World History
This ancient civilisation built Machu Picchu.
Inca civilisation
This negatively charged particle orbits an atom’s nucleus.
Electron
This is the capital city of New Zealand.
Wellington
This fictional nation is the setting of The Hunger Games.
Panem
This is the first prime number after 50.
53
Signed in 1215, this document limited the power of the English monarch.
Magna Carta
This process occurs when plants release water vapour through their leaves.
Transpiration
This is the world’s longest continental mountain range.
Andes
This composer created the music for Star Wars, Jaws and Jurassic Park.
John Williams
A polygon with nine sides has this name.
Nonagon
His assassination in Sarajevo in 1914 helped trigger the First World War.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
This element has the chemical symbol K.
Potassium
This country is completely surrounded by South Africa.
Lesotho
This Australian author wrote The Book Thief.
Markus Zusak
This is the decimal value of the binary number 1010.
10
This 1962 confrontation brought the United States and Soviet Union close to nuclear war.
Cuban Missile Crisis
This is the SI unit used to measure electrical resistance.
Ohm
This African country has more ancient pyramids than Egypt.
Sudan
“Big Brother” appears in this dystopian novel.
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)
Two fair coins are tossed. This is the probability that both land on heads.
1/4 or 25%
This treaty formally ended the First World War between Germany and the Allied powers.
Treaty of Versailles
This boundary around a black hole marks the point beyond which nothing can escape.
Event horizon
This landlocked South American country has Sucre as its constitutional capital and La Paz as its seat of government.
Bolivia
This director and animator co-founded Studio Ghibli and directed Spirited Away.
Hayao Miyazaki
This is the smallest positive number divisible by every whole number from 1 to 10.
2520