Geography
Which country contains the world’s largest inland delta?
Botswana
What type of blood vessel carries oxygenated blood from the lungs to the heart?
Pulmonary veins
Which empire was ruled by Mansa Musa during the 14th century?
The Mali Empire
Name all fruits that are explicitly mentioned in the Qur’an.
dates, grapes, olives, figs, pomegranates, and bananas.
Which element has the highest melting point of all the elements?
Tungsten
What is the largest continent in the world by land area?
Canberra
Which fundamental particle mediates the electromagnetic force?
Photon
Which treaty formally ended the Thirty Years’ War in 1648?
The Peace of Westphalia
Which prophet is mentioned by name the most times in the Qur’an?
Musa (Moses), عليه السلام
What is the only mammal capable of true sustained flight?
Bat
Which country has the most natural lakes in the world?
Canada
What is the name of the process by which a cell engulfs and digests large particles or other cells?
Phagocytosis
Which Byzantine emperor commissioned the codification of Roman law known as the Corpus Juris Civilis?
Justinian I
What is the first month of the Islamic calendar?
Muharram
Which country was the first to grant women the right to vote at a national level?
New Zealand
Which country is the only one whose territory is crossed by both the Equator and the Tropic of Capricorn?
Brazil
A star’s apparent shift in position caused by observing it from different points in Earth’s orbit is known as what?
Stellar parallax
Which 19th-century uprising in China was led by Hong Xiuquan and resulted in one of the deadliest conflicts in history?
The Taiping Rebellion
What was the name of the treaty made between the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ and the Quraysh in 6 AH?
The Treaty of Hudaybiyyah
What is the name of the mathematical constant approximately equal to 1.618, often associated with proportions in art and nature?
The Golden Ratio
What is the only country in the world that borders both the Caspian Sea and the Persian Gulf?
Iran
In genetics, what phenomenon occurs when two different alleles are both fully expressed in the phenotype of a heterozygous individual?
Codominance
Which 1884–85 diplomatic conference established the framework for the European partition and colonisation of Africa?
The Berlin Conference
Put these six prophets in chronological order, from earliest to latest:
Adam → Nuh → Ibrahim → Musa → Isa → Muhammad ﷺ
Which language has the greatest number of native speakers in the world?
Mandarin Chinese