Myths and legends
This creature from Greek mythology turned you to stone if you looked it in the eye.
This nursery rhyme features a wolf disguised as a grandma.
What is Little Red Riding Hood?
In Doctor Who, this single made-up word describes the Doctor's time-travelling machine.
What is TARDIS?
This ancient amphitheatre in Rome could hold up to 80,000 spectators and hosted gladiatorial combat.
What is the Colosseum?
The 'ugly duckling' actually turned out to be one of these water-dwelling birds.
What is a swan?
In Greek myth, this king's touch turned everything to gold — including his own daughter.
Who is King Midas?
Known as the "grandmother of Europe," this British Queen had nine children and 42 grandchildren who married into various royal houses.
Who is Queen Victoria?
This is the term for a word that reads the same forwards and backwards.
What is a Palindrome?
This iconic white marble mausoleum is located in Agra, India.
What is the Taj Mahal?
This organ of a bird's digestive system is where food is ground up and digested.
What is the gizzard?
This half-man, half-bull creature was kept in a labyrinth on the island of Crete.
What is the minotaur?
This actress played the royal grandmother, Queen Clarisse Renaldi in 'The Princess Diaries'.
Who is Julie Andrews?
This single Latin word, traditionally said by magicians, is thought to derive from the Aramaic phrase meaning "I will create as I speak."
What is abracadabra?
This San Francisco bridge is famous for its red color and suspension design.
What is the Golden Gate Bridge?
Bell, bone, boot and ball are all shapes of this popular fast food chain menu item.
What are chicken McNuggets?
According to Roman myth, these twin brothers were raised by a she-wolf before founding the most powerful city in the ancient world.
Who are Romulus and Remus?
This actress plays 'Grammy' in the movie 'The Proposal'.
Who is Betty White?
This is the collective noun for a group of lions.
What is a pride?
This 15th-century Incan city was built in the Andes Mountains of Peru.
What is Machu Picchu?
This French phrase, literally meaning "rooster of the wine," is a classic Burgundian dish of chicken slow-cooked in red wine.
What is Coq au Vin?
Jason and the Argonauts went in search of this mythical object.
What is The Golden Fleece?
The spellbinding matriarch, Samantha Stephen's mother in 'Bewitched'.
Who is Endora?
This Greek word for "hidden writing" describes the practice of concealing messages within ordinary text.
What is cryptography?
This 2,500-year-old temple atop a hill in Athens was dedicated to the goddess of wisdom and still draws millions of visitors despite being largely in ruins.
What is the Parthenon?
Another name for the 'whites' in an egg.
What is albumen?