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Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, and Teyana Taylor all appear in which 2025 Paul Thomas Anderson film that dominated the 2026 Oscars?
One Battle After Another
100
Which Scandinavian pioneer of Expressionism bequeathed his entire collection of 1,100 paintings and 18,000 prints upon his death in 1944, and is known for works such as Madonna, The Sick Child and Vampire?
Edvard Munch
100
What is the name of the main street in Barcelona that runs from Plaça de Catalunya down to the harbour?
La Rambla
100
Which classic Windows game challenged players’ logical skills by using numbers to locate hidden explosives?
Minesweeper
100
Its fundamental unit was defined in 1795 as one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the North Pole, making it the first measurement system rooted in nature rather than the human body. Born from the chaos of revolutionary France, which system replaced hundreds of conflicting local units yet is still officially rejected by the United States, Liberia, and Myanmar?
The metric system
200
Which Norwegian director is behind the films Reprise, Oslo, August 31st, The Worst Person in the World, and Sentimental Value — the last of which earned Norway its first-ever Oscar for Best International Feature Film at the 2026 Academy Awards?
Joachim Trier
200
What historical reference did the Swedish quartet use as a metaphor for surrendering to love in the song that gave Sweden its very first victory in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1974?
Waterloo
200
Landlocked within a single country, sitting atop Mount Titano in the heart of the Italian Peninsula, it has more registered cars than people and is governed by two heads of state who are replaced every six months. Which microstate is also the world's oldest republic, founded in 301 AD?
San Marino
200
In the late 1990s, a Japanese phenomenon took off, with millions of children (and adults) becoming ‘parents’ to a digital creature that lived inside an egg-shaped plastic device. What is the name of this virtual pet that required constant feeding, playing and care to prevent it from "dying"?
Tamagochi
200
Working from a tower in the small Baltic town of Frombork in northern Poland, he spent decades calculating that everything the scientific world believed about the universe was wrong, and was so afraid of the consequences that he reportedly only received his published work on his deathbed. Which Polish astronomer proposed in 1543 that the Earth orbits the Sun, not the other way around?
Nicolaus Copernicus
300
Before I became an actor, I started out as a contemporary dancer and a student at the Ballet Academy. Since then, I have played characters such as Le Chiffre, Lucas, Hannibal Lecter, Kaecilius and Marcus. Who am I?
Mads Mikkelsen
- Le Chiffre – Casino Royale (James Bond)
- Hannibal Lecter – Hannibal (TV series)
- Lucas – Druk (Another Round)
- Kaecilius – Doctor Strange
- Gabriel – Polar
300
Which Catalan modernist architect is known as the ‘Architect of God’ and is responsible for seven UNESCO-listed works, including a basilica that has been under construction since 1882 and is scheduled for completion this year, 2026?
Antoni Gaudí
300
Which capital city was founded by the Norwegian priest Hans Egede, is home to the world’s northernmost university, and has a name that means ‘the headland’ in Danish?
Nuuk, Greenland
300
DNF is the least popular abbreviation in the Olympics – but what does it actually mean?
Did not finish
300
After winning the Nobel Prize in 1920, a Danish professor travelled to North America where his wife, herself a doctor, convinced him to bring a revolutionary new treatment back to Denmark. Which discovery by Canadian scientists in 1921 inspired the founding of what would become Novo Nordisk?
Insulin
400
Which Swedish actor, the eldest of a famous sibling group, plays the eccentric tech billionaire Lukas Matsson in the HBO hit Succession?
Alexander Skarsgård
400
Which Basque town has lent its name to both a famous cured delicacy and a weapon that extended the musket when the gunpowder ran out?
Bayonne, France (ham and bayonet)
400
It has no airport, its national football team has never qualified for a major tournament, and it is one of only two doubly landlocked nations on Earth. Which microstate also happens to be the world's leading exporter of false teeth?
Liechtenstein
400
What is the English term for the House of Commons, which, together with the House of Lords, forms the British Parliament?
House of Commons
400
His face previously appearing on the Norwegian 200-kroner banknote, he was nominated for the Nobel Prize seven times, and he was the first scientist to correctly explain what causes the Northern Lights. Which Norwegian physicist, born in Oslo in 1867, gave his name to the electric currents that flow between the Sun and Earth's poles?
Kristian Birkeland
500
Which Swedish director, like Francis Ford Coppola (The Conversation, Apocalypse Now), and Ken Loach (The Wind That Shakes the Barley, I, Daniel Blake), has won two Palme d’Or awards at the Cannes Film Festival for The Square and Triangle of Sadness?
Ruben Östlund
500
What is the name of the famous riding school at the Hofburg Palace in Vienna, designed by the Baroque architect Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach?
Spanish Riding School
500
Which trendy district in Berlin is named after a 66-metre-high ‘mountain’ located in the district’s Viktoriapark?
Kreuzberg
500
One of the world’s smallest independent states is protected by around 135 men who make up the guard – what are they called?
Swiss Guard
500
Played by Kenneth Branagh in Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer, he won the Nobel Prize in 1922 and proposed a radical new model of the atom that explained why elements emit light at specific colours. Which Danish physicist, born in Copenhagen in 1885, is considered one of the founding fathers of quantum mechanics?
Niels Bohr