Bridges of the World
Fancy-Sounding Vocab
3 Types of Things
Who's in Control?
Bible Book by Quote
Mammal Knowledge
200
The Golden Gate Bridge connects this city to its northern suburbs
What is San Francisco?
200
Something attractively old-fashioned can be referred to with this Q-word
What is quaint?
200
Igneous, Sedimentary, Metamorphic
What are rocks?
200
Guam, since 1898
What is the United States?
200
Let my people go
What is Exodus?
200
This antlered five-letter beast of the forest is the largest member of the deer family
What is a moose?
400
The Oresund Bridge connects Sweden to this nation across the North Sea
What is Denmark?
400
This term for the middle class has been translated to French from the German word "burgus"
What is bourgeois (or bourgeoisie)?
400
Fandango, Lambada, Jitterbug
What are dances?
400
Guatemala, until 1821
What is Spain?
400
For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son
What is John?
400
In addition to Australia, kangaroos are native to Papua New Guinea and this archipelago nation it borders
What is Indonesia?
600
River spanned by the bridge seen here
What is the Thames?
600
This term means clear-headed or transparent; it can also describe a dream in which the dreamer becomes aware that he is dreaming
What is lucid?
600
Compound, Spiral, Hairline
What are fractures?
600
Alaska, until 1867
What is Russia?
600
Pride goeth before destruction
What is Proverbs?
600
It's what a whale breathes through
What is a blowhole?
800
In New York City, the Brooklyn Bridge crosses this directionally-named waterway
What is the East River?
800
This term for an extravagant exaggeration comes from the Greek for "above throw"
What is hyperbole?
800
Granny, Windsor, Bowline
What are knots?
800
Macao, until 1999
What is Portugal?
800
For many are called but few are chosen
What is Matthew?
800
A male deer can be referred to as a stag, a buck, or by this term, a homophone of a bodily organ
What is a hart?
1000
The Mackinac Bridge connects the two peninsulas of this U.S. state
What is Michigan?
1000
Foucault said of his pendulums that they do this O-word, swaying back and forth at a constant pace
What is oscillate?
1000
Nigiri, Maki, Inari
What is sushi?
1000
Congo, until 1960
What is Belgium?
1000
For the wages of sin is death
What is Romans?
1000
This southernmost island nation had no native land mammals until Polynesian settlers brought dogs and, inadvertently, rats that were stowed away on their ships
What is New Zealand?
1200
British POWs built a bridge of this river in Thailand in a famous 1957 film starring Alec Guiness
What is the River Kwai?
1200
This word meaning foolishly sentimental is derived from the name of Mary Magdalene in the Bible
What is maudlin?
1200
Kosher, Himalayan Pink, Celery
What is salt?
1200
Libya, until 1947
What is Italy?
1200
And ye shall eat the fat of the land
What is Genesis?
1200
Muskoxen live in colder regions, especially north of this imaginary line located at approximately 66 degrees north latitude
What is the Arctic Circle?
1400
According to song, people dance on a bridge in this city of southern France
What is Avignon?
1400
One who flatters himself for self-gain can be described by this adjective from the Greek for "revealer of figs"
What is sycophantic?
1400
Vinyasa, Bikram, Ashtanga
What is yoga?
1400
Saint Barthelemy, until 1898
What is Sweden?
1400
The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness
What is Isaiah?
1400
The African Buffalo was given this nickname by English explorers due to its aggressive nature
What is the widowmaker?