Science
Making up about 78% of the air we breathe, this gas is the most abundant in Earth’s atmosphere.
Nitrogen
What year did the Berlin Wall fall
1989
How many countries is the UK made up of?
4
Pioneered by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque in the early 1900s, this art movement broke subjects into geometric shapes and showed them from several angles at once.
What is Australia's capital
Canberra
Electrical resistance is measured in this unit.
Ohm
The 1914 assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, which helped spark the First World War, happened in this city.
Sarajevo
What year was Kings Charless III crowned
2023
This word describes an intense fear of spiders.
arachnophobia
Flowing through Wales and England, this is the longest river in the UK.
River Severn
The modern periodic table is arranged into this many vertical columns, known as groups.
18
Christopher Columbus first reached the Americas in this year.
1492
How many children do Prince William and Kate have?
three
Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper is painted on a convent wall what city.
Milan, Italy
Running down the western side of South America, this is the longest mountain range on land.
Andes
What is the chemical symbol of lead
pb
Lasting roughly 40 minutes in 1896, this conflict between Britain and an East African sultanate is often called the shortest war in history.
Anglo-Zanzibar War
How many lines does the London underground have?
11
This is the only letter of the alphabet that doesn’t appear in the name of any US state.
Q
Bounded by ocean currents instead of land, this is the only sea in the world with no coastline.
Sargasso Sea
During DNA replication, this enzyme unwinds the double helix by breaking the hydrogen bonds between bases.
DNA Helicase
This French scholar cracked Egyptian hieroglyphs in 1822, using the Rosetta Stone.
Jean-François Champollion
Before switching to Windsor in 1917, the British royal family went by this German name, inherited from Queen Victoria’s husband, Prince Albert
Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Nicknamed “the roaring game,” this sport has players sliding granite stones across ice, many quarried from the Scottish island of Ailsa Craig.
curling
Found in northern Chile, this is the driest non-polar desert on Earth, with some weather stations never recording rain.
Atacama Desert