Amazon
General Knowledge
Winter
Christmas
Music
100

This 2005 Amazon innovation revolutionized shipping for frequent customers.

What is Amazon Prime?

100

This planet is known as the "Red Planet".

What is Mars?

100

This frozen precipitation falls as flakes.

What is snow?

100

This jolly character is said to deliver presents on Christmas Eve.

Who is Santa Claus? (Accept: Saint Nicholas, Kris Kringle)

100

This "King of Pop" released the best-selling album "Thriller".

Who is Michael Jackson? 

200

Amazon's first product category expansion beyond books was into this area in 1998.

What is music? (CDs and music)

200

This element has the chemical symbol "Au".

What is Gold?

200

This winter sport involves sliding down a hill on a board.

What is snowboarding?

200

This plant with red and green leaves is a popular Christmas decoration.

What is a poinsettia?

200

This instrument, often associated with Hawaii, is a small guitar-like instrument with four strings. 

What is a ukulele?

300

This Amazon subsidiary, acquired in 2014, is a leading game streaming platform.

What is Twitch?

300

This country is home to the Great Barrier Reef. 

What is Australia?

300

This phenomenon causes days to be shorter during winter in the Northern Hemisphere.

What is the tilt of the Earth's axis?

300

In the song "The Twelve Days of Christmas," how many lords are a-leaping?

What is ten?

300

This classical composer, deaf in his later years, wrote "Ode to Joy".

Who is Ludwig van Beethoven?

400

Amazon's first profitable year was this year, six years after its founding.

What is 2001?

400

This composer wrote the "Moonlight Sonata".

Who is Beethoven?

400

This layer of snow that breaks away from a mountain slope is called an avalanche in English, but what is it called in French?

What is une avalanche?

400

This Christmas ballet features a young girl's journey to the Land of Sweets.

What is The Nutcracker?

400

This music genre, originating in Jamaica, features offbeat rhythms and socially conscious lyrics.

What is reggae?

500

This Amazon service, launched in 2006, provides on-demand cloud computing platforms.

What is Amazon Web Services (AWS)?

500

This Nobel Prize-winning activist is known as the "Malala of Syria"

Who is Muzoon Almellehan?

500

This winter weather phenomenon occurs when supercooled water droplets freeze instantly on surfaces.

What is freezing rain?

500

This Christmas tradition of burning a large log originates from Nordic countries.

What is the Yule log?

500

This electronic music production technique involves taking a small segment of a sound recording and repeating it as a continuous loop.

What is sampling?

750

This controversial Amazon patent, granted in 2017, described floating warehouses for drone deliveries.

What is the Airborne Fulfillment Center?

750

This philosophical concept, coined by Friedrich Nietzsche, refers to the eternal recurrence of all things.

What is eternal return?

750

This rare optical phenomenon in winter creates the appearance of light pillars in the sky.

What are sun pillars (or light pillars)?

750

This 1843 novella by Charles Dickens helped popularize the phrase "Merry Christmas".

What is A Christmas Carol?

750

This ancient Greek mode, also known as the "natural minor scale," is often associated with sad or introspective music.

What is the Aeolian mode?

1000

Before settling on "Amazon," Jeff Bezos considered this name for his company, inspired by Earth's largest river.

What is Relentless? (Relentless.com still redirects to Amazon.com)

1000

This mathematical constant, approximately equal to 1.618, is known as the golden ratio.

What is phi?

1000

This winter survival technique involves digging a specific type of snow shelter.

What is a quinzhee? (Snow Cave)

1000

This country celebrates "Little Christmas" on January 6th, also known as "Women's Christmas" or "Nollaig na mBan" in its native language.

What is Ireland?

1000

This complex musical composition technique, popular in the Baroque era, involves two or more voices singing or playing the same melody at different times.

What is a canon?