The Cat's Meow
Religion Founders
The Cold War
Starts with "L"
Turkey!
100

This fantastic feline facial feature allows cats to feel whether or not an opening is large enough to fit the rest of their bodies through.

Whiskers

100

His death in 632 A.D. led to a dispute over whether Abu Bakr or Ali was his true successor.

The prophet Muhammad

100

When Kennedy referred to "that imprisoned island" during his televised address to the nation in October of 1962, he was talking about this tropical nation.

Cuba

100

One of the tallest ones ever built was about 400 feet high, and it has guided ships for 1500 years.

Lighthouse

100

Because Turkey's largest body of water, Lake Van, has this quality, its only animal life is a fish called the darekh.

High salinity

200

This colorful cat "breed" is entirely composed of female cats. The genetic anomaly that gives them their multicolored fur is caused by having three chromosomes.

Calico

200

Joseph Smith said the angel Moroni told him of a set of golden plates that Joseph translated into this text.

The Book of Mormon

200

The idea of "head of state" changed quite a bit for the Soviets during the cold war, but these are three of the men that are considered to have been the leaders of the Soviet Union.

Lenin, Stalin, Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Andropov, Chernenko, or Gorbachev

200

We don't know who this revolving food tray was named for, but she must have been quite "indolent".

Lazy Susan

200

Banned by Ataturk for political reasons, this hat with a 3-letter name was once the national hat of Turkish men.

The fez

300
This powerful and solitary hunter is the deadliest big cat in the world, and has an important place in many culture's mythologies.

Tiger

300

In founding Christian Science, she promoted the concept that sickness is spiritual, not material.

(Mary Baker) Eddy

300

This movement, headed by India, Egypt, and Indonesia during the 40s and 50s, rejected the cold war's two American and Soviet worlds, and pushed for decolonization and an increase in the international price of raw goods.

The Third World Movement

300

It can be a meeting hall for the Moos, a place where skiers stay, or a wigwam.

Lodge

300

Founded by a Roman Emperor who famously converted to Christianity, and rebuilt by the Byzantine emperor Justinian after it burned down, this great city of antiquity is known today as Istanbul.

Constantinople

400

There's no fish or corn in this, this word means a group of cats.

Clowder

400

Tradition says in the 500s B.C. this Iranian prophet learned of the spirits of truth & falsehood

The prophet Zoroaster

400

Mao Zedong's brutal dictatorship of China pushed this, one of his two catastrophic reform programs that nearly destroyed his nation.

Great Leap Forwards or Cultural Revolution

400

Some of these primates are ruffed, and some of them are ring-tailed

Lemur

400

Turkey's longest land border is with this Arab neighbor to its south.

Syria

500

Unlike the other members of the cat family Felidae, the members of the genus Panthera, commonly referred to as "big cats", can do this.

Roar

500

A guiding principle of Mahavira, considered a founder of Jainism, was ahimsa, this principle also advocated by Gandhi

nonviolence

500

Its not a condiment, its the series of landmark agreements between the US and USSR that limited nuclear weapon production.

S.A.L.T.

500

This four syllable adjective that means extremely dismal comes from the Latin for "to mourn": lugere

Lugubrious

500

This capital is Turkey's second-most populous city, with about 3.5 million people.

Ankara