General
What is the capital city of Canada?
Ottawa
In what year did the Berlin Wall fall?
1989
What is the only mammal capable of true flight?
The bat
Which film won Best Picture at the 2020 Academy Awards?
Parasite
Which letter does not appear in the name of any US state?
A
Which planet has the most confirmed moons?
Saturn
Which country has the longest coastline in the world?
Canada
What is the hardest naturally occurring substance on Earth?
Diamond
Who won Ireland's first gold medal at the 2024 Paris Olympics?
Rhys McClenaghan
Which mathematician is credited with developing the concept of the Turing machine?
Alan Turing
What is the smallest country in the world?
Vatican City
Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize?
Marie Curie
What is the process by which plants lose water through their leaves called?
Transpiration
What is the name of the fictional continent in Game of Thrones where King's Landing is located?
Westeros
Which treaty formally ended the First World War between Germany and the Allied Powers?
The Treaty of Versailles
Who wrote The Picture of Dorian Gray?
Oscar Wilde
What was the name of the ship on which Charles Darwin travelled during his famous voyage?
HMS Beagle
Which element has the atomic number 79?
Gold
What is Elton John's real name?
Reginald Kenneth Dwight
What is the capital of Kazakhstan?
Astana
What is the chemical symbol for potassium?
K
Which African country was formerly known as Abyssinia?
Ethiopia
Which part of the human brain is primarily responsible for balance and coordination?
The cerebellum
Which country won the first-ever FIFA World Cup in 1930?
Uruguay
What is the name of the boundary around a black hole beyond which nothing can escape?
The event horizon