ANIMALS
GEOGRAPHY
HISTORY
SCIENCE
MISCELLANEOUS
100
What is the name of this nocturnal bird of prey that is known for its nearly silent flight and exceptional hearing, allowing it to hunt effectively in darkness?
Owl
100
What is the name of this iconic structure in New York city that was completed in 1886 and was a gift from France?
Statue of Liberty
100
Who is famous for building America's first mass market automobile?
Henry Ford
100
What cell organelle is often cited as being "the powerhouse of the cell" and is essential for cellular respiration?
Mitochondria
100
This term describes the practice of consuming a diet primarily consisting of plant-based foods, such as fruits, vegetables, grains, nuts, etc.
Vegan Diet
200
Axolotl
200
What is the name of the city that is the most populous in the world, with over 37 million residents in its metropolitan area?
Tokyo
200
The Great Wall of China was originally called something much less intimidating. What was its original, more practical name?
Frontier Barrier
200
The scientist famous for founding calculus and the concept gravity.
Sir Isaac Newton
200
This term describes the practice of consuming a diet primarily consisting of plant-based foods, such as fruits, vegetables, grains, nuts, etc.
Chick Peas
300
What is the name of the only mammal capable of true flight?
bat
300
Which city is often nicknamed "The Eternal City?"
Rome
300
The Polish enlisted this animal as a soldier in WW2.
Bear
300
What is the densest object in the observable universe?
Black Holes
300
The first ever fully animated feature length movie?
Snow White and the Seven Dwarves
400
What is the name of America's only native marsupial?
Opossum
400
The smallest and shallowest of the world's five oceans is?
The Arctic Ocean.
400
King Henry VIII of England famously had six wives. How many of his wives did he ultimately have beheaded?
2 (Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard)
400
What is the heaviest organ in the human body?
The skin
400
This Renaissance artist is famous for his detailed frescoes in the Sistine Chapel, including The Creation of Adam.
Michelangelo
500
Which animal has the largest brain to body ratio in the animal kingdom?
Sperm Whale
500
Which country has the longest coastline in the world?
Canada
500
What is the volcano that buried Herculaneum and Pompeii in ash and pumice?
What is Mount Vesuvius?
500
CRISPR, a term that is regularly brought up in conversations of gene editing, stands for what?
Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats
500
What 13-letter German loanword means a novel that focuses on the psychological and personal growth of the protagonist from youth to adulthood?
Bildungsroman