Geography
What continent has the greatest number of countries?
Africa
By what ancient empire was Machu Picchu built?
Inca Empire
What are the two products of photosynthesis?
Oxygen and glucose (sugar)
What screenwriter created the television shows Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Firefly?
Joss Whedon
On what date did the insurrection at the Capitol take place?
January 6th, 2021
What country has the second largest land area in the world?
Canada
From what language does the word algebra originate?
Arabic
What are the three types of rock?
Sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic
What are the names of the Three Musketeers?
Athos, Porthos, and Aramis
What occasion was adopted as a federal holiday in June 2021?
Juneteenth
What is the capital city of Vietnam?
Hanoi
At what late 19th century legal gathering did European powers formalize decisions as to how Africa would be divided among them as colonies?
The Berlin Conference of 1884-1885
What is the name of the process by which a solid changes phase directly into a gas?
Sublimation
What collection of ten essays, published in 1955, was written by James Baldwin on issues of race in the United States?
Notes of a Native Son
What Major League Baseball Hall of Famer, who broke Babe Ruth's home run record, died in January 2021?
Hank Aaron
What links the capital cities of Paris, Helsinki, and Suva?
They are the capital cities of the only three countries that start with the letter F.
What era of ancient Chinese history directly preceded the first unification of the Chinese empire?
Warring States period
Whose contributions to the understanding of the molecular structure of DNA remained largely unrecognized during and long after her lifetime?
Rosalind Franklin
What novel by Jane Austen, which was adapted into a television series in 2019 of the same name, was left unfinished after her death?
Sanditon
What country became a republic in November 2021 on the 55th anniversary of its independence from the British Empire?
Barbados
What is one of the only two doubly landlocked countries in the world?
Liechtenstein or Uzbekistan
What are the names of the three West African kingdoms that ruled over the region between the 4th and 16th centuries, prior to European colonization?
The Ghana, Mali, and Songhai Empires
What is one of the four most recent official additions, all in 2016, to the periodic table of elements?
Tennessine, Nihonium, Moscovium, or Oganesson
By what husband-and-wife duo was the 1927 German expressionist science fiction film Metropolis written and directed?
Fritz Lang and Thea von Harbou
What country in September 2021 became the first in the world to adopt bitcoin as an official currency?
El Salvador