Geography
What river runs through Egypt?
Nile River
Which classic novel begins with the line: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times"?
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens.
A helicopter is used to dry out this fruit after a rainy day, to prevent it from splitting open.
A cherry
In 1796, Edward Jenner created the modern vaccine for what disease, now considered eradicated?
Smallpox
What kind of animal has no bones at all?
A shark
What is the largest desert in the world?
Antarctica
In George Orwell's Animal Farm, which type of animal is the hardworking Boxer?
A horse
There is a national _____ reserve, in case supply exceeds demand for this dried berry.
Raisin
"Prevalence" means the number of people who have a disease at a given point in time; what is the corresponding "I" term for the number of people who develop a disease over a period of time?
Incidence
Which fruit was once so rare in Europe that people would rent it for a day to show off at parties?
The pineapple
What is the smallest country in the world by land area?
Vatican City
The name "Wendy" was made up for what famous children's book?
Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
It’s official - the fruit name came before the color! The word for the color orange wasn’t created until 1542, and was a combination of these two names for the fruit.
Naranj and narang
Which term describes a pathogen that spreads disease by infecting a host through close contact?
Contagion
What is Mageirocophobia?
the fear of cooking
Which U.S. state has the longest coastline?
Alaska
Which book holds the Guinness World Record for the best-selling novel of all time?
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes.
Farmer's pick this fruit before it is ready, then use technology to trick it into ripening before hitting the shelves
Bananas
Both the World Health Organization and the International Committee of the Red Cross are headquartered in what Swiss city?
Geneva
What was the first item ever sold on eBay (originally called AuctionWeb)?
A broken laser pointer. (The founder was surprised anyone would buy it, but the buyer was a collector of broken laser pointers.)
In which country would you find the ancient city of Petra?
Jordan
What is the first name of Dr. Jekyll in The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde?
Henry
In 45 A.D., this fruit was originally called “ida” after the mountain it was grown on.
Raspberry
ansen’s disease is more commonly known by which name that’s associated with the places (“colonies”) where people were once sent to live if they were infected with the illness?
Leprosy
What popular chip brand's name comes from the German word for "wave"?
Lays (the Wavy Lays brand specifically uses the German word Welle for wave)
What is the name of the largest coral reef system in the world?
Great Barrier Reef
What is the famous phrase repeated by the character Winston Smith in the novel 1984?
"Big Brother is watching you" (The phrase "War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength" is also a key mantra)
More cranberries are consumed during these two holidays, as compared to the rest of the year.
Thanksgiving and Christmas
Named for its founder, what private research university in Baltimore, Maryland has the number-one ranked public health program in America, according to U.S. News?
Johns Hopkins
What food item is Walmart's top-selling product?
Bananas.
What country has the most natural lakes?
Canada
Which author was a taste-tester for Cadbury's chocolate as a schoolboy?
Roald Dahl
There are over 700 varieties of peaches in the world, but peaches are the most respected and admired in this country.
China
Blood-forming stem cells are important in cancer treatments because they form red blood cells, white blood cells, and what clotty things?
Platelets
What common body part is the only one that is fully grown from birth?
The eyes
Which Asian country was once called Siam?
Thailand
Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer was the first book manuscript submitted to a publisher using what device?
A typewriter
What fruit is know as the "King of Fruits"
The mango
COVID-19 revived the near obsolete Drinker Tank, popular polio-era negative pressure ventilators better known by what metallic name?
Iron Lung
What specific type of bird has a brain smaller than its eyeball?
A chicken (or ostrich).
What European city is divided into two parts by the Danube River?
Budapest
Which novel, later adapted into a popular Hulu series, is set in the dystopian society of Gilead?
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
What fruit is know as the "Queen of Fruits"
the mangosteen
The vaccine for measles prevention is often called the MMR vaccine because it also prevents the mumps and what other disease?
Rubella
The original name of Monopoly was called?
The Landlord's Game, patented in 1904 by Elizabeth Magie
(it demonstrates the dangers of monopolies. While it was later adapted and popularized by Charles Darrow and Parker Brothers as Monopoly)
What is the flattest continent on Earth?
Australia
In the Harry Potter series, what is Lord Voldemort's real name?
Tom Riddle.
What is widely considered the oldest domesticated fruit
The fig
An epidemic of what Aedes mosquito-borne virus was reported in the Americas in 2015 and 2016, leading the CDC to issue an advisory on travel to certain areas in Central and South America?
Zika
What kind of tree has the nickname "The Lipstick Tree" because the dye from its seeds is used in cosmetics and food coloring?
The annatto tree.