General 1
Who was the first person to walk on the Moon?
Neil Armstrong
Who wrote The Republic?
Plato
What is the scientific term for fear of confined spaces?
Claustrophobia
Who wrote Hamlet?
William Shakespeare
What does “HTTP” stand for in web technology?
HyperText Transfer Protocol
Who discovered gravity when observing a falling apple?
Isaac Newton
In computing, what does “CPU” stand for?
Central Processing Unit
Which country has the most natural lakes in the world?
Canada
What is the deepest known point in Earth’s oceans?
Challenger Deep (Mariana Trench)
What force pulls objects toward Earth?
Gravity
What is the smallest prime number greater than 100?
101
Which element has the atomic number 79?
Gold
What is the medical term for high blood pressure?
Hypertension
What is the only country in the world that is also a continent?
Australia
What gas do plants absorb from the atmosphere for photosynthesis?
Carbon dioxide
What is the name of the longest river in Asia?
Yangtze River
What is the rarest blood type in humans?
AB Negative
What is the process by which water vapor turns into liquid called?
Condensation
What is the name of the supercontinent that existed about 300 million years ago?
Pangaea
Which physicist developed the uncertainty principle?
Werner Heisenberg
What is the hardest mineral on the Mohs scale?
Diamond (10)
Square root of 81?
9
Planet known as “Morning Star”?
Venus
True or false: The Mohs scale is linear.
False (it’s relative, not evenly spaced)