World Leaders
He reigned from 1066 to 1087 and one of those years should really help you
Who is William the Conqueror?
Sinterklaas arrives via boat from Spain (where he lives the rest of the year, why not?) & parades through this Dutch capital
What is Amsterdam?
Countries with flags of only these two colors include Greece and Honduras
What are blue and white?
To identify the nature of a person's illness
What is diagnose?
In Cuba
What is Spanish?
This first president of Russia famously lost a finger playing catch with a grenade
Who is Boris Yeltsin?
The Grinch stole all the presents from this town.
What is Whoville?
Europe's oldest, the university of this "meaty" Italian city was founded in 1088
What is Bologna?
It can mean to present the way something works, or to publicly protest
What is demonstrate?
In Egypt
What is Arabic?
In 2003 it all came crashing down around him, including his statue on April 9th
Who is Saddam Hussein?
In 1810 the N.Y. Historical Society drew up a picture of this saint giving gifts but he wears a robe &--whoa whoa whoa!--is bald
Who is Saint Nicholas?
The only land border between the Netherlands and France is on this 34-square-mile Caribbean island split between them
What is Saint Martin?
It can mean to work jointly on a scientific activity; or, in wartime, to cooperate traitorously with an enemy
What is to collaborate?
In Benin
What is French?
Nicknamed "Uncle", this Communist was a leader in Vietnam from 1945 to 1969
Who is Ho Chi Minh?
Not sparing it to spoil the child in "The Children's Friend" in 1821, Santa left parents "a long, black birchen" this to use
What is the rod?
St. Petersburg was once called Leningrad; similarly, Volgograd was once called by this name
What is Stalingrad?
Samuel Taylor Coleridge defended this then-new verbs, saying that to "render intense" just didn't work
What is intensify?
On Cyprus, these TWO languages
What is Turkish and Greek?
Populr in 37 AD, this man whose name means "Little Boot" was sent walking 4 years later
Who is Caligula?
In an old print ad, Santa says a gift bringing "pleasure to every home...is rare indeed. Such a gift, my friends, is Lucky Strike"--these
What are cigarettes?
A memorial that depicts an albatross on this Chilean cape is dedicated to the sailors who lost their lives in the Southern Ocean
What is Cape Horn?
This four-letter verb means "to beget"; use it as a noun when addressing a king
What is sire?
In Brunei, this language of a nearby peninsula
What is Malay?