Famous Landmarks
$100: Which ancient city is home to the Temple of Karnak?
a) Athens
b) Luxor
c) Rome
d) Istanbul
Answer: b) Luxor
$100: What is the only metal that is liquid at room temperature?
a) Mercury
b) Lead
c) Gallium
d) Tin
Answer: a) Mercury
$100: Which capital city lies at the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers?
a) Baghdad
b) Damascus
c) Tehran
d) Riyadh
Answer: a) Baghdad
$100: Which number completes the sequence: 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, ?
a) 12
b) 13
c) 14
d) 15
Answer: b) 13
$100: Which English playwright wrote Macbeth?
a) Christopher Marlowe
b) William Shakespeare
c) Ben Jonson
d) John Webster
Answer: b) William Shakespeare
$200: The Moai statues are found on which remote island?
a) Easter Island
b) Galápagos
c) Madagascar
d) Sardinia
Answer: a) Easter Island
$200: Which planet in our solar system has the most moons?
a) Saturn
b) Jupiter
c) Uranus
d) Neptune
Answer: b) Jupiter
$200: Which African capital is closest to the equator?
a) Nairobi
b) Kampala
c) Kinshasa
d) Libreville
Answer: b) Kampala
$200: If you mix equal parts red and blue paint, what color do you get?
a) Purple
b) Green
c) Orange
d) Brown
Answer: a) Purple
$200: Don Quixote, considered the first modern novel, was written by which author?
a) Miguel de Cervantes
b) Gabriel García Márquez
c) Lope de Vega
d) Federico García Lorca
Answer: a) Miguel de Cervantes
$300: Which city is home to the historic fortress Alhambra, a masterpiece of Islamic architecture?
a) Granada
b) Seville
c) Cordoba
d) Toledo
Answer: a) Granada
$300: The chemical symbol “Hg” stands for which element?
a) Helium
b) Mercury
c) Hafnium
d) Hydrogen
Answer: b) Mercury
$300: Canberra became the capital of which country in 1913?
a) Canada
b) Australia
c) New Zealand
d) South Africa
Answer: b) Australia
$300: The more you take from me, the bigger I get. What am I?
a)debt
b)hole
c)shadow
d) Time
Answer: b) hole
$300: Which Russian author wrote Crime and Punishment?
a) Leo Tolstoy
b) Fyodor Dostoevsky
c) Anton Chekhov
d) Ivan Turgenev
Answer: b) Fyodor Dostoevsky
$400: Petra, famous for its rock-cut architecture, is in which country?
a) Jordan
b) Egypt
c) Lebanon
d) Syria
Answer: a) Jordan
$400: What is the term for animals that are active during twilight?
a) Nocturnal
b) Diurnal
c) Crepuscular
d) Cathemeral
Answer: c) Crepuscular
$400: Quito, one of the highest capitals in the world, is in which country?
a) Peru
b) Ecuador
c) Bolivia
d) Colombia
Answer: b) Ecuador
$400: I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. I have no body, but I come alive with wind. What am I?
a) Echo
b) Shadow
c) Fire
d) Wave
Answer: a) Echo
$400: One Hundred Years of Solitude is a famous work from which literary movement?
a) Realism
b) Magical Realism
c) Romanticism
d) Modernism
Answer: b) Magical Realism
$500: Which city has the oldest continually operating university in the world?
a) Paris
b) Bologna
c) Al-Qarawiyyin, Fez
d) Oxford
Answer: c) The University of Al-Qarawiyyin in Fez, Morocco, is widely recognized as the oldest university in the world. Founded in 859 CE. 1266 years old as of today.
$500: Which organ in the human body can regenerate tissue most effectively?
a) Heart
b) Liver
c) Kidney
d) Lungs
Answer: b) Liver
$500: Which capital city was built on an island in a lagoon?
a) Stockholm
b) Venice
c) Amsterdam
d) Oslo
Answer: b) Venice
$500: I’m light as a feather, yet the strongest person can’t hold me for more than five minutes. What am I?
a) Breath
b) Shadow
c) Water
d) Fire
Answer: a) Breath
$500: Which poet wrote The Raven and is known for macabre and gothic tales?
a) Robert Frost
b) Emily Dickinson
c) Edgar Allan Poe
d) Lord Byron
Answer: c) Edgar Allan Poe