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The name of the primary equipment used in this sport means split piece of wood or firewood.
What is a ski?
Synonyms for these type of people: amicable, chummy, cordial, genial, and neighborly.
What is friendly?
An area completely surrounded by land; having no seaport or coastline.
What is landlocked?
When a drink is served at a social occasion, proper etiquette dictates that you postpone drinking until everyone is served and then say "Prost" or this word.
What is cheers?
Coffee, men and chocolate all have this in common.
What is they're all better rich?
Composed of two or four people, teams compete to complete a downhill route in the fastest times in this sport.
What is a bobsleigh?
A non-profit humanitarian organization that provides emergency assistance and disaster relief.
What is the Red Cross?
To do this is to observe or check on something for a specified period of time.
What is to keep watch?
Traditionally, losing a piece of bread while eating this dish is penalized by buying a round of drinks, singing a song or running around in the snow naked.
What is fondue?
This has two banks but no money.
What is a river?
This ride is often controlled by its occupant by a centrifugal brake.
What is an alpine coaster?
Established after WWII, this intergovernmental organization's stated purpose is to maintain international peace and security.
What is the United Nations?
According to current estimates, approximately 60% of the world's population speak more than one language or are 'this' term.
What is multilingual?
A cold breakfast dish, composed of mostly oats, which is set to soak overnight and eaten the next morning.
What is muesli?
This has roots as nobody sees,
Is taller than trees,
Up, up it goes,
And yet never grows.
What is a mountain?
A configuration in which two carriages move synchronously; as one ascends, the other descends at equal speed.
What is a funicular
He won the Nobel Prize in 1921 for his explanation of the photoelectric effect.
Who is Albert Einstein?
This is a form of wood-working by means of a chisel or cutting tool, resulting in a wood figure or figurine.
What is wood-carving?
This spirit is made by slowly distilling alcohol with botanicals like anise, wormwood and fennel for a licorice flavor.
What is Absinthe?
I can bring tears to your eyes, resurrect the dead, make you smile and reverse time. I form in an instant but I last a lifetime.
What is a memory?
An art movement that developed in reaction to World War I. Its artists rejected the logic, reason and aestheticism of modern capitalist society.
What is Dada or Dadaism?
This association has been involved in several high profile controversies, such as the Russian doping scandal.
What is the International Olympics Committee (IOC)?
A chemical reaction in which an acid and a base react quantitatively with each other.
What is neutralization?
The term for herbivorous mammals (e.g., cows) that can obtain nutrients from plant-based food by fermenting it in a specialized stomach before digestion.
What are ruminants?
A grandfather clock chimes to indicate the hour, as well as once on every quarter-hour. If you were in another room and hear the clock chime just once, this is the longest period of time you would have to wait to be certain of the correct time.
What is 90 minutes (between 12:15 and 1:45)? Once you've heard 7 chimes, you would know the next chimes would be 2 o'clock.