3 Letter Words
World Geography
Word Origins
World Records
Miscellaneous
100

A restaurant or tavern, or a small country hotel.

What is Inn

100

Over 58% of the world's population live in this continent.

What is Asia

100

This name for an earthenware beer mug is German for "stone."

What is Stein

100

In 1990, 393 of these were licked & affixed in 4 minutes by John Kenmuir of Scotland.

What is Stamps

100

The Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology has 35 complete skeletons of these extinct creatures.

What is Dinosaur

200

It's the type of machine that sends & receives copies of printed material over telephone lines.

What is Fax

200

Greenland is about 50 times as large as this country of which it is a province of.

What is Denmark

200

From the Latin for "hunger", it's a period when food is extremely scarce.

What is Famine

200

Alan McDonald of New Zealand machine-sheared 805 of these creatures in 9 hours in 1990.

What is Sheep

200

In 2001 Sweden & the U.S. honored this award's 100th anniversary with a set of postage stamps.

What is Nobel Prize

300

Word for John's anonymous last name, or a female deer.

What is Doe

300

It's the only mainland country in the Western Hemisphere that borders only one country.

What is Canada

300

Due to his affection for alcohol, Elwood Thomas Baker named this card game over two alcoholic spirits.

What is Gin Rummy

300

The world's largest "farm" for these fungi is in an abandoned limestone mine near Worthington, Penn.

What is Mushrooms

300

Used in martial arts, this hand weapon, 2 sticks joined by a cord or chain, is also called karate sticks.

What is Nunchucks

400

A water sprite in Germanic myth, or to cancel or veto.

What is Nix

400

Name one of the 9 mainland countries of the world through which the Equator passes.

What is Ecuador, Colombia, Brazil, Gabon, Congo, Zaire, Kenya, Somalia & Uganda

400

"Capsa", the Latin for box, gives us this word for a gelatin container that's filled with a dose of medicine.

What is Capsule

400

The shortest on record, lasting only 38 minutes in 1896, was between the United Kingdom & Zanzibar.

What is War

400

In May 1998 the Supreme Court gave 24.2 acres of this island to New Jersey & 3.3 acres of it to New York.

What is Ellis Island

500

There are more than 40 species of this conifer, including the 200-foot-tall noble.

What is Fir

500

Other than Antarctica, name one of the 2 continents without a landlocked country.

What is Australia & North America

500

The name of this dialect comes from a Hindi word, mantri, meaning "counselor."

What is Mandarin

500

The world's most poisonous venom comes from 1 of these animals, not from a snake.

What is Frog

500

This "Funny Girl" was just 19 when she made her Broadway debut in "I Can Get It for You Wholesale" in 1962.

Who is Barbra Streisand