I have Eyes for Islands
Island has a silent s; but pronounce it, and you get this island, home to 400,000 people.
What is Iceland?
Sweets covered in quartz dust.
What is sandy candy?
From the Latin for field, this term denotes the area around a school.
What is a campus?
1862: Victor Hugo publishes this epic about the French Revolution.
What are Les Misérables?
It can be denoted with a cross, dot, star, or not at all.
What is multiplication?
These two islands of New Zealand don't actually have official names in the country's register.
What are North and South Island?
A yearly instruction book.
What is an annual manual?
Literally meaning "with the same blood," this generic word for a relative describes the relationship between most of the people here.
What is a cousin?
1825: This waterway is completed and promotes New York as the major harbor of America.
What is the Erie Canal?
Any set of rules that represent a scenario.
What is a model?
Darwin certainly had an eye for this archipelago, containing San Cristóbal, Santa Cruz, and Isabela.
What are the Galápagos?
An attractive person covered in tied strings.
What is a knotty hottie?
This term for very old shares a common root with a type of poker bet.
What is ancient?
(Shares root with ante)
1895: Wilhelm Röntgen identifies this form of light named after the spots it might mark.
What are X-Rays?
Fancy name for a two-dimensional grid of numbers.
What is a matrix?
Sapporo, the world's snowiest city, is located on this island.
What is Hokkaido?
Groups where one could study eyewear.
What are glasses classes?
One of the most commonly loaned words in the world, this board game is named after the King of Persia.
What is chess? (Named after the "Shah")
1893: New Zealand becomes the first country to allow this kind of people to vote. (Though Wyoming and New Jersey beat it by almost a century.)
Who are women?
What is modulo?
(Also accept modulus)
This island has 140 of the world's countries and is the largest on Earth.
What is Afro-Eurasia?
Little-known facts about one of two landlocked South American countries.
What is Bolivia trivia?
This explosive substance is named after its creator, John Cassell; though a cheap knock-off replaced the C with a G to get around trademark laws.
What is gasoline?
1885: This U.S. general/prez died of throat cancer. When asked if he wanted anything, he responded "water," as his last words.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
Any function that is not one-to-one; that is, it has more than one value for some input.
What is multivalued?