Acronyms
NASA
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
This animal is the only mammal besides the platypus to lay eggs.
Echidna
This country maintains a strategic reserve of maple syrup.
Canada
This obelisk is found east of the Reflecting Pool and Lincoln Memorial.
Washington Monument
This music star's single gloves have regularly sold for hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Michael Jackson
COLA
Cost of Living Adjustment
This animal is the State Animal of California.
Grizzly bear.
A storied debate between France and this country has been waged over the origin of French fries.
Belgium
This iconic structure might make you feel a bit off kilter while visiting Italy.
Leaning Tower of Pisa
This late leader has often been derided for his short stature despite his average height.
Napoleon
NATO
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
This iconic animal has only four individuals loaned to zoos in the United States.
Pandas
Despite fireworks' importance to traditional American holidays and celebrations, fireworks were invented in this country.
China
This famous cathedral shares a name with a prominent United States university.
Notre Dam
This natural narrator of nature was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II as Knight Bachelor in 1985, and received the Knight Grand Cross in 2022.
Sir David Attenborough
FEDVIP
Federal Employees Dental and Vision Insurance Program
You might know it by its color, this whale is the largest animal to have ever existed.
Blue whale.
This country is the smallest in the world with only around 880 residents.
Vatican City
This now iconic European landmark constructed in 1889 was originally hated for its garish design and disruption of the cityscape.
Eiffel Tower
This Communist leader was the subject of allegedly 634 assassination schemes and plots, though it is unlikely that most were ever attempted.
Fidel Castro
UNESCO
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization
This Australian mammal is known to retreat to water and attempt to drown animals and people if it feels threatened.
Kangaroo.
This country is home to the deepest lake in the world, with a volume greater than all of the North American Great Lakes combined.
Russia
In 2005, NASA calculated that the shift of water mass stored by these dams would increase the length of Earth's day by 0.06 microseconds.
Three Gorges Dam
This President was the first to serve two non-consecutive terms.
(Stephen) Grover Cleveland