Category 1: Science & Tech
Which element makes up about 78% of the Earth’s atmosphere by volume?
Nitrogen
Which global organization was established in 1945 immediately after World War II to maintain international peace?
The United Nations / UN
What is the largest desert in the world (hint: it's not the Sahara, but a cold desert)?
Antarctica / The Antarctic Desert
What is the literary term for a word that mimics the sound it represents, such as "buzz", "hiss", or "boom"?
Onomatopoeia
In geometry, what do you call a triangle where all three sides have different lengths?
A scalene triangle
What is the speed of light in a vacuum, rounded to the nearest thousand kilometers per second?
300,000 km/s
Which Roman general was appointed dictator for life before being assassinated on the Ides of March in 44 BC?
Julius Caesar
Which mountain range acts as a natural geographical border separating Europe and Asia?
The Ural Mountains
Which British author created the world-famous detective Sherlock Holmes?
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Which Renaissance master painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome?
Michelangelo
What type of subatomic particles have a negative charge and orbit the atomic nucleus?
Electrons
What tragic oceanic event took place on April 15, 1912, on its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York?
The sinking of the Titanic
What is the deepest known location in Earth's oceans, located in the Western Pacific?
The Mariana Trench / Challenger Deep
What figure of speech makes a direct comparison between two unlike things without using "like" or "as"?
A metaphor
If a car travels at a constant speed of 90 km/h, how many meters does it travel in 1 minute?
1,500 meters
Which programming language, named after a reptile, is widely used today for AI and data science?
Python
Which epidemic, also known as the Black Death, wiped out nearly half of Europe's population in the 14th century?
The Bubonic Plague
Which African country was formerly known as Abyssinia and remained uncolonized during the Scramble for Africa?
Ethiopia
Which dystopian novel by George Orwell introduced terms like "Doublethink"?
1984
What standard musical symbol placed at the beginning of a staff raises a note by half a step?
A sharp
What is the term for the boundary around a black hole beyond which nothing, not even light, can escape?
The Event Horizon
Which famous treaty signed in 1919 officially ended World War I and imposed heavy reparations on Germany?
The Treaty of Versailles
What is the name of the supercontinent that existed during the late Paleozoic and early Mesozoic eras before breaking apart?
Pangaea
What is the term for a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden moral or political meaning?
An allegory
What is the name of the philosophical paradox where replacing every part of a ship raises the question of whether it remains the same original ship?
The Ship of Theseus