1. Which river flows through Paris?
River Seine
2. Luxembourg City is the capital of which country?
Luxembourg
3. How many time zones do the USA span?
Six
4. Which American state has the fewest counties?
Delaware
5. Which is the longest river in Ethiopia?
The Blue Nile
6. What natural wonder of the world is named after aviator Jimmy Angel?
Angel Falls
7. How many time zones does Russia span?
Eleven
8. Who served the most seasons as a major league umpire – 37 years, starting in 1905 and also officiated 18 World Series?
Bill Klem
9. What is the oldest continuous trophy in sports, which was started in 1851, with Americans winning for a straight 132 years until Australia took the Cup in 1983?
America’s Cup
10. How is the Chalk made?
Chalk is made of trillions of microscopic skeleton fossils of plankton.
11. What is commonly used as an integral part of lipstick ingredients?
Fish scales
12. Lemons have _____ sugar than strawberries.
more
13. Air becomes liquid at _____ degrees centigrade.
-190
14. What metal has a melting point of 29.76 degrees centigrade and can melt on the palm of your hand?
Gallium
15. What is the Dynamite contains as a part of its ingredient?
Peanuts
16. What is the best conductor of electricity and heat?
Graphene (AKA the miracle metal)
17. __________ blood is colorless until it’s exposed to air. The blood then appears to be blue.
Lobster
18. What type of volcanoes (ones found commonly in school exhibitions and projects) can be created using ammonium dichromate?
Tabletop volcanoes
19. How much of the human brain consists of water?
More than 78%
20. What fruits are harmful to dogs and must be avoided at all possible costs.
Macadamia nuts
21. What is the heaviest metal found so far?
Ununoctium
22. What is the first element in the periodic table which is highly inflammable?
Hydrogen
23. What are the only elements that can stay liquid at room temperature?
Bromine and mercury
24. What takes up almost 9% more volume than the water used to make it?
An ice cube
25. Fire spreads uphill quicker than downhill. True/ False?
True
26. How long a badminton shuttle easily travels?
180 km/h (112 mph)
27. Ferenc Szisz from which country, driving a Renault, won the first Formula One Grand Prix held at Le Mans, France in 1906?
Romania
28. What does REM stand for?
Rapid eye movement
29. Where is the Valley of the Kings located?
Egypt
30. Who engineered the Eiffel Tower?
Gustave Eiffel
31. How many seeds does a strawberry have?
Approximately 200
32. What is the largest shark species?
Whale Shark
33. How many bones does a newborn baby have?
Three Hundred
34. From what material were George Washington’s false teeth made?
Wood
36. What is the oldest Christian nation?
Armenia
37. How old did Noah live to be?
950 years old
38. What is the name of the hill on top of which Jesus Christ was crucified?
Golgotha
39. Who asked Pilate for Jesus Christ’s body after the crucifixion?
Joseph
40. In what language was the original language in which the New Testament was written?
Aramaic
41. Whose ear was cut off at the time of Jesus Christ’s arrest?
Malchus, the servant of the High Priest
42. What is the capital of Hungary?
Budapest
43. In which US state is Mount Rushmore located?
South Dakota
44. In which city is the statue of Christ the Redeemer located?
Rio de Janeiro
45. Which is the highest possible hand in the game of poker?
Royal Flush
46. Which US city is known as ‘The Big Easy’?
New Orleans
47. From which country does William Tell hail?
Switzerland
48. What is the length of the Brooklyn Bridge?
1,834 meters
49. Which Scottish loch with a length of about 24 miles, is reputed to contain a monster?
Loch Ness
50. Where was the greatest difference between annual high and low temperatures recorded?
Russia
51. Which state in the US was once called Deseret?
Utah
52. Which island country lies off China, Korea, and Russia?
Japan
53. Where is the Tonle Sap located?
Cambodia
54. What is a group of owls called
A parliament
55. What is the chemical name of Vitamin B1
Thiamine
56. How many time zones are there in the world?
24 timezones
57. The taste cells in our taste buds live for only about
Two weeks
58. Taste buds are not visible to the naked eye; the little bumps that can be seen on the tongue are actually _____, on top of which rest the taste buds
Papillae
59. Like fingerprints, each human __________ has its own unique print.
Tongue
60. What percentage of the human population has a bifid uvula, which means it has a forked appearance?
2%
61. What is called the excessive habit of picking one’s nose?
Rhinotillexomania
62. The lining in a person’s stomach is replaced ______ to prevent it from digesting itself, which is about four times as long as an adult is tall.
