Science & Nature
What gas makes up about 78% of Earth’s atmosphere?
nitrogen
What English playwright and poet wrote “Hamlet,” “Macbeth,” and “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.”
William Shakespeare
What is the largest ocean on Earth?
Pacific ocean
What country once ruled Iceland, Norway, and parts of England, and today is the oldest continuous monarchy in Europe.
Denmark
What country has the highest number of pyramids in the world
Sudan
What is the heaviest naturally occurring element?
Uranium
What mexican artist is famous for her self-portraits and iconic unibrow?
Frida Kahlo
What is the capital city of New Zealand.
Wellington
Which country has a flag that is NOT rectangular?
Nepal
How many bones are in the human body
206
What is the largest living structure on Earth
The Great Barrier Reef
What pioneering female scientist won two Nobel Prizes in two different scientific fields.
Marie Curie
What chemical element has the symbol Na.
Sodium
Which country touches both the Atlantic and Indian Oceans?
South Africa
What is the only sea on Earth with no coastline?
Sargasso Sea
What is the study of earthquakes called?
seismology
What mathematician cracked the Enigma code during World War II.
Alan Turing
What is the lightest element on the periodic table?
hydrogen
Which country has the most islands in the world?
Sweden
What capital city was formerly known as Edo
Tokyo
What phenomenon describes the apparent shift in wavelength of light from objects moving away from us in space
Redshift
What environmental activist wrote “Silent Spring,” helping launch the modern environmental movement.
Rachel Carson
What is the largest lake in Africa.
Lake Victoria
What city has the most Michelin-starred restaurants?
Tokyo
What country uses the world’s oldest national flag still in use?
Denmark :)