What is the sum of a triangle's interior angles?
180 degrees
True or false: sound travels faster in air than in water.
False
The Taj Mahal can be found in which city?
Agra
What is the full term for the abbreviation B.L.T
Bacon, Lettuce, Tomato
Which singer is known for the hit song “Thriller”?
Michael Jackson
What is the area of a triangle with a base of 10 units and a height of 5 units?
25 units
Animals awake at night and asleep during the day like Owls are called what?
Nocturnal
What is the world’s longest international border?
US-Canada border (8,890 km/5,524 miles)
What popular pizza chain shares a name with a tile game?
Domino's
In the story of Snow White, how many dwarfs are there?
7
What is the term for the answer to a division question?
Quotient
What is a person who studies fossils and prehistoric life, such as dinosaurs, known as?
Paleontologist
What continent has the most countries?
Africa (54)
The name of this infamous French dessert:
Creme Brulee
What chess piece can only move vertically and horizontally?
Rook
Name 6 digits of Pi
3.14159
What is the term for a substance that speeds up a chemical reaction without being consumed in the process?
Catalyst
What country is home to the most natural lakes in the world?
(hint: "eh")
Canada
What is the motto/slogan of Tim Hortons?
Always Fresh
What is Rahat Fateh Ali Khan's most streamed song on Spotify?
O Re Piya
A student chose a number, multiplied it by 2, then subtracted 138 from the result and got 102. What was the number he chose?
120
What is the full term for the abbreviation ACL
Anterior Cruciate Ligament
This country is home to a Buddhist temple, one of Unesco's world heritage sites, Angkor Wat
Cambodia
Where do Kiwis originate from?
(hint: in top 10 biggest countries in the world)
China
What is Scotland's national animal?
Unicorn
A salesman sold twice as much pears in the afternoon than in the morning. If he sold 360 kilograms of pears that day, how many kilograms did he sell in the morning and how many in the afternoon?
Morning = 120
Afternoon = 240
What year did India gain independence from Britain?
*if you're within 5 years, you get it right*
1947
Which country is nicknamed ‘The Boot’ due to its shape?
(hint:)
Italy
What are dried plums called?
Prunes
What is the strongest muscle in the human body?
(hint: it's near your face)
Jaw (Masseter)
Leonardo has 3 taps in his bath. If he only fully opens tap 1 it takes 10 minutes to fill the bath. If he only fully opens tap 2 it takes 15 minutes to fill the bath, and if he only fully opens tap 3 it takes 30 minutes to fill the bath. If Leonardo were to fully open all 3 taps how long would it take to fill the bath?
A) 5 min
B) 10 min
C) 30 min
D) 55 min
A) 5 min
Reason: First you find the individual rates of bath per minute
Tap 1 = 1/10, Tap 2 = 1/15, Tap 3 = 1/30
To find the COMBINED rate you need to add them up which = 1/5 so if all taps go at once, it is 5 minutes
Scientists believe that the continents of the earth were all one large landmass 280 million years ago. The moving of tectonic plates caused this mass to break off into different pieces, making up the continents as we know them today. What was this landmass called?
Pangea
Name all 6 countries the Himalayas pass-through
India, Pakistan, Nepal, China, Bhutan, Afghanistan
In what country was the cocktail Mojito invented?
(hint: 4 letters)
Cuba
Name 15 actors that appeared in "Deewangi Deewangi" from the movie Om Shanti Om
Dharmendra, Jeetendra, Mithun, Salman Khan, Saif Ali Khan, Sanjay Dutt, Govinda, Bobby Deol, Arbaaz Khan, Tusshar Kapoor, Zayed Khan, Dino Morea, Sunil Shetty, Ritesh Deshmukh, Aftab Shivdasani, Rekha, Shabana Azmi, Kajol, Rani Mukherji, Pretty Zinta, Urmila Matondkar, Shilpa Shetty, Priyanka Chopra, Lara Dutta, Karishma Kapoor, Tabu, Vidya Balan, Juhi Chawla, Malaika Arora, Amrita Arora