Natural World
What is the pH number of pure water?
7
Traditional French pot-au-feu is usually made with which meat?
Beef
What country is considered to have the highest wine consumption per capita?
Portugal - 51.9 liters of wine per person
Which metal is the largest component of pewter?
Tin
Bees pollinating flowers is an example of which biological process?
Symbiosis
What was created in 1922 by Cyril Callister in Melbourne
Vegimite
What is the two-word phrase for someone that claims the right to refuse military service based on religion, morals, or freedom of thought?
Conscientious Objector
What was the first name of Morse, inventer of the dots and dashes code?
Samuel
Nuclear power produces what percentage of the world's electricity?
14%
What is the most common ingredient of the Russian soup borscht?
Beetroot
Where does Buddhism fall in a ranking of the world’s largest religion?
Fifth
Which chemical element is also known as wolfram?
Tungsten
Copernicus proposed a model to put which body at the center of the universe?
Sun
Which country has a national dish of Bacon and egg pie
New Zealand
What goes up and down, but still remains in the same place?
stairs
How many noble gases are there on the periodic table?
6
What does a hippologist study?
Horses
Fettuccine alla papalina is the national dish of which diminutive nation state?
Vatican City
In chess, the queen has the combined movement of which two pieces?
bishop & rook
Where were the fortune cookies invented?
San Francisco
Rex', a Latin word, means what in T-rex?
King
Name the traditional Irish dish of mashed potatoes with kale or cabbage?
Colcannon
In which country was Buddha born?
Nepal
Johnny Depp is famously afraid of what?
Clowns
How many times does Mercury orbit the sun during our year?
4
Hakarl, which translates to fermented shark in English, is the national dish of which country?
Iceland
In Jewish, Christian, and Muslim belief, who led the Hebrew slaves out of Egypt?
Moses
Mathematics pioneer Ada Lovelace was the daughter of which poet?
Byron
A 'bind' is a group of what?
Salmon
How many days does it take to get a new top layer of skin on your body?
30
In Hinduism, what is the term for the cycle of birth, death, and rebirth?
Samsara
It is illegal to do what in the French vineyards?
Land a flying saucer
Kepler's Laws describe which phenomenon?
Planetary Motion
In what year did the Spanish Flu pandemic, which infected an estimated five hundred million people and killed fifty million, begin?
1918
What is the Hebrew term for a good deed done out of a sense of religious duty?
Mitzvah
What Benedictine monk invented champagne?
Dom Pierre Pérignon
How long can a bedbug live without food? A day / week / month / year?
Year
What was the disease that caused an outbreak in the city of Philadelphia in 1793 that resulted in the death of more than 9% of the population?
Yellow Fever
How many books are in the Catholic Bible?
73
In Florida, only on Sundays, it is illegal for a single woman to do what?
Skydive