Film and TV
What is the highest grossing film ever?
Avatar (2009), with a worldwide gross of $2,923,706,026.
What year was the first iPhone released?
2007
United Kingdom: Looking shifty isn't illegal (unless you're holding a fish).
True. Section 32 of the Salmon Act, 1986 states that looking guilty while holding a fish (salmon specifically) in a suspicious manner is illegal. This is to prevent poaching.
What is the fear of spiders called?
Arachnophobia
What is known as the saltiest sea?
The Red Sea
Which film is known as the knock-off or "unauthorised adaptation" of Dracula?
Nosferatu
What was the name of the international group formed to maintain world peace after World War I?
The League of Nations
France: It is illegal to name a pig Napoleon.
It is not illegal in France to call a pig Napoleon. This is a widely circulated urban legend.
What is the fear of heights called?
Acrophobia
What is the northernmost capital city in the world?
Reykjavik, Iceland
Which comedic duo wrote the Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy?
Simon Pegg and Nick Frost (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and The World's End)
Fill in the blank: The 19th Amendment guarantees ____ the right to vote.
Women.
United States: It is illegal to get a fish drunk.
False. Get the fish on the sesh.
What is the fear of clowns called?
Coulrophobia
Which country is made up of 7,000 islands?
The Philippines
Who is the only person ever to receive an Oscar nomination for acting in a Star Wars movie?
Sir Alec Guinness
In what year did the Berlin Wall fall?
1989
True. You Can’t Be Drunk In A Pub - Licensing Act, 1872. Definitely broken this law many times.
What is ailurophobia?
Fear of cats
What is the deepest known point of Earth's seabed?
Challenger Deep
Logistics, a Swedish experimental film, is known as the longest film ever made. In minutes, to the nearest thousand, how long was the film?
50,000 minutes (51,420 minutes exactly), also known as 857 hours and 35 days and 17 hours
What were the names of the 2 atom bombs deployed over Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
Fat Man and Little Boy
China: Tibetan Buddhists requires government approval in order to be reincarnated.
True. In 2007, China's State Administration for Religious Affairs issued a decree that all the reincarnations of tulkus of Tibetan Buddhism must get government approval, otherwise they are "illegal or invalid".
What is vehophobia?
Fear of driving
In miles, how wide from east to west is Singapore?
31 miles