History
This person is known as the inventor of the telephone.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
The Olympic Games are held every how many years?
What is four years?
This is a type of word that expresses an action.
What is a verb?
What is 7 × 7?
What is 49?
This process is how plants make food out of sunlight.
What is photosynthesis?
This ancient civilisation built Machu Picchu in the Andes Mountains.
Who were the Inca?
This person, nicknamed "the Greatest", is often regarded as the greatest heavyweight boxer of all time.
Who is Muhammad Ali?
This literary term means a hint or clue about what will happen later in a story.
What is foreshadowing?
A rectangle has a width of 4 and a length of 7. What is its area?
What is 28?
This organelle is known as the “powerhouse of the cell.”
What is the mitochondrion?
This French military leader crowned himself emperor in 1804.
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?
In snooker, this is the term for potting all 15 reds with blacks in a single frame, then all the colours, for a maximum score of 147.
What is a maximum break?
This literary term means giving human qualities to non-human things.
What is personification?
What is the square root of 144?
What is 12?
This law states that energy cannot be created or destroyed, only transformed.
What is the Law of Conservation of Energy?
This empire reached its greatest territorial extent under Genghis Khan and his successors.
What is the Mongol Empire?
This country hosted the 2000 Summer Olympic Games.
What is Australia?
This is a unique punctuation mark that merges both the exclamation point and the question mark.
What is an interrobang?
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In a triangle, the sum of all interior angles always equals this number of degrees.
What is 180°?
This element has the chemical symbol W, and has the highest melting point of all pure metals (3422°C) and exceptional hardness.
What is tungsten?
This empire, centred in modern-day Turkey, collapsed after World War I.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
This person, in 1875, was the first person to ever swim the English Channel unaided.
Who is Captain Matthew Webb?
This word means an indirect or roundabout way of speaking, especially to avoid a direct statement.
What is circumlocution?
If 5x − 3 = 17, what is x?
What is 4?
This term describes the minimum velocity an object must reach to break free from a planet’s gravitational pull without further propulsion.
What is escape velocity?