Brain Busters
What is the only planet in our solar system that rotates clockwise when viewed from above its north pole?
Venus
What is the capital city of Australia?
Canberra
What is the name of the kingdom where Elsa and Ana live in Disney's "Frozen"?
Arendelle
What does "www" in an address stand for?
world wide web
What word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
short
What is the smallest prime number greater than 100?
101
Which country contains the region of Transylvania?
Armenia
Which artist released the album 1989 in 2014?
Taylor Swift
Which company originally introduced the Macintosh computer in 1984?
Apple
What is the term for a word or phrase formed by rearranging the words of another? (like listen and silent)
anagram
What is the name for a word that reads the same forward and backward, such as racecar?
Palindrome
What is the only country that borders both the Caspian Sea and the Persian Gulf?
Iran
In the Hunger Games, what is the name of the fictional nation where Katniss Everdeen lives?
Panem
Which auto maker introduced the Model-T in 1908?
Ford
What English word has three consecutive pairs of double letters?
bookkeeper
Which element has the chemical symbol "W"?
Tungsten
Which country was formally called the Gold Coast before gaining independence in 1957?
Ghana
Which 1994 film features the characters Mia Wallace and Vincent Vega?
Pulp Fiction
Nintendo
What is the linguistic term for a word that sounds like the noise it describes? (such as buzz or hiss)
onomatopoeia
What is the SI unit of electrical resistance?
ohm
What is the only country in the world who's national flag is not quadrilateral?
Nepal
What was the first feature-length animated film released by Walt Disney Productions?
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
What is the term for a market dominated by a small number of large companies?
Oligopoly
contronym