General Knowledge
This planet is known as the Red Planet.
What is Mars?
This ancient wonder of the world is the only one still standing today.
What is the Great Pyramid of Giza?
Physics:
This force pulls objects towards the centre of the Earth
What is gravity?
What has hands but cannot clap?
What is a clock?
What word is spelled incorrectly in every single dictionary?
What is Incorrectly?
Rock Paper Scissors the next person to buzz.
Winner gets 200 points
Loser gets deducted 200 points
This wonder in India was built by Emperor Shah Jahan as a tomb for his wife.
What is the Taj Mahal?
History:
Which year did World War II end?
What is 1945?
What gets wetter the more it dries?
What is a towel?
If you pass the person in second place during a race, what place are you in?
What is second place?
In 1755 this City was hit by an estimated 7.7 magnitude earthquake, which was then followed by a tsunami. What is the city?
What is Lisbon?
Great Lisbon earthquake.
Christ the Redeemer is one of the New Seven World Wonders. Can you tell me which year it was completed by? (margin of error 5 years)
What is 1931?
Construction took nine years, from 1922 to 1931 and the monument opened on October 12, 1931.
Chemistry:
This element has the chemical symbol Ga.
What is gallium?
I am always in front of you, but I can never be seen. What am I?
What is the future?
A farmer has 17 sheep. All but 9 die. How many are left?
What is 9?
What fallacy is at play when someone says:
"You can't trust Dave's opinion on climate change because Dave failed science at school."
What is an Ad Hominem fallacy? (attacking the person than the argument)
This mountain is considered one of the 7 wonders of nature and is located overlooking the city of Cape Town, South Africa
What is Table Mountain?
Biology :
This is the powerhouse of the cell which is used throughout the cell as a source of chemical energy.
What is the mitochondria?
The person who makes it doesn't need it.
The person who buys it doesn't use it.
The person who uses it doesn't know they're using it.
What is it?
What is a coffin?
If you have a bowl with six apples and you take away four, how many do you have?
What is four? The four you took
This country has the most official time zones of any country in the world.
What is France?
Name the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World (100 points per)
Great Pyramid of Giza
Hanging Gardens of Babylon
Statue of Zeus at Olympia
Temple of Artemis at Ephesus
Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
Colossus of Rhodes
Lighthouse of Alexandria
Maths:
Solve for x (show your working) :
5x−12=3x+8
What is 10?
I have cities, but no houses.
I have mountains, but no trees.
I have water, but no fish.
What am I?
What is a map?
If you had only one match and entered a dark room containing an oil lamp, some kindling wood, and a newspaper, which would you light first?
What is the match?