The ancient "Father of History" aka "Father of Lies", Herodotus said in India, ants bigger than foxes dig for this precious metal
gold
Blake Shelton got the perfect person to duet with on "Nobody but You"--this woman
Gwen Stefani
Made up of 5 islands off this continent, Flandrensis says it's the only country that doesn't want its land inhabited by people
Antartica
As a German colony from 1884 to World War I, Cameroon was spelled starting with this letter
K
The Caribbean has lost more than 50% of these structures due to problems like overfishing, pollution & thermal stress
(coral) reefs
Many historians doubt that Herodotus visited Egypt, but he still gave a detailed description of this embalming process
mummification
In a collaboration with the late Juice Wrld, this Detroit man rapped, "I can swallow a bottle of alcohol & I'll feel like Godzilla"
Eminem
In 2015 unclaimed land in the former Yugoslavia on a bank of this large "blue" river became the Free Republic of Liberland
the Danube
In 2015 a statue of this British colonialist & founder of Zimbabwe was removed from the University of Cape Town
Cecil Rhodes
Topped a year-round ski slope, CopenHill is a waste-to-energy plant in this European nation
Denmark
Herodotus wrote that this ancient capital on the Euphrates was so big it had 100 gates (it had 8)
Babylon
We'd listen to "Blinding Lights", a chart-topper by this man, any day
the Weeknd
For less than $700, you can become a duke or duchess in the U.K. breakaway country of Sealand in this directional sea
the North Sea
The Dutch first took over both Aruba & this "B" island in 1636
Bonaire
In 1893 this genius made a copper egg stand on end by using his rotating magnetic field device to rapidly spin it
Nikola Tesla
Skeptical for once, Herodotus doubted the accuracy of this poem, questioning why Greeks would fight for so long over one woman
The Iliad
Arizona Zervas, you don't have to put on the red light to tell us about this title woman--"all she wanna do is party all night"
Roxanne
For nearly 150 years, the tiny republic of Parva Domus has existed in the south of this Uruguayan capital
Montevideo
As head of the Darien colony, he led a march across the Isthmus of Panama to the Pacific in 1513
Balboa
A common measure of walking was coined when a Japanese company called its pedometer the Manpo-kei, or this many steps "meter"
10,000 steps
Herodotus claimed that only 192 Greeks were killed but 6,400 of these invading foes died at the Battle of Marathon... hmmm
the Persians
"Classy, bougie, ratchet" & "sassy, moody, nasty", says this No. 1 hit by Megan Thee Stallion
"Savage"
The principality of Seborga in Liguria claims independence, asserting it was not legally annexed by this country
Italy
Robert Clive led this company that had a quarter million men army; so, the Cliver Museum benefitted with lots of Mughal artifacts
the East India Company
In 2018 scientists discovered Przewalski's this animal is not truly wild but was once domesticated over 5,000 years ago
a horse