SCIENCE & NATURE
What is the hardest known natural material?
Diamond
What naturally occurring food never expires?
honey
Which is the only football team to play in every World Cup?
Brazil
How many countries does Russia border?
Sixteen. Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Japan, Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, China, the United States, Mongolia, and North Korea.
The musicians from which popular band could not read or write music?
The Beatles
The name of this disease stems from the medieval term that means ‘bad air’. What disease is it?
Malaria
Where is halloumi cheese from?
Cyprus
In what year did the Russian hockey team win the World Cup most recently?
2014
What country has the most natural lakes?
Canada
What is the most popular song of all time on YouTube?
Baby Shark Dance
Which animal can only eat when its head is upside down?
Flamingos
How many years of sushi chef training does it take to be trusted to make the rice in Japan?
five years
Why did Dr. James Naismith invent basketball?
Upon the request of his boss, Naismith was tasked to create an indoor sports game to help athletes keep in shape in cold weather.
What ocean is the smallest and the shallowest?
The Arctic ocean
Which Russian composer created the music for the ballet the Firebird?
Igor Stravinsky
Name three crepuscular mammals.
Many familiar mammal species are crepuscular, including some bats, hamsters, housecats, rabbits, ferrets, rats, jaguars, ocelots, bobcats, servals, strepsirrhines, red pandas, bears, deer, moose, sitatunga, capybaras, chinchillas, the common mouse, skunks, squirrels, foxes, wombats, wallabies, quolls, possums and marsupial gliders, tenrecs, and spotted hyenas.
What food was used as currency in the past?
cacao beans: the Maya civilization used them as money
Who was volleyball invented for originally?
Volleyball was designed as an indoor sport for businessmen who found the new game of basketball too vigorous.
In what country cheating on an exam is punishable by imprisonment?
in Bangladesh
Which musical instruments were associated with military operations and were regarded as a sign of nobility?
Trumpets
Which animals are guanacos closely related to?
When, where, and by whom was the first sunflower oil produced?
1829, Russia. Dmitry Semyonovich Bokarev, a peasant from Alexeyevskaya Sloboda (now Belgorod region), invented a procedure how to extract oil from sunflower seeds.
What sport were women allowed to play in the Olympics for the first time?
tennis in 1900
Which country has the greatest reserves of lithium?
Bolivia
What inspired Debussy to compose Clair de Lune?
The idea is from a poem by Paul Verlaine in his collection entitled Fêtes Galantes, themselves inspired by the paintings of Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721). Debussy set six of these poems to music, including this one, first in 1882, then again in 1891.