Holidays
The holiday which traditionally celebrates the birth of Jesus and includes gift-giving.
What is Christmas?
A Christian saint known for his generosity and gift-giving who inspired the mythical Santa Claus.
Who is Saint Nick?
A type of electromagnetic radiation known for passing through soft bodily tissues and highlighting hard structures like bone.
What are x-rays?
A shortening of two English words done with an apostrophe.
What is a contraction?
The liquid with the chemical formula H2O.
What is water?
The day that celebrates when the last slaves in America were freed following the Civil War.
What is Juneteenth?
The emperor of Imperial Japan during World War 2 that surrendered to the United States after the atomic bomb.
Who is Emperor Hirohito?
The main villains of the Alien movie franchise, which start as facehuggers and morph into chestbursters before its final form.
What is the Xenomorph?
The most spoken language in the world.
What is Mandarin Chinese?
A sweet, semi-frozen drink made from water, flavored syrup, and fine ice crystals.
What is a slushie?
What is Boxing Day?
The scientist famous for winning the Nobel Prize as well as discovering the elements polonium and radium.
Who is Marie Curie?
The tissue in plants that carries water upward from the roots.
What is the xylem?
A word which denotes the spatial, temporal, or movement-based relation between two words.
What is a preposition?
An alcoholic drink traditionally made by fermenting honey and water.
What is mead?
An Islamic holiday, also known as the "Festival of Breaking the Fast", which occurs at the end of Ramadan.
What is Eid al-Fitr?
The English inventor that created the eponymous process which improves pig iron into low-carbon steel.
Who is Sir Henry Bessemer?
The African Bantu language known for its unique clicking sounds.
What is Xhosa?
The most language-diverse country in the world, containing 841 different languages.
What is Papua New Guinea?
A liquor which was popularized by the inclusion of a moth larva inside the bottle.
What is Mezcal?
The ancient Roman winter solstice festival that inspired Christmas which was dedicated to the god of agriculture and included gift-giving, wreaths, and feasts.
What is Saturnalia?
The Mongol grandson of Genghis Khan who led the Siege of Baghdad and destroyed the House of Wisdom.
Who is Hulegu Khan?
A yellow-orange plant pigment which causes the yellow color in leaves during autumn.
What is xanthophyll?
The constructed language created by the prodigy William James Sidis at the age of 7.
What is Vendergood?
A famous cocktail created by British officers in India which combines liquor and malaria medicine.
What is gin and tonic?