Geography
Flowing north through Egypt, this river is traditionally considered the longest in Africa.
What is the Nile?
Pixar’s 2008 film follows a lonely trash-compacting robot who falls for a probe named EVE.
What is WALL-E?
This city is the capital of Japan.
What is Tokyo?
An attacker is penalized under this rule if nearer the goal line than the second-last defender when the ball is played.
What is offside?
This popular pet is nicknamed “man’s best friend.”
What is a dog?
Covering about a third of Earth’s surface, this is the world’s largest ocean.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
Christopher Nolan’s 2010 thriller stars Leonardo DiCaprio as a thief who steals secrets by entering people’s dreams.
What is Inception?
Many assume Sydney, but this planned city is the capital of Australia.
What is Canberra?
Popularized by Guardiola’s Barcelona and Spain’s 2008-2012 teams, this style relies on short, quick passing and constant movement.
What is tiki-taka?
This small rodent is often kept with a running wheel and stores food in its cheek pouches.
What is a hamster?
Spanning much of North Africa, this is the largest hot desert in the world.
What is the Sahara?
In 2020, this South Korean film became the first non-English-language film to win Best Picture.
What is Parasite?
Not Istanbul, but this city has been the capital of Turkey since 1923.
What is Ankara?
Meaning “door-bolt” in Italian, this tactical system emphasizes a tight, defensive structure and counterattacks.
What is catenaccio?
Originally bred in Germany to hunt badgers, this long-bodied, short-legged breed is nicknamed the “wiener dog.”
What is a dachshund?
Lake Titicaca, the highest navigable lake in the world, is shared by Peru and this country.
What is Bolivia?
In a famous 2006 upset, this ensemble drama about racial tensions in Los Angeles beat Brokeback Mountain for Best Picture.
What is Crash?
In 2006, Myanmar’s government moved the capital from Yangon to this purpose-built city.
What is Naypyidaw?
Rinus Michels’ Ajax and the 1970s Netherlands teams were famous for this fluid system in which players freely swap positions.
What is Total Football?
Chocolate is toxic to dogs because it contains this stimulant compound.
What is theobromine?
Along with Uzbekistan, this European microstate is one of only two doubly landlocked countries.
What is Liechtenstein?
Julia Ducournau’s 2021 body-horror film won the Palme d’Or at Cannes.
What is Titane?
This West African city is the capital of Burkina Faso.
What is Ouagadougou?
Herbert Chapman’s 1930s Arsenal popularized this formation, whose name is taken from the letters its player shapes resemble.
What is the WM formation?
In Stanley Coren’s well-known ranking of dog intelligence, this herding breed comes first.
What is the Border Collie?