North America
Known colloquially as HOMES, these natural landmarks help to bridge the gap between the United States and Canada.
What are the Great Lakes?
Every year in France, a competition is held to find the best producer of this traditional food, with stringent requirements around size, weight, and salt content.
What is a baguette?
Enjoyed worldwide, this agricultural product can be found growing in Colombia's Eje Cafetero, a UNESCO-designated World Heritage Site.
What are coffee beans?
This fancy feathered fellow is the official bird of India.
What is a peacock?
This Ohio musician not only helped popularize Industrial music with his band, Nine Inch Nails, but also scored music for movies such as The Social Network.
Who is Trent Reznor?
In 1916, Germany was one of the first countries to nationally implement this bi-annual shift.
What is Daylight Savings Time?
This meteorological event happens so often in Singapore, sometimes up to literally half of the year, that some news outlets have dubbed it the ______ Capital of the World.
What is lightning / what are thunderstorms?
This Mexican artist is known for her self-portraits, accounting for approximately a third of her body of work.
Who is Frida Kahlo?
Every July in Pamplona, Spain, the Fiesta de San Fermin includes this daily race to the plaza ahead of six bovine opponents.
What is the Running of the Bulls?
These Inuit-made cairns can be built in many different shapes to communicate something about the landscape to others who find them, and even features on the Nunavut flag.
What are inuksuit / what is an inukshuk?
Every March 1st in Wales, tradition dictates that girls wear daffodils and boys wear leeks on this national saint's day.
What is St. David's Day?
This māori dance is performed by New Zealand rugby teams before international matches.
What is a haka?
This oft-fatalistic aphorism was named after the Panama-born engineer who used it to guide his team's design work.
What is Murphy's Law?
Despite its name, this style of headwear originates in Ecuador, and not another South American country.
What is a Panama Hat?
More than 1000 kilometers long, most of California's population lives in the vicinity of this tectonic phenomenon.
What is the San Andreas Fault?
While not the national flower, many associate this flower with the Netherlands either due to the idiom-inspiring speculative bubble in the 1600s, or due to the part they've played in relations with Canada.
What is a tulip?
This photographic term, coined in Australia and showing up online as early as 2002, was named the Oxford English Dictionary's Word of the Year of 2013.
What is selfie?
This Chilean poet was known for his love poems, including the critically acclaimed collection Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair.
Who is Pablo Nerudo?
Located in Europe, the smallest country in the world only has a population of 800 people and is enclosed on all sides by Italy.
What is Vatican City?
This East Coast specialty, made of spiced beef with a sweet sauce, was named the official food of Halifax in 2015.
What is donair?
While named after its four founders, this Swedish pop group shares a name with a fish-canning factory.
What is ABBA?
Located in the Gujarat region of India, this 182m-tall sculpture of Sardar Patel is known as the tallest statue in the world.
What is the Statue of Unity?
At the Lankester Botanical Garden in Costa Rica, you can find 100s of varieties of this type of flower, including one purple type which was named the National Flower of Costa Rica in 1939.
What are orchids?
This Arctic archipelago is a part of the Kingdom of Norway, but is a visa-free zone and anyone can work and live there so long as they can support themselves.
What is Svalbard?