Geography
History
Languages
Expressions
100

A small landmass surrounded by water.

What is an island?

100

A large triangular structure built to house the corpse of the country's leader.

What is a pyramid?

100

A language used by the deaf.

What is Sign Language?

100

A way of saying 'good luck' in the theatre industry. The phrase itself wishes injury upon the person.

What does 'break a leg' mean?

200

The largest country in the world.

What is Russia?

200

A prehistoric period in which humans began using primitive tools.

What is the Stone Age?

200

A way of artistic expression that commonly uses rhymes, alliteration and other forms of figurative language.

What is poetry?

200

It means 'rarely'. It mentions a celestial body.

What does 'once in a blue moon' mean?

300

A place with little precipitation and vegetation.

What is a desert?

300

A collection of territories ruled by the United Kingdom between the 16th and 20th centuries.

What is the British Empire?

300

The language with the highest number of native speakers.

What is Mandarin/Chinese?

300

It is the act of giving away a secret. It mentions a certain kind of food.

What does 'spill the beans' mean?

400

Describes an area or country that is entirely surrounded by land.

What does landlocked mean?

400

A period of geopolitical tension between the United States and Soviet Union that began two years after World War 2.

What is the Cold War?

400

A dead language that is still used to create scientific names.

What is Latin?

400

Describes a situation that seemed bad at first, but turns out to be good.

What does 'a blessing in disguise' mean?

500

A long, deep and narrow sea or lake drain with steep land on three sides.

What is a fjord?

500

A pandemic that occured in Europe which wiped out 50% of the continent's population in the 14th century.

What is the Black Death?

500

An artificial language constructed by L.L. Zamenhof that was intended to be 'the international language'.

What is Esperanto?

500

It means 'the worst possible situation'. The phrase relates to a certain kind of weather.

What does 'A perfect storm' mean?