Railways
People and trees
Winter sports
Monkeys
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100
It passes through two continents—Europe and Asia—seven time zones, 31 constituent entities of the Russian Federation, 87 cities, crosses 16 major rivers, and skirts the world's deepest lake, Lake Baikal.
The Trans-Siberian Railway
100
Not only the state and city, but also a genus of palm trees native to the southwestern United States, are named after this president.
George Washington (Washingtonia palm)
100
Half a century ago, American Sherman Poppen, wanting to entertain his daughter, combined two skis to create the Snurfer—the prototype of this sporting equipment. 
Snowboard
100
He is a monkey. He wears a purple sleeveless jacket and a small fez on his head, which is a part of the turban that Aladdin gave him.
Abu
100
This isn't just a screening for actors or models, but also a form of sport fishing—casting a lure for distance and accuracy.
Casting
200
The Glacier Express in this country connects two mountain resorts: Zermatt and St. Maurice, and is reputed to be the slowest express train in the world.
Switzerland (it's deliberately slow so passengers can enjoy the views)
200
When a garden tree does just this for the first time, Hungarians say the tree "responds."
When it bears its first fruit
200
n 2013, three fatbike enthusiasts traveled 310 kilometers along the snowy shores of Chukotka. This feature easily distinguishes a fatbike from a regular bicycle.
Thicker tires (10 centimeters and thicker)
200
The great apes include gorillas, orangutans, and chimpanzees (along with humans, they are grouped into the THIS family).
hominid family
200
A football club with this name was founded in Stavanger, Norway, back in 1899 and still plays in the country's top division.
Viking
300
During World War II, Tadanao Miki and his colleagues designed exactly this; after the war, they designed the Shinkansen bullet train.
Airplanes
300
In 1977, Kenyan Wangari Maathai founded the Green Belt Movement, whose members planted millions of trees in Africa. Maathai's efforts were rewarded in 2004. What was the reward?
Nobel Peace Prize
300
Following the Belarusian women's failure at the Canadian stage of the World Cup in this sport, Alexander Lukashenko promised to equip the team with machine guns next time.
Biathlon
300
In Rwanda's Volcanic Biosphere Reserve, once a year, the young cubs of these close relatives of ours are ceremoniously named.
Mountain gorillas
300
A bookcase on Pushkin Alley in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk serves this noble purpose.
Bookcrossing, book exchange
400
They became an essential feature of Russian passenger trains under Sergei Witte, who awarded a major contract for their production to industrialist Alexander Kolchugin.
Cup holders (they are still manufactured in the town of Kolchugino in the Vladimir region)
400
To recreate the scene of the chase for this couple, the crew of John Lee Hancock's (starring Woody Harrelson and Kevin Costner) recent film planted trees along the road and added dirt.
Bonnie and Clyde (film "The Highwaymen")
400
Participants in this sport wear shoes with different soles: one is slippery, the other provides traction.
Curling
400
Chimpanzees have two, orangutans have three, and humans have four.
Blood types
400
They joke that Uncle Fyodor was the first in our country to do this: he fled the city for the village of Prostokvashino for a simpler life in the countryside.
Downshifting
500
At the beginning of the last century, Germany conceived of a railway connecting Berlin, the Bosphorus, and this city, then part of the Ottoman Empire. The project became known as the "Three Bs."
Baghdad
500
An experiment with THESE plants confirming their ability to "scream" was conducted in 2023 by scientists from Tel Aviv University. The researchers studied how plants respond to water stress or injury. They used microphones capable of capturing sounds in the ultrasonic range. When at rest, plants only occasionally emitted sounds in the 40 to 80 kHz range. When stressed, such as water stress or a cut, the intervals between these "screams" shortened significantly, as if the plant were "screaming."
tomatoes
500
In this sport, the skate blades are offset slightly to the left for better cornering, and the blade thickness is only about a millimeter.
Short Track speed skating
500
THIS (meaning "Hell Valley" in Japanese) is a "monkey park" in Yamanouchi City, Nagano Prefecture, Japan. It is known for its onsen, where wild Japanese macaques living in the area bathe and warm themselves in the winter.
Jigokudani (Japanese: 地獄谷野猿公苑 jigokudani yaen kōen)
500
This cast-iron tunnel support element, covered with transparent panels, became part of the design of the new Savelovskaya Moscow metro station.
Tubing