Geography
The city of Istanbul straddles two continents. Which are they?
Answer: Europe and Asia
Who was the first person to reach both the North and South Poles?
• A) Robert Falcon Scott
• B) Ernest Shackleton
• C) Roald Amundsen
• D) Richard Byrd
Answer: C) Roald Amundsen
What 2019 film won the Academy Award for Best Picture, becoming the first non-English language film to win?
• A) Parasite
• B) Roma
• C) The Artist
• D) The Revenant
Answer: A) Parasite
Which company is known for creating the iPhone?
• A) Google
• B) Samsung
• C) Apple
• D) Microsoft
Answer: C) Apple
What is the only mammal capable of true flight?
• A) Bat
• B) Bird
• C) Flying Squirrel
• D) Pterodactyl
Answer: A) Bat
Which country has the longest coastline in the world?
Answer: Canada
Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, and in what field?
• A) Marie Curie, Physics
• B) Rosalind Franklin, Chemistry
• C) Ada Lovelace, Mathematics
• D) Malala Yousafzai, Peace
Answer: A) Marie Curie, Physics
Which 1979 movie featured a fictional alien species known as the Xenomorph?
• A) The Terminator
• B) Star Wars
• C) Alien
• D) The Thing
Answer: C) Alien
Which programming language is known as the “mother of all languages” and was developed in the 1950s?
• A) C
• B) Fortran
• C) Java
• D) BASIC
Answer: B) Fortran
What is the smallest unit of matter that retains the chemical properties of an element?
• A) Atom
• B) Proton
• C) Molecule
• D) Electron
Answer: A) Atom
What is the largest lake in Africa by surface area?
Lake Victoria.
Which Egyptian queen was known for her political alliances with Julius Caesar and Mark Antony?
• A) Nefertiti
• B) Cleopatra VII
• C) Hatshepsut
• D) Ramses II
Answer: B) Cleopatra VII
What 1980s cult classic film features a dystopian society controlled by an evil corporation, where a resistance group led by a man named Max fights back?
• A) The Running Man
• B) Blade Runner
• C) Mad Max
• D) Escape from New York
Answer: C) Mad Max
Who is credited with creating the first successful mechanical computer, known as the Analytical Engine?
• A) Charles Babbage
• B) Alan Turing
• C) John von Neumann
• D) Ada Lovelace
Answer: A) Charles Babbage
What is the term for a naturally occurring substance in the human body that is also used in the production of soap and cosmetics?
• A) Keratin
• B) Collagen
• C) Elastin
• D) Melanin
Answer: B) Collagen
Which country is both the world’s smallest island nation and a coral atoll?
Answer: Nauru
Which Nobel-winning Indian author wrote “The God of Small Things”?
• A) Arundhati Roy
• B) R.K. Narayan
• C) Vikram Seth
• D) Salman Rushdie
Answer: A) Arundhati Roy
Which 1995 film was directed by Michael Bay and involved a team of astronauts trying to destroy an asteroid before it collides with Earth?
• A) Armageddon
• B) Deep Impact
• C) Independence Day
• D) Contact
Answer: A) Armageddon
What cryptographic protocol, used for securing communications over a computer network, was first developed by Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman in 1976?
• A) Public Key Cryptography
• B) SSL/TLS
• C) RSA
• D) AES
Answer: A) Public Key Cryptography
What is the name of the rare astronomical event that occurs when a planet passes directly between the Earth and the Sun, blocking the Sun’s light for a short period?
• A) Solar Eclipse
• B) Lunar Eclipse
• C) Transit
• D) Supernova
Answer: C) Transit
The country of Kiribati is made up of how many atolls and islands scattered across the Pacific Ocean?
Answer: 33 islands and atolls.
Which Swiss psychiatrist is known for his theory of the collective unconscious and the concept of archetypes?
• A) Sigmund Freud
• B) Carl Jung
• C) Alfred Adler
• D) William James
Answer: B) Carl Jung
In the film “2001: A Space Odyssey,” what is the name of the artificial intelligence that controls the Discovery One spaceship?
• A) HAL 9000
• B) Skynet
• C) Jarvis
• D) GLaDOS
Answer: A) HAL 9000
What is the name of the computer scientist who is considered the father of modern cryptography, known for creating the RSA encryption algorithm?
• A) Ron Rivest
• B) Whitfield Diffie
• C) Claude Shannon
• D) Bruce Schneier
Answer: A) Ron Rivest
What is the name of the most distant galaxy currently known to humanity, which was discovered in 2016 and is located over 13 billion light-years away from Earth?
• A) Andromeda Galaxy
• B) Messier 87
• C) GN-z11
• D) NGC 4889
Answer: C) GN-z11