Worth knowing
Czechia
'Robot' comes from robota, a Czech word for forced labour. The writer Karel Čapek used it in his play R.U.R., and said his brother Josef had thought of it.
Five things to know about Czechia
In Geodar these are the five clues to this country, and it counts as one of the middling countries. The game asks the hardest clue first. Here the easiest comes first.
- Where it is. It's Czechia (the Czech Republic), in central Europe, between Germany and Slovakia. See Czechia on a map.
- Its capital is Prague, where an astronomical clock has been marking time since 1410.
- On the first day of 1993 its old country split peacefully in two, and it became one of the halves.
- The world's first pale lager was brewed here in 1842, in the city that gave pilsner its name.
- The word 'robot' comes from this country: it was coined for a play first staged here in 1921.