Africa
Three Syllables
Language
World History
Assorted, Mixed, and Random
200

This small, rectangular country is situated in West Africa, with a capital at Accra.

What is Ghana?

200

The city of a country where centralized government is located (e.g London, Paris, or Dhaka).

What is a capital?

200

This is the language that this question is written in.

What is English?

200

This war was once called "the war to end all wars." Fought globally, but primarily in Europe, this conflict pitted Germany, Austro-Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire against many nations known as the Allies. Trench and chemical warfare were primarily used in this conflict beginning in 1914.

What is World War 1?

200

This domain, a classification in taxonomic ranking, contains all multicellular organisms- even humans.

What is Eukaryotes?

400

The name of the world's largest non-frozen desert, located in Africa.

What is the Sahara?

400

This state to the north of Massachusetts has a coastline along the Atlantic and a capital at Concord. It has a somewhat jagged triangular shape.

What is New Hampshire?

400

This is the primary language spoken in Austria and Germany.

What is German?

400

This massive country situated in East Asia has the largest population on Earth, the second largest economy, and dynastic history stretching back thousands of years.

What is China?

400

This furry, mostly friendly animal, speculated to be the first domesticated by humans, has thousands of breeds across the world.

What is a dog?

600

This country has a capital at Cairo, has possession of the Sinai peninsula, and was once the home of an ancient civilization situated on the banks of the Nile- a similar question is elsewhere!

What is Egypt?

600

The largest planet in our solar system, with the infamous great red spot storm that still rages today.

What is Jupiter?

600

Parlez-tu cette langue? C'est Francais!

This language is primarily spoken in West Africa and Europe, and is an official language of the province of Quebec in Canada.

What is French?

600

Humans are thought to have originated from this continent that is linked to Asia by the Sinai peninsula, and is separated from Europe by the Mediterranean sea. One of the world's first civilization's was located along the banks of the Nile river on this continent.

What is Africa?

600

 3 halves times 2 thirds.

What is 6/6?

800

This is one of the world's largest rainforests, situated just below a massive desert.  Two countries are named after it, one of which was originally a colony of Belgium years ago.

What is the Congo?

800

Groups of atoms, or elements, that form substances (e.g H2O or C6H1206).

What is a molecule?

800

This is the language spoken in Earth's only officially Jewish nation. It is also used while reading the Torah.

What is Hebrew?

800

This religion which shaped much of the Middle East and North Africa's history was started in the city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, by the prophet Muhammed. It is the fastest growing religion in the world and uses a white crescent as its symbol.

What is Islam?

800

This band is thought to be one of the pioneers of heavy metal, with hits such as 1971's "Iron Man" and "Paranoid". Their first lead singer, Ozzy Osbourne, went on to have a successful solo career after his departure from the band in 1979.

What is Black Sabbath?

1000

Algeria, Mauritania, Burkina Faso, and the majority of West Africa were colonized by this European colonial power that also had territory on the Indochinese peninsula.

What is France?

1000

The religious center of Catholicism, an independent nation entirely enclosed by Italy with the smallest population of any country on Earth.

What is the Vatican?

1000

Linguists and historians use this language group's modern languages to decode ancient ones like Babylonian or others in the Mesopotamian region. It contains one of the most widely-spoken languages on Earth in Arabic, and also the language of Hebrew.

What is Afro-Asiatic?

1000

This country gained its independence from the British Empire with the resistance movements led by Mahatma Gandhi- it separated from the modern country of Pakistan at the time as well.

What is India?

1000

A colorful term for an intentionally misleading item in a mystery, clue, or problem.

What is a red herring?