Random trivia
What is the name of the nomadic Arab people whose name comes from the Arabic word for ‘desert dweller’?
Bedouins
Which male tennis player has won the most Grand Slam singles titles?
Novak Djokovic
Who played Elizabeth Swann in Pirates of the Caribbean?
Keira Knightley
This narrow strait separates Europe and Asia and connects the Black Sea to the Sea of Marmara.
Bosporus Strait
The sun’s ultraviolet rays help your skin synthesize this essential vitamin, important for bone health.
Vitamin D
The fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 AD is often used to mark the beginning of which historical period in Europe?
The Middle Ages
Chemical symbol for Potassium?
K
Which country is classified as a ‘super-aged society,’ where more than 28% of its population is over 65 years old?
Japan
What was the final score of the football match between Germany and Brazil in FIFA World Cup 2014?
7:1
What was the title of Call of Duty 4?
What was the former name of Sri Lanka before it adopted its current name?
Ceylon
Which Australian mammal lays eggs?
Platypus
What was the name of the Spanish conquistador who conquered the Aztec Empire?
Hernán Cortés
Which planet has the highest average surface temperature in the Solar System?
Venus
Which painting by Pablo Picasso depicts the devastation caused by the bombing of a Spanish town during the Spanish Civil War?
Guernica
In what year did Usain Bolt first break Asafa Powell’s 100 m world record?”
2008
What is the name of the killer clown from Stephen King's "IT"?
Pennywise the Dancing Clown
The name of permanently inhabited islands in South America belonging to United Kingdom?
The Falkland Islands
What organ does an octopus have three of?
Heart
Which Egyptian president nationalized the Suez Canal in 1956, triggering an international crisis?
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Which element is liquid at room temperature along with mercury?
Bromine
Which programming language, developed at IBM in the 1950s, is widely considered the first commercially successful high-level programming language?
FORTRAN
Which national team won the first FIFA Women's World Cup in 1991?
USA
What was Disney's first feature length animated movie?
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Tallest mainland Australian mountain?
This thick band of nerve fibers connects the left and right hemispheres of the human brain, allowing them to communicate.
Corpus callosum
Which medieval document, signed in 1215, limited the powers of the English monarchy?
Magna Carta
Which element was named after the creator of the periodic table?
Mendelevium
Who wrote the book series that inspired The Witcher video games and TV show?
Andrzej Sapkowski
Which NBA team originally drafted Kobe Bryant in 1996?
Charlotte Hornets
Launched in 1999, which peer-to-peer file sharing service became famous for letting users share MP3 files and sparked major legal battles with the music industry?
Napster
This landlocked country in Africa has the highest population among landlocked nations.
Ethiopia
Which large African mammal has no vocal cords?
Giraffe
Which World War II battle in Egypt, fought in late 1942, marked a major turning point in the North African campaign?
The Second Battle of El Alamein
What is the term for the point in a planet’s orbit when it is closest to the Sun?
Perihelion
What was the first video uploaded to YouTube in 2005?
Me at the zoo
The Finnish driver Mika Hakkinen won the Formula 1 World Championship how many times?
Two times
Who was the second actor to have played James Bond in the main film series?
George Robert Lazenby
Capital of American Samoa?
Pago Pago
This fatty layer surrounding many nerve fibers allows electrical impulses to travel faster along neurons.
Myelin sheath
Which Prussian statesman, known as the “Iron Chancellor”, is credited with leading the unification of Germany in the 19th century?
Otto von Bismarck
The displacement of spectral lines towards longer wavelengths in radiation from distant galaxies and celestial objects is called?
Red shift