General knowledge
Which African leader became the first African president of South Africa in 1994?
Nelson Mandela
Australia's population is currently 27.2 million and is growing by 1.3% per year. Assuming this growth rate remains constant, what will the population be in 8 years' time?
30.2 million people
Which country won the FIFA World Cup in 2022?
Argentina
What is the name of the mathematical constant approximately equal to 1.6180339887..., often associated with art, architecture, and nature?
The Golden Ratio (φ)
Which country is both in Europe and Asia and has Istanbul as its largest city?
Turkey
Which country gifted the Statue of Liberty to the United States?
France
A school has 1,250 students. If 68% of the students participate in at least one sporting activity, how many students participate in sport?
850 students
Who was the first Formula 1 driver to win seven World Championships?
Michael Schumacher
Which landlocked country's capital city is Ulaanbaatar?
Mongolia
Which Australian city is located on the Swan River?
Perth
Which empire was ruled by Genghis Khan at its height?
Mongol Empire
A student invests $4,500 in a savings account earning 4.2% compound interest per annum, compounded annually. What will the investment be worth after 6 years
$5,761.99
In golf, what score is recorded when a player completes a hole in two strokes fewer than par?
Eagle
In computing, what does the acronym URL stand for?
Uniform Resource Locator
What is the largest island in the world (excluding continents)?
Greenland
Which Chinese dynasty built much of the Great Wall as it exists today?
Ming Dynasty
A swimmer completes a 400 m race in 3 minutes and 42.5 seconds. If the swimmer maintains the same average speed, how long would it take to swim the English Channel, which is approximately 34 km wide?
5 h 15 min
Which nation has won the most men's Cricket World Cups?
Australia
Who wrote the novel 1984?
George Orwell
What is the northernmost capital city in the world
Reykjavík, Iceland
Which artist painted The Persistence of Memory, famous for its melting clocks?
Salvador Dalí
The Great Pyramid of Giza has a square base with side length 230.4 m and a height of 138.8 m. If each stone block measures 1.5 m long, 0.8 m wide, and 1.0 m high, estimate how many stone blocks were needed to construct the pyramid
2,047,987
What was the host city of the first modern Olympic Games in 1896?
Athens
Which country has the most official languages in the world?
Bolivia (37 official languages)
Which mountain range separates Europe from Asia in Russia?
Ural Mountains
Which political document, signed in 1215, limited the power of the English king and influenced modern democracy?
Magna Carta
The monthly rainfall (in mm) for a city over 12 months was:
82, 75, 61, 48, 39, 22, 18, 16, 24, 41, 57, 79
What percentage of the total annual rainfall occurred during the four wettest months?
52.8%
Before becoming the AFL, what was the previous name of Australia's premier Australian Rules football competition?
Victorian Football League (VFL)
Which Polish-born scientist became the first person to win Nobel Prizes in two different scientific fields and discovered the elements polonium and radium?
Marie Curie
Which country contains the geographic feature known as the Danakil Depression, one of the hottest places on Earth?
Ethiopia
Which inventor is credited with developing the World Wide Web in 1989?
Tim Berners-Lee
A sequence begins:
5, 12, 23, 38, 57,…
Find the 40th term of the sequence.
3242
In the sport of curling, what is the term for the circular target area that teams aim to place their stones closest to?
The house
Which Austrian-born queen of France, executed during the French Revolution in 1793, was the wife of King Louis XVI?
Marie Antoinette
What is the name of the large underground water source that lies beneath much of inland eastern Australia?
Great Artesian Basin