Food
What is the only fruit that has its seeds on the outside rather than the inside?
Strawberry
Which country recently hosted the Summer 2024 Olympics?
Paris
Who was the only U.S. president to survive an assassination attempt in the 1980s? and name the person who attempted the assignation?
Ronald Reagan, John Hinckley Jr.
Which country has the longest coastline in the world?
Canada
Which physicist developed the theory of relativity fundamentally changing our understanding of space and time?
Albert Einstein
What is the most common type star in the Milky Way galaxy?
Red dwarf
What is the main ingredient in the Japanese dish "UNI"
Sea urchin
In 2024 which tech company surpassed Apple to become the world's most valuable company?
Nvidia
Which U.S. Supreme Court justice was appointed in 1981, become the first woman to serve on the Court?
Sandra Day O'Connor
What is the only U.S. state to have a tropical rainforest?
Hawaii (The Hoh Rainforest in Washington is temperate not tropical.)
What British mathematician and logician is considered the father of modern computing and played a crucial role in breaking the Enigma code during WW2?
Alan Turning
Which planet in our solar system has the fastest rotation completing a full spin in just under 10 hours?
Jupiter
Which type of sugar is found naturally in milk?
Lactose
What significant environmental event occurred in the Amazon rainforest in 2024?
Record breaking wildfires.
What major Cold War event happened in 1989 symbolizing the end of the communist control of Easter Europe?
The fall of the Berlin Wall
Which two countries share the longest international boarder?
Canada and the United States
Which Scientist co-discovered the structure of DNA in 1953 along with James Watson and Maurice Wilkins?
Francis Crick
What is the name of the largest asteroid in the asteroid belt, which is also classified as a dwarf planet?
Ceres
What is the name of the process by which bread rises due to yeast fermentation?
Proofing or fermentation
Which spacecraft made its closest approach to the sun in late 2024?
Parker Solar Probe
Which U.S. military operation in 1991 led to the liberation of Kuwait from Iraqi forces?
Operation Desert Storm Gulf War
What is the deepest lake in the world?
Lake Baikal (Russia)
Which economist introduced the theory of Keynesian economics which argued for government intervention to stabilize the economy?
John Maynard Keynes
What is the term for a small rock or particle from space that burns up upon entering Earths Atmosphere?
Meteor
Which country is the largest producer of vanilla beans?
Madagascar
In 2024 which country became the first to legalize the use of autonomous drones for commercial deliveries nationwide?
Japan
Who was the independent candidate who ran against Bill Clinton and George H. W. Bush in the 1992 presidential election.
Ross Perot
Which African country has the highest number of bordering nations?
Democratic Republic of the Congo (9 neighbors: Angola, Burundi, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia.
Which inventor and businessman is credited with revolutionizing mass production by developing the assembly line for automobiles?
Henry Ford
Which planet in our solar system has the most moons?
Saturn
What is the Scoville scale used to measure?
The spiciness or heat level of chili peppers.
Which major social media platform rebranded itself as X in 2024?
Which U.S. president was impeached by the House of Representatives in 1998?
Bill Clinton
Which is the only sea with no coastline?
The Sargasso Sea-it is defined by ocean currents in the Atlantic Ocean.
Which psychologist developed the hierarchy of needs a theory of human motivation?
Abraham Maslow
What is the name of the galaxy closets to our Milky Way, which is on a collision course with our galaxy?
Andromeda
Which French cheese is known for being illegal to sell in the U.S. if made with raw milk and aged less than 60 days?
Roquefort
In 2024 which country launched the Green Wall project to combat desertification?
China
Which major economic agreement between the U.S. and Mexico was signed into law in 1993?
NAFTA
What is the largest island in the Mediterranean?
Sicily Italy
Who was the pioneering female scientist who conducted groundbreaking research on radioactivity and was the first person to win 2 Nobel prices?
Marie Curie
What is the name of the point in a black hole where gravity is so intense that space and time cease to function normally?
Singularity
What is the culinary term for cooking food slowly in a small amount of liquid at a temperature just below boiling?
Braising.
Which film won Best Picture award at the 2024 Academy Awards?
The Midnight Horizon
What was the name of the major political movement led by Newt Gingrich and the Republican Party in 1994?
The Contract with America
Which river flows through the most countries?
The Danube River, flows through 10 countries: Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia, Romania, Moldova, and Ukraine.
Which British theoretical psychists made significant contributions to black hole physics and wrote the bestselling book "A brief History of Time"?
Stephen Hawking
Which exoplanet discovered in the habitable zone of its star is often referred to as Earths cousin?
Kepler 452b
Which nut is used to make traditional Italian Pesto alla Genovese?
Pine nuts
In 2024 which country announced its plan to phase out all coal-fired powerplants by 2030?
Germany
Which scandal involved the Reagan administration secretly selling arms to Iran and using the proceeds to fund Nicaraguan rebels?
The Iran Contra Affair.
Which country has the most time zones including overseas territories?
France, due to its many overseas territories it spans 12 time zones.
Which American civil rights leader and minister is best known for his role in advancing racial equality through non-violent resistance?
Martin Luther King Jr
What is the name of the region of the Sun's atmosphere that is hotter than its surface and is visible during a total solar eclipse?
Corona
What is the name of the protein in wheat that gives dough its elasticity and chewiness?
Gluten.
Which tech company unveiled the first commercially available quantum computer in 2024?
IBM
Who was the first African American to serve as Chairman of the Joint chiefs of Staff a position he held during the Gulf War?
Colin Powell
Which mountain range is home to the highest capital city in the world?
The Andes, La Paz, Bolivia, is the highest capital city at about 3650 meters or 11975 feet above sea level.
Who developed the polio vaccine which effectively ended the epidemic that had plagued the U.S. for decades?
Jonas Salk
Which spacecraft holds the record for being the farthest human-made object from Earth?
Voyager 1