| CREATIONISM | Belief in the biblical account of the world’s origins |
| BARABBAS | Criminal released by Pilate in Biblical accounts of the Crucifixion (8) |
| FOLKETYMOLOGY | Popular misconception about a word’s origins |
| ANKH | Egyptian cross at Nut, Khonsu and Horus’s origins |
| INORGANIC | Mineral’s origin: can that’s been cracked open |
| ACHAEAN | Long article about Astyanax’s origin, Greek in Homer |
| PROVENANCE | Demonstrated broken cane’s origin |
| EGYPT | One of the world’s few nations with contiguous territory in 43D continents |
| AIRLINES | Colombia’s Avianca is one of the world’s oldest ____ |
| SIENA | Italy’s Banca Monte dei Paschi di ____ is one of the world’s oldest banks |
| RINGOFFIRE | Pacific region containing about two thirds of the world’s volcanoes |
| OMAN | One of the world’s three independent countries still ruled by a sultan |
| ANDEAN | Of the world’s longest mountain chain |
| HEARST | What became the world’s biggest media conglomerate began with George ____’s purchase of a San Francisco newspaper in 1880 |
| WOOMERA | In the 1950s and 1960s, Australia’s ____Rocket Range was the world’s second-busiest after Cape Canaveral |
| HOTELDIEU | The ____ de Paris is believed to be the world’s oldest hospital, founded in AD561 |
| KITTIWAKE | The world’s most inland colony of this seabird is in Newcastle upon Tyne |
| LAKESUPERIOR | Duluth, at the western end of ____, is the world’s furthest inland port reachable by oceangoing ships |
| BAFFINISLAND | Mount Thor, said to have the world’s biggest vertical drop, is in this part of Canada |
| ABERYSTWYTH | At ____ University in 1919, Alfred Zimmern became the world’s first professor of international politics |