food
What is the primary base ingredient used to make traditional guacamole?
avocado
This large, bustling city is known as the "City of Lights" and is the capital of France.
What is Paris
What is the only number spelled in English with its letters arranged in alphabetical order?
Forty (F-O-R-T-Y)
What is the only common fruit that bears its seeds on the outside of the fruit?
strawberry.
Which Roman leader was assassinated on the Ides of March in 44 BC?
Julius Caesar
Which South East Asian fruit is famously known as the "king of fruits" and is notorious for its strong, pungent odor?
the durian
Separated from continental Europe by the Pyrenees mountains, this country's capital is Madrid.
What is Spain?
If you add eight 8s together using only addition, how do you make 1,000?
888 + 88 + 8 + 8 + 8 = 1000
which famous vegetable varieties—including kale, Brussels sprouts, broccoli, and cabbage—were all bred from the same single species of wild plant?
Wild cabbage (Brassica oleracea).
Which European city suffered the arrival of the bubonic plague in 1347, marking the onset of the Black Death in Europe?
Messina, Italy (or widely accepted as Europe via trade ships entering Italian/European ports)
What country is officially credited as the true birthplace of french fries?
Belgium
This small, independent city-state is located entirely within the borders of Rome, Italy
What is Vatican City?
hat is the smallest perfect number (a positive integer that is equal to the sum of its proper positive divisors)?
6 (the sum of 1, 2, and 3).
Vanilla flavoring is extracted from the seed pod of which specific plant family?
The orchid family (specifically Vanilla planifolia).
What was the code name for the German invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II?
Operation Barbarossa
Which spice, derived from the crocus flower, is the most expensive in the world by weight?
saffron
This landlocked, mountainous country in Central Asia shares its capital with the name of its largest city: Bishkek.
What is Kyrgyzstan?
What is the only number that has the same number of letters as its meaning?
Four.
Which two vegetables are the only ones that are actually the immature flowers of the plant?
Broccoli and cauliflower.
Who was the only English monarch to be killed in battle after 1066?
Richard III (killed at the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485)
In which country did the Caesar salad originally originate
Mexico (Tijuana, created by Caesar Cardini in 1924
What is the only country with a single-word name that contains all five vowels (a, e, i, o, u) exactly once?
Mozambique
What is the exact mathematical name for a four-dimensional cube?
tesseract
The Rafflesia arnoldii is famous in the plant kingdom for holding which extreme biological title?
It is the largest flower in the world, with some specimens spanning up to 3 feet across and weighing 15 pounds
Which ancient wonder of the world was located in Alexandria, Egypt?
The Lighthouse of Alexandria (Pharos of Alexandria)