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What is the capital of the United States?
a) New York
b) Los Angeles
c) Washington, D.C.
d) Chicago
Washington D.C
What is the largest planet in our solar system?
a) Earth
b) Mars
c) Jupiter
d) Venus
Jupiter
Who wrote 'Romeo and Juliet'?
a) Charles Dickens
b) William Shakespeare
c) Mark Twain
d) Jane Austen
William Shakespeare
What is H2O commonly known as?
a) Hydrogen peroxide
b) Water
c) Salt
d) Oxygen
Water
What is the fastest land animal?
a) Lion
b) Cheetah
c) Horse
d) Elephant
Which element has the chemical symbol 'K'?
a) Krypton
b) Potassium
c) Kobalt
d) Calcium
Potassium
What is the largest organ in the human body?
a) Liver
b) Heart
c) Skin
d) Brain
Skin
What is the capital of Argentina?
a) Buenos Aires
b) Santiago
c) Lima
d) Montevideo
Buenos Aires
What is the longest river in Africa?
a) Congo River
b) Niger River
c) Nile River
d) Zambezi River
Nile River
Which planet is known as the Earth's twin?
a) Mars
b) Venus
c) Jupiter
d) Saturn
Venus
Who wrote the novel 'Brave New World'?
a) George Orwell
b) Aldous Huxley
c) Ray Bradbury
d) J.R.R. Tolkien
Aldous Huxley
In which year did the Berlin Wall fall?
a) 1987
b) 1988
c) 1989
d) 1990
1989
What is the powerhouse of the cell?
a) Nucleus
b) Ribosome
c) Mitochondrion
d) Golgi apparatus
Mitochondrion
Who painted the 'Mona Lisa'?
a) Vincent van Gogh
b) Michelangelo
c) Leonardo da Vinci
d) Pablo Picasso
Leonardo da Vinci
Which planet has the most moons?
a) Earth
b) Mars
c) Jupiter
d) Saturn
Saturn
Who wrote the epic poem 'Paradise Lost'?
a) John Milton
b) Geoffrey Chaucer
c) William Shakespeare
d) Dante Alighieri
John Milton
In which year did the Battle of Hastings take place?
a) 1066
b) 1215
c) 1415
d) 1603
1066
Which ancient civilisation built the city of Machu Picchu?
a) Aztec
b) Maya
c) Inca
d) Olmec
Inca
Which element has the atomic number 88?
a) Uranium
b) Plutonium
c) Thorium
d) Radium
Radium
What is the capital of Kazakhstan?
a) Almaty
b) Astana (Nur-Sultan)
c) Bishkek
d) Tashkent
Astana
Which Nobel laureate wrote 'One Hundred Years of Solitude'?
a) Gabriel García Márquez
b) Mario Vargas Llosa
c) Pablo Neruda
d) Octavio Paz
Gabriel García Márquez
Who was the first person to reach the summit of Mount Everest?
a) Reinhold Messner
b) George Mallory
c) Edmund Hillary
d) Tenzing Norgay
Edmund Hillary
Which ancient philosopher wrote 'The Republic'?
a) Aristotle
b) Socrates
c) Plato
d) Epicurus
Plato
Who wrote the play 'Waiting for Godot'?
a) Samuel Beckett
b) Harold Pinter
c) Tom Stoppard
d) Eugene Ionesco
Samuel Beckett
Which treaty ended the Thirty Years' War in 1648?
a) Treaty of Westphalia
b) Treaty of Versailles
c) Treaty of Utrecht
d) Treaty of Tordesillas
Treaty of Westphalia