General Knowledge
This country has more neighboring countries than any other nation, sharing land borders with 14.
China
Although it's famous for canals, this European capital has more bicycles than residents.
Amsterdam
This element, whose symbol comes from its Latin name natrium, is essential in table salt.
Sodium
This author wrote The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde while recovering from illness in 1885.
Robert Loius Stevenson
Despite its name, this "sea" is actually the world's largest lake.
Caspian Sea
This number is the only positive integer whose English name has its letters in alphabetical order.
Forty
This planet rotates so slowly that one of its days lasts longer than one of its years.
Venus
The shortest war in recorded history lasted less than an hour and was fought in 1896 between Britain and this sultanate.
Zanzibar
This language has the most native speakers in the world.
Mandarin Chinese
This mountain is Earth's tallest when measured from base to summit rather than above sea level.
Mauna Kea (Hawaii)
This country's national flag is the only one that is not a quadrilateral.
Nepal
efore becoming famous as a physicist, this scientist worked in a patent office in Bern.
Albert Einstein
This country contains the world's southernmost active volcano, Mount Erebus.
New Zealand
This U.S. state has the longest coastline, thanks largely to its many islands.
Alaska
This monarch was the last English king to die in battle, at Battle of Bosworth Field.
King Richard III
His Principia Mathematica was published in Latin in 1687 under the title Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica.
Isaac Newton
Measured by volume, this is the largest organ in the human body.
The lungs
Every planet in the Solar System except Mercury and this one has at least one natural satellite.
Venus
The English words "salary" and "salad" ultimately derive from the Latin word for this everyday substance.
Salt
Of the four principal characters in The Three Musketeers, this one is not actually a musketeer when the story begins.
d'Artagnan
This is the only letter that does not appear in any official chemical element symbol.
J
This narrator begins his novel by saying, "Call me Ishmael."
Ishmael
He reportedly said, "Fortune favors the bold."
Virgil
This particle, first proposed by Wolfgang Pauli, was nicknamed "the little neutral one."
Neutrino
It is the only English word containing all five standard vowels exactly once and in alphabetical order.
Facetious (or Abstemious)