History
Which famous ocean liner sank on its maiden voyage in 1912?
The Titanic.
How many sides does a hexagon have?
6.
A farmer has 17 sheep. All but nine run away. How many sheep remain?
9 sheep.
What has teeth but cannot bite?
A comb. Also accept a saw or a zipper.
What term means finishing a football match without conceding a goal?
Keeping a clean sheet.
Which French military leader became emperor in 1804?
Napoleon Bonaparte.
What is 3/4 + 1/8? Give your answer as a fraction.
7/8.
The numbers on opposite faces of a die add up to 7. If the bottom face shows 2, what does the top face show?
5.
What has a neck but no head?
A bottle. Also accept a guitar or a vase.
Which country did Cristiano Ronaldo captain at UEFA EURO 2016?
Portugal.
Which volcano buried the Roman city of Pompeii in AD 79?
Mount Vesuvius.
A car travels 180 kilometres in 2.5 hours. What is its average speed?
72 kilometres per hour.
Ava, Ben and Cara each have a different pet: a cat, a dog or a fish. Ben has the fish. Ava does not have the cat. Who has the cat?
Cara. Ava has the dog.
What belongs to you, but other people use it more than you do?
Your name.
What does VAR stand for in football?
Video Assistant Referee.
What is the name of the stone whose inscriptions helped scholars decipher Egyptian hieroglyphs?
The Rosetta Stone.
A circle has a radius of 4 cm. What is its area in terms of pi?
16 pi square centimetres.
A bell rings four times in 6 seconds, measured from the first ring to the last. At the same steady rate, how long would seven rings take?
12 seconds. Four rings have three intervals; seven rings have six.
I am an odd number. Remove one letter from my English name and I become even. What number am I?
Seven. Remove the letter s to get even.
Which Brazilian player scored both goals in the 2002 men's World Cup final against Germany?
Ronaldo, also known as Ronaldo Nazario.
Which treaty, signed in 1919, imposed peace terms on Germany after World War I?
The Treaty of Versailles.
A bag contains 3 red balls and 2 blue balls. You draw two without replacement. What is the probability that both are red?
3/10. Multiply 3/5 by 2/4.
A farmer must ferry a fox, a chicken and a sack of grain across a river. Only the farmer can row, carrying at most one of them. The fox and chicken, or chicken and grain, cannot be left together without the farmer. What is the minimum number of one-way crossings?
7 crossings: chicken across; return alone; fox across; chicken back; grain across; return alone; chicken across.
Read forward, I am a unit of weight. Read backward, I make a statement negative. What three-letter word am I?
Ton. Read backward, it becomes not.
Which city hosted the dramatic 2005 Champions League final between Liverpool and AC Milan?
Istanbul.