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This tiny country is only about 0.2 square miles in size, making it the world’s smallest country.
What is Vatican City?
This naturally occurring element, once known as the “king of poisons,” was famously used in Victorian murder plots.
What is arsenic?
This document, signed in 1215, was one of the first to limit the power of a king.
What is the Magna Carta?
This Spanish dance is known for its clapping, guitar rhythms, and dramatic movements.
What is the flamenco?
This starship explores the final frontier in Star Trek.
What is the USS Enterprise?
This unit of length is used to measure atoms and molecules. It's incredibly tiny—one billionth of a meter.
What is a nanometer?
This highly toxic substance, found in some castor beans, was used in political assassinations and biochemical warfare.
What is ricin?
This ancient civilization is credited with creating the first written language, known as cuneiform.
What is Sumer (or the Sumerians)?
This graceful movement in ballet means "to bend" and is often the first step dancers learn.
What is plié?
This planet is the sandy home of Luke Skywalker in Star Wars.
What is Tatooine?
This U.S. capital city has the smallest population of any state capital.
What is Montpelier, Vermont? (Only 8,000 people)
You should never eat the seeds of this common fruit because they contain cyanide.
What is an apple? will also accept cherries, peaches, and plums
This country was the first to grant women the right to vote, in 1893.
What is New Zealand?
This German folk dance often done at Oktoberfest is also known as “the clap dance.”
What is the Schuhplattler?
This place is the Norse afterlife where brave warriors go after death.
What is Valhalla?
This unit of length is used to measure atoms and molecules. It's incredibly tiny—one billionth of a meter.
What is a nanometer?
Nicknamed “deadly nightshade,” this plant has been used as both poison and cosmetic.
What is belladonna?
This was the first city in the world to reach a population of 1 million people.
What is Rome?
This energetic Russian dance involves crouching and kicking out your legs.
What is the Prisyadka?
This mythical island is home to the wizard Merlin in Arthurian legend.
What is Avalon?
This is the smallest bone in the human body, found in the ear.
What is the stapes?
The rosary pea contains this deadly protein toxin, more lethal than ricin.
What is abrin?
He was the first human to travel into space in 1961.
Who is Yuri Gagarin?
This traditional dance from Greece is done in a circle and gets faster and faster.
What is the Zorba Dance or Sirtaki?
This legendary island is said to be a paradise, often described as “the land of the blessed” in Greek mythology.
What is Elysium (or the Elysian Fields)?