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100

For the sake of maintaining exemplary quality, a master in this country is limited to making no more than two swords per month. The law is strict...

Japan

100

In the summer of 2017, the oldest flowers on Earth, dating back to the Jurassic period, were discovered in Myanmar. 100 million years ago, the flowers fell into a puddle of this material. That's how they were preserved. 


Amber

100

In April 2019, the letter A appeared on some Moscow television screens, indicating that the receiver only supported this type of broadcasting.

Analog

100

The New York Stock Exchange originally operated out of a coffee shop on this street.

Wall Street

100

Vladimir Nabokov was tempted to do just that with the draft of "Lolita," but he hesitated: "The spirit of the executed book will wander through my file cabinets until the end of my days."

Burn

200

In his "Book on the Diversity of the World," he boasted that he taught the Mongols how to build catapults. Historians believe he was lying: they had plenty of their own engineers.

Marco Polo

200

Goethe dreamed of his native Weimar being bathed in the fragrance of these flowers. And when he went for a walk, he scattered their seeds everywhere. 

Violets 

200

In German, all words related to this part of speech are capitalized. 

Nouns

200

The first patent for this device was received in 1829 by Englishman James Carrington.

Manual coffee grinder

200

In one of the first drafts, Leo Tolstoy's novel began: "There was a cattle show in Moscow." The final version is known to everyone.

"Anna Karenina"

300

A worker holds a sabre, a man in a top hat holds a flintlock rifle, and a teenager brandishes two pistols. And who's leading them?

Liberty (on the right is Eugène Delacroix's painting "Liberty Leading the People")

300

Its latin name, galanthus, can be translated from Greek as "milk flower." 

Snowdrop

300

In 2018, statisticians calculated that the letter T is the most common of these letters in English texts: almost 16%.

From the first letters of words

300

One of the country's popular desserts is kohi-zeri: coffee jelly with cream. 

Japan

300

Fascinated by this religion, the Danish writer Karl Gjellerup wrote the novel "The Kamanita Pilgrim" at the beginning of the last century. In Thailand, the book was even included in the school curriculum.

Buddhism

400

The projectiles are in front of you. Name the weapon. 

Crossbow 

400

In China, this flower is an essential attribute of the New Year, a symbol of joy, good luck, and a happy marriage. 

Daffodil 

400

This was the only letter Bobchinsky and Dobchinsky could initially pronounce when they saw Khlestakov in the tavern.

"E"

400

Of all traditional coffee drinks, it's the sweetest and most caloric. It's flavored with chocolate chips, chocolate syrup, or cocoa powder. 

Mocha

400

This classic Chinese novel is based on true events from ancient history—the struggles between the states of Wu, Shu, and Wei.

Romance of the Three Kingdoms

500

This iron helmet was one part of an entire suit of armor originally gifted to HIM by Maximilian I in 1514. Today, only the helmet survives. However, its freakish horned appearance has caused much confusion over the years.  

King Henry VIII

500

THIS Australian flower spends all stages of its life underground. It is even pollinated by termites, subterranean insects.

Rhizanthella gardneri

500

Ğ (G with breve), Ñ (N with tilde), Ü (U with diaerys), Ć (C with <...>) with a what?

cedilla

500

THIS was first created for a simple job: monitor a coffee pot. At the University of Cambridge, people wanted to see if coffee was ready without walking to the pot.

The first webcam

500

Examples of this genre include Richardson's "Clarissa," Goethe's "The Sorrows of Young Werther," and Dostoevsky's "Poor Folk."

Epistolary novel, letter novel

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