Animals
What is the largest land animal on Earth?
Elephant
How many players are on the pitch for one football team?
11
What ancient civilization built the pyramids?
Egyptians
What country is Paris the capital of?
France
What appliance is used to bake food?
Oven
What is the fastest land animal?
Cheetah
What NBA team did Michael Jordan win six championships with?
Bulls
In what decade did the Great Depression begin?
1930's
What country has the most people in Europe?
Russia
What country is sushi from?
Japan
What sea animal has the largest brain of any invertebrate?
Octopus
What country has won the most FIFA World Cups?
Brazil
Who was the first President of the United States?
George Washington
What is the longest river in the world? (not the biggest)
Nile River
What cooking method uses steam instead of oil or water?
Steaming
What animal has fingerprints nearly identical to humans?
Chimpanzee
What country hosted the 2020 Olympics?
Japan
What document officially ended World War I?
Treaty of Versailles
What desert is the largest hot desert in the world?
Sahara Desert
What ingredient is used to make bread rise?
Yeast
What mammal lays eggs instead of giving live birth?
Platypus
What team won the first Super Bowl?
Packers
What famous speech did Martin Luther King Jr. deliver in 1963 in Washington, D.C.?
I have a dream
What city is located on two continents?
Istanbul
What cooking term means to boil lightly in water?
Simmer
What mammal has the thickest fur of any animal?
Sea Otter
What country won the first ever FIFA World Cup in 1930?
Uruguay
What war was fought between Sparta and Athens in ancient Greece?
Peloponnesian War
What mountain range separates Europe and Asia?
Ural Mountains
What herb is traditionally used in pesto?
Basil
what is the name of a mammal that can fly
Bat
What country has won the most Olympic medals outside of the United States?
Soviet Union, (half points for Russia)
What global event officially began in 1789 with the storming of the Bastille?
French Revolution
What country has the most time zones?
France
What French cooking term means “to cook slowly in its own juices”?
En papillote, or Braising
name a animal that is both poisonous and venomous?
Tiger Keelback aka (Asian tiger snake), and the Blue-ringed octopus,
What country is the only one to have won the men’s FIFA World Cup, women’s FIFA World Cup, and an Olympic gold medal in football?
Germany
What 14th-century pandemic is believed to have killed up to one-third of Europe’s population?
The Black Death
What country has the longest coastline in the world?
What cooking technique involves sealing food in a vacuum bag and cooking it in water at a precise temperature?
Sous vide