History
What was the name of the trade route that connected China with the Mediterranean world?
The Silk Road
What is the chemical symbol for potassium?
K
What is the longest river in South America?
The Amazon River
Which composer wrote the opera The Magic Flute?
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
What is the term for a word or phrase that has the opposite meaning of another word?
Antonym
Which ancient civilization developed the first known writing system, cuneiform?
Sumerians
What is the name of the process by which a solid changes directly into a gas?
Sublimation
Which African country was formerly known as Abyssinia?
Ethiopia
How many semitones are there in an octave in standard Western music?
12
What is the smallest prime number greater than 50?
53
What was the name of the 1919 treaty that officially ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers after World War I?
Treaty of Versailles
Which part of the human brain is primarily responsible for balance and coordination?
Cerebellum
Which two countries share the world's longest international land border?
Canada and the United States
What is the musical term for performing at a gradually slower tempo?
Ritardando/Rallentando
In Greek mythology, who was condemned to roll a boulder up a hill for eternity?
Sisyphus
Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize?
Marie Curie
What is the name of the boundary around a black hole beyond which nothing, not even light, can escape?
Event horizon
What is the world's largest inland body of water by surface area?
Caspian Sea
Which composer wrote the ballet The Rite of Spring, whose 1913 premiere famously caused a major audience controversy?
Igor Stravinsky
What is the mathematical name for a polygon with 12 sides?
Dodecagon
Which 1648 peace agreement ended the Thirty Years' War in Europe?
Peace of Westphalia
What is the approximate speed of light in a vacuum, measured in kilometers per second?
300,000 km/s
What is the only country in the world that borders both the Caspian Sea and the Persian Gulf?
Iran
What is the name of the compositional technique in which a melody is played backward?
Retrograde
Which famous mathematical constant is approximately equal to 2.71828 and is the base of the natural logarithm?
Euler's number (e)