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Who is the 47th president of the United States?

Answer: Nobody, Biden is the 46th president

What is the largest empire in history?

Answer: The British empire

What is the most populous island in the world?

Answer: Java

Mozart's last project was incomplete since he died before he could finish it. What was the title of this
project/piece?
Answer: Requiem

What was the name of the deadliest plague in history?

Answer: The Black Death

Are there penguins in the Arctic?

Answer: no

Rome was founded by 2 siblings. What were their names?

Answer: Romulus and Remus

India is home to 4 major religions called the Dharmic religions. Name all those 4 religions that originated in
India.
Answer: Buddhism, Jainism, Hinduism and Sikhism

The largest 4-digit number is:

Answer: 9999

How many sides does a decagon have?

Answer: Ten

If a is the side of cube, then the volume of the cube is:

Answer: a3

What is the only number that has the same number of letters as its meaning?
Answer: Four
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What is the only even prime number?
Answer: Two

Is Pi a rational or irrational number?

Answer: Irrational, it cannot be written as a fraction

What is the largest country in the world in terms of land area?

Answer: Russia is the largest country in the world, covering more than one eighth of Earth’s inhabited land
area.

What is the primary mountain range in Iran?

Answer: The Zagros Mountains

What is the coldest sea on Earth?

Answer: The White Sea, in Russia

How many tributaries does the Amazon River have?

Answer: The Amazon River has over 1,100 tributaries

What body of water separates Africa and Europe?

Answer: The Strait of Gibraltar

What city is the capital of Australia?

Answer: Canberra

Which African nation has the most pyramids?

Answer: Sudan

How many teeth does an adult human have?

Answer: 32

What tissues connect the muscles to the bones?

Answer: Tendons

Who was the scientist to propose the three laws of motion?

Answer: Isaac Newton

How long does a human red blood cell survive?

Answer: 120 days
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In what country can you find the Suez Canal?
Answer: Egypt

How many elements are there in the periodic table?

Answer: 118

This planet has a collective 53 moons, making it the planet in our solar system with the most number of moons.
Answer: Saturn

Where can you find the smallest bone in the human body?
Answer: Middle ear

How many hearts does an octopus have?

Answer: 3

What is the most common element in the human body?

Answer: Oxygen

What human organ cleans fifty gallons of blood every day?

Answer: Kidney

In which museum can you find the Mona Lisa?

Answer: Le Louvre, Paris, France

Who painted ‘The Starry Night’?

Answer: Vincent van Gogh

Which surrealist artist is known for painting melting clocks?

Answer: Salvador Dalí

Which flower is Claude Monet particularly known for?

Answer: Water lily

Which art movement came first – Impressionism or Cubism?

Answer: Impressionism

How many clocks are on The Persistence of Memory by Salvador Dali?

Answer: Three
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How many paintings did Van Gogh sell during his lifetime?
Answer: 1

Which French Emperor is ‘War and Peace” by Leo Tolstoy about?

Answer: Napoleon

Where is the Great Gatsby set?

Answer: Long Island

What form of government does Indonesia have?

Answer: Democracy

Indonesia is made up of approximately how many islands?

Answer: Approximately 17,000 - 18.000 islands

In which sport would you have a touchdown?

Answer: American football

Where did the term “billiard” originated from?

Answer: France

Where did the Olympics start?

Answer: Greece

What type of race is the Tour de France?

Answer:
Answer: Bicycle race.

What does NBA stand for?

Answer:
Answer: National Basketball Association.

What does the abbreviation WWW stand for?

Answer: World Wide Web

IBM is a well known computer and information technology company, what does IBM stand for?
Answer: International Business Machines
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What is the name of the system that manages and programs hardware resources for a computer?
Answer: Operating System.

'Laser', 'Dot Matrix' and 'Inkjet' are types of which output computer device?
Answer: Printer.

'.xls' is a file extension used in which application?

Answer: MS Excel

What is the name of electronic device surgically implanted into a person’s body to regulate the heartbeat?
Answer: Pacemaker

What name is given to scientists who study seismic waves produced by earthquakes and explosions?
Answer: Seismologists

“Thor” is known as the God of …

Thunder

Which one is the world’s longest river?

Answer: Nile

Name the house made of ice?

Answer: Igloo

Name the largest mammal

Blue whale

What is the third planet from the sun?

Answer: Earth

What type of gas is absorbed by plants?

Answer: CO 2 (carbon dioxide)

Name the hardest substance available on Earth?

Answer: Diamond

How many players are there in a cricket team?

Answer: 11 players
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The game of Cricket originated in which country?
Answer: Britain

Which animal is known as the ‘Ship of the Desert?’

Camel

The hammer and sickle are one of the most recognizable symbols of which political ideology?
Answer: Communism

Demolition of the Berlin wall separating East and West Germany began in what year?
Answer: 1989

On the periodic table, what element is represented by the letter N?

Answer: Nitrogen

Common table salt is a chemical compound of...

Sodium (Natrium) and Chlorine

Who was the Ancient Greek god of the Sea?

Answer: Poseidon

Who is the Father of Economics?

Answer: Adam Smith

What's the colored part of the eye called?

Answer: iris

Written by a father for his daughter, which of these Disney songs won the Academy Award for Best Original
Song?
Answer: “Remember Me”

What is the only mammal capable of flight?

Answer: Bat

What currency is mostly used in Dubai?

Answer: The UAE dirham

What is the official currency of Italy?

Answer: The euro
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What is the official currency of the Philippines?
Answer: The Philippine peso

What is the official currency of North Korea?

Answer: The North Korean won

What is the local and official currency of Oman?

Answer: The Omani Rial

How many countries are member states of the United Nations?

Answer: 193

What does FBI stand for?

Answer: Federal Bureau of Investigation

Which US agency is responsible for the civilian space program, as well as aeronautics and space research?
Answer: NASA

What does NATO stand for?

Answer: North Atlantic Treaty Organization

Which United Nations agency specialises in promoting world peace and security through international
cooperation in education, the arts, the sciences, and culture? Answer: UNESCO

In which US state did KFC originate?

Answer: Kentucky

Who invented dynamite?

Answer: Alfred Nobel

Who developed the theory of relativity?

Answer: Albert Einstein

What is Scotland’s national animal?

Answer: The Unicorn

What is the capital of the Philippines?

Answer: Manilla
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Burritos and tacos are staple foods from which country?
Answer: Mexico

What is the capital of the United States?

Answer: Washington DC

What Ocean lies between Europe and North America?

Answer: Atlantic Ocean

Which COVID variant was first detected in South Africa on 24 November 2021 and spread very fast at the
beginning of 2022?
Answer: Omicron

How many letters are there in the English alphabet?

Answer: 26