General Knowledge
He had a dream that one day this nation would rise up
Who is Martin Luther King Jr?
This archipelago was instrumental in Darwin's theory of evolution
What are the Galapagos Islands?
This was the code name for the German invasion of the Soviet Union in WWII
What is Operation Barbarossa?
This name of this extinct creature means 'stupid' in Spanish
What is a Dodo Bird?
This is what the full form of the acronym 'SMS' stands for in the context of cellular communications
What is short message service?
This is our nearest star outside the solar system
What is Proxima Centauri?
This technology company founded in 1993 had the vision that the next wave of computing would be graphics based
What is Nvidia?
The great pyramid of Giza was built as a tomb for this Pharoah
Who is Khufu?
This is the name for the type of underwater ecosystem that occupies less than 0.1% of the world's ocean area but provides a home for more than 25% of marine species
What are Coral Reefs?
This man was responsible for breaking the German Enigma Code
Who is Alan Turing?
The name of this branch of mathematics comes from the Arabic word for "reuniting."
What is Algebra?
The International Space Station takes this amount of time to complete a full orbit of the Earth
What are 90 minutes?
This department was established in the USA in the wake of the September 11 attacks
What is the 'Department of Homeland Security'?
Real Vanilla comes from a certain climbing species of this tropical plant
What is an Orchid?
Deglutition is the scientific term for this common bodily function that humans do hundreds of times a day
What is swallowing?
With a building there named after him, this was the name of the first person to reach the south Pole
This medical device includes the Latin word for “cloud” and has the ability to evaporate liquid medication into mist to enable users to inhale it into their lungs
What is a Nebuliser?
This was the year the titanic sank
What is 1912?
This mammal has the longest gestation period
What is an Elephant?
These two months of the year are named after mortal men
What are July & August?
_____ disappeared over the pacific ocean in the year _____ while trying to become the first woman to fly around the world
Who is Amelia Earhart & 1937?
DNA's full form is ____ and it's shape is a _____
What is deoxyribonucleic acid and a double helix?
There are the seven wonders of the Ancient World
What are
The Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt
The Hanging Gardens of Babylon
The Statue of Zeus at Olympia
The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus
The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
The Colossus of Rhodes
The Lighthouse of Alexandria?
In the taxonomy of living things, this is the next term in the hierarchy
Species, Genus, Family, Order, Class, ...
What is a Phylum?
This is the longest running broadway show of all time
What is 'The Phantom of the Opera'?