All around the World and Back Again
(Geography)
(Geography)
Covering more than one-eighth of Earth's inhabited land, this country houses the Ural Mountains and boasts the world's largest forest reserves.
What is Russia?
He went from bodybuilding champion to time-traveling living tissue over a metal endoskeleton.
Who is Arnold Schwarzenegger?
This layered Italian comfort food stacks pasta sheets, sauce, cheese, and often meat into a cheesy tower of joy.
What is lasagna?
This dwarf planet in the Kuiper Belt shares it name with a Roman god of the underworld.
What is Pluto?
This aquatic insect nymph is a voracious predator before maturing into a flying adult.
What is a dragonfly?
In Monopoly, it’s the priciest property on the board.
What is Boardwalk?
This U.S. president left office in 1974 — the only one to ever resign.
Who is Richard Nixon?
Flowing through Peru, Colombia, and Brazil, this river carries more water than any other in the world.
What is the Amazon River?
From a galaxy far far away to dodging boulders in "Raiders", this actor became the face of two blockbuster franchises.
Who is Harrison Ford?
Known as the “king of fruits” in Southeast Asia, this spiky fruit smells so strong it’s banned from some hotels.
What is durian?
This constellation, also referred to as the "Hunter" and is one of the easiest to spot in the winter night sky. It was also the cat's name in that Men in Black movie.
What is Orion?
This tiny jumper can leap over 200 times its body length — without a gym membership.
What is a flea?
This peg-based code-breaking game pits one player’s logic against another’s secret pattern.
What is Mastermind?
Known for their neon-colored workout gear, this 1980s fitness craze filled living rooms with leg warmers and headbands.
What is aerobics?
This landlocked African country is the only one with English as its official language and shares borders with Liberia, Guinea, and 2 other countries.
What is the Liberia?
While most crime shows focus on fingerprints or DNA, this series digs deep into skeletal remains to catch killers - pairing an brilliant anthropologist and her team with an FBI agent's intuition.
What is Bones?
Made from fermented apples, this beverage can be sweet or dry — and sometimes hard.
What is cider?
The first human to orbit the Earth was this Soviet cosmonaut in 1961.
This type of fly lays its eggs in living tissue, with larvae that feed on the host - a process myiasis.
What is a botfly?
In this classic 1980s arcade game, players control an amphibian trying to cross a busy road and a river.
What is Frogger?
In 1985, millions around the world this broadcasted charity concert, organized by Bob Geidof to raise money for famine relief in Africa. One of the featured bands was Queen.
What is Live Aid?
This mountain range divides Spain from France and hides the tiny nation of Andorra like a well-kept secret.
What are the Pyrenees?
Known for his wild hair and colorful suits, this TV host entertained millions on the Tonight Show from 1962 to 1992.
Who is Johnny Carson?
The salty base for traditional Japanese miso soup comes from fermented soybeans.
What is miso?
This bright star in the constellation Lyra is part of the "Summer Triangle" and one of the nearest visible stars to our planet.
What is the Vega?
This pest its notorious for infesting stored grains and flour, often hiding in cupboards?
What is a weevil?
In this competitive board game, players are chefs racing to complete recipes using ingredient cards and cooking tokens.
What is Kitchen Rush?
This 1960s invention changed how people listened to music on the go, using small tapes instead of vinyl records. Ego shouldn't never destroyed Star Lord's prized possession.
What is the Sony Walkman?
If lakes were currency, this country would be the richest in the world with more than half of Earth's natural lakes within its borders.
What is Canada?
Known for her role and especially her haircuts which became a 1990s sensation - almost as famous as the sitcom she starred in for 10 seasons.
Who is Jennifer Anniston?
A favorite of Ernest Hemingway, this Cuban cocktail mixes rum, lime juice, and sugar.
What is daiguiri?
This series of NASA missions aimed to explore the outer planets with flybys and continues to send back data decades later.
What is the Voyager program?
In the movie, "A bug's Life", Francis plays this a hot-tempered male insect. Ironically becomes ironically a den mother to the Blueberry Scouts.
What is a ladybug?
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Worth 10 points, this Scrabble tile is one of the hardest letters to place.
What is Q?
Set during the Korean War, this TV series blended comedy and drama for 11 seasons.
What is MAS*H?
Hugging both the Caspian Sea and the Persian Gulf, this nation enjoys a rare two-sea view.
What is Iran?
Known for his moustache, his pro Libertarian views, his pyramid of greatness among many others. This actor plays a fictional Pawnee citizen and anti-government government worker on a past popular NBC tv show.
Nick Offerman
Translating to “burnt cream,” this French dessert hides silky custard under a crisp caramelized sugar shell.
What is crème brûlée?
Larger than the planet Mercury, this moon of Saturn has lakes and seas made of methane.
What is Titan?
The Goliath birdeater isn’t actually a bird eater, but it does belong to this arachnid family.
What are tarantulas?
In this tabletop game challenges players to build settlements, trade resources, and construct roads. Beware the robber!
What is Settlers of Catan?
Before “E.T.” phoned home, this 1977 sci-fi epic held the crown as the highest-grossing film ever.
What is Star Wars?
This South American nation is landlocked yet manages to boast two capitals, La Paz and Sucre.
What is Bolivia?
Never give up - never surrender, this quote being a popular one used in this movie among many others. Alan Rickman, Sigourney Weaver, Tim Allen, and many more starred in this Star Trek parody.
What is Galaxy Quest?
The most expensive spice in the world by weight, it comes from the stigma of a purple crocus.
What is saffron?
Its name stemming from the word "Swan", this constellation is also home to the bright star Deneb and lies along the Milky Way's "Summer Triangle"?
What is Cygnus?
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The Anopheles mosquito is infamous for spreading this deadly disease.
What is malaria?
Widely hailed as one of the greatest games ever made, this 1998 title brought the land of Hyrule into 3D.
What is The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time?
This music songwriter and being his high school's valedictorian was very popular in the 80s before having his resurgence in the 2010s. He was known to rewrite and sing popular songs but only after he gotten the artist's approval.
Who is "Weird Al" Yankovic?
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Bordering both the Black Sea and the Aegean Sea, this country is known for its ancient ruins, vibrant bazaars, and being a bridge between Europe and Asia.
What is Turkey?
This South African-born actress completely trasformed to play serial killer Aileen Wuornos in “Monster.”
Who is Charlize Theron?
Made from traditional Sardinian sheep's milk, this soft-textured cheese may not be most appealing to look at despite its apparent great flavor given by live maggots that is left on top it.
What is Casu Marzu?
This bright blue star is the closest to the Solar System after the Sun and is part of a triple-star system.
What is Proxima Centauri?
The Anopheles mosquito is infamous for spreading this deadly disease.
What is the malaria?
Starting out as a Steam game, companies Ndemic Creations and Miniclip launched a kickstarter that turned this PC game into a board game where people can physically now evolve their deadly pathogens and wipe out humanity.
What is Plague Inc. Evolved?
Before “E.T.” phoned home, this 1977 sci-fi epic held the crown as the highest-grossing film ever.
Who are the Minnesota Vikings?