Myth & Legends
In Greek mythology, he is known as the king of the gods and wields a thunderbolt.
Who is Zeus?
This Asian country has Tokyo as its capital.
What is Japan?
Water freezes at this temperature in Fahrenheit.
What is 32°F?
He wrote the play Romeo and Juliet.
Who is William Shakespeare?
A triangle with three equal sides is called this.
What is an equilateral triangle?
This Norse god is associated with thunder and carries the hammer Mjölnir.
Who is Thor?
The longest river in South America flows through Brazil and Peru.
What is the Amazon River?
This is the most abundant gas in Earth’s atmosphere.
What is nitrogen?
The literary genre that combines futuristic technology and speculative science is known as this.
What is science fiction?
The 19th element on the periodic table, symbol K, is this.
What is hydrogen?
According to legend, this British king pulled a sword from a stone to prove his right to the throne.
Who is King Arthur?
This desert in Asia is the coldest desert in the world.
What is the Gobi Desert?
The smallest unit of an element that retains its chemical properties is called this.
What is an atom?
This novel by Harper Lee addresses racial injustice in the American South.
What is To Kill a Mockingbird?
This term describes a word that reads the same backward as forward.
What is a palindrome?
This creature from ancient Egyptian mythology has the body of a lion and the head of a human.
What is a Sphinx?
This European city, split by the Danube River, is the capital of Hungary.
What is Budapest?
This theory, proposed by Charles Darwin, explains how species evolve through natural selection.
What is the theory of evolution?
This French painter is famous for the Water Lilies series.
Who is Claude Monet?
If you roll two standard six-sided dice, the total most likely to appear is this number.
What is 7?
In Japanese folklore, this shapeshifting fox can have up to nine tails and is often a trickster.
What is a Kitsune?
This island nation in the Indian Ocean is famous for its unique lemur species and biodiversity.
What is Madagascar?
In computers, this system uses 16 digits to represent data.
What is the hexadecimal system?
This painter, born in Spain, co-founded the Cubist movement with Georges Braque.
Who is Pablo Picasso?
If five people can paint five walls in five hours, at the same rate, this is the number of hours it would take ten people to paint ten walls.
What is five hours?