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Istanbul's new Airport was inspired by the shape of this flower.
What is a tulip?
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What is overnight/frozen rice?
The only Asian language isolate which has been designated a national language.
What is Korean?
The minimum lethal dose of Arsenic in Humans. (In Miligrams of Arsenic per Kilogram of Human, or mg*kg^-1)
What is 2?
The result of the emu war.
What is loss?
(2x points for exact answer)
The Imperial Palaces in these two cities are the most prominent examples of Traditional Chinese architecture like Double Eave Hip Roofs. They are currently listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. (Points for each correct city)
What is Beijing and Shenyang?
It is the liquid Beef Bourguignon is braised in, alongside beef stock.
What is Red Wine?
The language with the word: epäjärjestelmällistyttämättömyydellänsäkäänköhä
(No deductions for wrong answers)
(Bonus points for defining it)
What is Finnish?
The position recommended for unconscious victims awaiting medical assistance. Often used on victims of drowning.
What is the recovery position?
The city furthest south that the North Korean KPA ever pushed UN forces to.
What is Busan?
During the first four decades of the modern Olympic Games, Medals were awarded for painting, sculpture, literature, architecture and this category. The one caveat: every submission had to be sports-related.
What is music?
Food is made "a la minute"
What is cooking from scratch when the order is received?
(Or other words to that effect)
The use of the name of one thing to represent something related to it (e.g. Using "The Press" to represent Journalists)
What is Metonymy?
The diseases the MenACWY vaccine prevents.
(Mark for each correct answer)
What is meningitis and/or septicaemia?
A man whose assassination precipitated Austro-Hungary declaring war on Serbia, causing World War I.
Who is Franz Ferdinand?
The Guggenheim Museum in New York is the permanent home of an ever-expanding collection of Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, early Modern and contemporary art. Its primary structure takes the shape of this geometrical form. (Double points for the exact shape)
What is a Cylinder/What is a Conical Frustum?
It is an integral ingredient for the Vietnamese dish "thịt chó xáo măng", where it is stir fried and simmered with bamboo shoots.
What is dog meat?
A sign, which when written above or below a letter, indicates a different pronounciation. (e.g. ñ)
What is a diacritic?
Colloquially referred to as fluffy, or having a Milwaukee Goiter.
What is an obese patient?
The European nation that switched from Neutrality to Allied during World War I
What is Greece?
This iconic Asian structure was traditionally used as a Buddhist Reliquary (Container for Holy Relics), but its architectural style varied greatly based on its country of residence.
In East Asia, this building was predominantly built out of wood, and almost always contained an odd number of floors.
In Southeast Asia, they were mostly based on Dravidian Architecture, and are often rock-cut or made from brick.
In the Western World, it's has now been adapted to refer to all tower-like structures.
What is a Pagoda?
The only one of the five french mother sauces that doesn't start with a roux. A roux is the glorified name for flour mixed with fat, used as a thickening agent such that the base sauce sticks to and coats food.
(The five base sauces will be listed once an incorrect attempt has been made)
What is Hollandaise Sauce?
A country, where in the 1928 Alphabet reform, abandoned Arabic script for a new one based on Latin.
(No deduction for wrong answers)
What is Turkey?
About 125ml of this liquid can kill a human being.
(No deduction)
What is antifreeze?
The first country annexed by Hitler in WWII
What is Austria?