General Knowledge
What is the only sea on Earth with no coastline?
The Sargasso Sea
What was the first movie to win all five major Academy Awards (Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, Screenplay)?
It Happened One Night (1934)
What city is known as “The City of a Hundred Spires”?
Prague
What element has the highest melting point?
Tungsten
What spirit is used to make a traditional margarita?
Tequila
The Nobel Prize is named after Alfred Nobel — what invention made him wealthy?
Dynamite
Who was the first female director to win an Oscar for Best Director?
Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker, 2009)
Which African country was formerly known as Abyssinia?
Ethiopia
Which scientist proposed the three laws of motion?
Isaac Newton
Who was the lead singer of the band Queen?
Freddie Mercury
What is the most widely spoken constructed language in the world?
Esperanto
What 1999 film popularized the “found footage” horror genre?
The Blair Witch Project
What line of latitude is known as the “line of no shadow”?
The Equator
What is the only metal that is liquid at room temperature?
Mercury
What’s the rarest blood type in humans?
AB negative
Which U.S. state’s name comes from a Native American word meaning “friends”?
Texas
In Breaking Bad, what alias does Walter White use?
Heisenberg
What is the smallest independent country in the world?
Vatican City
What part of the human brain is primarily responsible for memory?
The hippocampus
What color is the center line on a tennis court?
White
What is the term for a word that’s the same when read forward or backward?
Palindrome
What is the longest-running animated sitcom in U.S. history?
The Simpsons
Which river flows through the Grand Canyon?
The Colorado River
The acronym “LASER” stands for what?
Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation
In what decade did the first iPhone launch?
The 2000s (2007 specifically)