General Knowledge
This planet is known as the “Red Planet.”
What is Mars?
This long document of original research is defended at the end of a PhD.
What is a dissertation?
The Prophet Mohamed ﷺ received the first revelation in this cave on Jabal al-Nour near Mecca.
What is the Cave of Hira?
A severe deficiency of this vitamin causes scurvy.
What is Vitamin C?
Many people guess Sydney or Melbourne, but this city is the capital of Australia.
What is Canberra?
This is the largest ocean on Earth.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
In statistics, the “p” in “p-value” stands for this.
What is probability?
This is the only chapter of the Quran that does not begin with the Basmala.
What is Surah At-Tawbah?
This seahorse-named brain region is essential for forming new long-term memories.
What is the hippocampus?
This is the largest landlocked country in the world by area.
What is Kazakhstan?
This Renaissance artist painted the Mona Lisa.
Who is Leonardo da Vinci?
Experts evaluate a manuscript before a journal publishes it in this process, which often involves the infamous “Reviewer 2.”
What is peer review?
The longest verse of the Quran, 2:282, is about this subject, and it instructs believers to write it down.
What is debt/Ayat al-Dayn?
BMI is calculated by dividing weight in kilograms by this quantity.
What is height in meters squared?
This is the longest river in the world, and it is formed when two rivers, one from the highlands of the east and the other from the great lakes of the south, join together.
What is the Nile River?
This gas makes up about 78% of Earth’s atmosphere.
What is nitrogen?
At every holiday dinner, relatives ask grad students this question, and the honest answer is “I don’t know.”
What is “When are you graduating?”
He is the only Companion of the Prophet ﷺ mentioned by name in the Quran.
Who is Zayd ibn Harithah?
This is the only vitamin that contains the metal cobalt, and a deficiency can cause pernicious anemia.
What is Vitamin B12 (cobalamin)?
This country has the most official languages of any country in the world (16).
What is Zimbabwe?
This 1989 event saw the fall of the barrier that had divided a major European city since 1961.
What is the Berlin Wall?
Considered the unofficial national dish of grad school, this budget meal is made by adding hot water and hoping your stipend lasts until the first of the month.
What is instant ramen?
According to Surah Hud (11:44), Noah’s ark came to rest on this mountain after the flood.
What is Mount Judi (Al-Judi)?
Barry Marshall famously drank a culture of this bacterium to help prove it causes most stomach ulcers.
What is Helicobacter pylori?
Vatican City and San Marino are enclaves inside Italy, but this is the only fully enclaved country outside Europe, entirely surrounded by one other nation.
What is Lesotho?