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Two days ago, the president of Bolivia survived an assassination attempt. Bolivia is located in this continent.
What is South America?
This word starts with C.
A small domesticated carnivorous mammal with soft fur and retractable claws. This animal is related to the puma.
What is the cat?
It is believed that eyeglasses were invented by Salvino D'Armati in the city of Florence, located in the region of Tuscany in this European country.
What is Italy?
This pyramid-shaped candy is often divided into three colors (orange, white, yellow) and has a waxy texture, with a strong association with Halloween.
What is candy corn?
Pizza originated from this Mediterranean country.
What is Italy?
Two days ago, this Asian country home to the cities of Tokyo and Osaka held parliamentary elections.
What is Japan?
This word starts with C.
To be silly or immature; resembling a young person.
What is childish?
True or false: most sunglasses nowadays are made of plastic.
True
True or false: pumpkins are vegetables.
False (pumpkins start from flowers, which make them fruits)
This American dessert consists of two layers of graham crackers, a layer of chocolate, and a layer of marshmallow, often toasted.
What are s'mores?
Two days ago, the country of Uruguay held presidential elections. Uruguay is located in this continent.
What is South America?
This word starts with C.
This refers to a group of people with shared interests that spend lots of time together and usually don't allow others to join.
What is a clique?
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This part of a pair of glasses holds the two lenses together and spans the nose.
What is the bridge?
Similar to Halloween, Cinco de Mayo is celebrated on May 5 in this North American country that borders the U.S. and has Spanish as its official language.
What is Mexico?
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This Cajun dish consists of rice, sausage and vegetables served with seasonings and broth.
What is Jambalaya?
On October 25, Freddie Freeman hit a walk-off grand slam in game 1 of the World Series. This game was played at Dodger Stadium in this Californian city.
This word starts with C.
A person who eats the flesh of other human beings.
What is a cannibal?
Photochromic lenses are eyeglasses known for their ability to change into sunglasses by developing a tint upon sun exposure. They are famously manufactured by this company that shares its name with the action of shifting from normal lenses to sunglasses.
What is Transitions Optical?
Halloween is also known by three different names. Give one of them.
What are Allhalloween, All Hallows' Eve and All Saints' Eve?
In France, these shelled invertebrates are eaten as a delicacy called escargot.
What are snails?
The prime minister of this Scandinavian country, whose capital is Oslo, announced that citizens must be at least 15 years old to use social media.
What is Norway?
This word starts with C.
To be rude or mean-spirited in a bad-tempered way.
What is churlish?
There are two types of doctors that deal with eye problems. One doctor has a O.D., the other has an M.D., followed by specialized training. Name one of these doctors.
What are an optometrist (O.D.) and an ophthalmologist (M.D.)?
What is a warlock or wizard?
This vegetable is used to make pickles.
What is cucumber?