Every 4 to 5 days
63. In 1927 which comedy duo released their first film ‘Putting Pants on Philip’?
Laurel and Hardy
64. In 1921 eight baseball players were banned for life even though a court had found them not guilty of corruption – which team did they play for?
Chicago White Sox
65. In which unusual location was Elizabeth when she succeeded to the UK throne on the death of her father?
In a treehouse at the Treetops Hotel in Kenya
66. In February 1819, who founded what was to become, the city-state of Singapore?
Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles
68. In what year did women over the age of 30, provided they met certain property qualifications, get the right to vote in the UK?
1918
69. 8 Manchester United players and 15 other passengers were killed in February 1958 in an accident that became known as what?
Munich air disaster
70. Born in February 1932 who became one of the most iconic French film directors whose films defined the French New Wave movement, with one of his best-known films being ‘Jules and Jim’?
Francois Truffaut
71. Although he died in February 1783 the works of which landscape architect, dubbed ‘England’s Greatest Gardener’, can be seen at many of the country’s great estates including Blenheim Palace and Harewood House?
Lancelot “Capability” Brown
72. What played the central role during the American Civil War?
Slavery
73. Who was in command at the critical point in the Battle of Gettysburg?
General Robert E. Lee
74. Fear of gravity is called
Barophobia
75. Fear of stairs or steep slopes is called
Bathmophobia
76. Who attacked first in the battle of Gettysburg?
George G. Meade.
77. Why did the early battles of the Civil War favor the South?
The South had more money, a better-organized government, and more effective military commanders.
78. What are the 4 main causes of the Civil War?
Industry vs. Farming, States’ Rights, Expansion, and Slavery
79. The Lake Chargoggagoggman-chauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg is situated in
Massachusetts
80. Who left most of his estate, more than SEK 31 million (today approximately SEK 1,702 million) to be converted into a fund and invested in “safe securities.”
Alfred Nobel
81. In “Thunderbirds”, what was Lady Penelope’s chauffeur called?
Parker
82. Which word goes before vest, beans, and quartet?
String.
83. What is another word for lexicon?
Dictionary.
84. The Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded 113 times to how many Nobel Laureates between 1901 and 2019?
213
85. What is the name of the BBC series about a shipping line set in Liverpool during the late 1800s?
The Onedin Line
86. In the TV series Dad’s Army, what was Captain Mainwaring’s first name?
George
87. Who invented TV?
George Carey, a Boston civil servant, first thought up television in 1876. John Logie Baird is often quoted as its inventor but his ideas didn’t come along until the 1920s
88. Who is the only Nobel Laureate who has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics twice, in 1956 and 1972?
John Bardeen
89. Mamungkukumpurangkuntjunya Hill is situated in which country?
Australia
90. Who was the legendary Benedictine monk who invented champagne?
Dom Perignon.
91. Name the largest freshwater lake in the world?
Lake Superior.
92. Name the seventh planet from the sun.
Uranus.
93. Who invented the rabies vaccination?
Louis Pasteur.
94. The Nobel Prize amount for 2018 is set at 9.0 million per full Nobel Prize in what currency?
Swedish kronor (SEK)
95. On “Blue Peter”, what was John Noakes’s dog called?
Shep.
96. Where would you find the Sea of Tranquility?
The Moon.
97. What is someone who shoes horses called?
A farrier.
98. What item of clothing was named after its Scottish inventor?
A Mackintosh.
99. What kind of weapon is a falchion?
A sword.
100. The lane Tweebuffelsmeteen-skootmorsdoodgeskietfontein is situated in
South Africa.
