Geography
Where is the State of Washington?
South West
South East
North West
North East
North West
Which famous British Prime Minister led the UK during most of World War II?
Winston Churchill.
What is the name of the fictional detective who lives at 221B Baker Street?
Sherlock Holmes.
What is the square root of 25?
5.
What is the chemical symbol for water?
H2O.
Which US state is an archipelago?
Hawaii.
What is the name of the famous ship that sank in 1912, which was sailing from Southampton to New York?
The Titanic.
Which one of these famous people appears in the title of a Shakespeare's play?
Vercingetorix
Cleopatra
Tutankhamun
Alexander the Great
Cleopatra (in "Anthony and Cleopatra").
What is the name of a triangle with three equal sides?
Equilateral.
What is the name of the famous British scientist who proposed the theory of evolution by natural selection?
Charles Darwin.
What were the last two States to join the USA as States?
Alaska and Hawaii.
Which famous English king was known as "The Lionheart"?
Richard I.
What is the nationality of Nobel Prize for Literature Kazuo Ishiguro?
British (he was Japanese, but not anymore).
What is the value of Pi rounded to four decimal places?
3,14.
Which scientist is famous for discovering gravity after seeing an apple fall?
Isaac Newton.
Which body of water runs between France and England?
The Channel.
In what year did the United States declare its independence?
1776.
In George Orwell’s 1984, what is the name of the totalitarian leader who is never seen but whose image is everywhere?
Big Brother.
What is the name of the number system used in computers (0 and 1)?
The binary code.
What is the name of the process by which plants make their own food using sunlight?
Photosynthesis.
Draw a map of the UK. Best map wins.
I am both a famous English explorer and the thing you do in a kitchen. What word am I?
Cook.
How does Hamlet's father dies?
Poison (in the ear!).
What is the only number that has the same number of letters as its value in English?
Four.
What is the name of the molecule that carries genetic information in all living things? Full name please.
Deoxyribonucleic acid