FUNDAMENTAL PHYSICS
This law states that an object in motion stays in motion, and an object at rest stays at rest, unless acted on by an outside force.
What is Newton's First Law (the Law of Inertia)?
What does the acronym FOMO stand for?
What is "Fear of Missing Out"?
This Shakespeare tragedy follows star-crossed lovers from two feuding families in Verona.
What is Romeo and Juliet?
Zurich
Geneva
Bern
What is Bern? (Switzerland)
This is the most widely spoken native language in the world, spoken by over a billion people primarily in China.
What is Mandarin Chinese?
This unit measures electric potential difference, or the "push" that drives current through a circuit.
What is the volt?
This term describes the point of maximum pessimism in a downturn, when panic selling peaks right before a bottom.
What is capitulation?
Originally built in 1599, this London theatre is associated with William Shakespeare and his playing company the Lord Chamberlain's Men?
What is the Globe Theatre?
Sydney
Canberra
Melbourne
What is Canberra? (Australia)
This is the most commonly spoken language in Brazil.
What is Portuguese?
This is the standard unit used to measure force.
What is the newton?
This bias describes the tendency to seek out and favor information that confirms what you already believe, while ignoring evidence to the contrary.
What is confirmation bias?
"Et tu Brute?" or "And you, Brutus?" are the dying words of this world famous leader in this Sheakespeare tragedy.
What is "The Tragedy of Julius Caesar"?
Rio de Janeiro
São Paulo
Brasília
What is Brasília? (Brazil)
"Hangul" is the written form of this language spoken by over 80 million people and was, in part, created by the Great King Sejong, whose achievement is celebrated on May 15, or "Hangul Day.,"
What is Korean?
This subatomic particle, confirmed at CERN in 2012, is responsible for giving other particles mass.
What is the Higgs boson?
This behavioral tendency causes traders to sell winning positions too early while holding losing positions too long, driven by the asymmetric emotional weight of gains versus losses.
What is the disposition effect (or loss aversion)?
This film, released last year, dramatised the life of William Shakespeare and his wife Agnes Hathaway around the death of their son and was in the running for Best Picture.
What is "Hamnet"?
Cape Town
Johannesburg
Pretoria
What is Pretoria? (South Africa)
This language, spoken by roughly 5 million people mostly in South Africa and Namibia, developed primarily from 17th-century Dutch brought by colonial settlers.
What is Afrikaans?
This 1915 theory by Einstein describes gravity not as a force, but as the curvature of spacetime caused by mass.
What is general relativity?
This term describes a trader taking on excessive, poorly-planned risk immediately after a loss, in an emotional attempt to win the money back quickly.
What is revenge trading?
In this tragedy, an aging king divides his kingdom among his three daughters based on their declarations of love for him, only to be betrayed by the two who flattered him most.
What is King Lear?
La Paz
Sucre
Santa Cruz
What is Sucre? (Bolivia)
The Rosetta Stone, a piece of a broken stela carved in 196 BC, allowed archaeologist to decode this ancient language as it was also inscribed in Ancient Greek, an already well known language.
What are hieroglyphics? (or Demotic/Ancient Egyptian)