Forms of Communications
Capitonyms
Double NATO Phonetic Alphabet
Literal National Names
Greek Mythology
100

This tactile reading and writing system is used by blind and visually impaired individuals.

Braille

100

This is a common holiday food, this borders Syria.

turkey / Turkey

100

In other words, "Well done, Charles!".

Bravo Charlie

100

The Old Norse for “northern way” gives us the name of this Scandinavian country.

Norway

100

Son of Peleus and Thetis, this hero's one weak spot was the heel his mother held him by.

Achilles

200

In ancient China, soldiers along the Great Wall sent these signals on its beacon towers to warn one another of enemy invasion.

Smoke signals

200

This is a walk with regular, steady, and rhythmic steps, this is the first month of Spring.

march / March

200

The only Shakespeare play that fits this category.

Romeo and Juliet

200

Order a sling from this Asian city-state whose name is Malay for “lion city.”

Singapore

200

Born on Ithaca, this king took the long way home from Troy.

Odysseus

300

This is a telecommunications method which encodes text characters as standardized sequences of two different signal durations.

Morse code

300

This is the soft, granular material on the surface of the globe, and this is the globe.

earth / Earth

300

The soldiers that won the US Civil War wore this kind of clothing.

Yankee Uniform

300

Home to several silver mines, this country’s name is Italian for “silver coloured.”

Argentina

300

He is one of the three powerful brothers who overthrew their father, Cronus, and divided the cosmos by drawing straws, taking the oceans for himself.

Poseidon

400

This is a base-2 number system that uses only two digits, 0 and 1 to represent values, text, and computer instructions.

Binary

400

This may be the good cups you only bring out for special occasions, and this country only has a single time zone.

china / China

400

"The Old Course" at St. Andrews, Scotland is this kind of sporting accommodation.

Golf Hotel

400

Located at the western end of the Persian Gulf, its name means “fortress built near water.”

Kuwait

400

Identified in Roman mythology as Minerva, in Greek Myth she is the patron of today’s Greek capital.

Athena

500

Groups of deaf people have used these throughout history. One of the earliest written records of them is from the fifth century BC, in Plato's Cratylus.

Sign languages

500

The average person does this at 238 WPM silently, this is a town in Berkshire England.

reading / Reading

500

General Wolfe became one of these by winning the Battle of the Plains of Abraham.

Quebec Victor

500

A dragon appears on this country’s flag that borders China, its name translates to “Land of the Thunder Dragon” in the local language.

Bhutan

500

Daughter of the Titan Pallas and the river Styx, this winged goddess of victory shares her name with the world’s largest shoe company.

Nike