It Might Have Been a Temple | Baamboozle - Baamboozle

Where does the English language originally come from?

England, in the 5th century in what is the "U.K." today.

What's this?

String (small, thin) or rope (big, thick)

What do you call the direction facing towards the sea, away from the land?

Seawards or coastwards

What do you call the direction facing away from the sea, towards the land?

Inland

The Statue of Unity, the tallest statue in the world, is in which country?

India

What is this called & where can you find it?

This is a moai. You can find them on Rapa Nui / Easter Island in Chile.

Name 5 countries that commonly speak English.

U.S.A., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Barbados, Belize, Nigeria, Singapore, India, and the U.K.

What is a "ruin"?

A broken, unusable building.

Name 5 natural disasters and 3 man-made disasters.

Natural: tornados, tsunamis, tidal waves, lightning, floods, diseases, wildfires; Man-made: deforestation, wars, pollution, crimes, nuclear fallout, accidents

Name 4 religions.

Buddhism (đạo Phật); Christianity (đạo Chúa) [Catholicism (Công giáo); Protestant (đạo Tin lành)]; Islam (đạo Hồi); Caodaism; traditional Vietnamese religion

What do you call a Jewish (Do Thái giáo / đạo Do Thái) temple?

A synagogue

What do you call the most important Catholic (Công giáo) temple in an area?

A cathedral

What do you call a Muslim (Hồi giáo / đạo Hồi) temple?

A mosque

What do you call a Christian (Kitô giáo / Cơ Đốc giáo / đạo Chúa) temple?

A church

What do you call an Asian temple that is also a tower?

A pagoda

This is the _____________ in Agra, India. It serves as a temple and a ______ for an Indian Emperor's dead wife.

Taj Mahal, grave / tomb / mausoleum

What natural disaster is when the ground shakes?

An "earthquake" or "tremor" (a little earthquake).

What natural disaster is this?

A typhoon / hurricane / cyclone (Typhoons for east Asia; hurricanes for eastern Pacific & North Atlantic, & cyclones in the South Hemisphere & Indian ocean)

What natural disaster is this?

A landslide / mudslide / rockslide (when the land slides down the side of a hill or a mountain, destroying and burying everything)

What natural disaster is this?

An avalanche (when snow & ice slides down the side of a mountain, destroying & burying everything)

What natural disaster is this?

Volcanic eruption (a volcano is not a disaster until it "erupts")

When a culture "collapses" it is (failing to continue / making something new / becoming more successful).

falling apart. ("To collapse" means to fall down or fall apart, meaning the culture experienced something bad and cannot continue without losing a lot)

When I form a picture in my mind, it's called my (memory / mind's eye / imagination)

"mind's eye" or "imagination". (Making a picture in your brain is your "mind's eye", but creating an image of something from nothing is "imagination")

A drought means there is (too much / a lack of / normal amount of) rain.

a lack of (NOTE: drought is different for different areas. A drought in a desert might mean NO rain, but a drought in a rainforest might rain A LITTLE)

The (people / population / civilisation) of Việt Nam is about 98,859,000.

population

If people "abandon" a building, they (destroy / break / leave) it.

leave

A city at is "peak" is at its (strongest / weakest) in history.

strongest

What is the name of this place, and where is it?

Machu Picchu in the eastern Andes mountain range, Urubamba province, Peru

What is the name of this place, and where is it?

Mỹ Sơn, near Duy Phú, Duy Xuyên district, Quảng Nam province, Việt Nam

What is the name of this place, and where is it?

Stonehenge on Salisbury Plain, in Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom