Organization acronyms
Established by the United Nations, the ICJ is the International Court of ______, a concept that is often represented by balanced scales.
What is Justice?
This type of wood is named for its fragrant smell, and it is used for musical instruments, furniture, and much more.
What is rosewood?
Fruits that are this colour include apricots, persimmons, and of course, the fruit this colour was named for.
What is orange?
The tri- prefix in trivia refers to this number, also found in triathlon and tricycle.
What is three?
This word can mean a fishing rod, the northernmost and southernmost regions of the Earth, and the opposite points of a magnet.
What is pole?
IUPAC, the International Union for Pure and Applied ________, approved the names of four new elements in 2016.
What is chemistry?
This is a role played by a person who presents the case against a defendant in court. It is also called the Crown in Canada.
What is the prosecutor?
This colour has many definitions, and its synonyms include “verdant,” “inexperienced,” and “energy-efficient.”
What is green?
This Canadian board game in which players answer questions from six categories has a name meaning “unimportant activity.”
What is Trivial Pursuit?
This word can describe a collection of books, a set of sports games, and a type of circuit.
What is series?
The UIC is the International Union of this transport type, which literally translates from French as “paths of iron.”
What are railroads/railways?
This amount of time is equivalent to one millionth of a second and contains a Greek prefix meaning "small."
What is a microsecond?
This colour can make idioms or phrases with the words flag, tape, or carpet.
What is red?
In the first episode of Jeopardy, the answer to the final question was this American holiday, which has been celebrated on the third Monday of every January since 1986. The day celebrates the birth of a central figure in the civil rights movement.
What is Martin Luther King Jr. Day?
This word is used to describe molten rock bursting from the ground, rashes appearing on skin, and new teeth growing through gums.
What is eruption?
With member countries including Canada, Iceland, and Spain, NATO is the ______ ______ Treaty Organization, named for this marine area.
What is the North Atlantic?
This chemical is the end product of photosynthesis, also known as table sugar.
What is sucrose?
When written out, the name of this colour appears to be made of two words describing what someone might do after stubbing their toe.
What is yellow?
This subject, known in Greek as logos, was considered part of the trivium in the Middle Ages, along with grammar and rhetoric.
What is logic?
This word is a type of payment, a type of quark, and a type of feather.
What is down?
A-WEB is the Association of World ______ Bodies, and their slogan “Democracy to Grow for All Worldwide” represents their members’ goals in managing this type of event.
What are elections?
Also known as paraffin, this petroleum product was once used in lamps and is now used as jet fuel.
What is kerosene?
Although it's relatively rare in nature, this is the colour of hyacinth macaws and cornflowers.
What is blue?
“Her shoe disdains the street: the lady fair/With narrow step affects a limping air.”
The above pair of lines from the 1716 poem “Trivia: or, The Art of Walking the Streets of London” is an example of this unit of poetry, often found at the ends of sonnets.
What is a couplet?
This word can mean a type of chemical reaction, the process of combining two sentences into one, or the stage in Hegelian philosophy after thesis and antithesis.
What is synthesis?