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What is the Jewish New Year called?
Rosh Hashanah
Marie Curie won the 1903 Nobel Prize for Physics and the 1911 Nobel Prize for what?
Chemistry
Which country consumes the most chocolate per person per year?
Switzerland
“Alas, poor Yorick” is from which play?
Hamlet
In which decade was the Sydney Opera House completed?
1970's
Which US city is known for its “Mardi Gras” celebrations?
New Orleans
Which female scientist helped unravel the structure of DNA?
Rosalind Franklin
What are the factory workers in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory called?
Oompa-Loompas
What will turn “the multitudinous seas incarnadine, making the green one red”?
King Duncan’s blood
Where is St. Peter’s Basilica?
Vatican City
In which city does the “Running of the Bulls” take place every July?
Pamplona
What is primatologist Jane Goodall best known for studying?
chimpanzees
To qualify as dark chocolate, it needs to contain at least 60% of what?
cocoa solids
“It is as broad as it hath breadth: it is just so high as it is, and moves with its own organs.” What beast is this?
crocodile
What was the Clock Tower at the Houses of Parliament renamed in 2012?
Elizabeth Tower
What is the traditional Indian greeting gesture of two hands together known as?
Namaste
What discovery did Danish seismologist Inge Lehmann make about Earth’s core?
Earth has a solid inner core surrounded by a molten outer core
Chocolate Easter eggs as gifts can be traced back to the 19th century in which two countries?
France and Germany
“Exit pursued by a bear” is a stage direction from which play?
A Winter’s Tale
Where is the Temple of Heaven?
Beijing, China
What color robe do monks traditionally wear in Thailand?
Orange
Which female scientist pioneered smallpox inoculation in England?
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Chocolate can increase “good” cholesterol and decrease “bad” cholesterol due to its high levels of what?
Antioxidants
What is the last line of Hamlet?
“The rest is silence.”
Where can you see the Petronas Towers?
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia