Mathematics
Born in 1642 in England, I formulated the laws of motion, universal gravitation, unified physics, classical mechanics, optics and invented calculus at the age of 22. Who am I?
Sir Isaac Newton
In km/s, what is the speed of light in a vacuum?
299,792 km/s
After reviving heresy laws to persecute protestants, Queen Mary I, eldest daughter of Henry VIII, became known to history as what following her reign?
Bloody Mary
Who was the Australian PM that disappeared in December 1967 while swimming at Cheviot Beach, Victoria?
Harold Holt
With over 900 paintings and 2100 artworks, how many official documented sales did Vincent Van Gogh make in his lifetime?
1 - The Red Vineyard
The first 5 digits of Pi are 3.1415. What is the 105 trillionth digit?
6
What is the shape of the Earth?
Oblate spheroid
What was the name of the mausoleum built by Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan the Magnificent to commemorate the death of his wife?
The Taj Mahal
The Parliament of Australia consists of three elements: the Senate, the House of Representatives and the Monarchy. What title is given to the federal representative of the monarch?
The Governor-General (currently Samantha Mostyn)
How old was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1761 when he composed his first piano piece, a minuet and trio in G major?
5 years old
A rule in Euclidean geometry for right angled triangles is that the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the square of the remaining two sides, or algebraically as a² + b² = c². What theory is this called?
Pythagoras' Theorem
Almost all objects in our solar system orbit the sun rotating counter-clockwise, except for what two notable exceptions?
Venus and Uranus
In 1865, President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theatre in Washington. What play was being performed at the time?
Our American Cousin
Following the Port Arthur massacre in 1996, what was the total number of firearms surrendered in the first year of the National Firearms Agreement scheme?
650,000
In a famously gruesome painting by Francisco Goya, which Roman god was depicted eating one of his own children?
Saturn
According to Bosonic String Theory, to maintain Weyl symmetry and cancel the conformal anomaly, how many spacetime dimensions have to exist to ensure the theory remains mathematically consistent?
26 (25 space + 1 time)
The first ever photograph of a black hole, Messier 87, was taken in 2019. How many years into the past were we seeing?
53 - 55 million years
What surgical procedure was incorrectly named after the Roman general Julius Caesar and his love child with Cleopatra VII?
The Caesarean section
Introduced in 2009 by PM Kevin Rudd, the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme was voted down in the Australian senate by the Liberal-National Coalition and which other party?
The Greens
What do Mark Twain, Sigmund Freud, Charlie Chaplin, Robin Williams and Keanu Reeves all have in common in regards to Shakespeare?
They believe he was a fraud
If I need to calculate the square root of a negative number to solve a quadratic equation, what imaginary number would I use?
i
What was the name of the impact that ended the Cretaceous period during the Mesozoic Era that lead to the mass extinction event of the dinosaurs roughly 66 million years ago?
the Chicxulub impact
In 1066, what prevented William the Conqueror and his 14,000 men and 3000 horses from crossing the English Channel for almost 2 months?
The wind
Deploying after a referendum in 1999 and again in 2006 as a peacekeeping mission, Australia led a U.N backed military taskforce to help which country maintain their independence?
East Timor
Used by artists like Stevie Wonder, Hanz Zimmer and creating the Rugrats soundtrack, which Australian invention in 1979 was credited with pioneering electronic and hip-hop music sampling?
The Fairlight CMI