Sports
Which sport uses a net, a racket, and a shuttlecock?
Badminton
What year did India gain independence from Britain?
1947
What color is the most expensive street in Monopoly?
Dark Blue
What is the name of the most recent supercontinent?
Pangea
Who painted the Mona Lisa?
Leonardo da Vinci
Which team has won the most cricket world cups?
Australia
Who was the first ruler of the Mongol Empire?
Genghis Khan
How many total pawns are in the game of chess?(including black and white)
16
What is the acceleration of gravity? (with in .1 up or down)
9.8
In which year did the Titanic sink?
1912
What is the only country to have played in every single soccer World Cup?
Brazil
What is the world’s oldest recorded civilization?
Mesopotamia
What is the move called when you move in chess where you move the rook and the king in one turn?
Castling
What is the rarest blood type?
AB-
In which year did World War II end?
1945
Name the Sportsman of the century, declared in 1999 by both the prestigious US magazine Sports Illustrated and the BBC?
Muhammad Ali
What year did the Internet become available to the public?
1993
Around what time was poker invented( with in 5 years)
1810-1825
Dolly was the first-ever living creature to be cloned. What type of animal was she?
Sheep
Before founding Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg created a website that allowed users to compare the attractiveness of two people side by side. What was the name of this website?
Facemash
What team won the very first NBA game in 1946?
New York Knicks
Who was the first American to win a Noble Peace Prize?
Theodore Roosevelt
What is thought to be the first video game, created in 1958 and becoming popular in the 1970s?
Pong
How far away is the nearest star, not the sun? (in light years .05 up or down)
4.22
What is the chemical symbol for the element mercury?