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What is the capital of Japan?
Tokyo
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The period from one full moon to the next is:
29 days
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Which city has the highest population?
What is that population to the nearest million?
Tokyo
37 million people
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What is the most spoken language in the world?
*Estimated*
English - 1.121 million speakers
Mandarin - 1.107 million speakers
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What is the largest rainforest in the world?
Amazon Rainforest
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What is the capital of Switzerland?
Bern
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What is the only mammal which can fly?
Bat
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How many people have walked on the moon?
12
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Name at least 4 Germanic languages
German, English, Dutch, Swedish, Scots, Gothic, Icelandic
200
What is the theory accredited to Charles Darwin?
The theory of evolution by natural selection
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What is the hottest continent on Earth?
Africa
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What is the name of the first man to fly into space?
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin
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Who is the author of the classic masterpiece “Anna Karenina”?
Leo Tolstoy.
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Name 2 Semitic languages
Arabic, Hebrew, Amharic, Aramaic, Maltese, Eritrea
300
What does the atomic number of an element mean?
The number of protons in the nucleus of an atom of the element.
400
What is the largest freshwater lake?
Lake Baikal - depth, volume
Lake Superior - surface area
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What year will Halley's comet next be visible on Earth?
2061
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Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize?
Marie Curie
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What 2 languages does the Vatican, located in Rome, use?
Italian, Latin
400
Who is the current Chancellor of Germany?
Olaf Scholz
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What is the largest volcano in our solar system?
Olympus Mons on Mars
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What was the name of the spacecraft that landed humans first on the moon?
Apollo 11
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What is the tallest grass on earth?
Bamboo
500
What is the definition of a homophone?
Give an example.
Words that have the same pronunciation, but mean different things.
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What planet spins clockwise?
Venus (or Uranus)
600
What is the capital of Australia?
Canberra
600
At what temperature are Celsius and Fahrenheit equal?
-40
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Who won the most recent Nobel Prize in physics?
Clauser and Anton Zeilinger for "experiments with entabled photons"
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What is the name of the ancient Chinese concept of design which fulfills balance between humans and their environment.
Feng Shui
600
Which blood type is a universal donor?
O Negative
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In what country is the world's largest suspension bridge?
China
700
In what country did the first successful heart transplant occur?
South Africa
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Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie co-created which operating system?
Unix
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What language is believed to have the most words?
English
700
Apple seeds contain which poison?
Cyanide
800
Name 2 combatants of the Crimean War of 1853
Ottoman Empire, Russia, France, United Kingdom
800
What is the loudest animal on earth?
whales
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Which is the only bird that can fly backwards?
Hummigbird
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Say the word "Hello" in 3 languages other than English?
Ex. Hello, Hola, Ciao, Hallo, Bonjour, Kon'nichiwa, Privet
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What is the oldest known musical instrument?
A flute