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2020
100
The wealthiest person on earth has a net worth of $186 billion. Who is it?
Jeff Bezos
100
What is it called when light changes direction after passing through a lens?
Refraction
100
Name the five oceans of the world
Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Arctic, Southern
100
Who was India's first prime minister?
Jawaharlal Nehru
100
This famous athlete died in a helicopter crash in January of 2020.
Kobe Bryant
200
What is the hottest pepper in the world?
Carolina Reaper
200
At what temperature do atomic particles stop moving? In other words, what is the coldest possible temperature (in Celsius)?
-273 deg. C
200
What is the capital of Finland?
Helsinki
200
What countries made up the Axis of Powers in World War II?
Germany, Italy, Japan
200
Right wing extremists attempted to kidnap the governor of which state?
Michigan
300
Which disease was officially declared as eradicated in 1980, thanks to vaccines?
Smallpox
300
If a person has hepatitis, which organ in the body is primarily affected?
Liver
300
The Black Forest is located in which country?
Germany
The Black Forest is a mountainous region in southwest Germany, bordering France. Known for its dense, evergreen forests and picturesque villages, it is often associated with the Brothers Grimm fairy tales. It's renowned for its spas and the cuckoo clocks produced in the region since the 1700s. The region’s largest town, Freiburg, is filled with Gothic buildings and surrounded by vineyards.
300
Which empire controlled much of Southeastern Europe, Turkey, Syria, Iraq, the north Mediterranean coast of Africa at its height?
The Ottoman Empire
300
In what city did a large amount of ammonium nitrate explode in August 2020?
Beirut, Lebanon
400
What city was musician Wolfgang Mozart from?
Salzburg, Austria
400
What is the quadratic formula?
400
Which body of water separates Saudi Arabia from Egypt and Sudan?
The Red Sea
400
Under which presidential administration did the Iran-Contra scandal occur?
Reagan administration
Senior administration officials secretly facilitated the sale of arms to the Khomeini government of the Islamic Republic of Iran, which was the subject of an arms embargo. The administration hoped to use the proceeds of the arms sale to fund the Contras in Nicaragua. Under the Boland Amendment, further funding of the Contras by the government had been prohibited by Congress.
400
Which two planets became visible during their 'great conjuction' on December 21, 2020?
Saturn and Jupiter
It’s been nearly 400 years since the planets passed this close to each other in the sky, and nearly 800 years since the alignment of Saturn and Jupiter occurred at night, as it will for 2020, allowing nearly everyone around the world to witness this “great conjunction."
500
What is the highest grossing movie of all time?
Avengers: Endgame
After grossing $2 billion in record time, and knocking James Cameron's Titanic out of the number two spot of biggest blockbusters, Avengers: Endgame has now officially unseated yet another Cameron film, Avatar—which has held the number one spot for 10 years—to become the highest-grossing movie of all time.
500
What was the name of the first commercially available high-level programming language, developed by IBM in 1954?
FORTRAN
General-purpose, compiled imperative programming language that is especially suited to numeric computation and scientific computing.
Originally developed by IBM in the 1950s for scientific and engineering applications, FORTRAN came to subsequently dominate scientific computing. It has been in use for over six decades in computationally intensive areas such as numerical weather prediction, finite element analysis, computational fluid dynamics, geophysics, computational physics, crystallography and computational chemistry. It is a popular language for high-performance computing and is used for programs that benchmark and rank the world's fastest supercomputers
500
What was the country Zaire renamed as in 1997?
Democratic Republic of Congo
Zaire collapsed in the 1990s, amid the destabilization of the eastern parts of the country in the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide and growing ethnic violence. In 1996, Laurent-Désiré Kabila, the head of the Alliance of Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Congo (AFDL) militia, led a popular rebellion against Mobutu. With rebel forces successfully making gains beyond the east, Mobutu fled the country, leaving Kabila's forces in charge as the country restored its name to the Democratic Republic of the Congo the following year.
500
What is the name of the Marxist political party founded by Vladimir Lenin and Alexander Bogdanov in 1912?
The Bolshevik Party
500
The largest strike in human history began in November of 2020. Which group orchestrated it?
Indian farmers
The 2020 Indian farmers' protest is an ongoing protest against the three farm acts which were passed by the Parliament of India in September 2020. The acts have been described as "anti-farmer laws" by many farmer unions, and politicians from the opposition also say it would leave farmers at the "mercy of corporates".