Disputed Territories
Foreign Words & Phrases
Cybersecurity
I'm Not Wearing Any Pants
Dancing with the Czars
100
The ownership of Hans Island, located between Ellesmere Island & Greenland, is disputed; Canada stakes its claim by raising its flag there & leaving bottles of rye, while this other country puts up its flag & leaves bottles of aquavit
Denmark
100
In 2012 the French govt. ended official use of this word for an unmarried woman, deemed sexist since there's no male equivalent
Mademoiselle
100
This type of hacker referred to by a colorful bit of headwear helpfully tests computer systems for vulnerability
white-hat
100
The name of this ancient garment from a single piece of cloth is related to the Latin word for "to cover"
a toga
100
17th century czar Fyodor III of this dynasty was highly educated & reform minded but died young
Romanov
200
Spain increased controls on its border with this territory after a 2013 dispute with Britain over fishing rights
Gibraltar
200
To sing "Happy Birthday", use this phrase "a ti" in Mexico, but reverse the phrase in Chile
feliz cumpleaños
200
A website with a site certificate is one that uses encryption; this letter after http is one sign of it
s
200
In the 17th century the belted plaid developed into this garment
a kilt
200
In 1855 Czar Alexander II came to the throne at the height of this conflict
the Crimean War
300
This legendary birthplace of Aphrodite has been in dispute between its Greek & Turkish residents for decades now
Cyprus
300
If God wills, you know this Arabic expression for "if God wills"; T.E. Lawrence was an early adopter
Inshallah
300
Companies consider cybersecurity when instructing employees with a policy on BYOD, short for this
Bring Your Own Device
300
Basically a belt plus a front flap, it was a simple garment for men in ancient Egypt; Tarzan makes one from deerskin
a loincloth
300
As czar from 1547 to 1584, he waged drawn-out wars against Sweden & Poland & also against the nobility of his own country
Ivan the Terrible
400
A winter capital of its maharajas, this place is paired with Kashmir in the name of an Indian Union territory
Jammu
400
This Latin phrase for an essential item is literally "without which not"
sine qua non
400
A ransomware attack that encrypted 3,800 City of Atlanta computers demanded 6 of these digital items to unfreeze them
Bitcoins
400
Worn by men & women, the chiton was a long tunic dating back to this ancient Greek period, also a word for "outmoded"
archaic
400
"We understood each other... & let the others prattle", said Catherine the Great of this longtime adviser & less longtime lover
Grigory Potemkin
500
Russia recognizes Abkhazia's independence, declared in 1999, but this country, in which Abkhazia lies, does not
Georgia
500
From words for "self" & "publishing", it was writing circulated in secret in the Soviet Union
samizdat
500
Beware of these types of programs that track every stroke you make while typing in an effort to glean your password
key logging programs
500
Here's this early 17th century British monarch, wearing a trim doublet jacket with matching skirt & hose
James I
500
This 1831 work by Pushkin dramatized the fate of the title czar whose reign ended in 1605
Boris Godunov