Around the World
2-Word Responses
Three Cheers for the Red, White
If You Watch the Movie Backwards
Words with Friends
100

Though it’s a country, with embassies & everything, its population is only about 800.

Vatican City

100

George Washington is entombed on the grounds of this mansion.

Mount Vernon

100

It features a leaf of the genus Acer.

Canada

100

In this 1975 film a sea creature spends his summer spitting up swimmers & boaters off Amity Island.

Jaws

100

This word for a stupid or gullible person contains a “chum” of yours.

Chump

200

Chile & Colombia both use currencies called this.

Peso

200

This geyser was named for its predictability in 1870.

Old Faithful

200

It displays a symbol for first aid.

Switzerland

200

This title guy loses a title fight & breaks up with his girlfriend, who moves back in with her brother & works in a pet shop.

Rocky

200

You’ll find a dear “crony” in this type of word formed from the initial letters of other words.

Acronym

300

The 4 most spoken languages in the world are Mandarin Chinese, English, Spanish & this other Asian one.

Hindi

300

Description of high-end liquor or perhaps its harder-to-reach placement.

Top-Shelf

300

It features a single G2 V dwarf star.

Japan

300

In this film, the arrival of dead major leaguers causes a home-owner to tear up his baseball field & plant some corn.

Field of Dreams

300

You’ve got a “bud” in this official who mediates between private citizens & the government.

Ombudsman

400

Japan’s 2 largest islands, they both start with the same letter.

Honshu & Hokkaido

400

In 1938 Seabiscuit had a match race against this Triple Crown winner with a military name.

War Admiral

400

One of the world’s oldest, it dates from 1219 & inspired other Scandinavian flags.

Denmark

400

Despite making a great sack for Notre Dame, a player is forced to toil solely on the practice squad for years in this pic.

Rudy

400

Someday you’ll get used to this word meaning “to adapt”; it features a “mate” of yours.

Acclimate

500

This “passage” named for an explorer separates South America from Antarctica.

The Drake Passage

500

This Italian cruise ship was hijacked on October 7, 1985.

The Achille Lauro

500

It’s a former Soviet republic just east of the Black Sea.

Georgia

500

This actor reattaches his severed arm, sticks it under a boulder, then ascends up a canyon to safety.

James Franco

500

You’ve got a “pal” in this adjective that means able to be felt by touch.

Palpable