Dances
Containers
Devastations
Circles
Military terms of German origin
100

Famous Argentine partner dance that takes its origins in Rio de la Plata.

What is tango ?

100

Vessel used to serve infusions with boiled water (especially at 5o.clock in the UK).

What is a teapot ?

100

Japanese term designing a powerful and destructive series of waves.

What is a tsunami ?

100

Circular object inspired from the circle, used to move a structure.

What is a wheel ?

100

German term for a military tank.

What is a Panzer ?

200

Performance dance from the Italian Renaissance that developped in France and Russia for centuries, and that is practiced in the operas.

What is the ballet ?

200

Used to transport a traveler’s possessions during his journey.

What is a baggage, luggage or package ?

200

This German town bore the most destructive air attack of WW2 in Europe in February 1945.

What is Dresden ?

200

This term designs historical, political, economical, and social theories, designing an endless movement.

What is a cycle ?

200

German military tactic associated with a rapid use of a concentration force.

What is the Blitzkrieg ?

300

Afro-Brazilian music genre that takes its roots in Rio de Janeiro.

What is samba carioca ?

300

Huge closed vessel in which a fluid is heated.

What is a boiler ?

300

This Roman city was destroyed by the Vesuvius eruption in 79 BC along with Herculaneum, Stabiae and Oplontis.

What was Pompeii ?

300

Name given to a 3-dimensional object with the same form as a circle.

What is a sphere ?

300

German term to designate a bunker.

What is a Blockhaus ?

400

This US dance takes its origins from a town of southern Caroline and was popularized in the 1920s.

What is Charleston ?

400

Cooking pot originated in China.

What is a wok ?

400

This great US city was consumed and destroyed in October 1871.

What is Chicago ?

400

Name given to a mathematics problem impossible to solve, because of Pi, a transcendental number.

What is squaring the circle ?

400

German term designing an anti-tank weapon or a bazooka.

What is a Panzerfaust or Panzerschreck ?

500

US dance associated with swing dancing, which name was originally pejorative, and referring to the influence of alcohol.

What is jitterbug ?

500

Metal container used to heat and boil water in Russia.

What is a samovar ?

500

In 1755, an earthquake devastated this European town with heavy casualties.

What is Lisbon ?

500

According to this Greek mathematician, the area enclosed by a circle is equal to that of a triangle whose base is as long as the circle’s circumference.

Who is Archimedes ?

500

German name for a type of short range mine shell launcher, used during WW1.

What is a Minenwerfer ?