Science & Space
What planet has the shortest day in the solar system?
What is Jupiter?
Unlike every other continent, this one has no desert.
What is Europe?
This beloved sitcom about six friends in New York City premiered in 1994.
What is Friends?
Signed in 1215, the Magna Carta was an agreement that limited the power of this English king.
Who is King John?
In 1992, IBM released this device, widely considered the first smartphone.
What is the Simon Personal Communicator?
The scientific name for the study of Fungi
What is mycology?
This is the largest country in the world located entirely in the Southern Hemisphere.
What is Australia?
Uploaded in 2005, "Me at the zoo" was the first-ever video on this platform.
What is YouTube?
Lasting from 1337 to 1453, this long war was fought between England and France.
What is the Hundred Years' War?
Tim Berners-Lee invented this revolutionary digital tool in 1989, changing the way people access information.
What is the World Wide Web?
The element that a Geiger counter measures
What is radiation?
Sitting at over 11,900 feet above sea level, this South American capital is the highest in the world.
What is La Paz, Bolivia?
With 32 wins and counting, this singer holds the record for the most Grammy Awards.
Who is Beyoncé?
Cyrus the Great and Darius I were rulers of this ancient empire.
What is the Persian Empire?
This simple yet addictive arcade game, released in 1972, is often credited as the first commercially successful video game.
What is Pong?
This invisible boundary around a black hole marks the point of no return for anything that crosses it.
What is the event horizon?
These two South American nations are the only ones that do not share a border with Brazil.
What are Chile and Ecuador?
Adjusted for inflation, this 1939 film remains the highest-grossing movie of all time.
What is Gone with the Wind?
Beginning in 1868, the Meiji Restoration helped this country rapidly modernize and industrialize.
What is Japan?
The Osborne 1, released in 1981, was the first commercially available version of this type of computer.
What is a laptop?
This Polish astronomer was the first to propose a heliocentric model of the solar system.
Who is Nicolaus Copernicus?
The only sea in the world that is completely surrounded by ocean currents and has no land boundaries.
What is the Sargasso Sea?
In the Marvel Cinematic Universe, this is the real name of the Winter Soldier.
Who is James "Bucky" Barnes?
This European leader’s defeat led to the Congress of Vienna in 1815, which redrew the continent’s borders.
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?
This programming language, created in 1959, was one of the first designed for business applications and is still used today in banking and government systems.
What is COBOL?