Science
Largest blood vessel in the body.
What is the Aorta?
In India's West Bengal state & in Bangladesh this great river is known as the Padma.
What is the Ganges?
The first 3 letters in this study of animals is a place you'd find a lot of 'em.
What is zoology?
This mountain range gets more snow than the Swiss alps.
What is the Australian Alps?
This waterfall is on the Iguacu River.
What is the Iguacu waterfall?
First discovered of the 8 DNA bases, found in animal dung, hence its name.
What is Guanine?
This capital on the island of Java is sometimes spelled with a D at the beginning.
What is Jakarta?
Term for a violent cyclone in the Western Pacific.
What is a typhoon?
Much like an iceberg, 2.5 km of this large rock lies below the surface.
What is Uluru?
In 1452 Leonardo da Vinci was born near a small Tuscan hill town called this.
What is Vinci?
Iron is Fe not Ir which belongs to this metallic element impervious to almost all acids.
What is Iridium?
South America's most arid region is this desert in northern Chile.
What is The Atacama?
This word can precede -proof stripping, bureau, or channel.
What is weather?
Australia has over 60 “blank” regions, having to do with this alcoholic beverage.
What is Wine?
The thoroughbred racehorse Man O' War lost only one race: a 1919 upset to a horse named this.
What is Upset?
An appliance marked 1000 watts & 250 volts requires a current of this many amps.
What is 4?
At the beginning of World War I this was the only independent nation in West Africa.
What is Liberia?
As a noun it can be a heroic act or deed; as a verb it means to take unfair advantage of someone.
What is exploit?
Australia has the largest this, measuring over 850 miles long.
What is a golf course?
What the British call a jumper, we call this type of sweater that you pull over your head.
What is a pullover?
Antlers are grown & shed annually so they're classified as this just like certain trees that lose their leaves every year.
What is Deciduous?
Ushuaia the world's southernmost city is located on the Argentine part of this island.
What is Tierra del Fuego?
7 letter word for an underground water reservoir.
What is an aquifer or a cistern?
Australia's Capital city, Canberra, means "________" in Aborigine and was named that because the city is cradled between two mountains.
What is "Woman's Cleavage"?
Tragedy befalls Roberta Alden when she ends up pregnant & dead in this novel an American classic.
What is An American Tragedy?