General World Knowledge(Dad will blow you out in this Category)
Science
Science Cont'd
Are you Smart?
Final Jeopardy
100

The shooting of whom, in 1914, started World War I?

Archduke Franz Ferdinand

100

On what continent will you not find bees?

Antarctica

100

What do you call the longest side of a right triangle (that is, the side that’s opposite the right angle)?

Hypotenuse

100

A “crepuscular” animal becomes active at what time?

Dusk 

100

What sea is next to Saudi Arabia?

Red Sea

200

What was the name of the possessed hotel in Steven King’s novel (and movie) The Shining, based on the real-life Stanley Hotel in Colorado?

The Overlook Hotel

200

What is the heaviest organ of the body?

Liver

200

The first 3-digit number in the Fibonacci sequence is also the largest square number to appear in the sequence - what is it?

144

200

Who was the only British Pope ever?

Pope Adrian IV

200

What famous actress once tried to hire a hitman to kill her?

Angelina Jolie

300

Where was the hottest-ever temperature on Earth recorded, per the World Meteorological Organization? What was the temperature?

Death Valley, 134 degrees. 

300

True or false, when you urinate, you excrete fat?

True

300

Which organ in the human body is the only one that can float in water (not that it would help if you’re drowning)?

Lungs

300

Who was the first person to suggest Daylight Savings Times?

Ben Franklin

300

How has the Statue of Liberty changed since it was built?

It changed color

400

What was the first book published by Jane Austen?

Sense and Sensibility

400

What is the deepest hole in the world called?

The Kola Superdeep Hole

400

What planet in our solar system has the most gravity?

Jupiter

400

If you order “murgh” from the menu at an Indian restaurant, what meat will you get?

Chicken

400

Which bird has the largest wingspan of any living bird?

Wandering Albatross

500

Which two countries have the longest shared international border?

Canada and America

500

How deep is the deepest hole in the world?

Reaching the 2nd level of the earth's core

500

What does the ER of a cell stand for?

Endoplasmic Reticulum

500

So far, which continent has hosted the Olympics the most times?

Europe

500

The Treaty of Ghent was the peace treaty that ended which war?

War of 1812

600

What city hosted the 2014 Winter Olympics?

Sochi, Russia

600

A buckyball is a stable and spherical molecule made up of what element?

Carbon

600

What instrument do you use to measure wind speed?

Anemometer

600

What is the legislature of the Netherlands called?

The State General

600

What is the capital of Lakshadweep (an island in the Arabian sea)?

Kavaratti

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