MISCELLANEOUS
In what year has the Czech Republic joined NATO?
Answer:1999
What is the only country with a coastline on both the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf?
Answer: Saudi Arabia
Who is the #1 artist on Spotify 2023?
Answer: Taylor Swift
What are the two most widely spoken languages in South America?
Answer: Spanish and Portuguese
What is the capital of India?
New Delhi
Brazil and Czechoslovakia played against each other in the Fifa world cup in 1962. What was the final score? Bonus question name the czech football player(s) who scored the goal(s)?
Answer: 3x1, Josef Masopust
Name the only country through which both the Equator and the Tropic of Capricorn pass.
Answer: Brazil
Which cartoon animal is owned by Jon Arbuckle?
Answer: Garfield
Although his books have been translated into dozens of languages, in what language did Franz Kafka typically write?
Answer: German
Which capital city is closest to the Equator?
Answer: Quito, Ecuador
Which country won the Eurovision Song Contest 2023?
Answer: Sweden
The Russian port of Vladivostok stands on which sea?
Answer: Sea of Japan
Who created the work of art known as Campbell's Soup Cans?
Answer: Andy Warhol
Two letters are tied for being the most valuable (10 points each) in a typical game of English-language Scrabble. Name BOTH of them.
Answer: Q and Z
What was the capital of Brazil from 1565 until 1960?
Answer:Rio de Janeiro
Today in history: This person became president of South Africa this day in 1994. What's his name?
Bonus question: his efforts to end apartheid led to his imprisonment. For how many years?
Answer: Nelson Mandela, bonus 32 years (1962–90)
What alcohol is agave used to make?
Answer: Tequila
Which two cities provide the setting for Charles Dickens’s ‘A Tale of Two Cities’?
Answer: London and Paris
Answer: Oak
Which US city has the nickname 'City of Angels'?
Answer: Los Angeles
Which large animal is the only creature thought to produce its own sun tan lotion from its natural secretions?
Answer: Hippo
What is the only feline (big cat) that doesn’t roar?
Answer: Cheetah
In 2022 which american actor was charged of involuntary manslaughter for using a real gun in the set?
Answer: Alec Baldwin
Recognise this language: Annyit ér, mint halottnak a csók
Bonus questions: What does it say?
Answer: Hungarian
Translation: It’s worth as much as a kiss is to a dead person. Meaning: A phrase used to imply it’s pointless and won’t be apprec
How many capital cities does South Africa have? Bonus question: name them correctly
Answer: 3; Cape Town, Pretoria & Bloemfontein