

Brandy

400

This is the third most popular pet in the USA as of 2024

Fish (freshwater)

400

In WWII, this Indigenous Nation's language was used to create a code that was considered unbreakable

Navajo (Diné language)

600

This plant was compressed into “bricks” and used as a form of currency in China, Tibet, Mongolia, and Central Asia

Tea

600

This "Red Scare" senator was born in Grand Chute, Wisconsin.

Joseph McCarthy

600

Scotland has this mythical creature on their coat of arms

Unicorn

600

The word "mocha" comes from a port city in this country

Yemen (local name is Mokha)

800

This is the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world.

Damascus, Syria

800

This Wisconsin county has more shoreline than any other county in the US - over 250 miles.

Door County

800

This animal has fingerprints so close to humans that they can confuse forensic investigations.

Koalas

800

Besides Spanish and Portuguese, name one of the other colonial languages officially recognized in South America

English, French, or Dutch

1000

This village was the largest community of free African-American property owners in pre-Civil War New York razed in order to create Central Park

Seneca Village

1000

The English noun Wisconsin comes from this Indigenous Nation's name for the so-called Wisconsin river, Meskonsing.

The Miami people

1000

The Dayak people of Borneo (Malaysia and Indonesia) traditionally teach that this animal was originally a human who pretended not to be able to speak and climbed up the trees to escape having to work.

Orangutan

1000

This is the most linguistically diverse country in the world

Papua New Guinea

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