History
This ancient civilisation built the Pyramid of Khufu.
What is Ancient Egypt.
The largest ocean on Earth?
Is it Pacific Ocean?
What’s the centre of an atom called?
Define phoneticity of a word.
Is it the degree to which a writing system actually reflects its spoken sound?
What is the deepest ocean trench on Earth?
What is the Mariana Trench?
This plague killed around 25 million to 50 million during Justinian 1’s reign.
Is it Plague of Justinian?
This river flows through Egypt, and is the longest in Africa.
What is the Nile River?
This planet is known as the red planet.
Is it mars?
What is a diphthong?
Is it a blend of two vowel sounds within a single syllable, requiring a glide from one sound to another?
What language family does English belong to?
Is it The Indo-European language family?
In 1066, this battle led to the Norman control of England.
What is The Battle of Hastings?
This country has Vilnius as its capital.
What is Lithuania?
This organelle is known as the “powerhouse of the cell” because it produces most of a cell’s ATP energy.
What is Mitochondrian?
A change in the pronunciation of English long vowels occurring between 1400s to 1700s.
Is it The Great Vowel Shift?
This 1919 treaty formally ended World War I and imposed heavy reparations and territorial losses on Germany, contributing to major political instability in the following decades.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
Æthelred the Unready started this massacre to control the Danish population in England.
Is it St Brice’s Day Massacre?
This mountain range forms a natural border between Spain and France.
What are the Pyrenees?
This law states that for a constant temperature, the pressure and volume of a gas are inversely proportional.
Is it Boyle’s law?
Why did English words start having standardised spellings by the 1500s?
This unit of digital information is equal to 8 bits and is commonly used as the basic building block for measuring file sizes and memory.
What is a Byte?
He was one of the earliest people known to write poetry in the Occitan language and reign as king of England from 1086CE to 1126CE
Is it William IX, Duke of Aquitaine?
The Magna Carta was signed by King John of England at this meadow near Windsor in 1215.
What is Runnymede?
This equation, derived from quantum mechanics, relates a particle’s energy to its wave frequency and is fundamental to describing light and matter at microscopic scales.
What is Planck-Einstein relation?
Recite the Lord’s Prayer in Old English (West Saxon dialect).
Fæder ure
þu þe eart on heofonum,
si þin nama gehalgod.
Tobecume þin rice.
Gewurþe ðin willa on eorðan swa swa on heofonum.
Urne gedæghwamlican hlaf syle us todæg.
And forgyf us ure gyltas swa swa we forgyfað urum gyltendum.
And ne gelæd þu us on costnunge,
ac alys us of yfele. Soþlice.
This logical principle, also known by a Latin phrase meaning “from the absence of proof,” argues that a claim should not be considered true simply because it has not been proven false.
What is Ad ignorantiam?