Maths
What is the smallest prime number greater than 100?
101
What is the SI unit of electrical resistance?
Ohm
What is the only country that is also a continent?
Australia
What is the most abundant element in the universe?
Hydrogen
What is the main ingredient in traditional Japanese miso?
Soybeans
Which famous mathematician is known as the “Prince of Mathematicians” and has a bridge named after him in London?
Isaac Newton
What is the chemical symbol for the element with atomic number 79?
Au (Gold)
What is the only country in the world whose flag is not rectangular?
Nepal
What’s the only letter that doesn’t appear in any U.S. state name?
Q
What is the collective noun for a group of oysters?
Bed
Which mathematician’s last theorem remained unsolved for over 350 years?
Fermat
Which element has the highest melting point?
Tungsten
Which common beverage was originally sold as a medicine for headaches and upset stomachs?
Coca-cola
Which country invented the sport of golf?
Scotland
What is the name of the scale used to measure the spiciness of chili peppers?
Scoville
What is the term for the line in a fraction separating the numerator and denominator?
Vinculum
What is the smallest bone in the human body?
Stapes (in the ear)
Which planet in the Solar System rotates on its side?
Uranus
Which programming language’s name comes from a fruit?
AppleScript (or Python)
Which vegetable’s name comes from the Greek word for “head”?
Cauliflower
What is the 3D generalisation of Pascal’s Triangle?
Pascal's Pyramid / Tetrahedron
What is the name of the boundary around a black hole beyond which nothing can escape?
Event horizon
Which animal can hold its breath the longest underwater: dolphin, crocodile, or whale?
Whale (~90 min)
What is the name of the phenomenon where light bends around corners or edges?
Diffraction
Which food was once so valuable in Europe it was used as currency?
Salt