The Olympics
German loanwords
Rivers
Home appliances
Stupid movie quotes
200

The ancient Olympic Games were held annually in Greece in honor of this Greek god.

Who is Zeus?

200

A breed of small long dog

What is dachshund?

200

The subject of a famous waltz, this river flows through nine countries in Central and Eastern Europe.

What is the Danube?

200

This brand of autonomous robotic vacuum cleaner, sold by iRobot, has now become synonymous with its type of product.

What is Roomba?

200

"It's course and rough and gets everywhere. Not like here. Here everything is soft and smooth."

What is Star Wars: Attack of the Clones?

400

The motto of the Olympic Games is ‘Citius, Altius, Fortius', which means this in Latin.

What is 'Faster, Higher, Stronger'?

400

A sandwich shop that sells cheese and meat

What is delicatessen?

400

The Amazon's largest aquatic predator is also the heaviest snake in the world, this.

What is the green anaconda?

400

Chemicals known as chlorofluorocarbons, or CFCs where used in these kitchen appliances until the 1990s when they were banned due to damaging the ozone layer.

What are refrigerators?

400

"I love magic."

What is Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire?

600

Following an invasion of Afghanistan, the 1980 Olympics held in this city was famously boycotted by 66 countries.

What is Moscow?

600

A mischievous ghost

What is poltergeist?

600

This is formed when a deposition seals off a very pronounced meander from the rest of a river after it starts taking a more direct route.

What is an oxbow lake?

600

The idea for this home appliance came when Percy Spencer noticed the chocolate in is pocket melted after testing radiation-producing magnetrons.

What is the microwave oven?

600

"My face is my warrant."

What is Transformers: Age of Extinction?

800

The American swimmer Johnny Weissmuller won five gold medals over two Olympics before becoming an actor and playing this wild man in 1938.

Who is Tarzan?

800

A large airship (Hint: not blimp)

What is zeppelin?

800
The Three Gorges Dam is the largest hydroelectric dam in the world and sits atop this river.

What is the Yangtze?

800

Batteries have three main parts: the electrolyte, the anode, and this.

What is the cathode?

800

"There's something going on in there, biologically."

What is Avatar?

1000

This French baron is widely considered to be the father of the modern Olympics.

Who is Pierre de Coubertin?

1000

The cultural climate or 'spirit' of an age

What is zeitgeist?

1000

The brother of a certain Joker actor, this River played Chris Chambers in the 1986 movie Stand By Me.

Who is River Phoenix?

1000

Fan death is a common belief in this country which states that being in an unventilated room with an electric fan will cause death.

What is South Korea?

1000

"Love can't save you now...only my new powers can do that!"

What is Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith?