The World Cup
Computer Buttons
2nd Place Literature
Unnatural Disasters
I Before E Except After C Exceptions
100

Since its inception in 1930 no country outside of these two continents have ever been champions

What is South America and Europe

100

To activate the middle click feature you have to push down on this part of a mouse

what is the scroll wheel

100

Besides the Art of War by Sun Tzu this is the best selling book written before the year 1 AD that follows the hero Odysseus on a perilous, 10-year journey to return home to Ithaca 

What is the Odyssey

100

This ship with 2,208 passengers sank in 1912 after sideswiping an iceberg, which buckled the hull’s seams and caused five of its watertight compartments to flood.

What is the Titanic

100

The Neurological condition of epilepsy is the most common cause of these which disrupt communication between nerve cells 

What are seizures

200

This country not only has the most world cup wins at five but is also the only country which has been in every single world cup.

What is Brazil

200

due to the rise of the internet and cloud storage the eject button which slides out a tray that you can use to play media on the screen is no longer built into most new computers

what is a CD (or DVD) player

200

This children's horror novels series written primarily by American author R. L. Stine is the second best selling book series of all time

What is Goosebumps

200

In 2010 the Deepwater Horizon oil spill occured in the Gulf of America due to the reckless conduct and gross negligence by this oil company which owned it

What is British Petroleum or BP Oil

200

This is a nation's overarching strategy for interacting with other countries and international organizations

What is Foreign Policy

300

Although in the Olympics these four nations athletes compete under the United Kingdom in the world cup each of these four countries that comprise the UK compete seperately

What is England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern ireland

300

You may be asked to push this button while traveling which instantly turns off all wireless transmissions on your device, including cellular, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth 

What is Airplane Mode

300

This classic 1838 novel by Charles Dickens that follows the life of an orphan born in a Victorian workhouse was the second ever book to receive a film adaptation which it got in 1897

What is Oliver Twist

300

The Fukushima Daiichi disaster occured when the largest earthquake in Japan's history registering at 9.1 magnitude followed by a nearly 50 foot tsunami hit this inadequately structured facility that caused the release of radioactive material

What is a Nuclear Power Plant

300

Ocean's 11, Reservoir Dogs, and Now You See Me are popular films that are this Movie subgenre

What is Heist

400

This Wealthy South American Country hosted and won the first ever world cup in 1930

What is Uruguay

400

This is the function of the 3 by 3 numbers on a keyboard when Number lock is turned off

What is navigate the screen or move the cursor

400

This Chinese political pocket book written by Mao Zedong has the second most amount of copies printed and distributed, with potentially over a billion distributed within just 3 years

What is the Little Red Book or Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung 

400

2,000 people died due to an accidental collision between a Belgian relief ship and a French vessel loaded with 2.9 kilotons of explosives which were set off, in this city which is the capital of Nova Scotia

What is Halifax

400

This is the title of Charles Darwin's most famous literary work which serves as a flawed basis of modern theories on evolution and natural selection

What is (On) the Origin of Species

500

in 1966 this country to the shock of many becomes the first ever Asian country to win a world cup game after they had defeated Italy

What is North Korea

500

Most Computers in the 1980's and 1990's had a button labeled this which paradoxically slowed computers down so that older video games and programs could be played at their proper speed

What is Turbo

500

Second to the Bible this Ancient text compiled of the math and geometry known at that time which was written before the New Testament started to be written, has the most distinct publications

What is Euclid's Elements

500

in 1919 Boston had a great flood but it was not of water but rather this common ingredient in baking due to a poorly constructed steel tank holding 2.3 million gallons the liquid rupturing in a dense neighborhood, causing the death of 21 people and injury of 150 who got caught in the 25-foot wave of that rushed through the streets at 35 mph.

What is Molasses

500

Two teenagers must hide their ideal woman whom they designed on a computer and accidently is brought to life in this two word movie in which both words break the rule

What is Weird Science