geography
The Mariana Trench, the deepest point in the ocean, is located in this ocean
What is the Pacific Ocean?
This element has the highest melting point of all metals.
What is tungsten?
This ancient trade route connected China to the Mediterranean Sea.
What is the Silk Road
Who was the first woman to win the woman’s World Figure Skating Championship?
Madge Syers.
This Italian cheese is traditionally aged in caves and is known as the "King of Cheeses."
What is Parmigiano-Reggiano?
This African country has the most UNESCO World Heritage Sites on the continent
What is Ethiopia?
What are the most common elements in the human body (include percentages)?
By mass, about 96% of our bodies are made of four key elements: oxygen (65%), carbon (18.5%), hydrogen (9.5%) and nitrogen (3.3%)
First American to walk in space
Who is Kathryn Sullivan?
In golf, scoring three under par on a single hole is called this
What is an albatross (double eagle)?
This Pixar film was the first entirely computer-animated feature film.
What is "Toy Story"
Only country that borders both the Caspian sea and the persian gulf?
What element did Joseph Priestley discover in 1774?
What is oxygen
The Rosetta Stone helped scholars decipher this ancient writing system
What are Egyptian hieroglyphics?
What coach came off the bench to play for his team in the Stanley Cup finals?
Lester Patrick.
In 1937, his sister said he had “hats of every description,” which he would use as a “foundation of his next book.”
Who is Dr. Seuess
The Danube River flows through more European capitals than any other river. Name one
What is Vienna, Budapest, Bratislava, or Belgrade?
CRISPR technology is used primarily for this purpose in genetics.
What is gene editing?
New Archangel, Alaska's name was "spruced" up in 1867 when it was changed to this
What is Sitka?
The dimples on a golf ball give in traction on the terrain. How many dimples does an average golf ball have?
336
Both making news in June, these two Davids with similar last names are LeBron’s new coach and Eric Cantor’s conqueror (in depth).
David Blatt, who was hired by the Cleveland Cavaliers in June 2014 and coached LeBron James until 2016, and David Brat, who defeated House Majority Leader Eric Cantor in 2014 to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives.
This landlocked country in Central Asia was formerly part of the Soviet Union and is the largest landlocked country in the world.
What is Kazakhstan?
What does a Geiger counter measure?
What is radiation
Within a 3.5 year period, he became mayor of Buffalo, govenor of NY, and president of the US.
Who is Grover Cleveland?
In the 1998 European Indoor Championships in Zurich, Venus Williams broke a record for one of the fastest serves in tennis. How fast did her ball go (to the tenths place)?
127.4 mph
A popular product was born when Jean Naigeon of this city substituted the juice of unripe grapes for vinegar.
what is Dijon