Nerd Alert
This is the name of the force that keeps electrons orbiting the nucleus of an atom.
What is the electromagnetic force?
This is the name of the only country in the world that is completely surrounded by another single country.
What is Lesotho?
This is the number of players on the field per side in a standard game of rugby union.
What is 15?
This is the country of origin of the dish sushi.
What is Japan?
This is the name of the planet in our solar system with the most moons, as of 2024.
What is Saturn?
This is the name of the closest galaxy to the Milky Way that is visible to the naked eye from Earth.
What is the Andromeda Galaxy?
This is the name of the body of water that borders Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Iran, Azerbaijan and Russia, and is technically the world's largest lake.
What is the Caspian Sea?
This is the name of the Brazilian footballer who won the FIFA World Cup in 1958, 1962 and 1970 and is widely considered the greatest of all time by the previous generation.
Who is Pelé?
This is the name of the cocktail made with vodka, triple sec, cranberry juice and lime juice, popularised by a certain HBO show set in New York City.
What is a Cosmopolitan
This is the name of the economic term describing the situation where two companies dominate an entire market, like Boeing and Airbus in commercial aviation.
What is a duopoly?
This is the name of the process by which plants convert sunlight into glucose.
What is photosynthesis?
This is the name of the two countries that share the world's longest international border, stretching over 8,800 kilometres.
What are Canada and the United States?
This is the name of the specific athletic event in which Usain Bolt set the world record of 9.58 seconds in Berlin in 2009, a record that still stands today.
What is the 100 metres?
This is the name of the French cheese that is legally required to be made only in a specific region, aged in natural caves, and made exclusively from the milk of Lacaune sheep.
What is Roquefort?
This is the name of the ship on which Charles Darwin sailed during the voyage that inspired his theory of evolution.
What is the HMS Beagle?
This is the name of the particle accelerator located on the Swiss-French border that confirmed the existence of the Higgs boson in 2012.
What is the Large Hadron Collider (at CERN)?
This is the name of the tiny European microstate that sits between France and Spain in the Pyrenees mountains and has no airport, army, or its own currency.
What is Andorra?
This is the name of the Formula 1 driver who holds the record for the most World Championship titles, winning four consecutively from 2010 to 2013.
Who is Sebastian Vettel?
his is the name of the chemical compound responsible for the hot sensation when eating chilli peppers, measured on the Scoville scale.
What is Capsaicin?
This is the name of the treaty signed in 1919 that officially ended World War I.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
This is the name of the protein that misfolds and causes Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans, the same class of infectious agent responsible for mad cow disease.
What is a prion?
This is the name of the northernmost permanently inhabited place on Earth, a Norwegian settlement on the Svalbard archipelago
What is Longyearbyen?
his is the name of the Australian rules football team that ended a 37 year premiership drought in 2016.
What is the Western Bulldogs?
This is the name of the Italian bread that is made using a 48 hour cold fermentation process, characterised by its extremely high hydration dough and open irregular crumb structure.
What is Ciabatta?
This is the name of the economic principle that states that as more units of a good are consumed, the additional satisfaction gained from each unit decreases.
What is the Law of Diminishing Marginal Utility?