General Knowledge
This is the name of Ebenezer Scrooge's former business partner, who visits him beyond the grave to warn him of his fate in Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol."
Who is Jacob Marley?
This is the year Hong Kong revert to Chinese sovereignty.
What is 1997?
This US state is known as the "Show Me" State.
What is Missouri?
This is the third planet from the sun.
What is Earth?
This is the quickest way for a team to win a game of Quidditch.
What is Catching the Golden Snitch.
Contrary to popular belief, the name "Big Ben" refers to the bell inside the tower and not the tower itself. The tower is called this.
What is the Elizabeth Tower?
This is the man who killed American founding father Alexander Hamilton in a duel in 1804.
Who is Aaron Burr?
This is the name of the deepest known point in the world's oceans.
What is Challenger Deep.
This space probe was launched by NASA in 1977 and contains a golden disc showing mankind's impact & will not reach the edge of our solar system for another 61,000 years.
What is Voyager 1?
This Acromantula residing in the Forbidden Forest of Hogwarts is one of the pets of Hogwarts' groundskeeper, Rubeus Hagrid.
This is the name of the pet dinosaur on the TV cartoon “The Flintstones”?
What is Dino?
This was the war Operation Desert Storm kicked off in January 1991?
What is The Persian Gulf War.
These are the only two US states where more than half the population lives on islands.
What are Hawaii & New York?
This is the name of the closest star to Earth, apart from our own sun.
What is Proxima Centauri?
Arthur Miller thought 1690s Salem was relevant to 1950s America when he wrote this play.
What is The Crucible?
This legendary founder of Rome is said to have killed his brother, Remus, over a disagreement.
Who is Romulus?
This city has the second-largest population.
What is Delhi.
This is the name of the planet which smashed into the Earth roughly four and a half billion years ago, the remains forming what is now our moon.
What is Theia?
These three items in the story of the "Three Brothers" make up the Deathly Hallows.
What are the Invisibility Cloak, the Elder Wand, & The Resurrection Stone?
Although the term was initially coined on the London Stock Exchange in the 18th century for a stockbroker who defaulted on his debts, it's now commonly used to refer to office-holders headed out the door.
This ancient stone slab, discovered in Egypt in 1799, provided the key to deciphering hieroglyphics and is now the most visited item on display in the British Museum.
What is The Rosetta Stone
Russia has a 231-mile-long border with this nation, whose capital is Baku.
What is Azerbaijan?
On the planet of Neptune, this is how long a single season lasts.
What is 40 years?
A boggart is a creature that can transform into its victim's greatest fear. This is what it appears as to Defence Against the Dark Arts professor Remus Lupin.
What is a full moon.