General Knowledge

Geography

1

This is the largest ocean on Earth

Pacific Ocean

1

This country is shaped like a boot.

Italy

1

This desert in Africa is the largest hot desert in the world.

Sahara

2

This is the longest mountain range in the world.

Andes

2

What is the widest river in the world?

Amazon

3

This continent has the fewest permanent residents

Antarctica

3

What is the name of the tallest waterfall in the world?

Angel Falls

Science

1

This is the closest planet to the sun.

Mercury

1

This organ in your body pumps blood.  

Heart

1

Water freezes at this temperature in Celsius

0 degrees

2

Humans breathe in oxygen and breathe out this gas.

Carbon dioxide

2

This is the process plants use to turn sunlight into energy

Photosynthesis

3

This scientist is famous for the theory of gravity after supposedly seeing an apple fall.

Isaac Newton

3

This is the only organ in the human body that can regenerate itself back to full size even after up to 75% of its tissue is removed

Liver

History

1

Ancient Egyptians built these giant stone structures as tombs for their kings.

Pyramids

1

This long wall in China was built to protect against invasions.

The Great Wall of China

1

This ship famously sank in 1912 after hitting an iceberg.

Titanic

2

This war was fought between the North and South of the United States in the 1860s.

Civil War

2

This ancient civilization built Machu Picchu in the mountains of Peru.

Inca

3

This explorer sailed across the Atlantic Ocean in 1492 and reached the Americas.

Christopher Columbus

3

This 1917 event in Russia overthrew the tsar and eventually led to the rise of the Soviet Union

Russian Revolution

Art, Culture

1

This artist painted the Mona Lisa.

Leonardo Da Vinci

1

This instrument has black and white keys.

Piano

1

This is the fastest-growing video app known for short dance and lip-sync videos.

Tik Tok

2

This animated movie studio made Toy Story and Finding Nemo.

Pixar

2

This Shakespeare play is about two young lovers from feuding families.

Romeo and Juliet

3

This composer wrote famous symphonies even after he became deaf.

Beethoven

3

This Dutch painter is famous for "Starry Night" and cutting off part of his own ear.

Vincent Van Gogh

Riddles

1

What has to be broken before you can use it?

Egg

1

What has a neck but no head?

Bottle

1

What gets wetter the more it dries?

Towel

2

I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. I have no body, but I come alive with wind. What am I?

Echo

2

I am not alive, but I grow; I don't have lungs, but I need air; I don't have a mouth, but water kills me. What am I?

Fire

3

The person who makes it, sells it. The person who buys it doesn't use it. The person who uses it doesn't know they're using it. What is it?

Coffin

3

What can travel around the world while staying in the same corner?

Stamp