Pop culture
Riddle me this
General Knowledge
History/Geography
Sciences
Famous Firsts
100
This handheld virtual pet became a global craze in 1997.
What is Tamagotchi?
100
What is 87?
100
Nobel Prize categories.
Bonus +100: which one is not designated by Sweden?
What are medicine, physics, chemistry, literature, economics, and peace?
Bonus +100: what is peace?
100
Number of time zones in China.
What is 1?
100
I formulated the laws of planetary motion.
Who is Johannes Kepler?
100
This woman was the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
Who is Margaret Thatcher?
200
This app many people moved to due to increasing concerns with X (previously Twitter) positions.
What is BlueSky?
200
Number of squares of all sizes that appear in a 4x4 grid of unit squares.
What is 30?
200
Name of the painter
+200 bonus for name of the painting
What is Salvador Dali?
Bonus: What is The persistence of memory?
200
City in which nuclear bombs were initially developed
What is Los Alamos?
200
Only disease to have been eradicated through vaccination.
What is smallpox (variole)?
200
First city to host the modern Olympic Games in 1896.
Bonus +200: city they will be held in in 2028
Bonus +200: city they will be held in in 2032
What is Athens?
Bonus: What is Los Angeles?
Bonus: What is Brisbane?
300
This movie featured the line “I’m king of the world!”
Bonus +300: Year of release
What is Titanic?
Bonus: 1998
300
The one who makes it sells it. The one who buys it never uses it. The one who uses it never knows he's using it. What is it?
What is a coffin?
300
Relative to the internet, what does “URL” stand for?
What is uniform resource locator?
300
I am a country in which we speak one of the 10 most commonly spoken languages in the world. I share borders with >5 countries including France. My capital city is not my biggest city. I am the only country to have participated in every soccer worldcup.
What is Brazil?
300
Famous thought experiment in quantum mechanics, devised by Erwin Schrödinger, that illustrates the concept of quantum superposition.
What is Schrodinger's cat?
300
This country was the first to grant women the right to vote.
What is New Zealand?
400
Name the top 3 highest box-office grossing movies in order.
What is Avatar, Avengers: Endgame, Avatar: The Way of Water?
400
My first means fire in another language.
My second is a recessed, coastal body of water that directly connects to a larger main body of water.
My third means to go crazy in Arabic.
My whole is a country that hosts a Formula 1 Grand Prix.
What is Azerbaijan?
400
Flag of which country?
What is Uganda?
400
This 1942 naval battle in the Pacific had indirect consequences for Europe by influencing U-boat strategy.
What is the battle of Midway?
400
Largest organ in the body.
What is the skin?
400
This African nation was the first to gain independence from colonial rule.
What is Liberia?
500
This animated sequel became the highest-grossing animated movie of all time.
What is Super Mario Bros. movie?
500
The sum of the first n positive integers is given by this formula.
What is n(n+1)/2?
500
This philosophical work, written in 1781 by Immanuel Kant, attempted to reconcile rationalism and empiricism.
What is Critique of Pure Reason?
500
Oldest continuously inhabited capital in the world
What is Damascus?
500
Periodic table question: start with the first element of the second row. Then move to the only diagonally adjacent element. Move 4 elements to the right. Move once up. Which element am I?
What is oxygen?
500
This mountain was the first 8,000-meter peak ever successfully summited in 1950.
What is Annapurna I?
600
This actor won the Academy Award for Best Actor for portraying a Vietnam War veteran in The Deer Hunter (1978).
Who is Robert De Niro?
600
exist only because you notice me.
Measure me, and I change.
Ignore me, and I still pass.
I heal wounds yet causes them.
I move in one direction, never two,
and every attempt to reverse me fails.
Physicists define me.
Humans fear me.
What am I?
What is time?
600
Rank these discoveries from oldest to newest (1 mistake allowed):
Neptune, Hot air balloon, Printer, X-rays, Airplanes, Electricity, Telescope, Telephone, Photography
What is Printer → Telescope → Electricity → Hot Air Balloon → Photography → Neptune → Telephone → X-rays → Airplanes?
600
List of USSR rulers.
Bonus +600 if in order
What is Lenin, Stalin, Malenkov, Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Andropov, Chernenko, and Gorbachev?
600
Rank those animals from highest to lowest % of DNA they share with humans: chicken, gorilla, chimpanzee, whale, cat, dog, orangutan, crocodile, mouse.
+/- 1 accepted
What is chimpanzee, gorilla, orangutan, whale, dog, cat, mouse, crocodile, chicken?
600
This soccer player was the first to score in four separate World Cups.
Who is Miroslav Close?